Another bipartisan spending bill. The battle to replace Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg will be anything but bipartisan. The president said he will announce his pick on saturday. Joining us to talk about how the markets are digesting this news, bloombergs abigail doolittle. This is not what investors to hear. We got that big 200,000 number in the united states. 200,000 americans have died due to covid19. Talk to us about how investors are handling these continued mixed signals. Abigail that is a tragedy in the u. S. In terms of impact on the market, probably not so much. We are looking at the volatility on the backside of the huge rally in august. August was the best month ever going back to 2014. At this point, the nasdaq 100 where it was at the beginning of august. That slump that never deserved to happen according to some strategists has now been erased. Perhaps we are on a level Playing Field that on the day has taken the nasdaq and s p 500 down. You were mentioning the big drop for ap
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To rise. S continue the u. S. Now topping one million american deaths, now surpassing the total suffered in the vietnam war. President trumps top infection expert says the virus is not truly going to go away. Anthony warns any reopening of the economy must be prudent. Breaking news out of south korea right now. We are getting march Industrial Production numbers. When it comes to the month on month figure, a gain of 4. 6 . This was a much bigger than gain then was expected, reversing two months of declines. When it comes to the year on your number for Industrial Production, it is a gross search of 7. 1 percent again. The expectation was at was for a contraction. We have seen the south korean economy really battling the coronavirus pandemic. We had seen First Quarter gdp sinking seeing the biggest drop since the financial crisis back in 2008. It seems that we have a little bit more optimism when it comes to the Industrial Production side of things. We are going to get samsungs final earn
Exception of the bond market. We are down at session lows on the stoxx 600. Sector certainly taking it hard today, as we see this drop, a very sharp drop we are getting in the crude market at the moment. Theres a top line running on the bloomberg of the sharp drawdown we are seeing. In terms of the bond market, and some ways, this is where the real action is. The expectation is we will see significant supply, as a result of this we have a big move in bunds and btps. Btps pretty under pressure. It looks like the ecb via the bank of italy was in the market earlier on. When it comes to the markets, dollars strong. We are now trading at cable rates we havent seen since the mid80s. We went through 1. 20. Now we are trading with a 1. 18 handle on the cable rate. Alix i love that you brought up btps. At one point they were up by 58 basis points. The Trump Administration now promising a 1. 2 trillion dollar stimulus package, including direct payments of 1000 or more to americans. President tru
On in the session. And italy. Greece you can see that at the bottom of the screen. 54 basis points for the ecb. Significantly as well today, we have seen the fed extending the swap lines. I think this is really important because this dollar squeeze is right at the center of the market turmoil we are seeing at the moment, so we see had extended to countries like norway. Maybe not much of a movement today, but that is still up or down by 1. 7 versus the u. S. Dollar. Fall, buttinue to 0. 5 given the scale of some of the moves we have seen recently, i think we will call that well within the margin of error. Alix lets stay focused on Central Banks. They are taking dramatic action to stem the fallout from the coronavirus. The fed launched a program to support money market funds, and in europe, the ecb launched an emergency buying program with 820 billion. This morning we have new swap facilities for Central Banks in australia, brazil, south korea, mexico, etc. Paul donovan, ubs global chief