I dont think the feds job is to make sure there is never a recession. Viviana speaking of Central Banks, their independence often perplexes political leaders. Not just the white house. I would like the central bank not only to work on controlling inflation, but thinking about growth as well. Viviana the outgoing and incoming heads of the imf had plenty to say to bloomberg about global trade. We need to have fair trade. We need to have reciprocated benefits in trade. We are talking about trade, peace, not trade war. Viviana a u. S. Election looming in 2020. Key figures in the political conversation buckle up for a wild ride. The economy is outperforming expectations. Economic policies from the president are working. I think our capitalism has to be more inclusive. We believe in Free Expression and we believe in political speech. Viviana it is all straight ahead on this special edition of bloomberg best. Hello and welcome. I am viviana hurtado. On this special edition of bloomberg best,
Manus it is daybreak europe. Let us discuss the single bit biggest geopolitical issue in the world. For me, there is a divorce between market recalibration to risk on or less the risk off and retaliatory risk. Let us have a live picture. The foreign minister from iran speaking in tehran. The attack made the world a less unsafe place. The u. S. Is a more unsafe place. There are a number of other headlines translated by al jazeera. I is alling of soleiman big gamble and what happened was not an attack on iraqi sovereignty. It was targeting a man who was fighting terrorists. Good morning. See thee certainly do rhetoric not necessarily backing down on both sides. This is one of the questions we are asking ourselves. If weather with the u. S. Did last week was a great miscalculation and how that might feedthrough into rotelle tatian retaliation. Are we going to see rational actors being more calm in the markets as we wait to find the answers . Manus markets have repriced, and this is what i
Global stocks despite lingering tensions between washington and tehran. Ubs shakes things out. The swiss bank splits its Wealth Management unit into three, cutting up to 500 jobs and naming two new Division Heads. And made in china. Elon musk is in shanghai as the consumer rollout of tesla vehicles finally takes place. We are on the ground all morning. Just under one hour away from the start of cash equity trading across europe and in the u. K. Take a look at futures here. You will see that they are up across the board. We have gains in asian stocks, which are pushing up european futures, dax futures, up. 6 , as are ftsefutures as futures. U. S. Indexes rose yesterday. We are seeing green arrows again in terms of futures with about 5. 5 hours to go until the start of trading. Anna, what do you see on the gmm . Anna pulling up the gmm function on the bloomberg, and we are bouncing across these asian equity markets, getting some upside coming through on the japanese markets. We are close
600 gaining. A lot of the focus is on earnings and the economic backdrop. 1134. Ollar 1 it has fluctuated but is very arrangedbound. Rangebound. Coming up, the World Economic forum in davos. We bring you all the biggest names in banking. Lets get straight to first word news in new york city. We begin with the new york senate approving Donald Trumps new freetrade agreement with mexico and canada. It handles the president and a major win ahead of impeachment. The overhaul of the agreement was a priority for mr. Trump. Mitch mcconnell called vote a rare moment of bipartisan cooperation. The white house broke the law in withholding aid the ukraine. Accordingting to an independent watchdog, saying the president should not have delayed money. This is a key part of the impeachment case against President Trump. , quoteg with them obsessed with the u. S. Trade deficit. This is according to bill hogan, saying americafirst policies are bringing about a priceless moment for global trade. This came
Sector is feeling some pain from trade. Lets check markets because we are to have a negative Market Impact overnight. Given the heightened geopolitical tensions, we saw the 10year yield dropped. Were back to 1. 81 right now and rising once more. Treasuries selling despite that manufacturing data. We have the s p 500 down 0. 7 . The only sector that is positive is energy. Not that strange when you think oil prices are a few bucks higher. The dollar index is close to 97. The yen is stronger. Most currencies are weaker versus the u. S. Dollar, which is acting as a safe haven. Gold as to point to well because you can see gold is up another 1. 2 . We are close to the 1515 mark. Crude 63. 60. We are off of session highs. Rent trading 68. 81. Big reactions on the treasury markets. Isn is significantly weaker. Stocksxx 600, european are down. Airline stocks are suffering the most. Risk off toassic geopolitical events in the middle east kind of day for these markets. Just day two of 2020. Vonni