Well as in london. We begin with a biggie week a busy week for Central Banks. Bank of japan says they will take on unlimited buying of Government Bonds, lifting the cap also on corporate holdings. I, he joins us now. , kitchen sink, we are still throwing it. Michael Central Banks are all as string the question of what you do when you have throwing the kitchen sink. In the back of japans case, you just make the sink a little bigger. The bank of japan already has negative rates, Corporate Bond and etf buying, and an emergency Lending Program, so they just decided to make those programs a bit bigger. Unchanged at rate 10 basis points. Remember, they do yield curve control. They mentioned they would buy as many Corporate Bonds as they need to and expanding access to its Emergency Loan Program for a wider range of banks. For analysts, theres a bit less here than meets the eye. They dropped their ¥80 trillion limit on Government Bond buying, but they werent buying anywhere trillion, so it d
Twoyear is now trading, but that doesnt seem to matter. The majority of debt in europe all undergoing this powerful rally, despite the fact that we are going to see horrific unemployment number in about an hour and a half. Lets get you out of the market moving news from our new york team. We want to start with the much awaited u. S. Jobs data out of april for the next hour. Economists now estimating 22 million jobs wiped out in the past month. Joining me now is carl riccadonna, bloomberg chief economist. It is hard to put these into perspective. Help me out. Morning. D these numbers point to immense disruption in the u. S. Economy, on a scale we really have not whichn recorded history, goes back to either world war ii or the great depression. ,o put some context around this this is far more than all of the job losses we saw during the Great Recession concentrated into a single month. If we take the job losses of the last nine recessions, lump them all together going back to the late 19
Basis points. Lets get to our guest now. We have a very fascinating guest right now. Ed hyman, Institutional Investor economist of the year for decades. The surveys he carries out are unparalleled in the industry. We are going to talk about Central Banks, the ecb, and the fed meeting this week, and the bank of japan coming out with some decisions today. Chairman of evercore isi, is with us now. Small and mediumsized enterprises, and companies that do business is with china. Obviously, the data is falling off a cliff right now, but in your estimation, what will the severity of this recession be in comparison to, say, 2008 . Ed much worse. But this is a very interesting time for me. Ive probably been the most bearish person on the street with our gdp numbers down 50 , and like you say, things have been kind of freefall, Company Surveys included. I just wanted to share with you that for the past two weeks, our surveys have increased a little retailers and restaurants. The checks that were
About seven basis points. Still an awful long way to go on that story. Vonnie in the u. S. , it is a positive session, slightly risk on. We have some guidelines for when the economy might start to reopen in new york city and in various economies around the country. Markets hanging onto that. Banks are the best performers in the s p 500, which is up 0. 9 right now. They are followed by Consumer Services and real estate. The yen is stronger today as well, off its highs now. 107. 20. T crude down at 12. 40. That continues to darken. The 10 year yield is now up to 65 basis points. Slightly risk on tone today. Talk a bit about what is happening in a little more detail. Italy, france, spain announcing plans to ease lockdown restrictions as the british Prime Minister pours a little cold water on the idea. Giuseppe conte in italy raising concerns about a possible second wave of infections that could trigger irreversible damage to the economy. Lets talk about the risks surrounding reopening and
Over two days, as the biggest oil etf dumps short dated contracts once again. We will speak about this and earnings with the bpce l, Bernard Looney, coming up shortly bp ceo, Bernard Looney, coming up shortly. Aboutl speak to the ceo the impact of coronavirus and the business shortly. Get to some numbers coming through this morning. We have got numbers coming through from bp this morning. They are talking about how the industry has been hit by supply and demand shock. They remain committed to delivering their net zero ambition. We heard about that back in february or so from the company, from Bernard Looney, the relatively new ceo at the helm of dp. First quarter dividends bp. Dividends, so maintenance of that dividend at least at the same number. Bp saying it had around 32 billion of liquidity available at the end of the quarter. The bp ceo, we are taking Decisive Action to strengthen finances. We have heard about how they will not be taking government money, they want to get through