Belgium urge eu leaders to step up plans for a no brexit. 50 questions from german lawmakers. We will talk to a member of the team. Rd investigative a warm welcome to the program. U. K. Data. Datac sector net borrowing coming in this morning. Excluding the banking group. At 28. 3ber has come in billion pounds. That is below estimates. The estimate was for 30 billion. That are than anticipated. Really interesting aspect here payhat the Public Sector conversation will look like from here. We have a Spending Review coming wednesday of next week. In july, the chancellor made the point that the fed felt publicsector pay was needed. We are bracing for some effort from the treasury with regard to Public Sector pay. Squeeze in Public Sector pay perhaps coming. We will focus on that and it will be interesting to see the comments coming through or the numbers coming through on the banking sector. That is the u. K. Data. Markets. Futures looking a little bit mixed really if you take a global pict
Obama. Plans. Adens we will bring you our interview with the ceo. Asian stocks edge higher after break a500 fails to record at the close. European futures point to a negative just over an hour away from cash trading in europe. Atures suggest we could see lupita of ever treat a little bit of a retreat. They just went up for the morning. We were flat and positive across europe. , we faileded states to make a new high at the close even though we traded above those february high levels. There, wouldd got there have been the breadth to make it mean that much . We have gothe gmm, south korea, closed yesterday. Broadly speaking, we are flat and positive across the asian equity segment. Drift, whether it is asian stocks, u. S. Futures. The dollar is drifting. Making some moves to the downside. Treasuries a little higher, yields come down. Still questions around u. S. Stimulus, an unanswered question for Global Equity markets. Some breaking news across the bloomberg. Persimmong sector, saying f
Week on the hole for global stocks. Lets get a first word news update. Heres leighann gerrans. Leighann president macron of france has appointed a new Prime Minister. Macron is preparing to reshuffle his government in the widely expected relaunch of his presidency for the final two years of his term. North Korean Leader kim jongun urging people to stay alert of coronavirus. He warned that complacency could lead to unimaginable and irreversible crisis or get despite the warning, he has reaffirmed north koreas claim to not have had a single case of covid19. This is widely doubted by Global Health officials. European president christine crisiss signature fighting tool is becoming the focus of disagreement among policymakers. Governing councilmembers face a potential risk over how much their emergency Bond Purchase Program should stay weighted toward weaker countries such as italy. That is according to multiple conversations with central bank officials. And hong kong, police have charged a
Bloomberg surveillance. Im Francine Lacqua in london. This is the market. The market focusing on the number of infections. The news that we had from a lot of the corporates. U. S. Equity futures, treasuries edging higher every is there have been more and more coronavirus cases in america and countries also means that markets are basically sapping some of the appetite for riskier assets read the dollar heading for a second day of gains. I want to show you wti falling below 30 get dollars a barrel while gold continues to push toward 1800 announced. Lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news with dani burger. Dani good morning. The pentagon has named 20 chinese firms it says are confirmed by the desk controlled by the chinese military. It opens the companies up to the potential of more u. S. Sanction and that includes huawei. This comes as relations between the chinese the two superpowers deteriorated. China is likely to be a Campaign Issue in the 2020 election. Canada is the firs
Trade after huge gains yesterday. Lets get your top headlines today. The grand reopening. Italy removes most restrictions on life after months of coronavirus lockdown. International visitors will not be subject to quarantine. European futures gain across the merkelespite a delay in s stimulus plan. Lufthansa commits to a deep Restructuring Plan after seeing a firstquarter net loss of more than 2 billion. Plus, thousands deny curfews in the United States but clashes with police are limited. The pentagon sent activeduty army units into d. C. , calling it a planning measure. Just under an hour away from the cash trading in europe. Any of those negative headlines dont look set to deter this rally. We are looking at big gains in futures. The futures up 1. 5 after germany future index put up a points more than 430 yesterday, powering about 12,000, looking set to open very risk on. Today you can see ftse futures up more than 1 . U. S. Futures are gaining as well. Dow jones futures are up more