Treasuries,on the we will be speaking about that in a moment with our guest from pimco. Still at 1. 35. We are off the alltime low but this is still elevated. And futures, slightly down, 1. 4 . In the 1650 an ounce range. Volatility in europe also elevated. Trading stoxx be 50 2381, pushing up to fresh session highs. 06 . Oxx 600 is down by it is not exactly a turnaround that it is a stabilization. In europe, exactly the opposite. We are trading 50 on the german tenyear, another two basis points on the downside. The bones keep getting bid Bashar Alassad bund the bid. S keep getting vonnie President Trump is seeking supplemental funding to tackle the coronavirus and he spoke earlier about chinas role in the outbreak. Pres. Trump i have spoken to president xi jinping and they are working very hard. If you know anything about him, i think they will be in pretty good shape. They have had a rough patch in the think right now, it looks like they are getting it under control more and more. To
Lets get into these results from samsung. What was the offer . Not as impressed as the shareholders are. They seem pretty impressed. I think there is a lot of concern they need to be aware of. First of all, the chip business really fell off a cliff. Operating profit really fell a lot. The other thing is the smartphone business had a good quarter. It was the secondhighest sale on record for that division. Incomecompare operating versus a couple of quarters ago, operating profit was a lot lower. Margins a lot worse than it had been in the past. They said themselves this quarter, the fourth quarter, they would see a deterioration, not only in shipments, but also a have bees. What they ship will be the cheaper phones. Not the flagship stuff they had in the first quarter. The cheaper stuff. Those are the landmines investors need to be worried about as we go into the next. Components are weak and their products are week as well. It definitely is downbeat, a column this morning. You sum up by
We also had gains in yuan lifting currencies. You can see the u. S. 10 year yield at 1. 72. The fixing at 7. 04. We are getting breaking news out of the philippines, another central bank that needs to do something because of the world economy. 4. 25, cut the key rate to following india, new zealand, amongst others. Coming up, we hear from the chief executive of adidas about trade wars and global demand. Now, lets get straight to bloomberg first word news in new york city. This morning, oil is rebounding from a sevenmonth low. Looks tos saudi arabia stem the slide and processes in prices. Bloomberg learned react will not tolerate continued price weakness as oil has been driven down to the worsening trade work and a surprise increase in stockpiles. Pakistan suspended a trade with india and downgraded diplomatic relations after new delhi revoked decades of economy for the disputed region of kashmir. Islamabad says they will take the matter to the united nations. India says the issue is an
2. 15 on a 10year. Kevin and can you stay long in the e. C. B. Meeting on thursday . John mentioned gasoline. At one point it was over 2 a gallon. The issue now is are we going to have the supply . Colonial pipeline has shut down different supply to the east coast. That could be an issue for this driving season, so watch that commodity. Copper, nickel, zinc all on the upside on that better manufacturing data out of china. Those metals have been a killer month. Copper had the best month, highest level in three years. Well talk about that as it relates to the 3 growth. Now lets get an update on headlines. Emma chandra is here with first news. Chandra a french Chemical Plant exploded in texas earlier today. The company, arkema, had expected that to happen after the storm knocked out Power Supplies needed to refrigerate volatile chemicals. Meanwhile, the storm has now knocked almost 1 4 of u. S. Oil Refining Capacity offline. Fuelmaking capacity is now at a sevenyear low. Harvey is moving
Barcelona in moments. A lot of anticipation in the chamber. Madrid is ready to take action. The Spanish National police force set to be ready to arrest Carles Puigdemont if he declares unilateral independence. Maria is in barcelona with the latest. Lets get to you immediately and asked if tensions are rising in the streets in barcelona, or are . Eople just curious tensions rising and a show of force by the catalonia police. They have lots of the street and people cannot get in and out. Against thegroup unilateral declaration of independence and another one telling him to do it. It shows you how polarizing the issue has become. Carles puigdemont has arrived and is inside parliament and minutes away from delivering what could be a unilateral declaration of independence. We are not sure of the wording, not sure of the format that may take place. We are not sure if the opposition will get a say. They have a majority in the Catalonia Parliament and if they want to enact this law that could