These are the cruise liners, the energy companies, the tourism companies, because thats whats in jeopardy. Crude is back above 50 a barrel, barely, there was a building inventory but not as much as the market was anticipating. That goldst heard futures were disappointing, we did see a big bounce but now we are pulling back. Europe, the stocks are stabilizing. Its flat today, but with decent volume. Most negative point of the day came an our into the trade, and we lifted off of that earlier. The volume is pretty good. And we are seeing the german tenyear don on offer. For the a situation loosening of the purse strings. And you are talking about the 135 on the u. S. 10 year, with a little bit of profit coming in. We could be trading 130 or 149. Around, thea going boris government johnson the Boris Johnson government may not have expected this to appear later in the year, thus the pound tracking a little low. Vonnie President Trump said to hold a News Conference on the coronavirus after G
Best performer. Yesterday we had a very different morning session then afternoon session, the 10 year yield got down yesterday, it was an alltime low, six basis points off of that now. A definite sense of relief in the treasury market. It was below 50 an hour, back above that now. We will continue to monitor that situation. And all is well in the world, despite the fact that we are going to be tracking the coronavirus in the next two hours. About, a lot talk of stories we need to focus on, european stocks are stabilizing, the u. S. Markets opened, and we saw that stocks one positive, drifting by little. Is 52. An tenyear but things are looking more positive. And today we see germany potentially talking about loosening the pursestrings. This laterk about on. And there is talk that maybe some of the spending the market has been anticipating in the upcoming budget may be deferred until later in the year. Pretty amazing that we have been speculating for and it may so long, have taken the c
Low for might as well, but the pboc not adding actual liquidity saying things are reasonably apple when it comes to liquidity conditions at the moment. I suppose the big question is will any of this be transmitted given that we know so many still out of the economy, essentially either stuck at home or factories still still, supply chain massively dislocated. Sarah we have seen markets across the asiapacific region turning higher. We continue to see resiliency, at least on the mainland and in hong kong. The hong kong hang seng up about. 5 , and in japan, we have seen markets turn higher as well, holding onto those gains, up about. 6 . The one that is moving to the downside bucking the trend is the south korean cosby after the country did report about 10 new coronavirus cases. You see it falling to a twoweek low, down about. 25 at the moment. Lets take a look at some other risks in the currency and commodities space. We did see copper moving higher for an eighth day and 11. Gold, though,
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