Germany is set to rein in public and private parties. Its inflation rate falls further below zero. The ecb may need to do more. Christine lagarde speaks in 90 minutes time. Disney cuts deep. They will lay off 28,000 workers at its resort business, leaving one of the deepest economic scars of the covid era. Welcome to the program. Just gone 7 00 in london. Waiting for data to come out from the u. K. Economy and some news expected from shell. Lets get to the u. K. Data first. This is the final reading on u. K. Gdp, coming in not far away from where we anticipated it to be. Estimate was 21. 7. 19. 8 percent for the quarter on quarter numbers. These are all negative. A retreat of 19. 8 in the second corner. The estimate was 20. 4 . Thats just a small detail. We are dealing with incredibly large negative numbers. They are very backward looking. The real question will be, how does that data perform . How has the economy performed since the Second Quarter . How will liberal perform as we head
The focus shifting from Central Banks back to trade ahead of the g20. President Trumps Administration up in the antiby blacklisting another five chinese tech companies. Yvonne perhaps dampening the prospects of getting any kind of deal at the g20. Seems like when it comes to the oil market this escalation of tensions with iran, it perhaps is offsetting what we saw last week on the markets. A lot of uncertainty on the geopolitical front. David on one hand you have that of grants. Terms great headline here out of bank of america. They released her latest report. G20 plus fmoc equals perhaps a good formula for ef. We are flat on the benchmark. Coming off three weeks of gains for global stocks. Four weeks of gains. Study in the treasury market. Flip the boards and look at where we are on the currency markets. Also on china. Where are we here . I am looking at a lot of the pairs. Dollar is still on the back foot. South korean yuan topping the list earlier. Looks like we will have a mediocre
good morning, good afternoon and good evening. welcome to bloomberg surveillance. i am francine lacqua. european stocks are fluctuating. exactly what is next in the corona visor coronavirus and the impact. if you look at bonds across the u.s. and europe, they are pretty much unchanged. coming up, more from our interview the chief executive of unicredit. he talks about negative rates being the biggest risk for the eu economy. let s get to bloomberg first word news. news, karenaking bauer is stepping down as leader cdu.rmany s she will not run for chancellor in the next election. now to ireland where left-wing nationalist party is one of the biggest winners of this weekend s election. state broadcast ejecting it will come in second with 37 seats behind siana falls with 45 seats. all are short of the 80 needed for majority. today the final tally is expected. over to the u.k. where boris johnson gearing up to announce a boost in infrastructure spending. it is a part of a camp
Rishaad just looking at what is going on, you would think asian equities would be expensive relative to the u. S. They beat the s p 500. I want to bring up this chart. If anything, pricetobook ratio, and forward asiatoearnings spreads, stocks looking more attractive compared to u. S. Counterparts. Those spreads have widened to four. Nus there we have it. The rally could have legs. Fascinating its not just a more by you, but getting cheaper. Have not seen the political dysfunction in Washington Play out when it comes to the markets , and some jitters in the asian session. The last time we had a the lastt shutdown, three times, the s p 500 gained. Three, so wen day not just asian equities, but in the u. S. As well. Decisionsnk dominating the agenda, as well as u. S. Gdp. Sophie kamaruddin joining us now. Jitters. E do have asian stocks kicking off the session subdued. Japanese stocks are slipping as the boj policy decision is due tuesday. Lets check the open. We do have the taiex gaining
Left in asias once a dominant commodities trade off. Kong markets are getting set to come back online after the Lunar New Year long weekend. Chinese markets are still away until thursday. We take a look at what is going on in the hong kong stock exchange. In terms of a handover, not much of one after that stellar performance by asia shares on a monday driven largely by Japanese Equities that had their second best day of the year. We saw a little bit of a failure to extend those gains in the european session. We are also seeing u. S. Futures trading down as well. Lets take a look at where we are moving in terms of markets. A big week when it comes to markets. It over to sophie for a look at how things are going. Ie as you pointed out, u. S. Futures are declining. Taiwan and a vietnam also closed for the extended holiday. The nikkei and topics snap a topix snap amb threeday climb. Seoul, and for decline. In kuala lumpur, stocks are sliding after a fiveday bend. We will see whether or not