Talking about 750 billion euros of grants that might help the peripheral countries. Matt bailouts is really the big story here, aside from the chinese story you point out. It is fascinating to see the you yuan we can buy that much. Europe is in focus in not only because of the bailout proposal, but macrons 8 billion euro bailout of the auto. Ndustry daimler shares are rising 9 . Renault shares are up about 16 , 17 . The reason the french bailout matters for german carmaker daimler, of course, france isnt getting any money directly to german automakers. Are offering a cash for clunkers program, as well as 7000 euros for the purchase of any electric vehicle. So french consumers are likely to pick up a german car with some of that money. Not bad for sales. The other big story here has been the ecb. We watched Christine Lagarde q a withing and that european use on facebook. In any case, she said she sees is sort of now inline with their medium, their. Ase Case Scenario , listent Case Scena
The world. The nasdaq up 0. 9 . Gold continues to rally. 1733. 48 an ounce. Plenty of currencies are moving against the dollar. How are we doing in europe, guy . Guy we are up, being driven by the oil and gas sector once again. We are trading near session highs. The stoxx 600 up by around 0. 6 . Relatively muted volume today, and to be honest, the volatility , soting to come down again bear that in mind. We seen a lot of centralbank news over the last few minutes. Christine lagarde has been briefing eu leaders as they kick off their summit, their videoconference. She has been warning them that gdp may fall by 15 within the region as a result of the virus. That is largely backed up by some of the pmi data we saw earlier on, particularly very Weak Services numbers coming through for the eurozone. A littlearting to see bit of tightening in some of the spreads. Btpsbunds coming down a bit, so a little bit of outperformance for peripheral bonds, but other big move upside for brent. To circl
The focus has been on what is happening in washington. It was fascinating to see the fade on equities today. European equities are off session lows. We faded pretty precipitously earlier on. The pound is also off its earlier session highs and has certainly faded the early move. A similar story in brent as well. The initial burst of enthusiasm around that deal starting to ease back a little bit. The real question, this is just dealing with the here and now. Are we going to need further help from washington and other governments around the world to get the bounceback that may some people are looking for . Vonnie just getting a headline now that german lawmakers have approved a 156 billion euro stimulus. A few things happening in europe as well. Back to washington, the white house and senators have finally come together in an effort to bolster the economy. Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell spoke earlier on the senate floor. Sen. Mcconnell at last, we have a deal. After days of intens
2,255 points. Right now we are down 2,003 points. At 1 00 p. M. , money started fluttering down, the Federal Reserve making a move to support the bond market amid the coronavirus collapse. The s p 500, by the way, had been down 240 points and of course, we had 689 points getting slashed off the nasdaq. Right now the s p is down 219 and as we look at the nasdaq its down 619. Despite the feds move, the s p and nasdaq joined the Dow Jones Industrials in a bear market. This as the 11year bull market is officially about to come to an end. The selloff kicked in pretty much right at the open and five minutes in, triggered once again for the second time this week the Circuit Breakers that halted trading for 15 minutes. Lets show you some metrics here. The oil patch. Take a look at this. It is playing a huge role in this selloff once again. Oil is crashing, folks. We do have it down to 31. 32. Thats a loss of 5 today. Much of this comes after President Trump announced a travel ban on flights fr
Just a few minutes ago we hit another record low. The nasdaq of course is obviously under stress as well, down triple digits. Then of course, the Dow Jones Industrials completely lower by 1,862 points, although i would point out the low of the session is a loss of 2,096. Let me take you back to four minutes after the open. Stocks fell so aggressively that the First Circuit breaker as its called, the level, level 1, to halt trading kicked in and that exact trigger would be the s p 500 hitting level 1, a loss of about 7 at that time. Now, after 15 minutes, this is what the dow was doing earlier on the new york Stock Exchange, after 15 minutes of the halt, stocks then reopened and thats when the dow promptly fell 2,046 points. At its low, 9 50 a. M. Eastern time exactly, coming within 200 points of a bear market level. In the last 15 minutes, the dow hit another new intraday low so we can change that 2,158, 2,158. Lets talk about oils response to this deadly Coronavirus Impact on the glob