In london, Boris Johnsons plans to suspend parliament stoked no deal fears. Manus warm welcome to the show. There is only one thing that really drives the bond market, and that is trade and trade angst. If you look at the balance of scales of justice, in the past 24 hours, it comes down to mnuchin trying to steepen the curve and navarro keeping it real. There is not going to be anything likely quickly on trade , therefore we are flat. Nejra you certainly feel that pressure on the yield, hitting a record low. That is something that has caught our attention today, and i know its what you kicked off your data check with as well. Manus indeed. It is the white house really trying to have a go at controlling the yield curve . Thats what we need to ask. The 30 yield bond curve has spiked on the back of mnuchin talking about 100 year paper. The bottom line for the market as the tradings prevails, looking at dollar yuan, is anybody listening . Thats what we need to ask about dollar yuan. Yester
What kuroda is going to do and how that affects the global bond market. We will debate the future of the feds Monetary Policy with former minneapolis fed president gary stern. First, jon will bring us uptodate on the markets. To the bloomberg, gear up for the session on wall street. In equities, no real drama. We are down about one third of 1 . The dax off by. 4 . The real shakeout is having fixed income. Lets move things over to that asset class. The long end of the jgb curve, yields up by eight basis on the 30year. Endntially it is a long selling off quicker than the front end. The idea as they the idea is that you place in more inflation, more stimulus may be, but more specifically, the central bank and the bank of japan may shift things toward the front end and allow the long end to selloff a little bit. In the fx market, the move is as follows. The dollar is stronger. Up about. 1 . Dollaryen has been absolutely whipsawed by what is happening. If you thought the fed and the specula
Newsroom. Abigail it is great to be here on this selloff day. We have the three major averages sharply lower. That dow and s p 500 near special lows, the third day of declines. On pace for weekly declines, breaking the complacency for the u. S. Equity averages. Over the last few months, the s p was on day 43 of not making a 1 move. That has been broken. There are technical reasons the downside could continue. , thisk in the bloomberg is a twoyear chart of the s p 500. It is traded in a range. The orange oval is the range of complacency. That thisreasons could break toward the downside or to the bottom of the range. There could be more to come where todays risk off. One reason for the risk off oil confirming the risk off tone with oil down 2 on the session, paring gains. Investors seem to be reconsidering the plunge in stockpiles reported earlier, saying it is a oneoff due to a storm. The majors down, including chevron and show. The s p 500 energy index on pace for the worst decline sin
Hello. Welcome to countdown. I am mark barton. And i am anna ed3wards. And i and manus cranny. A key transport hub, the second day of the ceasefire, and we will bring you the latest. Just about 6 00 in london, and lets talk about greece. Euro finance ministers reconvene in brussels, aimed at breaking the gridlock between greece and its creditors. The greek minister said he was confident of a favorable outcome for greece, signs of a willingness to compromise sending greek stocks and bonds higher on friday. And in athens yesterday, an estimated 20,000 people gathered outside the parliament in a show of support for the government. Hans nichols has been monitoring developments over the weekend. Good morning to you. What is the greek strategy going into this . They still want a raging loan, and dont they . They do. They are likely to plead for more time, not necessarily more money. I hesitate to report i am phil in berlin. I will be heading to brussels in a few hours. The market expectation