Protesters have created an opening for looters and police sometimes cant tell the difference between the two even from a purely business perspective, youd think people smashing up major retail destinations like the flagship macys would be bad for the stock market, right . Every time the market looks like its about to get clocked we get a stay of execution. Dow gained 268 points. Nasdaq advanced. 59 last night after president trumps fire and brim stone law and order speech, our futures plummet. Declaration of war replete with threatened deployment of the u. S. Army. Thats not the job, theyre war fighters makes you want to sell stocks for certain. Those futures looked ugly. All those images of looting didnt help. The futures stayed soft. I got up at 3 15 a. M. , expecting precarnage. Futures rallied again. An hour and a half later, the futures were up nicely you know what counteracted the pain a 4 rally in the german stock market with several of their borses not far behind. Yes, we actua
Minneapolis, mourners have been paying tribute to floyds memory. The public viewing in houston coincides with a couple of things. One, a Court Appearance with the man accused of murdering him and a roundtable discussion thats about to kick off right now at the white house between President Trump and Law Enforcement officials from local, state and federal levels. This just hours after democrats unveiled a Sweeping Police Reform bill. We are going to take you to the white house when the president speaks but we have it all covered today along with two powerful guests. Morehouse College President david thomas, he taught at Harvard Business school and is here to answer not just the question has Corporate America failed black america, but how to fix that starting today. Plus, former Democratic National Committee Chair Donna Brazile joins us on the impact of the race issue on the 2020 president ial race. The customer amazon jeff bezos says hes happy to lose. And wait until you see the ceiling
From the bloomberg terminal. A 2 trillion dollar wipeout. U. S. Equities see their worst rout in 12 weeks. Is there more to come . The precipice of disaster. Americas fourthlargest city but it may reimpose Steven Mnuchin says the country cannot close again. Plus, european banks close to Capital Requirements. Just under an hour away from the start of trading. Futureske a look at after the big drop we saw. Saw drops in asian stocks overnight. If you look at yesterdays cash a drop in the dax. 559 points. 559 point drop. In terms of u. S. Futures, we see a little bit of green on the screen. 1. 5 gains in s p and the dow. Can news on the u. K. Economy, lets get straight to that. The u. K. Economy shrank by 20. 4 . That is versus the previous month. Dropstimate had been for a of 18. 7 percent. 19 or so. It does show a stunning drop in output for the u. K. Economy during specifically the month of april. The u. K. Went into lockdown around the month of march. We are getting some other numbers
I find it absolutely amazing we find ourselves in a situation where what is happening with hong kong, the china trade deal, the economy, the rioting taking place in the u. S. , and the equity market just shrugs it all off. Only shrugs it but continues into the value trade in the deeper cyclical trades. Everyone was saying, this is not going to last, yet it still continues. Lets break down more of the markets and how do you feed in the u. S. China trade tensions. Joining us now is nathan sheets. He is head of Macroeconomic Research and a former u. S. Treasury secretary for international affairs. Always good to chat with you. In your expertise with the relationship between the u. S. And china, are we at a standstill or do you see the evolution of stronger rhetoric leading to economic section sanctions leading to more tariffs . Nathan my expectation would be that we will see further tensions between the u. S. Into china Going Forward. China Going Forward. Disagreements are about trade, te
Meantime, lets talk about the headlines. Brexit, Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the had a callmmission earlier on in the group agreed to hold two months of talks to talk about a postbrexit trade deal. Boris johnson said there is no reason why they shouldnt get a brexit deal done in july. However, u. K. Has ruled out an extension. We have a political economist joining us, what is your sense of what is going on here . Degree, is there any surprise in the idea that an extension is not forthcoming . I dont think so. What we are seeing is pretty much the same old story, different day. It feels like its 2020 but it feels like its 2018 all over again. The same issues are coming out. You can see that from the eu which is saying we wanted an agreement but not at any price. Both want an agreement but there are stipulations and as we have seen for the last few years and we will continue to see for the next while, there are red lines that are still sticking points that will ultimately they will