The 3 trillion weve spent plus a trillion dollars more. Thats about 20 of gdp. Thats absolutely historic, and were prepared to put more money on the table softbank returns to profit with a 12 rides se investor shares soared towards the top. Sales grew by 67 in the Second Quarter. Stock markets here in europe have been trading for about an hour so far, and the direction of trade has been very firm. Weve seen a very decent rally play out after initial gains thats now translated to a pop of 1. 7 on the benchmark index, a fair amount of green at a stock level sector level and by industries you can see how the core markets are faring today we did see some early gains in the german stock market, and that is now actually outpaced by italian stocks taking the charge french and german stocks slight underperformance again by the uks stock market, just 1 3 4 of a percent yesterday. It was curious we saw the german stock market, one of the laggards which is typically not the case, but certainly re
Package. El wanted 500 billion, but the hardliners were said to be pushing for as little as 350 billion. Grants ase amount in opposed to loans that countries like italy, that stricken, would have to pay back. Bloomberg eulling hardliners are ready to accept 390 Million Euros in grants so a deal can be done. A mixed picture for stocks amid a spread in coronavirus cases. Infections hit a daily record as a u. S. Congresswoman calls floridas outbreak out of control. Underways in getting in europe. We will see how the pandemic impacted phillips when we get their earnings and we had to zurich as there is a big week for the banks. Let me just tell you quickly that we have phillips earnings, Second Quarter revenue four point 4 billion euros across the bloomberg, the estimate was for four point 31 so revenue beating the estimate as far as earnings are concerned for philips. The earnings before taxes, philips in the Second Quarter, 418 Million Euros and we were looking for, according to a survey
Trades on top. Ocado drops despite reporting 30 jump in sales. Jp morgan and banks kick off earnings season. Well see how much of an impact hit the banks bottom lines. It has been a weaker session in europe. Stocks have been trading deeply in negative territory. The hand over wall street, very choppy we have not seen that. Investors getting used to some of the records in the recovery trade takinghnogy. It was the opposite yesterday as some of the closures in california and texas with the spike of covid cases finally spiked a little caution. Weve seen some numbers. Signatu singapores seeing more of the fa fallout from the virus tensions from the u. S. And china again around the South China Sea and Natural Resources china claims are theirs and the ordering of chinese businesses in the states. A lot of tension one analysts said what you get is either very positive or very negative we are still roughly where we started on the uk stock market up 18 french rewinding about 2 . The dax is down
Covid19 own Macro Economic Development Going forward. I in leary, we should expect lower Going Forward. Ab in bef shares up. Vw slashes its dividend after posting the first half operating loss and renault posts a loss and says it is impossible to give any guidance. Astrazeneca rallies as Second Quarter sales top forecast the ceo says he expects to benefit from the Covid Vaccine this is a business that is redirect examinatio resilient. Weve managed the crisis well. Patients are returning to physicians a very warm welcome to street signs. Now on the gdp front, german adjusted preliminary gdp the calendar adjusted q2 number down 11. 7 slightly worse than the 11. 3 forecast the sharpest decline from 1970 the calendar adjusted level, 11. 7 versus 11. 3 predicted the rebound in that data, the pmis came in growth territory but still q2, a very severe decline. Lets bring in annette who knows more about the German Economy than i do. The 11. 7 drop in gdp. Exactly it is worse than expected but t
English premier league along with a spat with the u. K. , all reports prius president xi jinping could close the u. S. Consulate in showing do. Tension and political Mitch Mcconnell good unveil a gop plan opening up discussions with immigrants. Cost cuts assifies it sees a considerable slump in economic output. Confirms its diagnostics unit. Units from unilever coming from across the wire. What are you seeing . Anna we got the numbers from unilever. Lets get to the story in london. Unilever with underlying sales, down. 3 , but better than the market anticipated. The estimate was for a drop. 3. 89 . That is a good number for the underlying sales story. They were telling us about what they plan for their tea business. They talked about moving it on in some way. Now with a that will hold they will hold on to some of it. They are retaining the tea businesses in india and indonesia and interest in the ready to drink tea joint ventures they have, but they are telling us the operations they w