More important to traders . The cash trade is one hour away. Thats get your top headlines for you from the bloomberg terminal. Pressing for concessions, stimulus talks in the u. S. At an impasse with the white house and democrats still far apart on major issues. President trump prepares to take unilateral action to extend jobless aid. King of spinoff. Siemens gets a boost from its Software Unit as adjusted earnings climb a prevent 8 for the quarter. We will talk with the cfo shortly about results and plans to list more parts of his business. Plus, we will speak with the bank of england governor, Andrew Bailey, later today, as the u. K. Central bank makes its Rate Decision. What have you got on the boe here . Annmarie as expected, they maintain their benchmark Interest Rate at. 1 . This is what we were expecting. They are keeping their total bond purchases. The target is unchanged at 745 billion pounds. Of course, this is what we were expecting. Now, we have the august minutes coming in
Options. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to bloomberg surveillance. I am Francine Lacqua here in london. Now, there is quite a lot going on in the markets, simply because the stimulus in the u. S. Is getting people quite excited. Part of it is what we are hearing from Central Banks around the world, the projections. This is what the markets are doing overall. Stocks are turning higher. Gold at the same time is ascent, and then we have the word on the latest american stimulus package. We need to mention pound, rising against the euro, after the bank of england said it did not plan to tighten policy until the inflation outlook is more clear. Now lets get to the bloomberg first word news. Here with me in london is laura white. Hi, laura. Laura as fast as they can, but that does not mean safety is being sacrificed. Dr. Anthony fauci he hopes the vaccine is at least 70 effective, but he says he would still feel good if it is at least 50 effective. Classical history of viruses, particula
Coronavirus cases top 12 million. Vice president pence says schools should reopen. Raphael bostic warrants about the hit to Consumer Sentiment. Stock market frenzy pushes the shanghai composite to its highest level since 2008. Thats after mega cap tech took the nasdaq to another record overnight in the u. S. Recovervenue begins to from the pandemic fuel slowdown as your europes Technology Company sees a bounceback and Software Deals throughout asia. Just under one hour away from the start of cash equity trading in europe. Lets take a look at where futures are pointing us right now. Ftse futures up about. 6 . Take a look at u. S. Futures. They have been down though only slightly. Anna, what have you got . Anna lets have a look at breaking news. Numbers coming out from rollsroyce. The engineering business, the engine maker here in the u. K. Giving us details for Free Cash Flow and cost medication action. They themselves are taking it. One billion pounds for cost mitigation action for 202
For a conversation with stefon engels. Welcome to daybreak europe. From unicredit, First Quarter net comes in at 1. 1 billion euros. 995. 3 million. S that is a beat. It is confirming its target for 2019, the target for revenue it is confirming it of course, what we heard earlier this week was that it was selling its entire stake. That is a reminder of that. In terms of the update today, the main number to draw your eye to his the Third Quarter net, which is a beat. Lehmans numbers coming in as well. Fullyear adjusted, industrial businesses, 9 billion euros. The estimate was 8. 61. That is a beat, at least on that number so far. Looking through some of the other headlines, decline in market volumes for short cycle businesses. This was a problem last quarter as well so it seems this issue is still remaining. Year 2020 of 6. 3 to seven euros, excluding charges. The outlook will be something analysts are keen to hear more about. The global Macro Economic development, some dude in the full
Of 125 so, that is just a touch below expectations the headline index, that is easily beating expectations. Lets get instant reaction to this from annette. The key question here, to what extent did this already factor in the collapse of the Coalition Talks . Would this have been reflected in this result actually, the cut off date of that poll by ifo is yesterday. There is a fraction of respondents who have factored that in in their response. Ifo is also saying the majority of clients are responding in the first two weeks. So, bottom line is there is only a slight effect of the collapse talks in the numbers setting these things aside, there are many people also, the German Economic Council of economic experts, who say those failed talks should not necessarily dampen the Economic Conditions and the outlook for the economy. Because its quite clear in the end well get some sort of government, whether it takes a month or two or three longer wouldnt be much of a problem for the economy and t