A bounce in the eyes and Services Data out today in order to save the market but today the i sense that his readings on the u. S. Services sector fell last month to its lowest level since august of 2016 coming in at 52. 00 expectations of 55. 00 Service Oriented companies employ the vast majority of americans and registered the weakest growth in september in 3 years business production new orders grew more slowly and employment levels were essentially flat so between the 2 numbers now the pair of surveys clearly point to a sharp loss in momentum the Services Side is much larger than manufacturing accounting for about 80 percent of the u. S. Economy manufacturing only makes up roughly 20 percent so many analysts came out and they didnt place too much emphasis on the manufacturing numbers earlier this week and they were overly dismissive of the weak reads they said that the market shouldnt panic yet manufacturing doesnt amount to much and Services Matters more and thats actually still ex
Like china now with the trade war backdrop International Trade has been weak and u. S. Corporates are starting to see they hit their bottom line so now with the 2 main drivers of corporate profits both getting pummeled are we in for a round of negative q 3 earnings and furthermore is this the start of another economic contraction. And earlier this week we had an opportunity to catch up with steve professor of economics unpatriotic and the author of can we avoid another financial crisis we started our conversation by talking about the economic slowdown in china despite the burst the slowdown the nations economy is still growing the fastest of all the worlds Major Economies we asked if this was sustainable. Growth is if you actually look at a 6 percent rate of growth every year that means your economy doubles and saw as if. That sort of growth is possible when youre starting from the incredibly low blows that china began with but if you want to eat you want to go to out of the. Period an
Welcome to bloomberg daybreak europe. We end the week with a risk on. The msci asiapacific index with a fourth week of gains. The s p 500 yesterday closing within 0. 5 of that record high, lifted by this report of a potential interim deal between the u. S. And china. The 10 year yield goes up another basis points. We have risen more than 20 basis points this week, the biggest weekly gain in that 10 year treasury yield since 2016. 108. 14 is where dollaryen sits. The market seemed to take the easy be decision as ecb decision as dovish. 5 higherended 0. 0 yesterday. Brent heading for a weekly drop with the iea warning that opec faces a looming surplus. Thats get back to the ecb. Mario draghi delivered his final stimulus package after overcoming an unprecedented revolt from projectors. The risks surrounding the euro area Growth Outlook remain tinted to the downside. We still think the probability of a recession for the euro area is small, but it has gone up. Outlook andeconomic continued
And Boris Johnson. There is a lot going on in the markets we are also getting a little bit of news from italy with the new government being sworn in. Can see the pound is what we are watching out for. Overall, there is a little bit of a risk on mood when it comes to the markets. Back to the Italian Government. The one that we need to watch for is the new finance minister. Were seeing the cabinet sworn in with the same Prime Minister, that is conte. Lets get straight to first word news. China and the u. S. Are holding the next round of trade talks in early october. Thats according to the commerce ministry. They confirmed ministerial level talks in the next week but did not specify when. The two sides are trying to end the trade war but there is still skepticism on both sides that any Real Progress can be made. Hong kongs chief executive carrie lam says withdrawing the extradition bill is only the first step to address the unrest in the city. She also says the decision will be made indep
Declines. And the fed has two new nominees including judy shelton who has called on the federal bank to cut rates as soon as possible just to bring you some final composite pmi numbers for june across the eurozone, theyre in at 52. 2 against a flash number of 52. 1. Slightly higher than the may number, 51. 8 that flash pointed to a strong expansion in the private sector of the previous six months weve seen that upward trend as services hit a high. Back in may, they were 52. 9 and 53. 4 in the flash for june they have come in slightly higher than the flash. The june final services new export businesses pmi at 59. 4, higher than the flash of 48. 9, not significantly better than the may final. Nearly back up to another 50 mark the the euro dollar is slightly weaker on that news we can see if you look at the european markets generally, you see a relatively positive day. Trading more then a half percent higher now if you look at the individual markets, you can see where that is coming from