Uncertainty about the virus itself and what the impact could be. In terms of the stimulus package, that is certainly psychological. The fact that President Trump did not offer this plan he said he what is disappointing for the markets because anything can help. It is hard to know if the stimulus will help. We have little more than a thousand cases in the u. S. If that is the case, the stimulus would be very different than if it balloons to a higher number. The impact is hard to know how much stimulus is actually needed. David we had the bank of england and the u. K. Canceler ship the u. K. Chancellorship come out with a plan. To the markets like that better than what is going on in the United States . Abigail to some degree because you had european stocks slightly higher. The fact you have this coordinated effort from the u. K. , europe, italy now that they are under lockdown, really seets to these officials that there needs to be some sort fightrreaching support to off the possible Ec
Find out, but we are getting out. We want to get out. We had good meetings with the taliban. We are going to be leaving, and we are going to be bringing our soldiers back home. Weve been there for almost 20 years. Its a long time. Weve done a great job in terms of getting rid of terrorists. Now it is up to other countries to get rid of those terrorists. Meet. Going to we have discussions to go, but weve made a lot of progress, ok . Thank you all very much. [indiscernible] press, lets go. Move lets go, press. Vonnie more of those comments from President Trump just a few moments ago. We talked a little bit about the peace signing. Very few comments on this killer occasion. He is meeting on this particular occasion. He is meeting with pharmaceutical executives today. We will hear more as the day progresses. We are monitoring gains on the s p 500. 1. 7 , nowas much down to 1. 2 . The retailers and the Food Companies are doing well. Consumer electronics, everything you might imagine would d
In services, we saw our first contraction, and that has put jitters into the market, not least of which, into the treasury market. We saw the 30 year yield hit a record low190 1. 90 and change. Guy this is what is happening in europe. Stocks are down. You are seeing around the world. The fear is definitely there when it comes to what is happening with the coronavirus. The data out of united states. Has comen tenyear back to unchanged right now. We are seeing a bigger reaction on the u. S. Curve, but curves are flattening, and that is a factor. The pmi data in europe was actually ok today. What you have seen as a result is the u. S. Pmi data has been a significant squeeze in eurodollar. Onedollar now trading at 1. 0854ight cents at now. Vonnie lets get to bloombergs Sophie Kamaruddin. She joins us from hong kong. What is the latest . What are authorities telling their citizens . Sophie we saw some revisions upward. Hubei province upping its count for the past two days, increasing confir
Clearly, coronavirus is not impacting future sales all that much at the moment. , data as well, storage center, those kind of chips doing well. That is having a halo effect on some other chips. A couple of them are lower as well. There is some treasury buying along with the equities bounce, so we have to take note of that. 7 . 10 year yield at 1. 5 we got Consumer Confidence data above 100 today from the university of michigan. Preliminary february data increasing, and revisions to december. That said, retail sales didnt exactly reflect increased confidence. They were pretty stagnant, if not a little disappointing. Guy here in europe, stocks heading back to flat. We bounced off session lows. Volume is ok. We are going into a long weekend in the United States. Do you want to carry positions over that weekend . Eurodollar positive, but only just. Data out of germany pretty weak today. While we are seeing some commodities trading higher today, you always want to Pay Attention to what is h
500 infotech index up 48 , and the energy index was the least best performer. It still was up, though, which tells you how much these markets were looking for good news. The second best performer, Consumer Discretionary in the s p 500. That includes home depot to amazon, ebay, even general motors, so really across the board, it was a good year. For more on the markets more broadly, we are joined by ing head ofvey, global debt and rate strategy. We widened the curve with a bit of steepening going on. To what do you attribute that . Been a really interesting move. We were inverted six months ago. Happened is the fed has cut 75 basis points. Theyve injected a mountain of liquidity into the system, and theres been a real change in sentiment in the sense that six months ago, we were genuinely concerned about a recession in the u. S. Next year. Have beenerns significantly downsized. Theres still trimming this uncertainty, and we so have a very flat curve. If you look at the twostens, it is n