Was nasdaq and s p 500 down almost 3 . Add boycott slit sit Major Companies pulling out of advertising dollars from social media giant is costing Company Millions anding to surngd pressure and down two and a a quarter percent right now. Boeing takes flight test of the 737 max begin this is week. The stock is up on the news this morning premarket up close to 3 and Federal Reserve Shopping List essential bank releasing name of companies that it is purchasing Corporate Bonds from. Including automakers, telecommunication companies, even beverage cocacola, plus china take more steps to plan down on hong kong frms and beijing says it will impose visa restriction on americans with what they call egregious conducts on Hong Kong Related issues. Mornings with maria is live right now. Global markets look like this european indices highser with the up a third of the percent and paris up about 16 points also a third of the and dax is higher than 34 points twothirds of one percent. In asia across th
Weve given all of that back and then some. Yesterday, the market was down by 1,861 a decline of 2,443 points. All of that over the previous sessions we had given back futures are up by 626. Normally, thats the type of move that would make you sit up and say wow s p indicated up 69 points nasdaq up 192. Treasury yields have been moving all over the place as well we did see the 10year on monday up 0. 9 . Higher than that this morning, up 0. 2 on trading yesterday. Accelerated on the day everybody was on tender hooks to watch what would be happening here are some highlights of what is on tap car line, former citigroup ceo, former white house chief of staff, founder and chairman of Interactive Brokers joining us there. A lot going on there todays top story, uk gdp following 20. 4 in april the largest monthly fall on record as the pandemic lockdowns have battered the economy. Londons ftse down more than 18 , thats just year to date. Has liesman heard yesterday, the annual kansas fed symposi
Book the world. Francine lacqua in london. Extraordinary markets yesterday. Francine extraordinary yesterday but today they are taking a breather. On folks yesterday was moderna. Say if we haveto better news on the early trial of this vaccine. There is a huge fund being put in place by Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel. Again now, a bit more temperament or a little bit slower as we expect some countries to go against it. More subdued markets than yesterday. Tom interesting. Markets pulling back in the last few hours. With over a world news in new york city. Federal reserve chairman says the central bank is prepared to use its full range lendingd plans on rate neil zero than rate to near zero. Ritika President Trump is taking the antimalaria drugs he has promoted as a treatment for coronavirus. That is despite government warnings that hydroxychloroquine can have serious side effects. The president says he has been on the drug for about a week and a half. Mike pences press secretary test
Pound hole in its bottom line. Auto aid renault struggles to restart production amid faultering demand mixes messages from the hill was fed chair and secretary mnuchin give different assessments of the speed of the recovery they also seek to defend their stimulus measures from accusations they are propping up wall street at the expense of main street. Main street is in a class by it self really. Diverse small, medium and Large Companies different credit needs, some credit based, some asset based. It is a really complex undertaking. A warm welcome to the program. Lets kick off with the top corporate story. Marks and spencer has reported more than 20 decline. The company added that it with also accelerate a restructuring effort aimed at trimming costs during the pandemic. Lets get to steve who joins us outside an m and s store in london theyve been struggling to restructure for years now. Is it going to be different this time around . I hope so a lot of us have an historical knowledge of
Time now for our top market moving news from our new york team. Joining me Bloomberg Opinion columnist brooke sutherland. What were some of your Key Takeaways . Brooke i think what is interesting is target talks about First Quarter comparable sales being up, but nearly all of that was from digital. Digital comparable sales were 141 in the quarter. Those sales come at a cost. They are more expensive. The natural supply chain dynamics of delivering products to homes rather than having them purchased instore is more expensive for target, so you are seeing that market squeeze. Clothes,rent buying where target gets more of a higher profit margin. They were buying food any essentials. Is this a structural shift . Are people getting so used to ordering online that they will continue to order these items . They did also callout market share gains, which is key. Given Amazon Logistics troubles, are you going to be seeing customers rediscovering target and walmart, some of these longerlasting st