Surveillance. A bit of a different bloomberg surveillance. It has been 10 days that we have foroadcasting from all of our technical operators around the world. Arefocus is on what we seeing in terms of data. Is the euro area. It will give us an indication of exactly what the economy is facing. Euro area preliminary actually, its not preliminary. Anything below 50 indicates a contraction. Lets get onto your markets quickly. Thee is a lot of focus on banks after regulators have pushed a lot of u. K. Banks. European stocks are down. Im also looking at treasuries. Lets get straight to Bloomberg News in new york city. Died from coronavirus. Fatalities top 1000 confirmed cases in new york state. They have surpassed those in chinas Hubei Province sticking with President Trump, he said to announce the deferral of some payments. Bloomberg has learned he has announced a proposal to the late some levees for six months. This would not apply to tariffs the white house has imposed as a result of act
Tom i would really suggest oil is important, but complete we secondary to the implosion that we saw yesterday and american jobs data. And the french data not much better. Right now, for global wall street, it is about calibrating the slow down and the nonrecovery out in the third quarter. And also, its the follow on from the rents that werent paid. There were massive upsets this morning. Francine i dont disagree. But oil can make things worse. Lets get straight to uber first word news in new york city with viviana hurtado. Viviana we do begin with oil. Opec putting together a Virtual Meeting of its members as President Donald Trump calls for a court need cut to end the historic crash in crude prices. Two delegates telling bloomberg the meeting will be held on monday. Saudi arabia insists it will only cut if others do. This includes the u. S. Of thetoric streak economy adding jobs for one under 13 months is probably ending as tom was mentioning. The march jobs report coming out at 8 30
Ease some of the Capital Buffers as well, potentially some of the u. S. Banks. We know again this is not a financial crisis, this is more of an exhaustion us shock. So letting the banks perhaps ease up on some of these roles to make sure they can get loans out to people who need them, certainly perhaps a smart idea. Ofncine yeah, i think a lot policymakers are just worried over what is essentially a Health Crisis that will turn into a financial crisis as they are trying to give loans and credit to Small Businesses that need it. I am looking forward to an interview with the treasury people in charge in the u. K. About the stimulus they put out yesterday lets get to first word news in new york city with viviana hurtado. Viviana we begin with the Trump Administration pushing a one point 2 trillion stimulus plan. This to counter the Economic Impact of coronavirus. Bloomberg has learned americans could get direct payment of 1000 or more within two weeks. A month later, a second set of check
This is a new york pandemic which frankly with the great chart the Johns Hopkins is doing and john von murdoch is doing, new york is essentially the mathematics of catalonia. Francine yes, and the mathematics of milan just outside of that. You wonder if we shouldve started preparing for this as far as resources and getting hand sanitizers and much needed medical equipment earlier. There is a pattern and we have charts charting that. Wuhan and in china in then the epicenter was italy and it is slowly moving to other countries that will have to deal with similar fatalities. Tom some doing better, others less so as well. The economic ramifications to be very clear, worldwide in the last 24 hours, the news in economic america is the furloughs to come. We saw that yesterday with a vengeance from retail. Right now, with our first word news, here is viviana hurtado. Viviana the mathematics of the human toll in spain. Yet. D its deadliest day fatalities,ing 849 bringing the death toll almost 8
The magnitude of that payroll number, equity markets are performing reasonably well. We are going into a weekend. Generally that means derisking as well. Let me deal with the middle to. 33. Crude at we have the stoxx 600 reasonably flat right now. We are seeing a bid on the dollar. Going back to your board, so why dont we handed back to you . Vonnie lets get straight to diane swonk, Grant Thornton economist. We saw a massive loss, 7001000 massive loss, 7001000 massive loss, 701,000 people. Diane many of them werent counted yet or able to be included in unemployment actrance until the cares was passed on march 26. That is really important to remember as well. Im choked up about these numbers in a way that i just, knowing how bad they are going to get is really tough. 1. 3 million workers had to accept parttime. , they have those already been laid off. Also important in the number was the survey response, where it went down because they couldnt get the people out there and staff the phon