Im yousef gamal eldin in dubai. Quite the risk on session. Lets get you the state of play. The signals were getting between the u. S. And china are encouraging. S p 500 many futures are higher. Quite a few gains in the european stocks story, as well. Tech and cyclical sectors, including autos, are leading those gains. Fund managers are overweight on 2018, according to the latest bank of america survey. Telling bonds standing out, paring middle of the gains. Treasury study in the United States. Eurodollar at 118. 16. Little upside, weaker dollar story weighing on broader g10 space. At a net long position, the least bullish in three weeks according to the latest data. Lets check in on your bloomberg first word news, will be get you some of the other stories were watching, starting off with president donald trump. He says a coronavirus treatment that involves blood plasma from recovered patients will be expanded to more sick americans. It adds to therapy even before researchers fully unde
More important to traders . The cash trade is one hour away. Thats get your top headlines for you from the bloomberg terminal. Pressing for concessions, stimulus talks in the u. S. At an impasse with the white house and democrats still far apart on major issues. President trump prepares to take unilateral action to extend jobless aid. King of spinoff. Siemens gets a boost from its Software Unit as adjusted earnings climb a prevent 8 for the quarter. We will talk with the cfo shortly about results and plans to list more parts of his business. Plus, we will speak with the bank of england governor, Andrew Bailey, later today, as the u. K. Central bank makes its Rate Decision. What have you got on the boe here . Annmarie as expected, they maintain their benchmark Interest Rate at. 1 . This is what we were expecting. They are keeping their total bond purchases. The target is unchanged at 745 billion pounds. Of course, this is what we were expecting. Now, we have the august minutes coming in
U. S. . Moving on to some currencies, dollar weakness is still a trend at play. We are seeing that play out for the offshore cnh strengthening at around seven. In terms of the yen, 106 is the crucial level for that. Higher option volatility. In terms of hong kong, we are focused on the newtek tech index as part of the conversation. Aussie dollar currently up. 3 . Dollar weakness very much part of the play there. Lets look at what is happening with gold. It has been on a tear, and we are getting close if not touching now record highs. Gold futures above those record 1944, close to 1 gfain gain in terms of futures. I believe the record was around 1923. Looks like we are about 1 or so away from that record price. Its 1923 or 1921. Anyway, we are edging close to that record price. Weakness. Lar silver gaining close to 2 . The 10 year in the u. S. Yield is a little below 0. 6 . Rish. Rishaad were going to bring in banny lam. Welcome to the program. We just outlined, at least tom did, outlin
And irelands Pascal Donahoe is chosen at the next eurogroup president. He says the focus is to bring back jobs. I will play my part in working with all members of the eu eurogroup to make sure this group makes the contributions. The challenges are great but we will prevail and will overcome we kick off the show this morning with a major oil report crossing the latest is that the organization has bumped up its 2020 Oil Demand Forecast today but it has warned that the spread of covid19 has posed a risk to the outlook. Steves been pouring through this document and has all the analysis ill be honest, not every page i think its 81 pages i have from our friends at the iea. Its pretty much what the doctor told us oh, gosh, we interviewed him on stn a few weeks ago. The situation at the moment is its halftime in the year, of course theyre hoping for better out of the second half of the year. The commentary is casting a shadow and quite interesting. Saying, look we think things are going to reb
Stage an uprising over the euro grew presidency striking a blow to the blocks major powers. Merkel says the eu needs to combine aid with rome forms reforms in a message to the fruit before. Equities slip. Stock rallyhot cools. State funds start selling, assign the government wants to slow the surge. Daily virus cases in the u. S. Continue to hit new highs, worrying investors. Stuck in the middle. Global banks risk being caught in the crossfire of chinas new law in hong kong. U. S. Sanctions against it as compliance with one may mean breaching the other. Just under an hour away from the start of cash equity trading across the road. Take a look at futures here. We are looking at red arrows. Not a lot of size there. If you look at u. S. Futures, red arrows that are much bigger. 5 10 of a percent losses. S p down. Nasdaq looking a lot more risk off in terms of the futures contracts then european futures contracts do. What do you see on the gmm . Anna the selling you were talking about in c