Kong which has galvanize the beltway and the press. We will be seen much more of that, im sure, through the day. Statements by the administration, the condemnation. I will point out that the idea of will we see protests this weekend . Francine im looking forward to catching up with selina wang shortly. Lets get to bloomberg first word news in new york city. Top hong kong activists are calling for protest. The National Peoples congress is expected to pass a legislation that would force for kong to implement laws active treason and subversion. For the first time in decades, china has abandoned the practice affecting annual targets for economic growth. Instead, it will shift the stimulus focus with jobs. U. K. Posted record budget aticit last month, standing 76 billion. There is an unprecedented amount of money to prevent the clash crash of the economy. An executive at oxford has recruited more than 10,000 people to take part. The u. S. Has pledged 1. 2 billion towards the vaccine develop
Maybe we will hear from secretary pompeo. E had the New York Times story about Chinese Students in america, but i agree with you, it is incredibly fluid. We spoke with lord patton about an hour ago, and he was deeply emotional about this moment. What am imagining is he was the last governor of hong kong before it was headed over in 1997, and i am trying to understand what he thinks foreign governments should do at this point. We will be talking about the special trading status over the next few hours. I just wonder whether it makes a difference whether you whether the United States rescinds. Clearly thatvery the Trump Administration cant do this alone. There has to be a developed economy and developed politics , with 2047 being slammed forward to where we are now. Jonathan 90 minutes away, jobless claims this thursday morning, which means we got to look at some ugly jobs data. Lisa and one thing i have been noting is that the pessimism we are seeing in the Economic Data contrasts compl
End into the weekend, major curve flattening. Francine yes, major curve flattening. We will analyze that during surveillance. For first word news in new york city, here is viviana hurtado. Hi, viviana. Viviana the coronavirus epidemic has entered a new phase in cases outside of china is quickly are quickly multiplying. South korea and japan closing in on 100 cases. China, though, still the center of the crisis. Roughly 75,000 infections have been reported, but the new number of cases declining. Intelligence officials reporting the u. S. Congress russia is trump to get donald reelected. The president was angered by the disclosure, reportedly claiming the democrats will use it against him. Donald trump said he will not immediately pardon his former associate an ally, roger stone, still, if courts do not overturn his conviction, President Trump said he will intervene in the case. Mr. Stone was charged for lying to congress and witness tampering. Wells fargo, bloomberg learning it is set t
Are close to sealing a merger agreement, telling employees a final pact is coming within weeks. And shares in the lse group trade higher as shareholders prepare to vote on the 27 billion takeover well, a very good morning and welcome to street signs. One of our top stories today, alibaba has closed almost 7 higher after its hong kong debut, the Largest Global listing so far this year the ecommerce giant listed at a price of 176 hong kong dollars to raise 11. 2 billion in fresh capital. And as part of the ipo, the Chinese Company issued 500 million new ordinary shares. Emily tan is joining us live from hong kong emily, the largest ipo of 2019, quite a stellar postmarket performance with the stock up almost 7 in trading how has the reception been overall . Reporter you know what, juwana, the newcomer to the market today was the most heavily traded in hong kong with 1. 8 billion worth of shares changing hands as you mentioned, the stock closed up more than 6. 5 , off the days highs, but u
Welcome. It is surveillance. Im manus cranny. Lets check on the markets. One view we have had dominating through the program is that inflation will recast itself during 2018. The market has the biggest long bets on bonds since 2004. We have got the three month yield here. That is driving the debt ceiling anxiety, shortterm investors demanding more. The bit to cover ratio, the highest stopover rate since 2008, and the lowest bid to cover ratio since january, 2009. But the asian equity markets and European Equity markets, rallying. Taking the cue from the commodity market. Copper is bid. Oil is bid. An overalleing move higher. Oil, we did make it above 60, i assure you. So, we traded post the close up at the highest levels since 201 5. We have the libya outage. Dont forget, we had the u. K. Outage a couple weeks ago and that spoke to market. This time it is libya, 100,000 barrels a day is a good be taken out of the supply chain as libya has an outage. More on that pipeline explosion a li