Weve had confirmation of a monster deal. Ryanair, europes largest carrier, committing to the 737. Maxs. Oing to buy 75 737 this comes on the heels of that grounded,being un after the huge grounding following those two crashes. We will be talking to the two ceos of these companies at the top of the next hour. Alix this is your super bowl. I just want to point that out. Some data dropping right now as well. Ism men effect ring data for november ism manufacturing data for november. Mike mckee has that. Michael it is slightly less than we expected. It comes in lower than the prior month. The services pmi comes in at 55. 9 from 56. 6. Not much of a change. Still growing strongly, which is important because this is a Services Economy. New orders were down a touch, as is the business facility. 51. 5 from 50. 1. In the Manufacturing Survey earlier this week, we saw employment fall into contraction soritory for manufacturing, Rising Services employment is still good news for the auto for the ov
You go to safety. Youre going to buy volatility, yields, bonds, and the dollar. 10 year yield now 75 basis quite a move from just a few days ago. Crude battered, beaten up today. Less demand for those oil prices. Guy absolutely. Lets recap where we are and what is going on. The german chancellor Angela Merkel currently meeting with heads of the german states. We are going to hear from her we think when that meeting wraps. We are probably likely to hear from her as well tomorrow morning. We are also getting Emmanuel Macron a little later on. Both countries moving toward more restrict of lockdowns. Lets get the latest. Maria tadeo joins us from brussels. Theres a lot of ideas floating around. None of this will be official until both Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel speak. The idea is we are moving into something that looks like a fulltime lockdown in the case of the french government, that we understand is seriously considering a onemonth lockdown that would start thursday night, going
The pound is leading the way across the u. S. Dollar. Thes up about 0. 7 against dollar. It is time now for the global exchange, where we bring you todays market moving news around the world. Our bloomberg voices are on the ground with todays top stories. Lets start by going over to hong kong, bracing for more this option after christmas protests led to clashes between demonstrators and riot police. Igh joins us on the telephone. Give us a sense of what is in store. It sounds like theres more planned for friday and going into the new year. Karen theres protests planned for this evening in an area of the city that has seen some of the worst protests over the past six months, and again over the weekend in an area near the chinese border. All of this is leading up to a day, rally on new years led by organizers that have led some of the biggest protests since this began. The level of anger we are going to be seeing at the clashes willen protesters escalate, and we are looking for what this
Time now for global exchange. We bring you todays market moving news from all around the world. Joining us from hong kong is enda curran, from saudi arabia we have in dipaolo, emma chandra from london, and bill faries in new york. A chinese trade delegation calls off plan to visit to american farms, according to people familiar with the matter, but the chinese official says the cancellation isnt indication of a negative turn in talks, saying negotiations on the agricultural area went very well, and the two sides held throw in candid communication. Enda curran joins us from hong kong. Give us the latest. Enda it does sound as though signals from the chinese side are very much that they want to manage expectations on track that they are making some progress. We had the Commerce Ministry on saturday making the point that talks with midlevel officials were quite constructive, and colleagues in washington are reporting that the next level of trade talks will happen around october 10, when c
Year not beating estimates. David it looks like their stock is down in the premarket about 2. 5 . Home depot before you so rudely interrupted me alix david is funny today. David not very funny. Per depot beat earnings share, a little light on revenue. They basically blamed a lot on lumber disinflation, basically. They are warning a lot about china. One is how they want to eat up the lumber costs, a 21 drop in the cost of lumber. At the same time, you have continued slowing homebuilding, but theres a lag for that. Home depot not necessarily feeling the full effect of that could weakness. Because of the price of lumber, overall sales are down. They took it down for the year. There estimates went down. Ls, theykoh reaffirmed their adjusted Earnings Guidance on that comp sales mess. We will dig into retail more over the next couple of hours. The equity markets looking a little bit soggy here, with s p Futures Party much flat. Dow jones off by about five. It doesnt feel like theres a lot of