Anna good morning from london. Manus cranny is in dubai. These are todays top stories. It is a mixed monday for Global Equities as coronavirus cases and u. S. China tensions threaten risk appetite. Mike pompeo suggests action to protect National Security will not stop at tictoc. Shares did as earnings missed the mark. The group says it will accelerate cost cuts. More to come from our exclusive interview. We will hear from sociogeneral after a surprise sociale generale after a surprise loss. Task force head says the pandemic is in a new phase. It has just gone 6 00 a. M. In london. It is 9 00 a. M. In dubai. Normally it is yusuf and i this time. They were very clear, the single worst economy is the u. K. It is one of the weakest economies globally. They have taken a hit. They gave us a global perspective, a wide range of losses. There has been a big shift in the global economy, but it is not going to be enough to steady the ship. The next three to six months will be critically important
Its possible. Nr investors weigh Economic Data against coronavirus investors anna weigh Economic Data against coronavirus warnings. Netflix shares sink on disappointing subscriber forecasts, but the Company Announces its chief operating officer will become its coceo. Bloombergo surveillance. One of the themes in the u. S. Equity market this week has been the underperformance of the nasdaq against the s p 500 after five weeks of out performers against small caps as well as s p 500. We are seeing european equities edge into the red. They started slightly in the green. Global equities still heading for a weekly gain, not getting any direction from s p, but interestingly, nasdaq futures are posting more green on the screen than s p 500 futures. The 10year yield slipping a basis point. We are steady in european bond markets, and the dollar heading for a third weekly loss with the optimism weve had about a prospect for a vaccine for covid. Lets get to first word news. India has seen coronavi
Busiest in surveillance is maria tadeo in brussels. She is door stopping. You have done a lot of door stopping. How do you doorstop anxious politicians in brussels . Nejra you call out their name with a big smile, you hold out your mic, and you fire your questions as quickly and ferociously as you can. We certainly have seen that this morning. There has been so much optimism priced into the Recovery Fund in terms of european equities, but also the btb bun spread. Some investors say we have been here before in terms of brussels often taking its time to come to an agreement, so you might not necessarily see a lot of pessimism and markets next week if we dont get agreement straightaway. As investors say, it will come eventually. Tom i am an amateur here. In thes that mr. Rutte netherlands is front and center. Is that how you see it . Never echo yeah, as usual, when you go into these meetings, you may get the ascents that we may not get an agreement straightaway. There is a lot of work tha
Be risk on. The cash trade, less than an hour away. Here are your headlines. Big attack its even bigger. Alphabetacebook, and tune to techsumers to solve the problems of a global lockdown. The French Economy shrinks 13. 8 or after an increase in jobless claims shows the recovery is in shaky ground. Ibar, bnp arab are par beats all but one of the big wall street banks. Just an hour from cash trading. Lets look at futures. Futures futures, u. K. Are down but only slight moves. Nothing material. Nothing to show us what kind of direction we can expect. Futures right ww, if you take a look at the eif screen, also slightly mixed this morning. Of working slew earnings news. I will kick it off right now with natwest. Impairment charge of 3. 54. 5 billion pounds. Expecting less than one billion. In the Second Quarter, more than doubled the impairment charge for the full year. The company expecting at least possibly up to 4. 5 billion. The operating lost was 770 million pounds. Have iag asyou we
A stimulus plan to offset the pandemic and another big week for earnings. Results from sap as europes largest tech companys speak year ceo speaks with us and ryanairs cfo. Speaking of ryanair, weve got numbers coming through from the airline. Tax, quarter loss after 185. 1 Million Euros. The estimated loss was 276. 9. That is a smaller firstquarter loss after tax than was expected. What we are hearing from ryanair in terms of commentary is the biggest fear is the virus second wave and fears are already swirling around that in terms of the news over the weekend with u. K. Imposing quarantine from spain. We will no doubt get comments from my ryanair. Losses are mounting. Basically, First Quarter customers, zero point 5 million versus 41. 9 million, the estimate was 96 , theor, 61 versus estimate was 57. 8 but the main number to look at is the first and basically ryanair said it will continue losing money through the summer. It is concerned a second wave could push back to recovery into n