Tolls. President trump team preps plans to reopen the u. S. Economy. Boris johnson remains in intensive care. The single currency wobbles as she euro area finance minister struggle to come to an agreement on a Recovery Plan as the joint debt issue is a sticking point. A joint press conference expected at 9 00 a. M. London time. Oil moves higher on reports saudi arabia and russia could stop this comes as the u. S. Cuts its Production Forecast ahead of tomorrows opecplus meeting. As i said, just under one hour away from the start of cash trading in europe. Take a look at futures this morning. It is a bit of a flat trade. As we said, you have euro stoxx 50 futures down 1 as well as ftse futures. If you take a look at u. S. Futures this morning, you see a higher picture so they balance each other out. S p, dow jones, and nasdaq futures all of although you did have u. S. Stocks ending the day slightly down yesterday, whereas european stocks of course ended the day in the green. Anna. Anna l
Scenarios. Nejra unicredit shares close emerges as theo top contender for the top job at hsbc. Nejra welcome to bloomberg daybreak europe. Overnight, we learned allianz will buy back 1. 6 billion in shares. Allred headline is saying youngs sees operating profits of 11. 512. 5 million euros. The estimate was 12. 4, so that is in line with what was expected. Revenue is a beat on that number. Areyear operating profits 11. 86, the estimate was 11. 7. We will be looking out for a potential positive rebound in the solvency ratio, which is something that showed weakness in recent quarters. Update already had the on the buyback program. We learned the Program Starts next month and runs through december. This is part of returning capital to shareholders because the ceo was unable to pull off big deals he was looking for. That is something we will discuss with the cfo later in the show. Dont miss that interview at 6 30 u. K. Time. We saw records in european stocks on wednesday, but since then, i
Concern. In an exclusive interview, fetal ceo says things will get worse before they get better. The expectations of how long the virus might last and its longlasting impact, people have probably been reducing their worstcase scenarios over that period of time. Is said toredit ceo emerge as a leading contender for the top job at hsbc. Could another European Banking head be about to jump ship . Lets take a look just under an hour away from the start of cac equity trading at futures this morning. Down across the board, no matter where you look. Red arrows there. They are pretty solid. 0. 5 down on deck futures. 0. 5 drop. S, also almostfutures down 0. 66 . Gmm. A look at the that will show you quite clearly that we had big losses in equities and asia overnight. We continue to see some of those equity indices fall. Hsi. Kong down 1 on the if you look at the bonds, if we go to the next column you will see that investors are buying bonds and that really weighs on the yield. The trend is ris
Im Francine Lacqua in london. These are your markets. 0. 4 . An markets down a lot of the market put a position that the economy and a lot of the earnings would go through the coronavirus. Not so after the apple news yesterday. There is more concern about the deadly coronavirus trade looking at treasuries, they are rising. Americans reopening after a holiday. Yesterday was president s day. Jumping as much as 24 after unsuccessful bid for the small arrival. This may be the kickoff of banking consolidation in italy and then further into europe. Coming up on bloomberg surveillance, our exclusive conversation with the hsbc Financial Officer on the banks job cuts. First word news. Viviana hsbc is set to slash 80 of its workforce. The lender taking more than 7 billion of charges and suspending buybacks as part of a restructuring plan. Plans to exit some businesses and cut costs. Hsbc still hunting for a permanent chief executive. We also spoke to the lender cfo about the coronavirus outbreak
S p indicated down about 4. 5 looks like the 10year is yielding below 1. 6 . 1. 549 well talk about what china did. Loan rates there dropping as the company tries to take on the impact of the coronavirus. Lets get an update now on the coronavirus. The people on the ship, a couple of people did die from the coronavirus. China as we heard cutting its benchmark lending rate that was expected. Authorities looking to boost the market unfortunately, two passengers from the diamond princess cruise have died. The first reported deaths in connection with the ship which was quarantined off the coast of japan nearly two weeks china is again, changing the criteria of confirmed cases adding confusion to tracking going up or down and whether weve seen a peak or close to a peak l brands reportedly selling shares of victorias sek receipt valuing that brand just over 1 billion. This had been expected that theyd pay for it. L brands chairman and ceo will step down as part of the deal but remain on the b