If retail buying cyclical, do you have to . And one of the potential movers u. S. , theket in the pharmaceutical analysts. A lot of pockets but we can start in the u. S. What is your biggest take away and how should the markets be taking it . I think the simple read of trying to analyze wave one, wave two, it really does not matter. At how thisto look rise in the number of cases, i think we talked about this last week, actually translates. Nobody wants to get infections running around still but we want to make sure that people, if they are getting hospitalized, that that is the hardest and best number to practice with. It is possible that because you are doing thousands more tests, you are obviously finding more infected people. Lets just keep an eye on the hospitalization rate. That is the one i am keen to look at. And it is not as well reported for some reason. So what is it telling us . I get what you are saying about the fact we are testing more and logically, therefore, the number
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
Global deaths from the coronavirus reach 300,000. While cases continue to fall in europe and the u. S. , alarm is growing in asia over a potential second wave of infection. Stocks and futures gain even as data from china shows a slower return to normal than hoped. Focus turns to german gdp numbers. In just two hours. Looking for a drop of 3 in the first quarter. Sanofil macrons berates for suggesting the u. S. May have hurt access to a vaccine. The frenchetween president and the drugmakers ceo is scheduled for next week. Just under an hour away from the start of cash equity trading in europe, lets take a look at futures. Gains of 1 acrosstheboard. A rough dayhave yesterday in european stocks. Closing down 2 . Then a turnaround in u. S. Stocks. That has now rolled around in asia and that market optimism is prevalent in european futures. Not been u. S. Futures. Little change. Anna . Anna a little bit of breaking news. In london, this would be of some relevance. System, aand transit fundi
Over two days, as the biggest oil etf dumps short dated contracts once again. We will speak about this and earnings with the bpce l, Bernard Looney, coming up shortly bp ceo, Bernard Looney, coming up shortly. Aboutl speak to the ceo the impact of coronavirus and the business shortly. Get to some numbers coming through this morning. We have got numbers coming through from bp this morning. They are talking about how the industry has been hit by supply and demand shock. They remain committed to delivering their net zero ambition. We heard about that back in february or so from the company, from Bernard Looney, the relatively new ceo at the helm of dp. First quarter dividends bp. Dividends, so maintenance of that dividend at least at the same number. Bp saying it had around 32 billion of liquidity available at the end of the quarter. The bp ceo, we are taking Decisive Action to strengthen finances. We have heard about how they will not be taking government money, they want to get through
Thats leading the dow right now. Jpmorgan chase, rough week overall. The cardholders, mx, visa down this week, doing better. Exxonmobil also on the upside. And the laggards, and this is like perfect, the symmetry here, all the stuff thats been the Market Leader is down. Walmart, a 52week high, new high, Procter Gamble raised their dividend, merck is up on the week, health care is up on the week, united health, apple had a good week. Its down. Weve been telling you how goldman has downgraded apple, maybe a surprise, but talked about lingering low sales and margins a possible delay, possible in the 5g phone everybody is anticipating towards the end of the year, and i think this is the most important thing, a shallower recovery hard thing to call at this point. Everybody is all over the map on that shallow recovery apple has regained almost 65 of the losses weve had, a little better than the s p 500. Its trading right now at 23 times forward earnings and if youre like me and look at the e