The p. M. I. Well dive deep into this in a bit. Look at the boards. The dollar still holds on to the retreat. That is helping some asian currencies out there. Ere holding on 706. We were near the 100day moving average. Were siegristance now that the dollar seems to be hovering around the twoweek lows despite the fact but were seeing the dollaryen pretty much at 168 but seeing at least six days of gains so far for the japanese currency. Watching oil price. We see it climbs once again. You are seeing w. T. I. Futures. 4 higher for brent crude. Gold snapped out of four dives declines. It is largely unchanged. Hovering around 62 basis points now. We have the First Official gauge for chinas economy in april. Weakened again. Investors are waiting to see what steps the pboc may take to bolster the economy. Our guest from citigroup joins us this morning. What is your assessment of the p. M. I. Data that we got. Nonmanufacturing. Manufacturing below the forecast. Still in expansion territory. A
Demand. Ng server taking a look at the csx 300, up three tens of 1 . China unicom out with numbers. It shrank in the First Quarter. Page, take ap the look at where oil is. From the uglylly selloff to below zero. Futures in new york rising. Climbing after falling to a 21 year yield. The old story is about Global Demand shock. About two unveil a supplement fiscal package after the economy suffered its worst contraction since the financial crisis in the First Quarter. Fiscal stimulus our next guest says for skill stimulus plans are ineffective. Turning us now is jim walker. Joining us now is jim walker. Good morning. You say it is about businesses. Jim exactly. Type ofa very different crisis from the ones we have seen under the past where recessions and even the asian crisis you could take as being a downturn in demand. This is really a government mandated cessation of business. While governments are forcing businesses to lucked out and people to stay at home, basically, it is incumbent o
24 hours. Larry kudlow says todays jobless claims figures show a big increase. The bank of england seen throwing holding fire for now. We have the Senate Passed the stimulus bill. That seems to be priced into risk assets. The market very much seeming to shift its focus to no Inflection Point in case the death toll worldwide. Green on the screen on the Msci Asia Pacific index overnight, but i mixed picture below the surface. U. S. And european futures in the red. The 10 year yield slipping seven basis points. In terms of g10 against the dollar, you are seeing the end the best performer. Commodities under pressure. Oil under pressure after a 9 gain over the past three days. Goldman saying even a halt in the price war cannot save oil from a huge glut in terms of their commentary on the oil market. They are saying crude surplus could be 14 Million Barrels a day in the second quarter. To get back to the u. S. Senate, it has passed a 2 trillion Coronavirus Relief package. The approval has co
Lockdown in that country, and Risk Appetite builds. Asian stocks had for their best day since 2008. Equity futures point to a positive open in europe, as well, after an incredibly positive day yesterday. Just under an hour away from the start of cash equity trading on that continent in europe and over in the u. K. Lets look at futures after yesterday, the dow put up a up ad game the dax put record gain, almost 1000 points yesterday. It is pretty astonishing that we well. Tures up today, as i should say, the dow yesterday in the u. S. Put up a record gain of sorts, the biggest gain in the Dow Jones Industrial index average since 1933 and yet, you see futures on the s p and dow jones positive, nasdaq futures down a little bit, but they also saw a big gain in tech stocks yesterday, the nasdaq jumping yesterday about 10 . A lot of indexes yesterday in the u. S. , jumping 10 . The nasdaq, really just joining the bunch. Our top story is the stimulus packages across europe and in the u. S. Wh
Welcome to bloomberg daybreak europe. Volkswagen saying it is almost impossible to make a reliable forecast on coronavirus. It says to succeed in overcoming the coronavirus crisis, vw will succeed in overcoming it. 2020 will be a very difficult year. The coronavirus poses challenges. It is almost impossible to make a reliable forecast on the coronavirus. You can translate that third to equity markets that through to equity markets. 1987. Drop since we have had three backtoback days of moves at 9 . How do you trade a market like this . Investable . In 24 hours, we have gone from limit down to limit up. Is this just a bear market ounce in u. S. Futures bounce in u. S. Futures. You are seeing green in japan but right elsewhere, like china red elsewhere, like china for example. A little bit of a retreat in the yen. Dont want to say that it is risk on, but a bit of a different picture from what we were seeing yesterday. Yousef absolutely. Treasuries were trading a little bit lower. This com