Debt as collateral for loans as eu leaders meet today to discuss a 2. 2 trillion revival plan. Loan provisions jump at Credit Suisse as the lender builds reserves to withstand the coronavirus pandemic. We will speak exclusively with the banks new ceo just after 9 00 a. M. Hopes forrs crafted higher profit in 2020. And the earnings deluge continues. Revenueetting hermes out, down 6. 5 percent, which does not seem quite so bad all things considered. Anna we are getting numbers out of unilever as well, so the earnings daily continues. Things not looking great for unilever. Delucia the earnings deluge continues. Growth of zero, so 0 . The estimate was of an increase and itr just over 2 , seems on pricing and on volume they missed estimates. Pricing looks to be lower than estimates and volume looks to be lower than estimates. That seems to be where we are on the top line. They are also saying they are withdrawing their previous 2020. Uidance First Quarter underlying sales slack, as i mentio
The opecplus curbs doing little for the global glut. The virus drags on demand. Policymakers are focused on the Economic Impact of the virus. We will hear from a policymaker later this hour. Shery we are seeing downside for u. S. Futures. This coming on the back of a second straight week of gains. We have seen coronavirus cases start the United States to stabilize. We are seeing coronavirus debts and cases here in new york coronavirus cases here in new york start to decline. Brent is down. There was a loss of 8. 5 on friday. There is a gloomy outlook on oil prices, wti at the lowest level on record. Haidi we have been listening into President Trump speaking at the daily Coronavirus Briefing at the white house, talking about additional testing and stimulus and conversations with the democrats coming close to a deal. President trump saying Vice President mike pence will be helping having discussions with u. S. Governors when it comes to shortcomings in testing in information will go ahea
Top producers consider even deeper output curves. Shinzo abes state of emergency now covers the whole of japan after critics said his initial virus response offered to little, too late too little, too late. Shery breaking news out of south korea. We are getting the jobless rate coming in at 3. 8 . As expected, a rebound from the previous month of february. February was a 3. 3 . In the month of march coming in at 3. 8 . In line with estimates but still a rebound. Of course, we have seen weakness in retail and hospitality, employment, given this coronavirus pandemic. The government has tried to create jobs and that has helped the economy. They of course have already passed a 10 billion extra budget, but we are now seeing the jobless rate climbing to 3. 8 . This as president moon jaein has called for more aggressive measures on job creation. Of course, moons Ruling Democratic Party of korea just won the implementer elections. Take a look at how markets are trading at the moment. We are se
Ease concern over coronavirus. 1 10 year yield falls below for the first time in over 150 years. Uncoordinated action. Other g7 Central Banks are yet to follow suit, though expectations for the central bank of canada, japan, and korea and furtherrowing to fall. Scott meinhardt said u. S. Equities could slump another 15 but a surprise come back for joe biden on super tuesday cease turn positive. Speaking of the biden news, we are getting a breaking headline on the bloomberg terminal that joe biden has won the Texas Democratic president ial primary, state that was expected to show strong support for Bernie Sanders, has gone instead for joe biden according to the associated press. Of super tuesday for joe biden. A contender who had almost been counted out after the initial caucuses, coming back in a big way after getting endorsements from Amy Klobuchar and pete buttigieg. Matt, lets go from the United States politics to Money Management in the u. K. Breaking news on the uks largest manage
Financial impact. My guess is it is going to be worse than people think. We are confronted with a conditional supply and demand shocks. It will have effect on global gdp, that is for sure. But it is not like the world will end tomorrow. Nejra meanwhile, president s trump and modi meet in india. The country did sign defense deals were 3 billion, and they pledged closer ties on Maritime Security. Nejra jpmorgan lays out goals on its invest today. They said u. S. Wealth is going to be one place where they can still grow. Nejra and the iger era comes to a close. Disney names a new ceo. I intend to double down on the same strategies bob has established. Nejra its all straight ahead on bloomberg best. A hello and welcome. Im nejra cehic. This is bloomberg best, your weekly review of the most important business news, analysis, from Bloomberg News. Lets start with a day by day look at the top headlines. The dominant story throughout the week was the global spread of the coronavirus, and on mon