Beijing get when you dont pay our. Was this man really responsible for a one trillion dollar loss on wall street or was he a convenient scapegoat for taking on big investors. And the story of the world over Migrant Workers stranded in thailand without jobs and no money for rent or food. The worlds 20 largest economies agreed to give 76. 00 of the poorest a Debt Repayment holiday but china has yet to publicly offer any support at a time many nations need the extra financial headroom to tackle the coronavirus pandemic beijing has been rapidly rolling out its belt and road initiatives to build infrastructure and increase its influence in mostly developing nations its large as has come a huge cost for many of the 138. 00 nations that have signed up to the program you may remember sri lanka couldnt keep up with payments on the ports and eventually had to hand over the facility on a 100 year lease many nations have been rethinking their involvement amid accusations china was over pricing roa
Global supplies, chip supplies rather to huawei, this as taiwans Semiconductor Announces plans to build a plant in arizona. China sending signals in retaliation that has this market on edge. Is it a bluff . We will get the read from michael pillsbury. Also, Human Behaviors on a crash course with social distancing. I will explain why. All that and so much more on making money. Now in the green. The cp effect has started. Welcome back. Its been another eventful week for the market. One of the things were seeing is caught of tugofwar between commentary and observation versus realtime news and anecdotes. The financials got crushed on wednesday, after the Federal Reserve chairman powell offered a dire warning about the economy, more specifically the american consumer. Credit Card Companies were especially slammed. But then after the close on wednesday, mastercard updated its operating metrics. They show a sharp improvement year over year transactions. Every single week for the past four wee
Something we have been spotlights for weeks now. Market this is morning look like this, future indicating a move at the start of of trading this morning, nasdaq and s p 500 closed losses, 4 00 oclock on wall street. Controversy over the Michael Flynn deepening, name of obama officials who requested unmasking of former National Security adviser declassified. Meanwhile President Trump crimes committed by then president obama are obvious. Plus elon musk driving down his own road defying stay at home orders and if anybody is arrested should be him. Thursday, my sitdown with President Trump, join us with the very latest on getting america back to work, additional stimulus, 2020 race and general flynn, obamagate, dont miss thursday morning 6 00 to 9 00 a. M. Eastern. Mornings with maria is life. Global markets this morning look like this. In europe mixed story, cac quarant down 14 and dax index in germany sup a fraction, spain is ordering a twoweek quarantine for Incoming International trave
Outperformance of small caps for a sixth straight day, so that is sort of the good news, but it is all a waitandsee game as we head into the ecb. Underperformance happening with btps in europe. Twitter earnings breaking as well. Revenue coming in stronger than estimated at it hundred 7. 6 million. 876are shifting at. Illion has a look at the monitor bullet daily active users, they came in at 166 million. That did beat estimates. They did add 14 million average monthly daily active users since the previous quarter. Seeing more activity. Now it is about monetizing that activity. Twitter is up by about 10 in premarket. More coming out later on in the show. We do want to give you a snapshot of all that is moving the market from our team in new york. We are going to begin with the data overnight in europe. Recession,s record plunging into record contraction, shrinking about 3. 8 . The slump adding a lot more urgency for joint physical support and puts more pressure on Christine Lagarde late
Putting pressure on oil markets as well. And marie hoarder me for more. Walk us Annmarie Hordern joins me for more. Walk us through the veracity of the selloff, and does it last . Annmarie the next 24 hours is going to be quite bumpy for this may contract. Basically, it is Financial Derivatives meeting the physical oil market and what we are seeing on the storage side. If you are not out of this position financially and you are a futures trader, you have to accept the physical oil. The problem is, theres really nowhere else to put it. Look at cushing. That storage is quickly filling up, and that is the main hub in the United States, where you have pipelines to canada, the midlands, or the gulf. The may contract now trading at , which3, plus contango means if you look at the june contract, trading at about 23 a barrel, it is about a nine dollar differential, the most on record. If you look down the table of what you see for june, july, august, the prices are certainly higher on the futu