Ahead of testimony. Will he provide a clue as to the Central Banks path after july . Forecasts net inflows in the first half despite an overall loss of 14 million francs. Scherzer called hire at the start of european trading. U. K. Mps backup plan to prevent a no deal brexit but Gordon Johnson refuses to rule out suspending parliament in a debate with jeremy hunt. Welcome to the European Market open. Session inkluster the asian markets, range bound on many markets waiting for Jerome Powell. It looks like we will be range bound at the start of the trading day in europe. Here came futures pointing flat with a slight downward bias. A few interesting corporate stories and global stories that might be expressed through european equities. This is the gmm function on the bloomberg on the asian session. It flags any outsized moves based on standard deviations. Weve got some markets to the upside in asia but the overall move in the asian market is pretty balanced. In a Holding Pattern in Global
Welcome to bloomberg surveillance. I am anna edwards in the city of london. Lets start with a check on the markets. This is how we are doing on the stoxx 600. We did either side of the flat line trading and we are losing around. 1 . A little of performance coming through in the london market as you might expect when you have Oil Prices Going higher by 2. 2 because of the tensions between the u. K. And around in the strait of hormuz. That is the focus for oil traders and they are pushing out some of the oil related businesses listed in london. S p futures point higher. We are a little range bound on these Global Equity markets looking for guidance, looking for the continuation of the equity story. That will come later on this week. Earnings reports from the baking sector. Going to be a lot to talk about. We will be looking for the ecb and the Interest Rate decisions have to make. A little bit later on, mervyn king is going to be joining the bloomberg team. Dont miss that conversation. A
We have the Semiconductor Equipment index up on upgrades from the street. Upertheless, the s p is only 1 10 of 1 . The 10 year yield at 2. 03 . I know we are going to be sticking with markets. A lot to talk about today because we are smack bang in the middle of a earnings season, but there is the whole backdrop of the Central Banks and their moves as well. Forill speak to mervyn king a very interesting conversation in the last half of this hour. Theres fed talk, European Central bank later this week. It is happening on all fronts right now. Guy lets get a take on that. Alberto gallo joins us now from algebris to give us his take this morning. What are we going to bid from what are we going to get from the ecb this week . Are they going to deliver, or talk about delivering this week . Alberto they are going to talk about it, and potentially a rate cut which may come in september, and then an extension of duration of qe. Buying longer dated bonds and more of each single bond, moving from