Plan to shake up the fed before he leaves office. Theres a lot going on in the markets. Of course we have to focus on u. S. Politics, Central Banks here. We seem to be inching closer to a deal with u. K. And the eu. That is filtering through an optimism in terms of pound, and the other thing i am watching is bitcoin. Bitcoin is something i do not watch very often. It is something we need to watch out for. It has always been there, but a huge rise above 17,000, and a parabolic ascent, surging past 18,000 for the First Time Since december 2017. The mania and cryptocurrency everyone has said has reached a fever pitch, including fidelity investments. European stocks overall unchanged, slipping just moments ago again on these new virus cases as they continue to mount, and that is worrying investors across the world. To the bloomberg first word news in london with leighann gerrans. Ighann. Leighann with two senators and quarantine, the republicans fell short of the votes needed. Republicans
The nasdaq. The trade continues tom the trade continues. Tom im looking for an entry point. They all sits, down. You couldnt trade. You are right. , 1. 05. Weaker yen today i just did the math on the surveillance. Is fine they are proposing the gdp of latvia. That is the story around big tex. Think big tech has a much bigger problem, given yesterdays session. Tom i agree totally. Jonathan maybe not latvian gdp. [laughter] yesterday was a case of buy stocks, ask questions later. There are questions being asked about this vaccine and development. The deployment, the distribution of it. They are questions we will pursue for the next couple of hours. Tom we will have some real experts on. It has got to be frozen. Theres issues. But as we heard from johns hopkins, there could be a lot more vaccines coming on. It is a stew of vaccines. Jonathan the show is just coming off the rails, which means one thing. Lisa is going to get it back on the rails. The data, lets focus on that. Lisa i could t
Hurricane laura nears the u. S. Gulf coast. Massive activations take lace for fears the storm could drive 30 miles inland, causing massive damage. Jobgermany extends preserving subsidies until 2021, as europes with this economy recovers from the coronavirus. This as the japanese official warns over a second wave. It has just gone 6 00 a. M. In london, 9 00 a. M. In the difc in dubai. We will spend a lot of time talking about specificity. [laughter] hopefully at got that right. Put it to you this way, the end is reallyael well anchored in the u. S. I see those as being the two risks if there is a lack of specificity. Annmarie you make a good point. It is clearly going to be center stage. Writes, theper dollar is the guest of honor even if it doesnt want to be. Can we see more u. S. Dollar unwinding . Of course, this is the bond market moment. It comes back to the conversation we had on monday with a great Bloomberg Businessweek satire speech. They said no, i stuff, jay powell. Manus exa
About seven basis points. Still an awful long way to go on that story. Vonnie in the u. S. , it is a positive session, slightly risk on. We have some guidelines for when the economy might start to reopen in new york city and in various economies around the country. Markets hanging onto that. Banks are the best performers in the s p 500, which is up 0. 9 right now. They are followed by Consumer Services and real estate. The yen is stronger today as well, off its highs now. 107. 20. T crude down at 12. 40. That continues to darken. The 10 year yield is now up to 65 basis points. Slightly risk on tone today. Talk a bit about what is happening in a little more detail. Italy, france, spain announcing plans to ease lockdown restrictions as the british Prime Minister pours a little cold water on the idea. Giuseppe conte in italy raising concerns about a possible second wave of infections that could trigger irreversible damage to the economy. Lets talk about the risks surrounding reopening and
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