Any new stimulus in sight. And that tiktok trade, you cant really trade it, can you, because its not a public company, but bytedance is formally seeking chinas approval for a deal with oracle and walmart, those are two publiclytraded companies. Yes, they are, jim lets talk markets lets start with that. You know, its funny, i dont know what you make of the pull back today, to the extent we are going to have one or what weve been seeing in apple lately. I keep wondering coming back to that softbank option purchase that we kind of we talked about it for a day or two and then we moved on. Right. You know, a number of people have come back on it with me, jim, and sort of said maybe it had a bigger impact than we realized in terms of the run up of some of these names. It did jack the market up in 1999 fashion which, you know, you know, led to 20002001 which was a disaster and it was frankly unnatural other than zoom almost every one of those stocks that they took up have been crushed apple t
Forecasts. The top lines are up. Revenues up 4 if you look at the activities. Despite the impact iag luke to raise 3 billion euros and klm unveils an operating loss sending both shares into the red. Six years of growth wiped out in spain as gdp drops in the Second Quarter but the French Economy shrinks less than expected down 15. 8 . Happy friday welcome to street signs. Weve got a lot of earnings to get to lets talk gdp first weve heard from france and spain. Now numbers from italy preliminary q 2 gdp slank quarter on quarter less expected a value. Theyve advised their q 1 estimate of 5. 4 contraction quarter on quarter and 5. 4 year on year. Slightly worse than anticipated. Q 1 marginally worse but q 2 better than expecting. An unprecedented slump for italy but the takeaway better than analysts had feared. Not quite as grim as the market had been bracing for looking at the euro gaining ground currently trades around 118. 77 we have the france and spain numbers. Spains economy shrunk
As electric. One of teslas biggest goals straight ahead we start with the banks and the latest. Weve seen a flury of press conference from banks announcing plans for their dividends, one of those coming at a future date is wells fargo saying its third level will reduce from 51 cents a share, didnt mention what level it will reduce to, but that will come in with the announcement of july 14th earnings another company on the watch list for potential definitely dind watch is capital one with buffer of requirement of 5. 6 but no plan of what to do with its dividends in the press conference weve seen so far press release weve seen so far. Of the companies that have reaffirmed their dividends citi group Morgan Stanley golden Goldman Sachs bank of america. This based off the stress test last week. Jpmorgan have not issued a release yet. Not that weve seen, correct. Wells fargo started today up with an 8 yield so nobody thinks an 8 yield is what the ongoing yield is going to be for well to me t
In demand for oil. Francine it is amazing. F you look at the price he was gloomy and said this was serious. Interesting is that all of his modeling shows there will not be enough Storage Capacity because demand will fall so much. It is based on every country not cheating. If a country needs to balance its books you might open the taps a little bit even if the price of oil is low because you need the export revenue, but that may make things worse. I think thats what he was trying to convey to us. Tom no question about that with oil. Jonathan ferro was talking yesterday about the global contraction in oil. In new york city here is viviana. Report on the impact of coronavirus on the oil market. This year oil demand will plunge by a record of 9 . The executive Director Director on surveillance moments ago. This will for efforts by the opecplus coalition to contain the rush of crude. Shrink byill almost a third. Toald trump halting payments the World Health Organization, he blames them for
And of austerity. The u. K. Prepares its biggest dose of stimulus in decades. It really is said to plan doublings doubling stimulus to combat the outbreak. President trump appears to a coronavirus conference. He was expected to announce a major stimulus package that he hyped himself the day before. And, taking a hit. Couldsays the coronavirus knock First Quarter quarter china revenue by one billion euros. We will speak to the ceo in just over a half an hour. Youve got some breaking news down there on the green from the bank of england. Anna absolutely, breaking news. Itsbank of england reduces bank rate. The bank of bank rates by 50 basis points. 20. 25 . A surprise rate cut from the bank of england. Just as we saw a surprise rate cut from the fed. Here we are seeing me seeing a great deal of cooperation theeen the fiscal side of monetary side in the u. K. Investments are waiting for an update, waiting for the government to respond to the coronavirus. We are also hearing about a Moneta