You from the bloomberg terminal. American contagion. The u. S. Records its biggest ever jump in new virus cases. Governors reverse plans to reopen their states. Powell puts his foot down. The fed dividends bid buybacks. Buybacks amid uncertainty around the pandemic. Wall street giant slide in late trading. An elaborate fraud. Auditors accuse them of a sophisticated scheme to hide billions of euros. Visa and mastercard consider cutting ties. Just under one hour away from the start of cash equity trading in europe. Lets take a look at the futures as they are trading now. Yesterday, we closed slightly in the green. The u. S. Also rose and rallied into the close on news that banks would get a little bit more room from regulators to trade and be able to use more of their capital buffers, so diminishing the volcker rule, helping in the u. S. European futures are up as well as we get headlines that klm is securing a 3. 4 billion euro bailout from the dutch government, so we see more hope of s
Been explored, and an investment like that or support like that would come with specific strings attached. And that would protect the taxpayer. Francine i know you have to go, but a final question of public debt. It is a huge deal now, bigger than the economy. How long can you live with that situation . When can you start paying down some of the debt . Rishi so we have absolutely this year to help us facilitate response for the crisis. Was the believe that right thing to do, and some organizations would agree with that assessment, that the situation longterm would be far tose if we had not moved now limit the longterm scarring on the economy, and it is the longterm scarring that causes structural deficit in the future, which we should be most worried about. Toemain very committed strong and Sustainable Public financing over the mediumterm. Right now the priority should be to reopen the economy safely, to drive the recovery. But of course what were are doing this year is not sustainable
I wanted to point to the mexican peso. Has not moved much today but we are keeping an eye on the earthquake that struck the country. Now lets get a status report on the credit markets. 13 u. S. Companies sought bankruptcy parks section protection last week. It comes even with the intervention of the fed which has injected liquidity across the markets and given borrowers. For more insight, lets bring in srikanth sankaran. The last time we spoke, we were already seeing a calming in the credit markets. Where do we go from here now that the fed has backstopped entire curve in the credit market . Srikanth our thesis over the next 12 months is we get a grind tighter with respect to spreads. Our call is for credit markets to deliver positive exit returns across investmentgrade and highyield markets. Effectively, you want to be more selective, but at the end of the day, this is an environment where you have to look at rerisking portfolios in times of weakness rather than missing out when the m
It is still up there, unchanged for now. President the suspended temporarily visas of hundreds of thousands of workers used to work in the united visas, including the h1b used widely for immigrant employees in Silicon Valley. First, a check of the markets. Ending the day slightly up despite all the political commotion. Abigail doolittle has been watching the back and forth. Investors again looking past the bad news. Why . Most part, they are looking past the bad news. Relatively risk on close. Close itself in the past couple of hours, not so great. At the highs, the s p 500 and nasdaq up more than 1 . The nasdaq of course closing at yet another record high. That has to do with todays strength, the stayathome stocks and stayathome sectors. Both at aamazon closing time. The longest winning streak since july of 2019. The stayathome team has emerged. A couple of weeks where the cyclical sectors were doing better. As the virus has started to hotspotscertain areas, created fear. Weeks, thest
Liz i do think spreads are important to watch. We always know theres a tight connection between the credit markets and the equity market. Especially high yield vs. Equity and i agree that when spreads got as compressed as they did, there was probably not sufficient compensation for those hotelers for the likely risk. Were seeing in it bankruptcies, which have spiked back up. They had a spike in may, leveled off and theyre picking back up back to 2009 levels and i do any what happens with spreads and more broadly in the credit markets, as it did in the march time frame will inform what happens in the equity market. Equity investors need to have a particularly close eye on the credit markets right now. Were seeing about a 50 uptick in terms of your average trading for the nasdaq. And what are you expecting for next week . As renee was telling us earlier, were heading towards a shortened week. Early data on the labor market only thursday because of the ourth of july holiday weekend. Lils