They call the process excruciating. Good morning, everyone. Happy friday. We have made it to friday. It has been quite a week. Welcome to bloomberg surveillance. I am Francine Lacqua here in london. The markets are focused on brexit, oil because of opec, and focus on u. S. Stimulus in the u. S. Stocks are holding gains, key data of course out of the u. S. , it is the u. S. Labor market. It is going to give us an indication of whether the economy needs support or not, and Oil Extending Gains after ninemonth high after this opecplus deal. I am looking at the dollar, treasuries pretty much nudging higher. A lot ofve a prett volatility because of brexit do we have a deal, do we not have a deal, have they walked out . It has been pretty unclear so far, talking about lastminute ships come up the british saying it is because of eu demands at the last moment, but it seems like it could be up in the air. Now lets get to the bloomberg first word news. Here is leighann gerrans. Hi, leighann. Leig
At the same time, we generated more capital through earnings. Thats why are ratio is 12. 5 . Talk to me about the merging of the two units. What is the reasoning behind that . The Investment Bank merger is something weve been discussing for months. Even my predecessor, it was already a topic. 2015, clearlyn the two had to be separated. We had to restructure the trading business. Are at a stage or we can put them back together again. Most of our competitors have it anyway. This is not a cost exercise. There will be some cost benefits. Its really about having one overriding business to have one Investment Bank globally, one equities business. A Global Trading solution business, which build on our success. It serves our equity, fixed income, transactional business for the private bank and institutional business. How difficult was it to do this in the middle of the pandemic . Thomas it was relatively good. You get used to resume calls. Zoom calls. We had many internal calls to get this lin
The cash trade is an hour away. Lets get your top headlines for you off of the bloomberg terminal. Operation work speed. President is organizing a Manhattan Project file effort to fasttrack a coronavirus machine. Big pharma will work with washington and the military to develop it by years end. Lasting damage. Jerome powell voices concerns about the longterm fallout from the outbreak. Attention turns today to Christine Lagarde as economists expect the eurozone economy to pump the most since the Second World War. Grenada cuts. Norway joins opec in slashing oil output. We will see shortly what the ceo , after exxon mobil throws its dividend for the first time in 13 years. Just under an hour away now from the start of cash equity trading across europe. Lets take a look at futures here. We have gains on the euro stock. In bluechip benchmark index europe of almost 1 . Dax futures are up more than 1 this morning as ftse futures rise about three quarters of 1 . Anna . 6 anna lets talk about br
Power lunch starts right now good day, everybody. Welcome to power lunch. Im Tyler Mathisen as michelle just highlighted, the dow and s p 500 hitting records again. But we are well off those levels at this hour nasdaq basically getting slammed. Down more than 1 . Big selloff in tech. Check out what is leading that nasdaq 100 lower Lamb Research down so auto disk down 15 now applied materials, invidia also in the tank today. In fact, the whole Semi Conductor industry on pace for its worst day in almost a year more on this group coming up forget ten, folks. Lets move on to 11,000. Bitcoin breaking past 11,000 just hours after topping 10,000 for the first time ever. Everybody is talking about bitcoin. Crypto currency up more than 30 in the past week and now up well over 1,000 this year, brian. Its like an auction. Do i hear 12,000 im Brian Sullivan heres what else is happening at this hour. Tyler drilled down on bitcoins record run the nasdaq planning to launch Bitcoin Futures next year.
Liverpool have agreed a £40 million deal to sign england midfielder Alex Oxlade Chamberlain from arsenal. Good evening. Theresa may has insisted that she intends to stay on to fight the next general election. The Prime Minister who is visiting japan told the bbc that there was absolutely no basis whatsoever to reports that she would stand down in two years time. She said she was here for the long term. She was speaking to the bbc at the start of a three day visit to japan during which she is hoping to ease concerns about brexit and prepare the way for a trade agreement. From there our Political Correspondent ben wright reports. Edi, abedy, abedi, this report contains some flash photography. Its theresa mays first visit to japan as Prime Minister. She doesnt plan on it being her last. Wearing the colours of the countrys flag, this visit is a reminder that brexit is not just about fractious talks in brussels. Its about reassuring long standing allies and investors beyond the eu. Stick w