Nation, and Bloomberg Television as well. I love how we end our opening withistopher Christopher Verrone of strategas. A lot of people rationalizing where we are and beginning to rationalize outcome a way utes come on down 30,000 where we are and beginning to rationalize out, wait a minute 30,000. Jonathan lets be clear about something, they have been bullish and right through most of the last eight months. Most hatedlked about bull market, but this recovery has been underappreciated. I have sat here many times waiting for it to fade. It hasnt. But i think now things have changed. Restrictions are back. It is our closing indoor dining. The letdowns wont be the same as early spring, but the restrictions are there for all to see. The question is how much of this do you tolerate. ,om what is just as important moments ago at Deutsche Bank on the fact of a weaker dollar. How weak is weak . What do you see was in the literature . Jonathan if you are ecb president Christine Lagarde, too weak
Deviations. It is an historic surge in gold. Francine it certainly is, at we have been spending a lot of time on that and we will spend more time on gold. Lets get to first word news with ritika gupta. Ritika good morning. The fight over the chinese consulate in houston shows that hardliners now have the upper hand in the Trump Administration. President trump has allowed a small group of advisors led by Michael Pompeo to push u. S. Policy toward its most antagonistic in decades. U. S. Officials say china has a history of espionage and intellectual property theft. The Trump Administration and Senate Republicans are considering a shortterm extension of extra unemployment benefits. It is unlikely the white house and lawmakers will agree on a broader stimulus deal before the benefits expire. Millions of americans receive supplemental payments that were included in the last laurent virus package. Way for paving the soaring stock to join the s p 500 index. The electric carmaker reported thir
Working on holiday. When you look at the markets, they are probably range bound and that is where the nudgyness comes from. We have earnings in europe that will give insight and you have the spat between the u. S. And china, which is significant but is not translating into concrete market movement. Tom we will talk about china and a moment. Airlines front and center. Right now, with our first word news, here is ritika gupta. Ritika china may retaliate for the closing of its consulate in houston by targeting the u. S. Consulate in hong kong. That is according to the editor of the Chinese Communist party newspaper, global times. He writes the u. S. Has over 1000 staff and that means it is a spy center. The editors comments have regally been a tipoff to what the government does. They Trump Administration says republicans are considering a shortterm extension of the unemployment stimulus. Millions of americans received several mental payments that were included in the last coronavirus resc
Francine theres a different term people who are in lockdown in the u. K. And other parts, people being bored. The different tone from people in charge saying we are trying to keep you safe. We dont exactly know when we can reopen or how much. It is a great experiment. If you look at italy, france and germany, do you reopen automotive first . It is going to be a delicate situation. We will have to see one data time. As i speak to you about optimism, just outside my window beneath me next to mount sinai on fifth avenue, the drone of sirens. We begin in new york. May 15 is the date the state could be reopening. Governor cuomo laying out a plan that starts with construction and manufacturing. He said it would probably begin upstate before moving down south to the city. Yesterday, the state reporting 367 deaths, the lowest number in almost a month. U. K. , Prime Minister Boris Johnson back at work. Johnson recovering from coronavirus. In his first public statement, he urged people not to gi
Coronavirus cases continue to rise as the fallout cripples the Global Economy. China may be forced to abandon growth targets for the year. We are just getting some news crossing the bloomberg when it comes to expectations for summer earnings out of we are expecting a pretty down quarterly in terms of the impact for the asiapacific. We will be bringing those to you shortly but in the meantime, we have data out of south korea. Shery we are getting the current account numbers for south korea for the month of march. Current account surplus coming in at 6. 2 3,000,000,000 fine 6. 23 billion dollars. The current account surplus narrowing a little bit from the previous month of february. Also, the month of february being revised lower to 6. 4 billion. The goods trade balance coming in at 7 billion. The surplus was a little larger than the previous month. Given that we do have the coronavirus pandemic and april export numbers really taking a hit, the march current account numbers not looking t