The world. The nasdaq up 0. 9 . Gold continues to rally. 1733. 48 an ounce. Plenty of currencies are moving against the dollar. How are we doing in europe, guy . Guy we are up, being driven by the oil and gas sector once again. We are trading near session highs. The stoxx 600 up by around 0. 6 . Relatively muted volume today, and to be honest, the volatility , soting to come down again bear that in mind. We seen a lot of centralbank news over the last few minutes. Christine lagarde has been briefing eu leaders as they kick off their summit, their videoconference. She has been warning them that gdp may fall by 15 within the region as a result of the virus. That is largely backed up by some of the pmi data we saw earlier on, particularly very Weak Services numbers coming through for the eurozone. A littlearting to see bit of tightening in some of the spreads. Btpsbunds coming down a bit, so a little bit of outperformance for peripheral bonds, but other big move upside for brent. To circl
Biggest gain ever when it comes to wti in terms of percentage. We are losing steam there. We are not seeing a whole lot of movement here today. The offshore is slightly weaker. It does not seem like theres a whole lot of patterns you can actually string together here now that we are excluding japan. Ending the week back to where we started. Tom weve had another downgrade, another cut to forecast growth. Malaysia cutting its 2020 gdp growth estimates to 2 . A contraction of 2 . They are cutting their estimate to 2 on the coronavirus pandemic. Morgan stanley have upgraded malaysian equities. We will speak to Jonathan Gardner later in the show. We can has kim about the applications of that. Another grant outlook for malaysia. Worldwide cases of the coronavirus have reached more than one million infections and counting. Our chief north asia correspondent joins us on the line from hong kong. This is indeed a bleak milestone. Stephen thats right. Total673 is the latest were getting from the
Dollaryen is doing this, a big gain in the u. S. Dollar against brent is upyesterday, and back below 70 basis points. Yvonne lets get the first word news with Karina Mitchell in new york. Promising billions of pounds per infrastructure to end an era of austerity. Plan criticalding to Boris Johnsons political mission. Offering support amid the coronavirus fallout. Former Vice President joe biden has hit the ground running, saying hes wanted michigan, missouri, and mississippi. Consolidating his lead over Bernie Sanders. Both candidates Cancel Campaign rallies in ohio on concerns about the coronavirus. And saying the countrys relationship could be put at risk. Kelly was temporarily in solitary confinement. South koreas Unemployment Rate dropped sharply in february, even as hiring began to slow. The jobless rate fell to 3. 2 from 4 a month earlier. Signalingwth slowed, coronavirus may be impacting labor. Global news, 24 hours a day, on air and on quicktake by bloomberg, powered by more th
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Contraction. Oil pushes higher as russia says it is willing to cooperate on the cuts. Brussels watch. Turkey triggers fears of an eu border kiesels crisis amid growing military escalation in the u. K. And eu trade talks begin amid fears of a breakdown. Welcome to daybreak europe. Kuroda has spoken. The central bank puts are alive and effective. Dollaryen, look at the past five days. On friday evening, so the powell put was activated on friday. Likewise from the bank of japan. The firepower within g7, g20 from the monetary and fiscal point of view. Dollaryen was rolling over. Appropriate support, ample liquidity from the boj, appropriate action in terms of qe. Appropriate seems to be the byword central bankers are latching to. And valueon of wealth last week in the s p 500 so i will not get that excited about a. 5 rally, but it has turned around. Injected liquidity, three rate cuts talked about. You have the beginning of a perception of what is the yield on the s p 500 relative to a bon