We will bring you fast money trades straight ahead. We start off with a zombie ap k apocalypse on wall street. Many icons are among the walking dead like macys carnival, delta. Nearly 200 companies have joined the zombie rank since march. Total debt obligations nearing 1. 4 trillion dollars a lot of these names are names we talk about trading on this show how should we start thinking about this before we get into the walking dead, i want to point out, a great job by our crack staff leading with the cranberry zombie, and delores was the founder of the zombie. I may have gone with Something Like this if the crack staff is listening. We are now two minutes into the show its important to point this out because folks at home are paying attention apparently more important than actually trading our first topic in what is known as the ablock of the show. Its not more important its important we will talk about ablock and Zombie Companies last night we talked about macys and we talked about the
Moderately above 2 inflation, moderately is what it says in the statement but does not define exactly what moderately means. There are two centers to this action, Robert Kaplan wants to see the statement to the way it was pretty wants to statement to read the economy or stance will remain the same until the economy has weathered the storm and the economic storm we have here. Well cash on the other side dissented because he wants more dovish language in this. On implement rates, statistics are very interesting here. They have reduced now the planet rates rates and estimation of this year to 7. 6 by the end of 2020 grid that is down from 9. 3 from their june projection and then also 5. 5 from on a plummet rates in 2021, 4. 6 and 2022 and 4 in 2023. The real gdp prediction cut in half for the losses they are paired they are now saying its a loss of 3. 7 at the end of this year with a bounce back of 4 next year. The inflation, fed estimates that pce inflation is 1. 2 this year up from 1. 7
Problems persist. The white house and democrats failed to strike a deal on stimulus. The chief of staff says the differences are still significant. Julys job report looms. Welcome to daybreak europe. We are seeing red on the screen, but it is china and hong kong bearing the brunt of the losses, and in particular tencent after the president s move to ban tiktok. In terms of what we have been seeing, the u. S. Benchmark is getting close to a record this week. Global equities heading to a weekly gain, but that perhaps faltering slightly on this latest rise in geopolitical tension. We also see some weakening in the yuan. Ae dollar strengthening on broad basis, looking at the bloomberg dollar index. Acting like that safe haven again with these tensions and concerns rising. The 10 year yield also reflecting the risk of sentiment. Lets get more details on that story as trump moves to ban tiktok. The u. S. President signed an exec at of order prohibiting residents from doing any business with
Down. 2 , nonfarm futures, claims better than expected. Next chart, dollar remains in story or theme around the dollar today, relative weakness against the g10 but not so much against emergingmarket currencies. That is what the dollar is doing right now. Weakness in offshore currency remains on the back of this broader news from the trump administration, down. 2 , that is your aussie dollar, risk off mood, down. 1 , and the boe is flat against the u. S. Dollar. Gold move to commodities, publicly above 2050 and out, further gains. Not as Much Movement in terms of stimulus conversations in washington. Barrel, up,42 a maybe on track for gains across the week. And that is your yield for the 1132 and 52. , tencents down on the back of this executive order. Just how much and how significant this move is by President Trump is of course the question, given wechat is largely used by the chineseamerican community. It is not clear how much revenue tencent derives from the u. S. Market, but this i
The cash trade is one hour away. Lets get your top headlines for you off the bloomberg terminal. Trump signsnald executive orders blocking u. S. Residents from doing business with tiktok and wechat. Shares in tencent plummet. The white house and democrats failed to strike a deal on stimulus. Trumps chief of staff says the differences are still significant as the july jobs report looms. We will speak shortly with Standard Life aberdeens deals, flows,bout and his successor. Results are crossing the wire as we speak. Annmarie, what do you see . Annmarie looks like it is a beach. Eps comes in at 7. 0 pounds. And then the first half adjusted pretax is 190 5 Million Pounds. The estimate was just under 180 so that is a beach and we will dig down deeper into these earnings when we have the ceo, next. I know you have some news coming out of berlin right now. Matt that is right. We have Industrial Production right now out of germany. Pretty backward looking because it is data from the month of j