Via the coronavirus, and there is not much of the fed chair can say. Coronavirus is making all the decisions on the economy. Weakersales coming in than expected, actually the weakest since april. The High Frequency we have seen since then suggest the economy is slowing even further into november. The problem of course is there is no help from the fiscal side in washington, no talks about any additional covert relief package. Getting to the end of the year, most of the cares act expires. So people are looking to the fed, particularly people in the markets. They are looking at the yield curve, which has steepened slightly, still under 1 on the 10year, but there is a feeling that if the fed wanted to do something they could start buying at the longer and, changing the weighted average maturity of their purchases. If they did that, push down on Interest Rates. There is a feeling they may do that in december to send a message that we cannot do a whole lot to stimulate the economy but we are
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
Nasdaq features are pointing higher. Stock coming off of that two week losing streak. Recoveringmed to be with a steep selloff last week. Moderately higher in china. Tech names seeing some dip by. Take a look at what we when it comes to currencies. We are focusing on the euro strength, paired with the weakness. Not really doing a lot. 682. Ng around about the Central Banks autonomy. We are watching the yields, pretty much flat. Yields are moving lower in the likes of australia. , probably brings us back to the highest that we saw in 2019 with home prices increasing and retail sales as well. Positive sentiment. Outstanding gains. Lets get to the first word gains. We start with the global coronavirus case is nearing 29 million. Canpe is now becoming a turn again. France also reporting more than 17,000 cases over the weekend. , Oxford University and astrazeneca have restarted trials of the vaccine after they were halted over the unexplained illness. Says ale, the ceo had similar timeline
We will be live in zurich assessing the credibility of that news. This story has been knocking around for quite some time. At some point hopefully it does go somewhere. Lets talk about where we are with markets. Markets getting attraction on the others of the pond. In europe we are barely making any ground. The british pound has been battered over the past few days. Maybe a pause before we see the fireworks return from the brexit debate. We also have the bank of england on thursday. There was a significant downgraded by moodys of turkey late last week on friday. The payments crisis is what the Payments Company is talking Credit Company is talking about and we are continuing to see stress in the system surrounding turkey. The lira fairly flat. More, kaylee, about the u. K. More insight on the debate over Boris Johnsons plan to rewrite the brexit debord divorce deal. As the market appropriately pricing and or does it need to reprice in the near future the risk of a no deal brexit . Bhanu
How these cuts will be disk it and how willing will russia be . Certainly some optimism today. Jakarta is coming online. A pretty steep fall off of stocks yesterday. We are rising. Ingapore is up the csi 300 is up. 3 . The dollar is looking pretty mixed across asia. The reaction from that meeting has been seen in the korean won. We are seeing that strength. Nine out of 17 economists respected the hole. Some were expecting for a cut. We are looking ahead to governor lees press conference. We will hear more clues about the trajectory of where rates go and whether they will embark on this qe theme that we have seen in many Central Banks. The dollar yen, we are seeing a little come off of the yen. Were advancing on the back of the oil prices in the euro, premuch flat. Lets stick to oil. Prices are rising again ahead of that opecplus. The worlds Top Producers may be moving closer to a deal on curbing output. Volatility remains a key theme. Wti has seen another 24 hours of wild springs with