Be risk on. The cash trade, less than an hour away. Here are your headlines. Big attack its even bigger. Alphabetacebook, and tune to techsumers to solve the problems of a global lockdown. The French Economy shrinks 13. 8 or after an increase in jobless claims shows the recovery is in shaky ground. Ibar, bnp arab are par beats all but one of the big wall street banks. Just an hour from cash trading. Lets look at futures. Futures futures, u. K. Are down but only slight moves. Nothing material. Nothing to show us what kind of direction we can expect. Futures right ww, if you take a look at the eif screen, also slightly mixed this morning. Of working slew earnings news. I will kick it off right now with natwest. Impairment charge of 3. 54. 5 billion pounds. Expecting less than one billion. In the Second Quarter, more than doubled the impairment charge for the full year. The company expecting at least possibly up to 4. 5 billion. The operating lost was 770 million pounds. Have iag asyou we
Our bloomberg voices are on the ground with all of this mornings top stories. We begin in japan, with efforts to calm the market jitters over the coronavirus outbreak. The boj says it will provide ample liquidity to ensure stability. Joining us is enda curran. It help to the market for a second. What did we learn . Enda it seems like it is part of a coordinated push by the worlds Central Banks. To be a g said they would provide liquid it the boj said they would provide liquidity and followed up by putting money into the market. It is important to also say what they are not doing. They didnt signal an Interest Rate cut. Interest rates are already in the get of territory in japan. They didnt indicate any outright easing. They already have a huge Balance Sheet from years of quantitative easing. It is in sync with steps being taken by others. It is more designed to ensure confidence than outright easing. Alix lets stay in asia right now. Global coronavirus cases are at 89,000. Indonesia re
Pricing a 40 chance of a cut. Will draghi he forced to move . Boris and the brexiteers. The u. K. Prime minister packs the cabinet with loyalists. With earnings season heating up, we talk to the ceos of unileve r, roche, astrazeneca and anglo american, all within the next hour. A busy morning. Matt very busy. Less than half an hour from the european open. As we waitat bunds for the ecb decision. Yesterday, down to a record low for the german 10year debt yield, at one point 40 basis points. Right now we are at 38. I believe the mliv question of the day is, how low can they go . We will talk about that today. How high can stocks go . Futures continue to rise across europe today. We have had a pretty decent run now. Cac futuresup 0. 5 , gaining 0. 9 and ftse futures bringing up the rear, only up 0. 3 . Maria roche raised its sales. Rowth view twosales company cites its treatments as main drivers. The company ceo said to investors that hes excited for the approval of new cancer treatments.
Caroline we will be looking at the ecbs 1. 1 trillion euro bond buying plan. Mark stocks are headed for the biggest drop in weeks after gdp growth output investment, and retail data in china also load. All slowed. Yvonne man is in hong kong with the details. Where are we seeing weaknesses and strengths right now . Yvonne the weaknesses are definitely coming in line when we talk about retail sales and the factory sector. The Australian Dollar also slid in reaction to some of this data coming in from china. The First Quarter gdp was bang on target at 7 for the First Quarter. That is in line with economists and what the Chinese Government was hoping for. No newsflash there but that disappointing data you pointed out there are coming out below expectations. Factory output for march was at 5. 6 the lowest since november of 2008. Economists were estimating a 10 growth theyre previously. Urban investment also came in at 13. 5 . Retail sales were also a big mess, their slowest pace since 2006,
Deutsche bank. We have had earnings. Up aancine, wrapping conference call. He will not rule in or out any capital increases. A great deal of reporting over the week, the past week they have to were inspired billion in a new shares. Revenues were down, profit was the dow. It was a beat on the numbers. Would take a closer look. Profits were down. We will take a closer look. Months, back to microsoft. With the purchase of the phones or units. Nokia have announced that rajeev suri will be taking the helm. Much of a surprise. Ofheads a unit that has 90 nokia sales. Theyll resume and dividends. Money going back to shareholders which is 3 billion euros. A cut in their debt by 2 billion euros. What they were looking at right now. Peugeot att that of the open. We are also watching electronics. The european semiconductor. Little bit more narrow than analysts had predicted. Later this hour, we will speak to the chief executive. His first interview of the day. Down some 2 . With had a lot of earni