Happening with the vaccine story. Depending on which market you were looking at, one is winning out. Here in europe, the bulk of equity markets are writing higher today, and its been a good week. The ftse 100 being dragged lower by names like hsbc, which is certainly down quite sharply. That obviously relates back to what is happening in hong kong. A big impact there. You can ripple that out into what is happening as well within the commodity space. Copper trading down by over 2 . U. K. , data out of the some deficit data that is terrifying, but in some ways to be anticipated. Again, the market has largely priced that in. We are going into a long weekend. Do you want to carry risk over this weekend . The pound trading 1. 2177 on the cable rate. Vonnie hong kong chief executive carrie lam spoke a short time ago, addressing the unrest caused by chinas new National Security legislation. For more on what carrie lam is saying and what exactly is going on in china, lets get to our first gues
Territory. We will see how long that lasts. A strengthening dollar today and treasuries at around 63 basis points for the 10 year yield. European markets are returning today. The ftse 100 was the only one open on may 1. The rest were closed. We went lower the first thing this morning. The ftse opened and was trading higher, but all of the others lower. Out of the gate as you say, we got a stronger teller today. A big move coming out of the ecb tomorrow sorry, out of the Constitutional Court regarding the ecb. We had some really poor Economic Data out of the manufacturing front in europe as well. The italian 10 year selling off just a touch. Brent crude up by 1. 21 . Climbing init risk europe unbidden mounting economic concerns over u. S. Suggestions that china hid the severity of the covid19 outbreak. A sickly escalating rhetoric, which is being a little bit aggressive towards china. We have a speech from the National Security advisor today which called out china and the suppression of
This is a very unprecedented time. Three priorities in this period. The first is the health and safety of our employees. If we can all stay healthy what stay healthy, we can be part of the contribution here. Even under adverse conditions, we are trying to maintain manufacturing of our food and beverage products. And then with the physical presence in 187 countries, it is very important to us that we also give the helping hand over and above the call of duty around the world where we are present. And on the business continuity, mark, do you have all of your raw material supply guarantees . Crisisminute we saw this spread, we were trying to improve inventory levels at all. Evels of manufacturing obviously there was very little time, and i think flex ability is what is required right now. You do have logistics constraints. Sometimes you need to resort to airfreighting. Sometimes that takes longer or capacity is limited. It is all about managing in a very tight way this crisis and ensuring
, guy . S going on Europe Vincent we are seeing stocks guy we are seeing stocks turning around. Makes you wonder how bad they whisper number must have been for everybody to react positively to a 3. 2 number. Stoxx 600 in positive territory. Travel stocks leading the move. The big move in many ways has come from the ecb, announcing , theetails of its pepp pandemic emergency purchase program, which is it is using to buy bonds. It is basically tearing up all of the old rules that use to apply to ecb emergency purchases. As a result, we are seeing a big move on the italian 10 year, and massive move on the spanish tenure. Downw the bank of england today, and some really interesting comments out of the bank of england. Brent crude a little softer today, 27. 13. What a week it has been for stocks. There does seem to be much more positive sentiment towards the equity market. The question is how long can it last. Guy exactly. Vonnie exactly. Those jobless claims did serve four times the previou
Check, the fed is announcing some coordinated central bank swap line enhancements. We saw them a couple of days ago increase it for a variety of Central Banks. Now those swap lines will have further detail and enhanced swap lines. Absolutely. This is missioncritical right now, figuring out how we get dollars to everybody that needs them is the most important thing, it seems, at the moment, when it comes to financial markets. That is going to certainly help. My question today, does a weaker dollar indicate that the funding stress and design for dollars is beginning to ease off a little bit . We will get an announcement from the chancellery of the exchequer on further measures to help out the u. K. Economy. Similar move when it comes to the 10 year. In terms of stocks, we are seeing a bid finally returning to stocks, and finally enough, i think it is worth paying attention to the fact that we are getting some of the cyclicals in particular catching a bid today. You can see the travel and