Will have a great chart coming up on this. Madame lagarde is worried more about big worried about more than economics. Francine this is something a lot of people, i dunno if they saw coming but certainly we should be more prepared, but your absolute right. Lets go into the data and i will have a liquidity chart in the moment. Down. Tures down futures down. All of this rocketing off the president s speech last night which was taken quite poorly by the markets. Onto the next screen with oil weaker. A couple of pretty good days. Down to a stronger yen, thats a safe haven play. Brazilian riel an example of emergingmarket stress. Francine today we have Christine Lagarde. See are all rallying, we oil sliding. I wanted to show you what im looking at in terms of the european boards. This was quite significantly because european stocks you can see individually the dax and all of them down some 5 . This is my more broader cross asset and i have to say everyone is talking about President Trumps r
Gradual plate gradual pace of raising rates. Corrects inflation is not at 2 . Before we move policy get to the gold otherwise we are going to be behind. Driver, set tow to steer its ceo out of crisis. Anna a very warm welcome from us in london, i am and i words. I am anna edwards. Matt imf miller. Anna talk about the United States and houston specifically. So much of the United States energy market, a landmark hurricane, a landmark storm now earlys over texas area estimates of what kind of Economic Impact we might see here, 24 billion dollars. Stay, howhe reins to long they keep falling is going to be one of the key questions. What has this done to markets . Gasoline spread flying as harvey looms. Futures are the same. Oil steady but refineries have been flooded. More than 10 of the fuel making capacity. FarColonial Pipeline, so from houston to the east coast of the United States it seems we have no word that it is not running as normal. Certainly that would be one way that this crisis
Then actually our revenues are slightly up versus the First Quarter of last year. The Analyst Community was looking for was a sign that you had client balances back to levels we would have seen last year,. Especially your prime brokerage have you got that . Our prime workers business, we have recovered 50 of the bells we lost in the Fourth Quarter of last year. Not yet fully back. We see this in all businesses. When we need to be mindful of the fact that when clients come say, lets reengage, it is not that the following morning you report new revenues. It takes time to work on transactions. Take corporate finance. In reality what we are seeing is revenue in the First Quarter of this year is largely stuff we worked out in the prior quarters. See a lot of reengagement of clients across all business lines, or you can see some immediate effect in Asset Management, new assets and wealth management, that you can see immediately. Prime brokerage. When you compare with the Fourth Quarter of la
Snapping a sevenmonth losing streak. Deal maker, russia selling an 11 billion stake in its Largest Oil Producer to glencore and the Sovereign Wealth Fund. The russian president went on national tv to tout the deal as one of the largest acquisitions in the oil and gas sector in the world and in the world in 2016. Thats what you need to know at this hour. Lets turn back to our main story, the upcoming ecb decision. We turn to our Bloomberg Team in europe, with our colleague, matt miller. Looking rather cold over there. And paul gorton, who leads the coverage overall of the western European Central banks, in a somewhat warmer situation. Matt, lets go to you. What do we need year from the ecb and mario draghi today . Matt what we want to hear, david by the way, its great to hear your voice is that there will be an extension of the Quantitative Easing Program. The consensus is six months past the march deadline and about 80 billion euros a month, a continuation essentially of the program as
More stimulus coming, at least not imminently. We have seen stocks stay steady after the initial drop after those comments. We saw the effect throughout the bond market and on the dollar as well. We see the yields on the u. S. Treasury market across the curve climbed today. On the 10year for example, the year yield has bumped up. It is gaining steam as the day has gone on, up seven basis points. 1. 6 . Also a seen technologies weight on the s p 500 you heard questions about apple and whether there will be Strong Demand for the new iphone seven. They are sending the stock lower today, about 2. 5 percent. Among other pressures, wells fargo downgraded the stock to a market perform, saying the prices are largely priced into the stocks. Thepany forward is Company Twitter is meeting today, and there are no bids on the table, according to cnbc. Retailers are not performing well. We have a mix of different retailers. Supervalu, following on the heels of sprouts yesterday, on the numbers, missi