Breakthrough could happen any minute. Good morning, everyone. This is bloomberg surveillance. I am Francine Lacqua here in london. The focus of courses on the markets, because we are expecting a lot of earnings, banks, roche coming out, and later, u. S. Stocks. Poundlso looking at the on the back of the selfimposed brexit deadline. If you look at some of the earnings, they reignited a bit of concerns about the number of cost cuts and job cuts. Time, you can see european stocks down 1. 7 . Now lets get to the bloomberg first word news. Here is leighann gerrans. Hi, leighann. Leighann good morning, francine. Disappointed by the slow brexit trade talks, and a call with eu leaders, he said he will decide after this wiis key summit if it is worth continuing to work for a deal. He previously indicated the u. K. Will walk away if no agreement by october. Germany is still optimistic a deal can be reached. Always the right way to discount questions that can be difficult, and sometimes at the la
Good morning, everyone. This is bloomberg surveillance. I am Francine Lacqua here in london. The markets are really focused today in the u. S. , that second wave, we were debating on whether we could call it a second wave. Big resurgence of cases. Alsos are down, futures down. Rates, but also because jay powell talking about the economic a coverage. Rebounding from the losses we saw yesterday. Gold actually holding after most of yesterdays gains. Now lets get to the bloomberg first word news in london with dani burger. Hi, dani. Ani hi francine. ,californias hospitalizations are the highest in nearly a month. According to Johns Hopkins university, the number of confirmed cases have top 2 million. The government made a string of failures and is handling of the coronavirus crisis. Executivemedical spoke about the decisions at the coronavirus briefing. It put Boris Johnson standing next to him on the defensive. Johnsons that is still too early to judge the nations response. Just eat take
Interview with Michael Oleary is coming. Good morning. Also happy friday. It has been a long week. This is what your markets are doing and a lot of folks about what we heard from a we heard about will we heard from the European Central bank. We continue our earnings outlook. Was tech yesterday companies. This is what i am looking at, dollars up. U. S. Futures are down. Treasuries advancing. If you look at trading, holidays across many major markets. Gdpecb coming out with calls saying it could be it could rebound. Of course, this year that gdp could shrink between 5 and 12 . Year will be next a lot better. We will have the more forecast. Figureseuro area gdp being published. We will delve deeper country by country and give you an update. Lets get to new york city with the first word news. Viviana we begin with the u. S. Federal reserve expanding the scope of its main Street Lending program. Businesses with up to 15,000 employees will be eligible. Expandingl bank is its paycheck protect
Pricing a 40 chance of a cut. Will draghi he forced to move . Boris and the brexiteers. The u. K. Prime minister packs the cabinet with loyalists. With earnings season heating up, we talk to the ceos of unileve r, roche, astrazeneca and anglo american, all within the next hour. A busy morning. Matt very busy. Less than half an hour from the european open. As we waitat bunds for the ecb decision. Yesterday, down to a record low for the german 10year debt yield, at one point 40 basis points. Right now we are at 38. I believe the mliv question of the day is, how low can they go . We will talk about that today. How high can stocks go . Futures continue to rise across europe today. We have had a pretty decent run now. Cac futuresup 0. 5 , gaining 0. 9 and ftse futures bringing up the rear, only up 0. 3 . Maria roche raised its sales. Rowth view twosales company cites its treatments as main drivers. The company ceo said to investors that hes excited for the approval of new cancer treatments.