Welcome to bloomberg surveillance. Im Francine Lacqua in london. The markets are definitely focusing on a couple of things out there. ,here is a lot going in china global stocks continuing to it is yes and in the market. The dollar and treasury slipping. Homebuilder shares in the u k advance after a report the government is considering a temporary increase in the pay. Hold at which buyers weighing a Global Equity market that remains about 40 above its march lows amid this economic recovery, which is under threat from the continuing spread of the virus. We will have more on the markets but lets get to the bloomberg first word news. Here in london is leighann gerrans. Planning billions of pounds in two theaters and then use to rescue the arts and culture sector from the brink of collapse. Announcing the move, the chancellor tweeted the show must go on. He will outline his next steps for the economy on wednesday. The next key date for frexit progress according to one of europes biggest fi
Global one day record over the weekend. Expects a deeper contraction in the u. S. As the infection rate stateside rises to 2 , but equities prove immune to the bad news with chinese stocks leading gains. Wall street is playing catchup after fridays Independence Day holiday. Vacuum. The power Commerce Bank looks to fill its top jobs as soon as possible in a bid to end shareholder revolt led by activists investor cerberus. Germangetting right now factory orders up 10. 4 percent. Sounds like a big number, but of course, its from a low base and it misses the survey by a lot. The surveyed factory order, the expectations for factory orders soth over month were 15. 4 we only got 10 point 4 . Much better than the prior month s 26 drop and it looks like german factory orders and a lot of things may be in this coming quarter may have a similar feel as Goldman Sachs cuts its expectations for u. S. Gdp growth in the Third Quarter. Here, you see european futures, big gains. Your stock futures up 2.
Smartphone sales. Details about the beijing security law. Shery this is quite a reversal from the deficit we saw in the previous month. We had seen south koreas current account falling to deficit for the first time in about one year but the numbers have recovered and we are seeing a rebound with our current account surplus topping 2 million. When it comes to goods, the trade surplus coming in at 2. 5 billion for the month of may. This is quite a recovery given that we had really fallen to the lowest level since 2008. Good trade surplus numbers. A much better than expected number out of south korea when it comes to the current account surplus and also the goods trade surplus for the month of may. Lets see how markets are trading at the moment. We are seeing now nikkei futures unchanged. Same for u. S. Futures. This after we had stocks here in new york jumping following the holiday weekend. We had seen five sessions of gains for the u. S. Now unchanged at the moment. The japanese yen Hol
Washington today, we are holding this hearing virtually in compliance with the regulations for Remote Committee proceedings pursuant to House Resolution 965. Remote hearings certainly are not the same as sitting together in our Committee Room and you should know. The new authority has allowed us to continue to do our work a behalf of the American People, while keeping our staff, families and broader communities this is the First Official Virtual Committee hearing in the United States house of representatives. As we begin this historic proceeding, i want to underscore that i plan to continue this committees long tradition of collegia collegiality and substantive debate even as we conduct our business from afar. I will continue to work with Ranking Member and his staff to make sure that all Ranking Members are respected in the knew virtual format. Before we turn to todays important topic, i want to remind members of a few procedures to help us all navigate this new platform. First, consi
And its pretty warm out there and lets check in with steve. Ive open the windows but i dont think it will help much. Steve i was driving in and it was already 65 degrees. I understand, dave. You are not the only one thats told me already this morning. We have fog climbing down the coast and it wont do any good unless you are right around the waters edge. Temperatures cool down tomorrow and they will drop a good 25 degrees by friday. 50s at most. San jose 59 southwest at six and at least its not north or north east but they are 59306 on that pressure there. Plus 11 degrees warmer compared to yesterday and napa airport, concord plus seven. The high is right over us and tomorrow we start to get a huge change in the form of cooling. Today up we go way above average and nothing we havent seen before and in todays we are right near normal to two below. Things are quiet. Is that still true, sal . We dont have a lot going on now and traffic is moving along well if you are driving. Check out th