This is bloomberg surveillance. These are what the markets are doing. U. S. Stocks and bonds closed today too today due to president s day. We are edging up a bit with buoyancy on the market on the backs of investors taking encouragement from china. They will do more to support their economy which is why we in gold down and yen down. That is a good litmus that we are on a risk on. Spoke the yousef managing director of the imf about the outlook on the Global Economy and the active the coronavirus. All hear from the interview early. First, let leanne erin. Leanne japan is it possible for sex after taking another battery the sales tax hike in the last and that economy at the low end as the coronavirus it activity drunk 6. 3 in the final three months of the year. That would be the biggest slide since the previous tax increase in 2014. Tensions between the u. S. And europe over huawei ramped up another notch this weekend. The u. S. Ambassador to germany tweeted a warning to countries that u
not for more oil straightaway but a promise to work more closely together, and more investment announced today. yet the opposition s asking questions about the company mrjohnson keeps. i think everybody wants to see measures to bring the energy bills down, but going cap in hand from dictator to dictator is not an energy strategy. the prime minister says we can t rely on russia, so now he goes to saudi arabia. but hard thinking is needed notjust clocking up air miles to untangle military, economic, diplomatic clashes that haven tjust built up overnight. if you look back at 2014 and what happened when putin took part of crimea part of ukraine, then took crimea and the donbas, we totally failed to understand the threat that he posed. and ukraine is paying the price for that with the west looking the other way. i totally agree, and so what we need to do now is make sure that the west is never again vulnerable