That is where we are at the moment. Another down day for crude. Brent also down. Tom lets get more analysis on the market. When you look at what happened with help things are playing out in asia, is it taking offer a stellar quarter . Probably a bit of both. Concern withys the cases we have seen. In cases like texas. They have a bit of a crisis going on there. The fact that new york, new jersey, and connecticut have now set a quarantine for people who travel from these hot zones and the rest of america. Imposing an economic constraint. They are worried there will be another abruptness to this. That the Economic Growth that america had. In states of new york, when they take this action, that is a worrying time. That would hurt businesses on a much bigger basis. That is what wall street is concerned about. The hit to the economy. There has been talk the u. S. Government is getting ready to do a fourth round of fiscal stimulus. There has not been any details yet. The market would be conce
Americas grim reality, new virus cases hit daily records in florida, california, and texas. The imf sees a deeper global recession than it predicted two months ago. Lufthansa biggest shareholder says he will back a 9 billion euro government bailout, getting the rescue plan a shot of momentum ahead of a crunch about later today. A bid for closure, the chemical giant spent more than 12 billion to settle thousands of roundup cases and other u. S. Losses. A significant number of cancer cases claims remains unresolved. Just enter an hour from cash equity trading in europe, and we have a mixed picture. But the futures are trading 0. 2 . Down dax futures are trading higher in frankfurt. We are looking at Different Directions depending on the regional indexes. What you see on the gmm . Anna i will get to that in a moment. Picture around the spread of the virus in the United States, capturing the markets attention, and sending Risk Appetite lower. Getting numbers at of royal mail, this is inter
Lets have a look at what has been really driving things here, haslinda. Haslinda the focus this week for markets will be that policy meeting in china. Fed chair Jerome Powell says a new rebound in u. S. Growth depends on the delivery of a vaccine, but he stressed that the economy will recover eventually. This economy will recover. It may take a while. It may take a period of time. It could stretch through the end of next year. We really do not know. Powells remarks follow a warning that and our chief asia correspondent, enda curran, joins us now. Away . S the key take powell saying he is not looking at negative rates. Enda not looking at negative rates, haslinda, but also saying they have some options on the table. The fed has done so much in terms of cutting Interest Rates. And all of the liquidity measures it has taken, they still have the option of doing what the bank of japan does. Yield curve controls. Some of the commentary now will be a around whether or not the fed starts tryin
Barrier. Softbank is said to be planning deep cuts at the vision fund which could affect 10 global staff, souring bets on tech are takingke their toll. Haidi a mixed start to a politically driven status when it comes to the markets today as we get that precedent being set with that security bill as well as greater considerations over what kind of reopening and second wave issues we are seeing across the rest of the regions. We are seeing new zealand markets starting off the day with tepid gains. The session looks a little bit more muted for the rest of asia. We are seeing japanese futures as well as Australian Futures pointed a little bit higher. Those in hong kong seeing retreats. The npc is being i to be passing the Hong Kong Security eyed to be passing that Hong Kong Security bill. The u. S. Sees 100,000 deaths. We are watching the oil story, seeing whether this pause in the rally will continue given concerns about renewed production out of the likes of russia. Shery to our top stor
Chinese demand levels almost at precrisis level. Time for todays market moving news from our washington and new york teams. We want to start with fed chair jay powells comments on the economy. In an interview with cbs, he expressed confidence in the recovery, but timing is still hard to predict. Chair powell the economy will recover. It may take a while. It could stretch through the end of next year. We really dont know. Michael mckee, International Economics and policy correspondent, has more. Was there anything new on cbs . Michael nothing really new, just summarizing what we already knew from the fed and from economists and disease experts. He suggested that what it is really going to take is a vaccine before people feel really confident and the economy can start to move back in the direction of where it was before all of this started. He said congress and the central bank may need to do more to keep us afloat during that period. Appropriate government policy could buy time for work