Results for its vaccine, phase one trial in humans. Weve got a lot more on this coming up in just a moment. But this is a very positive development. When this was announced the stock rally that had already been in place gained a lot more ground. One more positive indicator for you. Thats the price of oil. We are back to 32 a barrel. We are driving again, we are emerging from a lockdown, demand for gas and oil up and up goes the price. Key indicator. Now, look at this weekend. All across the country, people were out and about, enjoying the weather and enjoying their freedom, too. There has been some relaxation of lockdown rules in 49 states. Connecticuts the lone holdout. They open up in just a few days. Bottom line, the economy is opening up and in most places, people feel willing to shop, eat out and socialize. Its hard to see how the authorities can reverse course and clamp down all over again. The genie is out of the bottle and the Moderna Vaccine news is the icing on the i can kcak
With the United States. We start within a positive note. Nejra funding the deficit, the u. S. Will start issuing twentyyear bonds in the first half of 2020. It comes as Steve Mnuchin continues to review bonds. Welcome to bloomberg daybreak europe. The data out of china and the u. S. Putting risk on across markets today, taking a look at asia, green on the screen for the Msci Asia Pacific index. He saw all three u. S. Benchmarks hit records again and tech stocks were leading that rally. Alphabet above a 1 trillion valuation for the first time. Futures look like we could build on those gains. We saw green on the screen yesterday and it looks like another day of gains. Switching out the board to look at other assets, the yen has been posting a little bit of weakness. We are at eight months low. Yield edged up after retail sales data and some other data out of the u. S. Pointed to a stronger consumer. 182 handle is where we sit. We have seen steepening after that announcement from siva mnu
That european equities are largely on holiday and think that trend does actually continue. The stoxx 600 is down by 1. 1 today. Theres a big china effect, but in this youre looking at names like hsbc, which has a u. K. Effect as well, but also a chinese effect. Plus some of the miners acting as a little bit of a drag. So stoxx 600 down, maybe moving away from that 460 level. The names that i think are actually interesting today speak kind of against that narrative. The european consumer seems to be alive and well right now. The u. K. Consumer seems to be alive and well right now, which is surprising considering what is being chucked at them. Marks and spencer, the stalwarts of the british high street, has been revamping its stores, refining its strategy. Its beginning to work. Theyve upgraded their numbers. But its interesting, its not just in clothing. Its also in high end groceries as well. This is fascinating. This was unexpected. Marks and spencer responding to it. Look at that sha
Google and apple in talks to use the ai engine in the iphone. Thats showing signs of life in the ai trade. Joe . This potentially reeignites the mag 7. Fundamentally this is interesting, and i am not sure who will be paying who in this scenario. Obviously we know they pay apple in terms of search. This is also a little bit puzzling to me for apple. Is this an admission maybe they could not bring forth their own ai or gemini ai fast enough, and then the regulatory risks for this as well. Clearly this is a significant positive for alphabet. I think its something that probably has been circulating for the last week, because alphabet has had a strong period. Apple had open talks about open ai in the bloomberg report. Maybe this is a look at apple and maybe they didnt have that ai together in time for the Worldwide Developers conference in june. Google is a default Search Engine for apple, and this deal makes sense from this standpoint. Its no secret, clearly, that the gemini rollout has no
I am Katie Greifeld and welcome to bloomberg markets. You take a look at the markets and there is some red on the screen. The s p 500 off by about point read percent, a far cry from this time 24 hours ago. You look at the nasdaq 100 and the big tech names and it gets worse. The nasdaq 100 off by. 8 , not too big of a move but to the downside. This as we count down to the fed decision. That line is what you want to watch, the 10year treasury yield lower by one basis point. We are sitting at 4. 3 or so. Of course that meeting kicked off at 9 00 a. M. Let us dive deeper into the markets with catherine, the stone next financial chief market strategist. Let us talk about the fed but let us start about the bank of japan, the big news out overnight, the negative Interest Rate and the zero Interest Rate era is over. What could that mean for Global Markets . It could mean a bit of an impetus for more growth in japan, i think the negative Interest Rate policy was controversial in its effectivene