Lots of earnings coming out. Ups is the latest. They are withdrawing their 2020 forecast for revenue, as well as eps, as we have seen from Many Companies trying to estimate the impact. Theirre withdrawing forecast. They are suspending the Share Buyback for 2020. We want to get you all of todays top moving news from new york and our london team. We want to begin with the volatility in the u. S. Oil market. Wti at one point falling below 11 a barrel. Bps ceo, after the Company Released firstquarter results which showed a 2 3 drop in profit. We have a situation where we have excess supply, and storage is filling up. Cushing is 70 full. People think we will reach completely full sometime in may. We are very fortunate to have a large trading organization, and they have been able to find a physical home for our crude, but not everyone is that fortunate. What is happening here is a very simple case of supply and demand, and the market really isnt going to find some stability until that comes
Terrible composite pmis from the region. Oil continuing that recordbreaking rally yesterday. Some delegates a little bit more optimistic about getting deals done. Now i want to update you on our top stories from our new york team. We want to begin with europe. Thentioned the economies in slump of unprecedented scale, pointing to a contraction of about 10 . Bloombergs Michael Mckee joins us with more. Good morning, mike. Michael we are getting to the point where Economic Data are almost irrelevant to investors. Yeah, it is terrible. We know that. Weve traded it. Thats why you are not seeing a huge reaction in equity markets in europe because it was largely expected. It is sort of exactly what you think wouldve happened. Services pmis and composite pmis just falling off a cliff. The story in spain and italy there, but also france and germany. Those economies have basically shut down. Economists try to put a number on what that means, and that is where you get that 10 contraction figure,
10 year. Crude now below 30. And not emphasize enough how much pain that will be causing to producers. To get a sense of where we are in the market, if you switch of the board, you can see some of the heavy hitters within the market, like apple and microsoft, down 10 , 11 . Also seeing bank of america off by 16 . The index which tracks the s p is down by almost 10 . Again, a world of hurt within the next two and half hours. We have some breaking news. The boe is pledging further prompt action when needed. No specifics on that, but they are pledging action as needed. We will bring you anything, any information as they come out. They said the dollar move to combat is there. This is governor bailey. Time now for global exchange, where we bring you todays market moving news from all around the world. From new york to washington, brussels and beijing come our bloomberg voices are on the ground with all of this mornings top stories. The Federal Reserve swept into action yesterday, cutting it
In a research note, JP Morgan analyst Christyan Malek has maintained his recommendation on the stock with a Buy rating. The target price has been raised from EUR 18.50 to EUR 19.50.
In a research note, JP Morgan analyst Christyan Malek has maintained his recommendation on the stock with a Buy rating. The target price is still set at EUR 75.