Daily virus cases. In some cases, records. Chancellor warns of an unemployment tragedy. Markets tick higher in spite of the dire warnings across europe. Europeile section on ends in the green after the s p dipped into negative territory. The trillion dollar gap. A 2. 4mocrats draft million stimulus bill. As mnuchin says he is ready to talk trump. We will be following this closely for you. Lets take a look at what futures are showing. Pointingfutures higher. We are looking at gains of 0. 4 . U. S. Futures also pointing higher for this friday, about 0. 25 . The pain in which contract you look at. The c anday in the gmm . The asian equities session going to the upside. Futures pointed out in the asian equity session, up 0. 4 . Indonesia, australia, india, all those markets moving to the upside. Is pushing us upwards just a little bit. We are all about the physical right now. The fed talking about the need for fiscal stimulus. Very much talking about the you of things as side well. Lets go
Cash trade. Here are your top headlines from the bloomberg terminal. Trumpa on the defensive. The president stands by his handling of the coronavirus on day one of the Republican National convention. Says democrats are still blaming America First Nikki Haley Says democrats are still blaming America First. The chinese arrives in europe today. Demandsla merkel answers from russia after it was putin critict the was likely poisoned. We have figures crossing the wire right now. The German Economy shrank 9. 7 in the second quarter. The initial estimate was for a drop of 10 point 1 . This is a second look here, and so it looks like it is a little better than expected. Still, of course, a massive drop , the quarter over quarter figure. The yearoveryear figure is a drop of 11. 3 , so a big drop in the german gdp. That the bloomberg economists expect a rebound in the second half, and of fullyear drop of about 6 for 2020. Lets take a look at what futures are telling us after the new record highs
Coronavirus cases and political tensions. The Trump Administration rejects beijings claims in the South China Sea, accusing it of bullying. The u. K. Is set to ban huawei from its 5g mobile network. The plan would mean British Companies need to remove huawei infrastructure by 2027. Welcome to the program, everybody. Lets check out the futures. Lots of moving parts in terms of the market action. Lots of geopolitics to talk about as well. We have futures pointing to the downside in europe. We have to play a little bit of catchup with the united states. Lets get to some of the breaking news out of the u. K. That is certainly going to be one of the focuses in our program. The u. K. Economy shrank by 19. 1 in the three months ending in may. Getting a three month figure. Main manufacturing production rising by 8. 4 . Somecoming out manufacturing facilities coming out of the Strict Lockdown measures, working out how to manufacture in the current environment with covid safe practices. Mayecono
And we expect a normalization of that. But you need to remember as well that in our case, we have been working to stabilize, grow the franchise, recover some market share, so what we are pleased to see is that underneath that sort of outperformance in the market environment that we have been in, we have seen really good franchise stabilization traction , client engagement, improvement in clients. We think that bodes well for the future. You are expecting slightly higher revenue for the full year. Not too conservative now given what we have seen in the first half . It it would be james would be a normalization but i think an improvement on last years second half. Again, especially in our businesses, where a year ago, we were going through a restructuring and there was some uncertainty around our people and franchise, so with that now behind us, we see momentum in the core business, and we would like to see a secondhalf performance well ahead of last years second half, but we will see ho
This a while is natural gas. Prices is hanging on the energy markets. If we have those market boards for you, lets bring them up so i can go out for some of the things were watching out for. European stocks gain 1 . Brent gaining to around 40. On a thought there would be an agreement between opec and opec plus. Investors are eyeing a potential extension of record production curbs by opec plus. Looking at natural gas. This is because the spector of egative rates. P. M. I. Coming in a bit better than we thought. 30. 5 instead of the preliminary 28. 7. Now lets get straight to the first word news. Hi. Hi, francine. Unrest continuing across the United States overnight. President trump has come under Harsh Criticism for his response to the demonstrations. He is also not getting the backing of local governors over his offer to send in the military to prevent looting. Thousands ignored curfews last night. In germany, chancellor merkel failed to broker a deal on stimulus yesterday. A delayed p