Boost as shares jump more than 10 in their debut waking up europes dor mont ipo market President Trump threatens to call in the National Guard as violence erupts in minneapolis for a third night. With protesters setting fire to the Police Station over the death of george floyd. Asian equities and the week mostly lower as President Trump talks tough on china saying he will issue the white house response to the hong kong moves later today. We are not happy with china we are not happy with whats happened all over the world, people are suffering. 186 countries, all over the world they are suffering we are not happy a very warm welcome to street signs. I want to kick off with fresh data just crossing the wires in italy. The final print, it has been revised lower. We are seeing 5. 3 , thats the quarter on quarter contraction in italy in q1 thats against a preliminary 4. 7 contraction year on year. The contraction stands at minus 5. 4 compared to 5. 8 initially redibted we are seeing worse nu
Angela merkels coalition hammers out a 130 billion euro booster shot for the economy including Infrastructure Investment and rebates for electric cars. Only one option for the ecb today. The central bank is seen boosting its emergency Bond Buying Program by 500 billion euros. Some investors say anything less would cause a shock similar to marches selloff in peripheral debt. Falling in line. Hsbc and Standard Chartered both back to beijing when it comes to the proposed security law in hong kong. The latter saying it will maintain stability in the region. We are just under an hour away from the start of cash Equities Trading. Lets take a look at what futures are doing. We see red arrows, albeit small red arrows. Ftse futures down 2 10 of 1 . Dax futures unchanged right now. We are starting to see you as futures actually turn higher u. S. Futures actually turn higher. Dow jones is rising. S p and nasdaq futures still down. It looks like weve had some incredible gains. It would be Pretty A
At the same time, it is authorizing sanctions against chinese officials. We will be live with reaction from the forbidden city. European futures prove their resilience after a more mixed session in asia. Angela merkel says it may take time to iron out the details of eus mammoth stimulus package. And lufthansa sets up a showdown with the eu by holding off on a vote for its 9 billioneuro german rescue plan. Cites requirements over landing slots at key hubs. Just under an hour from the start of cash equity trading. Lets look at futures. Instituteat the ifo expects german gdp to shrink 6. 6 in 2020 and then expand 10. 2 in the year after. That is a pretty decent sized contraction, and yet futures are Still Holding higher. Futures up 1. 3 on the dax. It has been a Pretty Amazing week for the dax index. We kicked off up 304 points in change and were up more than 100 tuesday and 150 yesterday. The dax has gained a lot of basically to11,000 11,006 heard 50 yesterday 11,650 yesterday. S p and d
This for bloomberg on the economy. I am going to lose the introductions this morning and get right to the moment. Weve got great markets. Yields higher, dow futures up 300, etc. No one is focused on anything but an update on this grim labor economy. Jonathan how quickly can this labor market hell is the question we ask every single month now, and we will ask it continually through the morning . Maybe we getting median estimate , maybe it comes outside of that. But the question hasnt changed. It is how quickly we will heal after a big downturn in a very short space of time. Tom a lot of opinions on that, and of course, as i was just mentioning, across the 10 of the american demographic, it will be a different rate of change for the haves and the havenots. And, what is so important, you nailed this a number of weeks ago, is the damage to the broad middle class. We are focused on the elites at bloomberg, and we are focused on maybe the people that service the elites, but it is a broad swa
Easing of lockdowns. Taylor i got him steven major you have thes massive helicopter money and stimulus but if the demand does not come back, he is more worried about disinflation, that made my ears perk up. Francine lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news. The European Unions executive arm is coming out with its own stimulus package to deal with the regions worst economic emergency since world war ii and calls for spending 823 billion. Two thirds will be in the form of grants and the rest will be loans and funded by joint debt issuance. In hong kong, hundreds of protesters returned to the streets demonstrating against chinas plan to take more control of the city with National Security measures. Projectiles. Ired the u. S. Is thinking of ways to punish china for the hong kong crackdown and is weighing whether to declare the colony has lost autonomy from beijing. There could be visa restrictions for Chinese Communist party authorities. For the first time, twitter has added a f