A whole bunch of other smart people set lower for longer. That is the message this morning. Futures up 19 but to me, the story is the bond market. As you know, those huge negative and persistent real yields. A range of assets and securities, it is interesting to see dollaryen breakdown. Still, equities are firmer on the day, futures up by 6 10 of 1 . We do this going into a battle down in washington, d. C. As long as it is just about size, we will have an agreement. These negotiations are now about thats great, but that means there is a timeline and i dont believe we have the luxury of a timeline because in the state of ,he economy, the unemployment the economic dynamics dont give you a comfortable august. Dont. Incentive to say we not negotiating until you negotiate. Right now, looks like new market is not picking up on it. There are some real nuances, maybe start off gold. Treasury yields down a basis point. Weve broken out of that sticky range for 0. 58 . The lows very much insight
Road, maybe that is actually not the case. Rolling overs as well. Maybe that is oil. It could just be a sentiment feeling, as well as any sort of Political Risk because of kim jonguns health uncertainty. Lets get to todays market moving news from our team in new york, as well as washington. We want to begin with this meltdown in the oil market. Wti futures plunging below zero for the first time in history yesterday as many storage tanks reached capacity. Brent for delivery in june pushing to the lowest levels since 2002. Annmarie hordern has more. Annmarie what we are really watching today is the number of contracts for wti and brent. Yesterday, the big question was is this just a big technical anomaly. I think what you are seeing today is that this is more widespread. What is showing is what traders have been saying for quite some time. Thething i want to bring up point is the june contract, trading at 16. 69. That is a contract that is not expiring. In 18dropping the most years. You
Bottom of the stoxx 600 after the German Airline posts a loss and warns it will run out of cash in weeks if it does not get Government Support nestle sales drop as the lockdown bites but they say it is too early to know the impact. The spread between the italian and german tenure lead ahead of the rescue fund unresolved despite more support translator substantial investments to the European Union will be necessary. I have made it clear we will not be continuing before the pandemic this will also be a mart of the pandemic in the future retail sales with a record surge in march not enough to help with the free fall in foot fall and other goods. A very warm welcome to street signs. Fresh tape out of germany. Painting a grim picture now crossing the tape, weve got the ifo Business Survey showing the Business Climate index in april has come in at 74. 3. Thats well below expectations of an 80 print the current index has come in at 70. 5 in april just below the fra forecasted 81 there. The ge
Instructed the u. S. Navy to shoot down and destroy iranian gun boats if they harass or ships at sea obviously thats a policy, thats going to make it so that anyone who is short oil theres so many people short oil, might say its worth covering here. I had a big win. Its geopolitical, the fact theres a failed instrument out there called the uso, i say its failed because its not been able to handle the selling yeah. Executing a 1 for 8 reverse. Are they really we talked about the usa more th than we ever have. Some things should have never been created, the uso was blessed when the s. E. C. Not around, people lose money, but theres no constituency that says you cant lose money. What do you make of the general notion that the president s tweet aside that some of the results last night were better than feared. You have a list of companies now that have been able to either sell a stake privately or through secondaries and well get to that in a moment. Plus the Senate Package making progress
Between mexicos president and the king of saudi arabia and president putin. What the deal does is 9. 7 Million Barrels of oil. A diplomatic victory only cutting 100,000 barrels. Past theren in the are some that struggle to comply with the likes of iraq and russia as well. If you look deeper, and Goldman Sachs with some of these numbers, if you look at the First Quarter of averages, it could be closer to 5 Million Barrels a day of real oil coming off the market. You see a lot of people like the president of the United States talking about 20 Million Barrels a day. That accounts for other producers declining production but not voluntarily. Economic driven decline. This cut is voluntary cuts from Oil Producers. What has the price of oil done . Initially it went up, then it went down, now is back up a bit. What is the market telling us . Annmarie the market is saying it is not enough because we have serious demand destruction. We used about 100 Million Barrels of oil day and are probably w