Bubbles cannot mix unless at work. Tom im speechless. I was just talking to jon ferro, just getting up at the crack of 9 00 a. M. In london, about the uniqueness of it. There are two separate parallel worlds and the United States, where europe and the pandemic is off the radar. Clearly in europe it is unraveling. Francine it is. We are all dealing with the same virus, having the same effect on people, but if you look at germany come it is different on how they decide to do with it, compared to macron, with tighter measures. Now lets get to the bloomberg first word news with ritika gupta. Ritika the chances of Congress Passing a preelection stimulus are all but gone. Treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin is blaming politics. He says democrats dont want to give President Trump something to brag about in his campaign. Democrats say the white house never took the need for another stimulus seriously enough to push for a compromise. Senate democrats are all but powerless to keep Amy Coney Barret
Francine, but this is really extraordinary and really, really important. We have consulates in china. Clearly the chinese have said they are going to act rapidly on this. The backstory of this is intellectual property, which is nothing more than the stealing of trade secrets. Ellen not a shema in the Washington Post in recent days writing up the trial in houston phone that holds oil platform in the water. Where there is literally a court case going on about the intellectual Property Value of the foam that holds up big pieces of steel in the water. Just one example around this breaking story. Francine this also comes on the back of what we heard yesterday, right, tom . The u. S. And other countries accusing china of hacking and Getting Research information regarding covid19. Tom no question about that. Let me get a data check. Futures 17. The story is safe haven, and you see it quickly in yield, where the 10year yield has come in. 58 a vengeance,. 59, a handle. The twoyear United Kingdo
Executive later. Another busy day. A lot of people were talking about in the virtual newsroom that we have created around the world that we cant quite remember whether it is tuesday, wednesday, or thursday. A lot of the focus is on what your markets are doing. This is your data, euro area, april services pmi coming up at 12. The preliminary figure was a touch below that. That Services Data coming in at 12 instead of the preliminary 11. 7. That is a little bit better than expected. I am looking forward to the ofexecutive of com campari. Look at renminbi. President trump continuing to push the reopening of the economy and oil pretty much stalling. Treasury yields edging higher. We will have plenty more on that shortly. We will be speaking to the campari chief executive. Trump isent donald pushing to get the u. S. Economy to reopen. He says americans should begin returning to their everyday lives but he is also acknowledging it could lead to more suffering, including more deaths. Pres. Tr
Talking about what he sees happening in the economy. Tom it is an extra ordinary hour, folks, particularly looking at the fabric of europe and the european model. The disinflation dynamics has dramatically rolled over in the last 48 hours, clearly somewhat off the german ruling. There is no question about that. You see it expressed right now with ever stronger yen versus euro. Disinflation wins, just extraordinary. Yeah, on the u. K. , and i would mention the chancellor yesterday suggested it would end sooner rather than later because people become addicted to it. Lets get to bloomberg first word news in new york city with ritika gupta. Ritika President Trump is wrapping up his push to reopen the country. He says americans should begin returning to their everyday lives even if that leads to more sickness and death from the pandemic. The president spoke in phoenix. Made the announcement with the task force. Toll. K. Coronavirus death has now surpassed italy, making it the worst hit coun
Headline out of china, also a lot of focus on the dismal earnings we have had from Certain Companies and dismal economic data. China considering dropping the numerical gdp growth target for 2020. This is like a company saying it is difficult to forecast so we will not tell you. It happens in the corporate world and not usually with the country, certainly as big as china. I dont know if this will have implications for renminbi. The chief executive of alianza said we are underestimating the impact this will have on the yuan. Tom a shout out to Carl Weinberg who aggressively stated a month ago, forecast your economics as possible. It is possible we need first word news in new york city. Ritika President Trump is ramping up his push to reopen the country, saying americans should return to their everyday lives even if that leads to more sickness and death. He spoke in phoenix and may disband the white house tax form stearate tax force steering the government response to the outbreak. The e.