Risk assets take a beating. U. S. Stock features plummet limit dad down amid a selloff. Europe points to more losses and Oil Nosedives below 30 in new york as an opec plus breakdown see saudi arabia prices saudi arabia slash prices. The entire Treasury Curve sits below 1 for the first time in history. The yen surges the highest level in three years and gold briefly tops 1700 an ounce. Billion in counting. That is how much governments have pledged to pump into the Global Economy to combat the coronavirus. But is it enough, the current market verdict is absolutely not. Awaye just under an hour from the start of cash equity trading in europe and u. K. Lets take a look at futures. A sea of red everywhere you look for risk assets. Seene personally never futures this low. Of course i was not here for the financial crisis, but we have more than 6 drop across the board. Features down seven and a quarter percent. Drops inmassive futures. Said,o see futures, as i limit down in the u. S. They bum
Is when Prime Minister netanyahu faces a challenge up to the leadership of the party after failing to form a government. Lets talk about trade and not the usual tensions between the u. S. And china. There is escalation cost true trade wars two trade wars. Move is cutting tariffs, a partly aimed at expanding imports. The news comes as beijing and washington work to finalize the signing of the first phase of the trade deal next month. Japan and south korea agree to negotiate on export controls. President moon jaein and Prime Minister shinzo abe will meet for bilateral talks i tuesday, tomorrow. Joining us to discuss in more detail, bloombergs executive editor for Greater China john liu. Why is china cutting tariffs now . Remind us the process involved. John some of the products include pork, which is important to china. There has been a shortage domestically and we are coming up on chinese new year, peak season for me demand. Getting imports will be very helpful for president xi jinping
The latest. Dani definitely a mixed session. The stoxx 600 down. It is a macro heavy trading day between the u. K. Election, Central Bank Decisions and that the tariff deadline, we have traders on the sideline. Expandedy has really for sterling. Cable down about 0. 1 , but still trading at that 1. 31 handle. This is a conservative government priced in. Upside is really limited. We have seen sterling fall after the poll showed the conservatively it cut by about half and the concern is the Hung Parliament that would throw into concern the outcome of brexit. Some strategists have said that sterling may fall as low as 1. 22 if we do get a Hung Parliament. Brent down about 0. 5 tonight. We are seeing brent trade just under 64 a barrel. The aramco ipo hitting the 10 limit with shares surging so far today. Looking at some of the individual movers we have seen in the market. Jd sports is one of the biggest lacquers in the stoxx 600 laggers in the stoxx 600. Its biggest shareholder sold 2. 4 of
Been on the year. A lot of traders saying this could be a good time to buy vol given some of the structural issues. Keeping a my on emerging markets, the msci keeping an eye on emerging markets, the msci has swung back and forth, now up about 0. 4 . Guy the big story out of europe over the last five days, actually as well out of the United States, is that stocks have gone nowhere in a hurry. The stoxx 600 is just up 0. 3 for the week. Today a little less quiet on the volume front. This is the average volume at highs. Today is a mess of expiring of options. The blue bars here are the average volume you see throughout the day during the European Equity market session. The white lines are the actual volume today. As you can see come a big spike around 10 00 when those expirys came through. When we get the close and a little while, we will see significantly higher volume. We are getting big volume today, but very little sense of direction from european equities. Let me show you the numbers
Morning. Education secretary rick perry calling it a deliberate attack on the Global Economy. Plus oxycontin maker, pharma filing for bankruptcy this morning. First up, though, a series of attacks on two of the Worlds Largest Oil Facilities in the news the u. S. Is rejecting that notion saying the scope and the precision of the attack suggests the launch was made by the houthis but, in fact, originated by iran. Iran calling the claims baseless and unacceptable guys, weve been talking all year long about what it could take to produce a true supply shock. I think theyll come back 5. 7 Million Barrels. Look theres a temporary inability to get permian oil. You can only ship so much. You have one harbor who can handle it, two others. Corpus christi not yet i guess what im saying it cant. Were pumping too much and it does remind you if we had even more pipelines, we could just turn the spigot on its not the Strategic Petroleum reserve. Its the permian. There are a lot of key questions. One,