Talks continue into today. The s p global is in advanced talks to buy ihs mobile markets in what would be one of the biggest deals of the year. A very warm welcome to the program, everybody. Just under one hour away from the start of cash equity trading for European Equity markets. Good to be back in the studio. Thats have a look at the future is and what they tell us about where we are headed this monday morning. Futures dont look great. European features move to the downside. The Asian Session has been fairly negative. These have been record months for global stocks. Rebalancing at the end of the month perhaps is part of the story here. We will talk to the market live team about this shortly. Lets take a look at what is going on on the gmm. Some of the weakest in the weakness in the Asian Session, down one point 3 on the msci asia pacific. Indonesia under pressure. A host of emerging markets under pressure. China outperforming a little today. The Manufacturing Activity we referenced
Coronavirus vaccine trial. There are three weeks until the u. S. Election. President trump returns to the campaign trail in florida. President trump now, they say im a mean. I feel so powerful im immune. I feel so powerful. I will kiss everyone. I will kiss the guys and the beautiful women on the everybody and everybody. I was just will just give you a big, fat kiss. Good morning. Manus cranny is off on holiday. Its not even winter and england is introducing lockdown measures, including closing pubs. As the rest of europe, the United States deal with the resurgence of cases, wall street closed higher, with the nasdaq having its best athans april. All of this has me wondering its best day since april. All of this has me wondering, are Financial Markets diverging from reality . Johnson and johnson halting its Covid Vaccine study. S p 500 futures under a little bit of pressure. Msci asia relatively flat. The hang seng index has not traded at alternate due to a typhoon at all today due to
Is going on in terms of economic stimulus. European shares, slipping with u. S. Futures, the dollar snapping a fiveday losing streak. Treasuries edging higher with most european bonds. A full market round up shortly. Lets get to the bloomberg first word news with leighann gerrans. Leighann the u. K. Will pump 3 billion pounds into environmental projects as part of its recovery plan. The investment will be formally announced tomorrow when gives anr sunak update on economic plans. Hes under pressure to introduce a meaningful package after the prime ministers speech last week failed to impress many economists. Emmanuel macron has reshuffled his government. Bruno le maire stays as finance minister. Improve labor affairs, hes moving elizabeth. Orne and ha appended thes National Security legislation imposed on the city last week. Her comments come hours after the government asserted broad new police powers, including warrantless searches, online surveillance, and property seizure. Im glad to
Surveillance. A bit of a different bloomberg surveillance. It has been 10 days that we have foroadcasting from all of our technical operators around the world. Arefocus is on what we seeing in terms of data. Is the euro area. It will give us an indication of exactly what the economy is facing. Euro area preliminary actually, its not preliminary. Anything below 50 indicates a contraction. Lets get onto your markets quickly. Thee is a lot of focus on banks after regulators have pushed a lot of u. K. Banks. European stocks are down. Im also looking at treasuries. Lets get straight to Bloomberg News in new york city. Died from coronavirus. Fatalities top 1000 confirmed cases in new york state. They have surpassed those in chinas Hubei Province sticking with President Trump, he said to announce the deferral of some payments. Bloomberg has learned he has announced a proposal to the late some levees for six months. This would not apply to tariffs the white house has imposed as a result of act
Markets could hit that Circuit Breaker limit. It is incredible when we think about the volatility. It doesnt seem like the Federal Reserves jay powell has calms kets by any has combed has calmed markets by any means. Francine lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news in new york city with viviana hurtado. Viviana we begin with the most extreme effort yet to slow the march of the coronavirus in the United States. The cdc recommending events of 50 people or more not be held for two months sports, weddings, parades, concerts. All of these are on a twoavoid list. The economic slump in china is worse than analysts feared be the coronavirus leading to factories, shops, restaurants enclosed across the nation. Industrial outlets plunging 2. 5 . Retail sales were down more than 20 . Now the first oneonone debate between president ial hopefuls joe biden and Bernie Sanders. They sparred on ideological lines over how the government should respond to the coronaVirus Outbreak. Mr. Sanders s