Jon ferro has been calling it. Guy we are monitoring the stimulus story beat by beat. Nancy pelosi will be talking around 14 minutes. We are going to get a sense at that point whether or not we are making progress. That could certainly be market moving. We will bring you those headlines as soon as we get them. Lisa the white house has been pushing for a largescale deal again, off again, on again. Wants alosi says she more comprehensive fiscal bailout as a result of the pandemic. Emily wilkins joins us now with the latest. Emily if anyone is confused about where things are with the stimulus deal, you are not alone area Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell said yesterday he was feeling some with lash some whiplash with all of the backandforth we have seen this week. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is Still Holding out after months for a larger stimulus package. She and the white house negotiator, treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin, spoke by phone yesterday. It seems like there still could be
Plan, but Republican Leaders warned the gap remains wide. Mitch mcconnell says the plan contains poison pills. Bloomberg economics cuts its growth forecast for japan, saying the recovery is weaker than expected. This hour brings a survey showing what business thinks. We are getting breaking news crossing the bloomberg. President trump has moved to sign an order which would expand u. S. Mining, citing a threat from china. President trump has moved to expand rare earth mining in particular according to an official. We know china has in recent years have a huge presence when it comes to rare earth mining, which is used from everything from cars to mobile phones. Officials say President Trump has moved to expand rare earth mining for the u. S. There is a political element where union votes will be key going into the election. We will get you more details as they get to us. Lets take a look at the thursday session with sophie kamaruddin. Miers we are watching across the region following tho
President trump slams beijing for coronavirus. Xi jinping hits back saying the pandemic should not be politicized, focusing instead on Carbon Neutral pledge. Do your part. Boris johnson calls on britons to obey the new virus rules, warning of many more deaths. Frankfurt. N good morning, one red line across the bloomberg terminal before we begin to the prevarication at the fed. Mersch is saying the Pandemic Program flexibility must not apply to qe. A couple of other lines. Lets begin to them. He says hes not aware of any push to extend. These are breaking lines. I know you are looking at these as well. What else have we got . Annmarie yes, he is a hawk, obviously, but he does not want the flexibility to apply to older asset purchasing programs. We are going to talk about the fed. An inflation debate taking place. Clearly, this is something we are seeing take place at the ecb also. Trillion in terms of emergency. What will happen next in terms of size and scope . Lets circle back. The ha
Hang seng is flat. Taiwan is the leader on the board. We will talk about tsmc. They are gaining on the back of the apple news. We continue to watch dollar renminbi. 16 month high for the yen. We could be set for the best performance ever for the renminbi. Look at whats going on the rest of g10. Still seeing a strong yen. Pound is gaining for a third day at 129. The dollar falling to the twoweek low ahead of the fed decision. Take a look at bond yields ahead, not much movement. Its pretty quiet before the fed. Six the seven basis points for u. S. 10 year. Bondsl off in government the fall off in government bonds may have run its course. Saw the biggest cash injects and since 2018. Crude jumping on the back of that Better Chinese data we got yesterday. Back to our top story. A big win on paper, but not much in the real world. Says that Donald Trumps tariffs on chinese goods violated International Regulations, but its unlikely to make much of a material difference. Lets get more from our
Lets take a look at other Asset Classes as well. The big news as we talked about, ftse russell adding chinese bonds to the global bond indices so we are watching chinese assets very closely and we are looking at, when it comes to evergrande, that is a stock that has been seeing a quick turnaround after the stock fell 5 . A looming cash crunch. Bond yields slightly higher here aday, and we are looking for dollar that is looking slightly weaker but steady. We are set to end the week stronger by the most since april for the greenback. The aussie seen quite a slide for the currency this week. We are seeing a bit of a lift in the renminbi on the ftse russell decision and the lira here. Turkey surprising with the rate hike yesterday, but the dollar weakening, a big story here today. First word news. Karina mitchell in new york. Karina good friday morning to you. The Trump Administration has been ordered to delay its ban on tiktok. The judge gave the administration until 2 32 agree. O a delay