Hong kong, the latter saying it will maintain security and division. Good morning, everyone. This is bloomberg surveillance. I am Francine Lacqua here in london. The market is actually pausing a little bit. If you look at the global stock seen, it isve pausing for breath today. The dow rebounding. The dollar actually rebounding from its weakest level since early march. Treasuries are pretty much study. Backup of 1 for the First Time Since march. A lot of the focus on stagnant asian, and a lot of the focus on the euro, depending on what the ecb does. The ecb plans to boost monetary stimulus, and of course we will look at jobs and employment data. Now lets get to the bloomberg first word news in london with leighann gerrans. Hi, leighann. Leighann good morning, francine. Saysr general jim mattis the president is trying to divide the american people, accusing him of making a mockery of the constitution. He publicly oppose the president was the idea of deploying the military to contain pro
Top aide who broke the lockdown rules. Lcome to surveillance i am nejra cehic in london. We get a sense of the u. S. China protests in hong kong. Equities, of course the u. K. Is closed for a bank holiday today. U. S. Cash stock and bond market closed as well. A positive sentiment coming through in u. S. Futures. Third day of dollar strength. That speaks a little more to a slight risk off tone. In terms of oil, it is being anchored around 33 dollars a barrel but in the green today. Confidencebusiness index is 79. 5. The estimate was 78. 5, so that coming in a little better than expected. In just a minute, we will speak with the Ifo Institute president clemens fuest. First, lets get to bloomberg first word news. Thank you, nejra. Were hit with tear gas in the city. New National Security legislation, being described as the vegas for hong kong since china took control in 1997. Here in the u. K. , Prime Minister Boris Johnsons most senior aides are facing growing calls, breaking lockdown r
Being pushed between them and the u. S. With a new cold war. Wang yi, the foreign minister , warned the u. S. Not to cross beijings redline on taiwan. In the u. K. , Oxford University has reportedly run into a hurdle are developing a coronavirus vaccine. According to the telegraph, a decline in infection rates may make it difficult to prove whether the vaccine is indeed successful. A is said that there is only 50 chance of coming up with an effective vaccine. Japan is issuing a state of instituting masses massive testing, but its death toll is far below 1000. Global news 24 hours a day, on air and at quicktake by bloomberg, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in im than 120 countries, leighann gerrans. This is bloomberg. Nejra . Nejra leanne, thank you so much. We are seeing clear risk on an todays session. Bear in mind that the holiday in the u. K. Of the u. S. Will be thinner liquidity, but even with the emergence of geopolitical risks with regard to hong kong, euros o
Most since 2008 after accusations of fraud. Matt good friday morning. A historic week in markets. One in which bank of america says we have seen traders rage for safe havens like we have never seen before. Part of the reason why we have seen yields plummet to alltime lows. Nejra what a week it has been. Whipsaw in yesterdays session. We are stabilizing a little bit. Haveabove 1. 5 but we dropped more than 20 basis points on the 10 year yield this week. The curve in birding for the First Time Since 2007. We are above zero now. Close toar yield stays 2 . In terms of other safe havens, that is part of what banc of america was planning to as well. Matt talking about the rush to the yen, rush to gold. The 10 year yield and 30 year yield. We do see the yen strengthening up a little bit against the dollar today. Off. Coming but still relatively close to the record high. A bit of awe see risk on read across futures. Amidst this local bond rally, japans benchmark yield has fallen further below
To revise this dark chapter in german history. And it is official striker pierreemerick aubameyang makes his longawaited transfer to arsenal for a fee of 64 million euros. Plus, look up into the sky. Lucky stargazers around the world are enjoying a rare spectacle tonight. For the first time in decades, a blue moon, a blood moon, and a supermoon are coming togetherdug an incredible celeste deal show. We will show you. Celeste deal incredible celestial show. Well show you. Im brent goff. It is good to have you with as u. S. President donald trump has called on the country to unite behind him to create what he calls a new american moment. During his first state of the Union Address, trump asked lawmakers to support his plans on upgrading aging infrastructure, and to overcome the deadlock on immigration reform. Here is more. [applause] reporter republicans were thrilled to greet their leader ahead of the highly anticipated speech, but the big question ahead of Donald Trumps first state of