The former California Attorney general because the first africanamerican woman and first south Asian American woman on the ticket. Big revamp. They will exit all noneuropean Corporate Banking activity, and they forecast longlost loanloss provisions at 3 billion euros for the year. We will speak with the cfo of abn amro. Let me get to some of the breaking news we are getting here from the u. K. We have u. K. Gdp numbers coming through. We are looking for the month of june and for the quarterly figure. We have seen a rebound in the month of june at a. 7 . That was 8. 7 . That was ahead of the estimates. Thats the rebound for june. A rebound was expected. Quarter coming in at 20. 4 . That was with an estimate of around 21 . If you look at the year on your number, its similar. Its the extent of the losses that we saw in terms of Economic Activity in the Second Quarter. We look at things for a year on your number. Officially what we already knew because of the u. K. In the session. Saw the
Bloomberg surveillance, im Francine Lacqua in london. There is movement on the pound because what we heard from the boe. It has been absolutely amazing trying to figure out exactly the premise at which mr. Bailey is expecting the economy to do. We understand the bank of england is expanding stimulus as soon as next month to help the battered u. K. Economy. He once again reiterated that there is an unwavering pledge, which basically means that the market is taking it as further boe action possibly being imminent. Set and of england will asked if necessary to deliver the monetary and Financial Stability to deliver longterm Financial Stability. We are speaking to governor bailey later on. Know whether that means we have negative rates next, but certainly to have an impact on euro. I thing we have a data board for you. Is an actionfilled Currency Central Bank kind of day as we also heard of a lowered benchmark rate from norges bank. Lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news. Top t
Hotel giants see room revenue plunge 80 the central bank said they only answer to the court not the government the call to justify its Bond Purchase Program significant loss of output has become inevitable. That is the message from the governor andrew bailee forecasting a 14 drop in gdp. Sterling rising as the bank of england predicts a sharp recovery in 2021 caller expect a recovery much more than the pull back from the financial crisis. After the british telco cut its dividend looking to shake up its sector a warm welcome to street signs. Lets get to our top data point, chinese exports jumped by 3. 5 in april as reopened factories in the country moved to fulfill back log of orders. With a 2 fall in the month. The biggest decline since 2016 the trade surplus grew to 45. 3 billion. Far above expectations how meaningful is this jump in exports . Is it reflective of rebust gains or concentrated in particular sectors . Even after that beat . Export numbers in april, the con k consensus im
Shortly. What do you observe this morning, nejra . Nejra im observing headlines coming through right now from andrew bailey, in the core with journalists he is having right now, that it is clearly a commitment to take action, saying the qe program is highly aggressive and appropriately is so. Also saying there is no evidence the boe is targeting any part of the yield curve, but what is really interesting is we did see a little bit of differing views in terms of the decision today. There were policymakers that wanted to extend qe today, but the reaction to the fact we have had no change in policy today is coming. Analysts say we will get more qe in june or august or both, and the pound catching a bid off the back of the boe forecasting the vshaped recovery. That is what i find staggering. A 15 rebound in 2021. Tom i think you are dead on in that, nejra. There is no question what six out within all the excel spreadsheets and the heroic language at this moment, really with depressionera e
More work from home. It is thursday, may 7. You are watching Worldwide Exchange here on cnbc good morning, good afternoon, good evening. Welcome. Im Brian Sullivan thank you for joining us on this 75th anniversary of ve day 1945, world war ii and europe ended. Looking at the market and your money. Setting up their thursday morning. We are seeing futures with potentially a rebound in gain. Getting to more on that in one second this would also regain like we said what we lost yesterday. Up nearly 3 this week alone weekly jobless claims are out. They are expected to show another 3 million americans have filed for unemployment. We are nearing 30 Million People out of work. Markets wont move on that it is widely expected. Obviously a difficult number to hear we have breaking news on United Health the health insurancer announcing it will provide 1. 5 billion premium rebates. Joining many Auto Insurance Companies Offering rebounds as people are simply not consuming their products right now we