Assessment of Global Energy demand. Saudi arabia is cutting output to the lowest level since 2002. As mentioned, we are looking at the start of the trading session. Thats get over to Sophie Kamaruddin in hong kong. We are expecting moves to the downside. U. S. Futures holding onto a three day decline in kiwi stocks. The index is off by about. 33 and markets are priced in new zealand to join the negative rate club. Amid calls for more stimulus around the world, we are waiting to see if china will cut the rate for the third time this year as the country grapples with a week start and millions of unemployed. Emerging from lockdown, the global stock rallies are sputtering. Risk is wave infection being weighed alongside the threat of business failures and job losses becoming permanent. Beyond that, the aussie dollar is bearish and ahead of the april jobs report. It is seen with a deeper impact. President trump says fed chairman jay powell is doing a good job but disagrees with him on negati
Lets get to some of todays news from our washington and new york teams. I want to return to trade tensions between the u. S. And trump president responding to questions on implementing the phase one trade deal amid the coronavirus pandemic. We signed the deal. I heard that too, they wanted to reopen the talks to get a better deal. China has been taking advantage of the United States for many decades because we have people in this position, sitting in the oval office that allowed that to happen. I am not interested. Alix Kevin Cirilli joins me now. Walk me through. Kevin good morning. This comes as the president has increasingly attacked china politically speaking, and raised questions about chinas response to covid19, including Senior Administration officials. From an economic standpoint, the president saying not so fast as it relates to u. S. China trade tensions. Democrats with the newest round of economic stimulus, i spoke to the undersecretary of Economic Affairs who said the Unite
10 year. Crude now below 30. And not emphasize enough how much pain that will be causing to producers. To get a sense of where we are in the market, if you switch of the board, you can see some of the heavy hitters within the market, like apple and microsoft, down 10 , 11 . Also seeing bank of america off by 16 . The index which tracks the s p is down by almost 10 . Again, a world of hurt within the next two and half hours. We have some breaking news. The boe is pledging further prompt action when needed. No specifics on that, but they are pledging action as needed. We will bring you anything, any information as they come out. They said the dollar move to combat is there. This is governor bailey. Time now for global exchange, where we bring you todays market moving news from all around the world. From new york to washington, brussels and beijing come our bloomberg voices are on the ground with all of this mornings top stories. The Federal Reserve swept into action yesterday, cutting it
Former dallas fed president Richard Fisher is with us live and we are hours from a key report from netflix. Which way is this stock going to move the Investment Committee is ready to go. The Halftime Report starts right now. A lot of good questions there. Of course, its good to have you with us on this wednesday. We have a very good Investment Committee as usual for you jim leventhal, steve weis, jonny in najarian. Not for investors, not for today. Csx shares derailed. Investors suffering their worst day in more than a decade. A lot to unpack here lets get to frank who has been following the story since last night. You were just talking about economic indicators. The economy is strong. Retail sales strong. Unemployment at record lows. Inflation not a worry. But their new fears of a freight recession. Now csx, lowering guidance from 1 to 2 growth to a 1 to 2 decline, largely due to weaker demand for domestic and export coal and the everpresent trade tensions first half volumes fell 4 ce
I think its worth taking time to point out the bright side of this sell off, which is principle participated, participated by a crime, something we like, a decline in oil. The fact of the matter is weve had this epic here and we were due for a profit taking. You know what . It would have been surprising if we didnt sell off after the gains this quarter so dont pay too much attention to those who wine and how this decline in oil indicates the Global Economy is doing worse than we thought. You hear a lot of these gripes on an ugly day like today but i think it obscures the hard work and intelligence of the many executives who are dedicated to exploring your own companys opportunities regardless of the backdrop. Im talking about companies that can pay up for on days like today because the growth is not dependent on the oil of larger issues that everyone is always fretting about. These are the kinds of Companies Whose stocks you should think about buying into the broad market wide sell off