Theres probably a 40 chance of a recession. Eurozone bond yields hit fresh record lows as the ecbs olly renn signals the bank is ready to hit a significant someti stimulus package. And hong kong prepares for more protests. Good morning its friday. We made it to the end of the week its been a volatile week for markets. Mostly in fixed income space but also u. S. Equities yesterday, looking at the u. S. Equity close, you would think it was a muted session. The dow was eking a gain of 0. 4 s p slightly up in the green nasdaq slightly in the red that belied a lot of the intraday volatility we saw yet the theme was bid for fixed income a lot of fear gripping the market as we see money pour nothing tha pouring into that space. You may notice theres a lot of black behind me. Thats unusual the reason thats the case is ftse 100 has not yet opened due to a technical failure we dont have the opening levels the rest of the heat map is trading solid. Definitely a lot more positive than on other day
Watching us from the united states. These are your markets. We are seeing a bit of a lift to european stocks, actually, not so much. They were lifting, but now they are flat. About 56. 65 after that opec plus meeting. Gold is down a touch. Remember, because it is fourth of july in the u. S. , treasury markets are closed. Coming up, dont miss our coverage of the boston pops fireworks spectacular, it is a bloomberg special and starts at 8 p. M. New york time. So if youre watching from asia or europe, its definitely worth it. Lets get straight to bloomberg first word news. The tanks are ready to go and the fighter jets are set. All part of President Trumps changes to the traditional fourth of July Celebration on the National Mall. The present will speak from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and critics say he is turning the event into a campaign rally. President trump warned iran against stepping up uranium enrichment. Iran says it will restart the model reactor if europe fails to offer
We heard from jay powell. We will hear from him again today. The eurodollar, 1. 1278. There is a lot going on, not only about trade. Official taxes that france will vote on. There is a mood on what happened to euro depending on what we get from the ecb minutes that will be released after midday. We will watch for that and any movement on currency. Coming up, we speak with the sao paulo governor, he is joao doria. Plus we will speak to sheriff brown about u. S. Politics. Lets get to the work first word news. Deutsche bank is now being probed u. S. Justice department as an expanded investigation. The u. S. Is reportedly taking a closer look at a former Goldman Sachs executive who later worked at the german bank. Authorities havent accused which a bank of wrongdoing. Another federal probe, the u. S. Investigating frances plan to tax tax giants. Socalled 301 investigation is the same tool donald trump used to impose tariffs on china. Korear japan nor south has much political incentive to c
First a check in on the market the dow lower by nearly 300 points moved low er perhaps by the fitc rating plus, some street talk around discover financial the company ceo resigning. That stock down more than 10 . Also, good news, bad news. The good, Warren Buffett adding a stake in the stock bad, home Builder Sentiment dropping sharply with rates over 7 . We begin with the warning from fitch the firm saying it may be forced to downgrade dozens of banks, big ones, including jp morgan chase, coming after recently downgrading the United States credit rating. For market reaction, lets bring in doug butler, director of research at Rockland Trust what has got fitchy feeling so well, i could rhyme but i wont. Ill also not go there. But again, fitch downgrading the banks, very core lair to what they just did. Its their really negative on the government and theyre taking this as a broad swath theyre saying the Banking Industry as a whole and greater problems which is why they would hit jp morga
Gina ewing testified that the Biden Administration has driven a historic recovery over the last three years and address the need for Regulatory Framework stable corns and Digital Assets. Intelligence and the financials actor. This is about two hours. Committee on banking an the committee will come to order. Secretary ellen who has been taxable in the schedule and we had to change the time from yesterday to today and then she has to leave at 11 30. We will risk back that. I will enforce the five minute rule on myself and everyone else. Thank you for understanding, all of you. For a long time, its clear what gets rewarded and wall street. Bigger risks mean bigger profits. Your profits mean more stock options. Bigger profits mean fatter bonuses. Then we end up with a wall street culture that glorifies seen just how much they can get away with. Executives know that when big bets pay off, they get to cash out and when is bets failed, they dont clean up the mess. Workers and taxpayers and ou