Autonomy is said to have featured prominently. Coronavirus cases reach a record fueled by latin america. Infections in florida hit a record high while Texas Governor said contagion is accelerating at an acceptable rate. 9 00 6 00 a. M. In london, in dubai. What a morning. How to lose friends and alienate a president. Would Peter Navarro be the man that would kill the china trade deal . That is the question posed to the markets. Our next guest said a trillion dollar roundtrip. Words matter. Good morning. You never want words to be taken out of context, do you . It certainly did radel overnight. Overnight. It does really just highlight even though we have seen a powerful rally from the march lows, how sensitive these markets are to any sign of risk out there. This takes us back to david blooms comments. Risk on, risk off. Aussie, kiwi, you see the disintegration of risk off, straight back onto the fuel. How are the markets . On the screen in asia, which is interesting, because we have ke
America, i find extraordinary. How closed down is london . ,rancine much like new york depends on whether its the metropolis, parts of the city, if you look at the city of london, which bloomberg is located in, its quiet. If you go to the center, its quiet, theres hardly any tourists because of the quarantine into the u. K. But if you look at residential places, thats when people come out. Waitinghen people are for Boris Johnson to announce an opening of pubs. It really depends on the communities and whether they feel comfortable. Many people might be elsewhere. And this harkens to your interview with that officer from ubs, and you wonder what the Service Sector is going to do on working from home or the office, what do you think . Greatne we had the conversation yesterday, she could see up to a third of the workforce never coming back to the office area if you think about it, it has huge and look asians for real estate, certainly commercial real estate for offices it has huge implicat
Equity markets as a result of rather Economic Data than a growing number of Coronavirus Infections. Stoxx 600 up 1. 2 . German is spanish stocks outperforming. The vix overnight broke out. That is another important signal for what may come. U. S. Treasury yields unchanged. Initially drifting lower after some skepticism. Urodollar up 0. 8 eurozone unemployment data will show if this story around an economic rebound is accelerating. Brent crude on an upside, 1. 2 higher. We had the saudi cuts, the opec cuts, and the demand growth will never return to the levels precovid. Lets get to the bloomberg first word news. The u. S. House passed the sanctions bill in response to the Chinese Security law targeting chinese officials cracking down on prodemocracy protesters. The bill needs to be approved by the senate and the president. The number of daily coronavirus cases in the u. S. Talked 50,000 for the first time. Topped 50,000 for the first time. Mexico is topping spain to have the sixth most
Were red now across the board as we show you where the major averages are down. The s p down about 1. 5 . Josh, i turn to you. A lot of hurdles to get over were watching texas and florida. The banks are under pressure because of the regulations from the fed about dividends and buybacks you have the nike news with the big miss off its earnings. You have a Tall Mountain to climb today. Yeah, i agree with you. Theres a lot of stories swirling around right now and most arent feel good for stocks the big story is the virus and its resurgence. I think thats the only thing that matters to market right now. You see it in whats working and whats not sometimes things are complex right now things are simple. Dollar tree, costco, clorox all look outstanding now even the stocks that went vertical given those vertical moves they are hanging very high and thats really impressive. They are not even pulling back for a consolidation in any significant way. Look whats rolling over, exactly what you would
At 4 00 though sometimes go into extra innings but at least we got some sports, it happens to be in the form of a stock market had sports gamblers descend because they have Nothing Better to do, nothing else to do. Does that explain the action today when the dow gained 131 points and s p claimed nasdaq jumped but be careful, there were late day reversals or just investors pouring money into the same members of the new high list based on a winners win philosophy maybe driven by foreign buyers honestly, at this point it could be all three and the problem with these constituent sees is they make things more dangerous for the rest of us how do i know this i made it up no let me first, i did some first class work by my friend david, the master of research at goldman sachs. In his mustread u. S. Weekly kick start, he talks about how Foreign Investors with largest net buyers of u. S. Stocks in the First Quarter and notes that there is a surge in retail trading. Retail meaning like regular peo