Set to expire and white house chief of staff mark meadows is here with an insiders look from the white house as the screws keep turning on china. Attorney general bill barr calls out Corporate America for beijing and senator john kennedy will join me with what his move will be next and also Global Investor ray dalio is here responding to ag barrs warning about china plus what does all of this mean for the 2020 election former white house chief strategist steve bannon for his message on President Trump on what it will take to win in november. All that and a lot more as we look ahead right here right now on sunday morning futures. Maria all that coming up but first, flags across the capitol are at half staff this morning in remembrance of civil rights icon, john lewis. The long time georgia congressman passed away friday night after a battle with pancreatic cancer he was 80 years old. Lewis was the last living speaker at the 1963 march on washington where dr. Martin luther king jr. Deliv
Coming up, in a few moments, Global Investor mark mobius will join us. Chinese equities see a big week of gains they slipped a bit this morning. Shares of carnival jumping after they gave an update on the state of its business. Well speak with the Ceo Arnold Donald in a cnbc exclusive and Major League Season starting the season in florida. Well speak with the leagues commissioner about the risks and reward of taking to the field. We look forward to all that. Sara, up 0. 7 on the s p 500 lets start right there with the markets. The we have seen a big swing intraday futures starting off in the red. Hopeful signals then coming from gilead about the coronavirus treatment. Helping turn things around early. The company saying it was associated with an improvement in clinical recovery and 62 reduction in the risk of mortality compared with the standard care. Lets get to mike santoli tracking the moves in the names and sectors today. Yeah. Sturdy Performance Today solid week you would have tho
Rates on hold at one quarter of 1 . The rbnz saying they are going to be they are committed to reviewing their quantitative easing program. The policy committee reached consensus on this decision. They are saying they are prepared to provide additional stimulus as is necessary. All the economists we talked to the benchmark Interest Rate in new zealand staying on one quarter of 1 . Little to no reaction on the new zealand daughter new Zealand Dollar. 64 u. S. Cents. Tom lets get some of the views from our guests at the bloomberg summit. Sharing their views on the prospects of a recovery from the pandemic. I do not think anybody can be confident with the kind of uncertainties that prevail. I would put say is my odds on a v shaped recovery. How we are going to share the burden in a credible way. It is not just financial and fiscal support. It is also regulatory charges we have undertaken to support the economy. As recently as early april, i saw china could only i thought china could only
Slums, as concerns grow about washington may punish Hong Kongbased banks. The u. K. Chancellor unveils the governments plan to pull the economy out of its deepest slump in centuries. Boris johnson says the u. K. Is ready to leave the e. U. Without a trade deal. Manus the line from the vice chair, clarida is that there is more we can do, more Forward Guidance. Nehra. Orning, nejra good morning. If we look at markets, we were seeing some gains in asia, we china. E to see them in we saw some green on the screen for u. S. Futures after the index closed lower yesterday. Now those gains have been given up. Seeing in negative print for european futures, theyll. Interestingly, i made the riskoff sentiment in equities, the 10 year yield is higher. The dollar is absolutely steady. Gold getting a lift after the fed comments as well. Getting very close to 1800 an ounce, study in todays session. The u. S. Bids farewell to the world health organization. The white house has submitted a letter that st
I wanted to point to the mexican peso. Has not moved much today but we are keeping an eye on the earthquake that struck the country. Now lets get a status report on the credit markets. 13 u. S. Companies sought bankruptcy parks section protection last week. It comes even with the intervention of the fed which has injected liquidity across the markets and given borrowers. For more insight, lets bring in srikanth sankaran. The last time we spoke, we were already seeing a calming in the credit markets. Where do we go from here now that the fed has backstopped entire curve in the credit market . Srikanth our thesis over the next 12 months is we get a grind tighter with respect to spreads. Our call is for credit markets to deliver positive exit returns across investmentgrade and highyield markets. Effectively, you want to be more selective, but at the end of the day, this is an environment where you have to look at rerisking portfolios in times of weakness rather than missing out when the m