The two handle for wti, the brutal level as the dollar continues to tread lower in the market. Guy . Guy long food, short travel seems to be the trend in europe. Like you in the United States, we are off our lows in your. We did not get the squeeze friday. The stoxx 600 is still down. Every single sector is negative territory. Health care, food and beverage, and basic resources, where we are seeing the least losses. Insurance, travel and leisure, construction are the biggest losses, another big selloff in the btp market in italy and we begin to see volatility pushing ever higher. We are off our lows on the day but european volatility shows no sign of letting up on the outside. Lets get back into one of the big stories weve been covering over the last hour. Proposed,an union has this coming from the European Union Commission President , a temporary restriction on nonessential travel to the European Union for 30 days. She informed g7 leaders of the band during a Conference Call earlier t
Where we bring you todays market moving news from around the world. From hong kong to beijing to london to washington our bloomberg voices are on the ground with this mornings top stories. Start right now with hong kong with the citys financial chief said the economys set to contract in fourth quarter. Jeff joins us from hong kong on the telephonement welcome. Give us an update where we are. And how the economys doing there. Jeff good morning to you. The economy is hoping to see some kind of stabilization in the coming weeks. But the damage has already been done in the third and fourth quarters this year. We have only just seen a relative easing in the protests. But we are a long way from having an all clear or any kind of resolution to the political standoff. That means that the tourists and the spending that are the core of this economy, they are not going to return soon. We may see stabilization but it will be lower levels. David thank you so much. Jeff black reporting from hong kon
World. Our bloomberg voices are on the ground with this mornings top stories. We want to start in hong kong, where the chaos continues. Police and protesters clashed again after violent weekend standups. The Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman reiterated beijings support for the police force, calling the protesters extremely violent criminals. Precedent, you can see what is happening in hong kong right now is not a peaceful demonstration. It has turned into a violent protest against ordinary people led by a small group of extreme violent criminals. Alix joining me from hong kong is karen leigh. Walk us through the significance of what happened over the weekend in terms of escalation at the university. Anotherong kong had week of chaos after a week that has paralyzed part of the city. Carrie lam and other officials are urging protesters at the university to surrender, even as activists are calling for more rallies near the campus to support these demonstrators cured police and protesters
Exchange. We are going to bring you todays market moving news from all around the world. Ndc,brussels to New York New York ndc new york and d. C. You chief negotiator michel chief negotiator Michel Barnier says negotiations were often tough. Negotiations over the past days have at times been delivered but we have , and we have delivered together. Alix anna edwards is in brussels with more. What is actually in the deal . Anna it is taking a little while to get through all the detail, but what was going to change is nothing much in the withdrawal agreement, apart from the deal with ireland. Theyve gotten rid of the backstop and put in place something else, which looks very complex, and something the dup does not support. It involves changing the way some voting happens in Northern Ireland, the amount of concession to give to the process. It seems like they are Still Holding out. Theres also the political declaration about what they want to do next. On that side, some other parties in the
The play was just extraordinary. Alix that was the winning moment at the end of the whole game. David and he didnt get up. Alix i do not blame him. The real action is going to be looking at the dollar, kind of around a two week low. Other than that, steady as she goes. The 10 year yield back by about three basis points. Crude, if itnt out is policy steady as she goes, that means more saudi production cuts. Crews wanting to kiss that 60 for crudeg wanting to kiss that six together level, waiting for toio draghi crude wanting kiss that 60 level, waiting for mario draghi. We begin with china, where the country faces and import and export deceleration in the month of august. Bloombergs enda curran has more. Just how bad was it . Pretty bad because economists were expecting exports would have grown. We had a contraction of 1. 1 , and there was evidence of a big slump in shipments to the u. S. , even as exports to europe grew, so it was clear the trade war affected all of that. The big fear