Delivery of 7 . Look how we are in terms of the major indexes. Asian markets, most in losses tracking to 3 drop on wall street overnight. Opened slightly earlier love earlier. Slightly lower earlier. We are watching petrochina down at this point in time. The hang seng, down about 1 . Kong announced an expansion of its restrictions aimed at curbing the spread of covid19. That would weigh on the economy even more. The sti, down more than 3 . This is a market that returned to bull territory recently and citi said investors are pricing in post recovery. Singapore reports higher cases, more than 1000 for the second day running. I want to dial back to the oil story because we see oil moving to the upside after two days of unprecedented action and a spectacular selloff. Opecplus ministers holding an unscheduled conference to discuss what has been going on. The closing statement signals there are no new measures planned at the moment. Lets bring in mliv asia editor. Oil is on the up. We had tw
Says the economy will take off quote, like a rocket ship when it reopens. The questions, though, are when will that be and what will it look like. The market is asking those very same questions as it searches for direction this morning. More green on the screen but again, markets want to know how much economic damage has been done. Meanwhile, moodys says economic output fell a staggering 29 in the first week of april. That is compared to march. That is the first full week of true social distancing rules in place across the country, and that was the result. Down 29 . The other big story of the day, the w. H. O. Is under fire from President Trump. The president saying he may freeze funding to the organization over its response to the pandemic. This is happening as we get more clarity on what may be in a fourth stimulus package. President trump wants 250 billion more for Small Business. Senator schumer wants a 25,000 bonus for front line heroes Like Health Care workers. And we also have s
Killed at least 50 people around 1300. 00 remain missing a flooding in Southern Spain has killed at least 6 people and triggered evacuation orders for thousands rivers burst their banks swamping homes and sweeping away parked cars days of rainfall in some areas has been described as the heaviest in more than a century in Afghanistan Security forces a broken up what they say was an eyesore cell in the capital kabul 3 men have been arrested in connection with a series of suicide bomb attacks tony burke the reports these 3 men are what afghan Security Forces say were part of an eyesore terrorist cell has been busting kabul has claimed they are responsible for 29 deadly attacks in the capital. Theyre been. Very from the educated society the. Young educated youth and theyve been very savvy went to quality and even the ability to to plan and launch attacks they have about a lot of innocent blood on their hand so it was a huge huge bust the hunt for ice or die as its called locally is not eas
At the New York Stock Exchange you can say stocks are sinking you can say they are stinking, folks. Trade tensions in washington, eamon javers has the latest from the white house on trade and Steve Liesman is here to explain what is a yield curve inversion and why it has so many people so worried. Lets begin with mr. Pisani at the nyse it is weak Global Economic data remember, yield curve inversion is in effect, not a cause. The Global Economic data that is issue were seeing those sectors that would respond to that are the weakest, including retailers, energy, semiconductors, and industrials. Everything is down rather uniformly, anywhere between 2. 5 to 4 . A lot of emphasis on sectors that are already deep into correction territory, were talking more than 20 down from their recent highs and almost all of these are due to trade tensions, Global Growth and tariffs being the two big aspects of that. Pharmaceuticals is the one exception off the highs, a lot of separate issues dealing with
The european markets were down a couple minutes ago. They are pretty much back up. It seems the feel good factor in u. S. Stocks have now petered out somewhat. Im looking at u. S. 10 year treasury yields, pretty much a picture of stability. The dollar off the trade bound. The dollar, gaining a touch. Coming up on bloomberg surveillance, we sit down with luca paolini, the chief strategist at Pictet Asset Management. Thewe will also break down saudi budget with the director of Economic Research at the Gulf Research center. First, lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news. Sebastian uber has lost the battle as it differs from traditional taxes. The car hailing app should be regulated. The eu court of justice ruling, think of the president sentting. British officials fear spain will threaten to veto, if negotiatey fails to with madrid. It has been in british hands since, 1713 but spain could make a claim over the land. To the u. N. Assador nikki haley is pressing other countries n