The governor of texas warns of a massive outbreak. The imf adds to the gloom, further lowering its Growth Outlook, saying the pandemic will cause even more damage than first feared. Haidi that lead really playing into the downside we are expecting in the asian market session. Lets get it over to Sophie Kamaruddin in hong kong for a look at what we are expecting. Board, pulling up the asian futures pointing to losses of 1 or more amid the imf. Warnings of a deeper recession with japan and the Growth Outlook taking a hit. 1. 2 in theup by red this morning. A down day with trade disruptions back on the table alongside virus risks. Flipping the board, we are seeing bonds on the advance. Aussie tenure yields off by four basis points. Treasury futures to the upside after the overnight flattening we saw in cash yields as the bond market is signaling a more cautious outlook than we have seen in stocks. Check out the dollar extending gains against g10 peers with increasing u. S. Trade tensions
Fourth quarter bottomline estimates. We will break down the results ahead of disneys highly anticipated streaming platform debut. But first, to our top stories. Facebook continues to struggle to regain trust over how it handles user data. But that has become more complicated. There has now been a leak of internal documents suggesting business considerations outweighed those privacy concerns. It is something that facebook publicly touted when it decided five years ago to cut off tens of thousands of developers from its platform. To discuss, im joined by Bloomberg Technologys sarah frier, as well as ben brody in washington. Sarah, let me start with you. You covered this story. What do we know from these leaked documents so far . Reporter the documents give us this interesting internal picture in a way we really havent seen before of how these decisions are made and the difference between how they are discussed internally and how the company explains them externally. Internally, they are
Media giantal disney beats Fourth Quarter bottomline estimates. We will break down the results ahead of disneys highly anticipated streaming platform debut. Stories. R top facebook continues to struggle to read and trust over how it handles user data. That has become more complicated. There has now been a leak of internal documents suggesting business considerations outweighed those privacy concerns. It is something facebook publicly touted when it decided five years ago to cut off tens of thousands of developers from its platform. To discuss, im joined by Bloomberg Technologys sarah frier and ben brody in washington. Let me start with you, sarah. You covered this story. What do we know from these documents . Reporter the documents give us this interesting internal picture in a way we really havent seen before of how these decisions are made and the difference between how they are discussed internally and how the company explains them externally. And internally, they are saying we need
Struck in september 2017. Nearly 250 survivors and victims of a london tower fire are suing American Companies that make products used at the residential complex. The suit claims healthy Building Materials helped spread the flames at the granville towers, turning it into a flaming coffin for the people who died. Whirlpool, and an insulation maker. Global news 24 hours a day, onair, and tictoc on twitter, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. Im Mark Crumpton. This is bloomberg. It is 1 00 in new york, 6 00 in london, and 1 00 in Hong Kong Unit im vonnie quinn. Welcome to Bloomberg Markets. In hong kong. Im vonnie quinn. Welcome to Bloomberg Markets. From bloomberg World Headquarters in new york, here are the top stories on the bloomberg and around the world we are following. Trump threatens china again. The president saying he could impose tariffs of 25 or higher on 300 billion on chinese goods if president xi does not meet with him at the g20. Regul
President biden imposes limits on u. S. Investments in china. Alibaba returns to growth across all of the main divisions, defying chinas economic turbulence. We will take a deeper look at the Supreme Court ruling in the epic case siding with apple, at least for now. The other big story was inflation, gaining 0. 2 last month. The slowest pace of gains for two years. The market starts thinking about the fed and then says maybe the fed will skip a rate hike in the next meeting. Why do we care about the fed . Higher rates discount the valuations for future cash flows for names on the nasdaq 100. The main text the main tech index outperforming but we are basically treading water. The other big risk as it is bitcoin. We are the same level we have out for two weeks. The u. S. 10 year yield climbing back up. Remember the story we keep reiterating. Yields have been coming slightly lower from 4. 2 on the 10 year to now nero took now nearer to 4 . The earnings story is disney. So many stories in