As he calls them unchecked monopolies big plans for the big apple. Finally out with a reopening plan and why the novelty of working from home may be wearing off on all of you it is friday, may 29th, youre watching Worldwide Exchange here on cnbc good morning, good afternoon, or good evening, welcome from wherever in the world you may be watching. Thung for joining us right here on Worldwide Exchange. It looks like it may be a weak end to your week dow futures down about 73 points stocks having a good week so far. But right now, market nerves seem elevated a a bit waiting on the president s speech about china. Well get more on that in a moment despite yesterdays drop, the dow, nasdaq, s p, all the major indexes are on trial court for their succeed strakt month of gains. The nasdaq leading the charge among the broader index up 5. 5 . Now less than that small caps the real winners this week up nearly 8 as investors begin slowly to look past the lockdowns, this may be the story that may mo
Here as well. Looking at continental europe, spain and france are two countries the hardest hit by the coronavirus along with italy. They are set to ease lockdowns. We have Pedro Sanchez expecting to announce the loosening of measures after the weekly Cabinet Meeting which takes place later today. Later today also, france will be presenting the governments blueprint to the National Assembly on tuesday afternoon, and that should outline how they plan to ease peoples confinement as well. Is the original epicenter of the outbreak on the continent that will soon allow people to leave their homes for the first time in weeks, and that should mean they will be joining other countries including the likes of germany and austria in relaxing of shops to array open up including tattoo studios. In the u. K. , Boris Johnson saying the British Public should keep on obeying lockdown rules to avoid a disasters second wave of this outbreak here as well, coming as the number of recorded deaths from coron
Yields down by about eight basis points, once again under 1 for the 10 year. Time now for global exchange. From hong kong to washington to new york, our bloomberg voices are on the ground with this mornings top stories. Want to beginning asia. Total coronavirus cases around the world is now above 95,000. Cases seem to slow in south korea, while switzerland reported its first death. With us now is sophie kamaruddin. Is reporting an increasing number of recovery patients, roughly 62 of those who have been diagnosed who have been discharged from hospitals. The number of fatalities reported wednesday totaling 31, all of which were in hubei province. Jinpings scheduled visit to tokyo has been delayed, and Prime Minister shinzo abe did reveal tighter border controls and japan, including two weeks of quarantine from visitors arriving from china and iran, as well as south korea, where cases have topped 6000, but the daily count has slowed has monday at the country been testing hundreds of thou
Simpson unveiled their new lineup. We take a look at these new devices. There seems to be no end in sight over concerns about the coronavirus. The death toll has jumped after Hubei Province revised its death toll. Thousands have been quarantined on board in the waters off yokohama, japan and the National Energy agency warned Global Demand for oil will drop. Paul allen and i spoke with the chief Market Strategist at cross mark Global Investments on thursday. We are always watching headlines but one thing we tell our clients is we want to look through the headlines when it comes to investments. But daytoday, yes, the virus has caused volatility. We saw that a little bit. We saw the markets come back a little bit and gain about 50 of what they lost. A lot of that is because the was because ofes a case of methodology and so it included a lot of people who already have the virus. It wasnt necessarily all new cases. Originally, we had a selloff and we saw that come back throughout the day. B
Have we reached a bottom or is this still more room to fall for oil prices its possible that theres more room to fall if opec and plus russia doesnt actually end up coming through with those supply cuts if they dont then you could see will fall further and therefore will fall through the 50. 00 to 55. 00 area i think in the near term youre going to see a lot of traders get on shorts and take that lower but i think that will be short lived i think ultimately the risk is really more to the upside than the downside and so there are actually traders out there you know ranting supertankers and will facility space in south korea to the to the millions of barrels of oil that theyre storing on that oil will eventually rise and i believe that theyre right now sean are we still looking at a chance that chinese Oil Storage Capacity could actually run out and oil prices overshoot even more to the downside. Its possible they dont really publish their numbers officially but from what i gather theres