Big stories here, francine, the idea in america, the spread of the virus, just getting ready of this hour of bloomberg surveillance, you hear the sirens constant in the background here in upper East New York city. In particularne is of focus on louisiana, and the other issue, francine, picking up the debris of all the those factorsof is able market with a vix of 63 a bull market with a vix of 63. Francine yes, we will have a lot more on the market. First, lets get straight to new york city and bloomberg first word news. Here is viviana hurtado. Viviana we begin with a major change in tone overnight between the u. S. And china. President donald trump and xi jinping pledging in a phone call to cooperate, this in the fight against the coronavirus. This comes after weeks of rising tensions between the two nations. President trump tweeting, we are working closely together. Relations between the two sides are on a critical moment. Now the u. S. Press surpassing china now the u. S. Surprising
Action, a really important interview coming up. Seth carpenter will join jon ferro and me on Bloomberg Radio on the negative Interest Rates in the u. S. It is about this pandemic. What do you see in london . What is new with Prime Minister johnson and how he treats this viral crisis . Francine first of all, it is friday. A lot of people will be happy it is friday. Focus on the markets and the numbers and try not to be overtaken. Two fed president s coming onto bloomberg tv later with Michael Mckee, and also Catherine Mccain Catherine Mann. London is similar to new york. I was taken aback by the jobless claims yesterday. That number may have been much bigger. You are looking at negative Interest Rates, but if you look at the human tragedy unfolding in italy, they talk about a humanitarian crisis. In london and new york, the numbers keep going up. We will see what impact this has. Tom across bloomberg, a great focus on the louisiana. Ofwill bring you mr. Bostic atlanta and mr. Kaplan of
I hope that you send him a dozen roses today because he will not be there to receive them. And you have the armani story. Everyone on global wall street must be focused this weekend on the soap opera going on. Banking is think left, right, and center. And i have a chart looking at the swiss franc. What it means for the further negative. But first, lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news with viviana hurtado. Begin with the coronavirus outbreak. It is getting tougher to gauge the true scope of it because china has provided the data that the death toll was lowered to less than 1400. Now there are more than 53,000 reported. U. S. Officials are stepping up criticism of chinas response. A stunning rebuke of President Trump from one of his most trusted cabinet numbers. William barr saying that tweets and remarks about going ongoing cases make his job impossible. Already vowed to veto a resolution to restrict his ability to wage war against iran. To be passed by the u. S. House, it
Investors should prepare for this. What does this mean for the pound, which has been stuck in a range, and for u. K. Stoxx at large . As far as the pound is concerned, the rally you have had reflected a significant reduction in the risk of a no deal brexit, so for the time being that seems to be off the table. We are stuck a bit around 1. 30. We need to know where we are going, and until we get past the election and have a sense of what the majority is, it is impossible to have any assessment about the direction of the pound. We are neutral because we think there is far too much uncertainty and too many permutations to take a significant view. As far as u. K. Equities are concerned, it is an inverse relationship between u. K. Equities and sterling, so when sterling weekends, u. K. Equities outperform. From that point of view, if we get a path that moves us toward a softer brexit or no brexit, that should be good for the pound but worse for the u. K. Equities. Dan morris and Stephanie K