House passes and aid package and some corporate bailouts may come at the price of corporate equity stakes. And gilead shares crash as reports suggest its potential covid19 drug flopped in trial. Good morning, everybody. Program. O the we see a sluggish pace reflected in european futures. Much weaker. Features down, plenty of reasons to be gloomy if youre looking for them in terms of u. S. Jobs data, eurozone pmi data. We saw that certainly have an impact. Lets have a look at u. S. Futures. We do see some negativity and u. S. Futures in u. S. Futures. But not to the same extent. As we continue to watch the earnings stories coming in, lets get a bloomberg first word news update for you. The u. S. House overwhelmingly passed a nearly 500 billion. Oronavirus aid plan the white house says President Trump will sign the legislation today New Washington time. Treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin once equity stake in exchange for a share of 17 billion in aid. He says Public Companies critical to N
Delivery of 7 . Look how we are in terms of the major indexes. Asian markets, most in losses tracking to 3 drop on wall street overnight. Opened slightly earlier love earlier. Slightly lower earlier. We are watching petrochina down at this point in time. The hang seng, down about 1 . Kong announced an expansion of its restrictions aimed at curbing the spread of covid19. That would weigh on the economy even more. The sti, down more than 3 . This is a market that returned to bull territory recently and citi said investors are pricing in post recovery. Singapore reports higher cases, more than 1000 for the second day running. I want to dial back to the oil story because we see oil moving to the upside after two days of unprecedented action and a spectacular selloff. Opecplus ministers holding an unscheduled conference to discuss what has been going on. The closing statement signals there are no new measures planned at the moment. Lets bring in mliv asia editor. Oil is on the up. We had tw
Its not difficult to be crabby when you are basically living hand to mouth with government stimulus. I thought that encompassed the markets perfectly for a day like today. A lot of earnings coming out. Delta looking at a 50 cut in daily cash burn by the end of june. In terms of their First Quarter loss, they had about a . 51 loss , and revenue was down 18 year on year. As we expected, pretty brutal when it comes to delta. Baker hughes, oil services company, saying the outlook for oil and gas is certain. No kidding. The revenue down by about 4 year on year. 0. 11, acoming in at little bit light. Lets get you some of the headlines here. All of todays market moving news from new york, as will is washington. Brent crude getting sucked into the lowest level since 1999. Bloombergs part two thought to be role bloomberg spoke to thought he be role spoke to fatih birol. Some of the countries are cutting their production earlier than announced. Others joined them. If others do not follow the ste
Mount sinai. The sumerians samaritans have large white tents up. They will be in operation tomorrow. Francine we continue following that very closely. I also followed the press conference of President Trump together with what we heard from dr. Felty. Theres a lot going on on the human side and on the Health Care Crisis that we keep bring you uptodate because that has an impact. Tom we are watching brent crude, 20 a barrel about three hours ago. In new york city with our first word news is viviana hurtado. Viviana that is where we began with trump abandoning his goal of a return to normal life by easter. He wants the public to continue faxing social distancing until at least the end of april. Earlier on sunday, top what us medical advisor, dr. Anthony fauci telling cnn, 200,000 americans could die in efforts to mitigate the spread of the virus are not successful. Steven mnuchin says he expects to have Small Business loads up and running this week. The initiation is focused on adding mon
To back the bell and set to publish their own support program. Force johnson orders the u. K. Into a three weeks lockdown, sweeping new laws to breakup gatherings and fine any dissenters. Taylor meantime, i want to bring you some breaking news coming out of china. Their companies are having the worst quarter on record, according to china. The headline as it catches my eye, the economy has not gotten better as much as we thought they would be returning to work. It looks for the first three months of this year, a Quarterly Survey of all the firms, it looks like every individual sector was reporting worse results than originally thought. Saleswas a widespread in amid the harder hit retail sectors. The collapse in revenue and profit. Again, Economic Activity collapsed in february. This is as we knew that there was the massive virus spread that was going on. I think the key headline is Chinese Companies continuing to have the worst quarter on record. Every individual sector reporting worst