Earnings from continuing operations was just 0. 10. Terrible numbers from certain sectors. Iously, retail search obviously, retail front and center. Market, kind of a mixed bag. Terrible data, yet equities tried to stage a rally earlier. Now futures flipping into more negative territory. Definitely the eurodollar and dollaryen are two to watch today. The yen was significantly higher thats butt all dies all eyes really on retail data later. Lets get some more market moving news from our new york and brussels teams. We want to start in the u. S. , where we are expecting more of that dire economic data. Many nonessential stores are closed. We also get Industrial Production. Michael mckee, International Policy and economics correspondent, joins us now. Michael i will give you guidance for the year, dismal. It is only a question of how bad they are going to be. Retail shrank by 8. 7 in march, when things were just getting started. In april, americans spent all of the time at home, not going
Coming up. Pay day for elon musk days after he stated his opinion. Tuesday may 5, you are watching Worldwide Exchange. Good morning, good afternoon, good evening and welcome i am Brian Sullivan. Thank you for joining us on this tuesday, may 5 down one, up the next. Maybe down the next. The market weve been living in looks to continue today as well. When we came in or started since many of us are still at home, futures are posting a solid gain of about 350point jump at the open as you know, it is a very volatile market at this hour big moves tend to happen quickly. Dow futures are still up only about 40 points. No real reason for wild swings more u. S. States continue to try to reopen their economies in the days and weeks ahead new york state is the latest to say its lockdown measures could begin to lift as early as may 15, albeit in certain parts of the state. Not new york city most likely and with very heavy restrictions getting back to business some what and trying to help crude oil
Call it. Netflix yesterday closing at an alltime record high. Oil a little higher as well, but still around an 18 year low. Still brutal for the market. Just checking in one more time they comec had before out. Time now for bloomberg first take. Here to discuss from our inhouse team of wall street veterans and insiders, michael mckee, and Damian Sassower. Mike, we know that jobless claims are going to be bad. We dont know how bad. I think the question is, how do markets actually respond to this, when sometimes they want to respond to bad data, sometimes they dont . Michael im not even going to go there. Yesterday we had dismal numbers on industrial and retail sales. We thought they were priced in, but apparently they werent. Youve got to wonder if weve priced in jobless claims because weve talked about it so much over the past three weeks, but we are expecting 5,500,000 as a consensus. If you get that number or even a little bit below it, we will have wiped out in one month all of the
Will have a great chart coming up on this. Madame lagarde is worried more about big worried about more than economics. Francine this is something a lot of people, i dunno if they saw coming but certainly we should be more prepared, but your absolute right. Lets go into the data and i will have a liquidity chart in the moment. Down. Tures down futures down. All of this rocketing off the president s speech last night which was taken quite poorly by the markets. Onto the next screen with oil weaker. A couple of pretty good days. Down to a stronger yen, thats a safe haven play. Brazilian riel an example of emergingmarket stress. Francine today we have Christine Lagarde. See are all rallying, we oil sliding. I wanted to show you what im looking at in terms of the european boards. This was quite significantly because european stocks you can see individually the dax and all of them down some 5 . This is my more broader cross asset and i have to say everyone is talking about President Trumps r
Out from under it. It is time now for global exchange. We are going to bring you todays market moving news from all around the world. Our bloomberg voices are on the ground with this mornings top stories. We are going to focus heavily on the markets. We begin in the u. S. , where the 10 year yield fell more than 1 this year. Here was more is annmarie hordern. Annmarie we are seeing a massive flight to safety. I can show you some of these numbers. Gold trading just under 1700 an ounce. This is the asset to own and this kind of market. Then you have the swiss franc. Deutsche bank said in the recent note we could see parity. We havent seen that since the s p lifted the cap the snb lifted the cap. B 30 year yield went through 1. 5 . Right now, 1. 39 . Three standard deviations. Thats how much we moved to the downside. We have not seen this since 2011. People on wall street say this might be a recession. Alix thank you very much. All of that leading to massive volatility within the equity m