Dozens of earnings. Softbank. Cus on nextn move it on to our terminal chart that shows softbank. They have said they will buyback 12 of their shares. Up more than 40 percent yeartodate for softbank. Dollar has been firmly in focus, given what we have been hearing from the fed. The index is down. 4 . Looking for a fifth week of decline for the u. S. Dollar. Gold is up. You have seen a little bit of softness towards the end of the session. Can it break above 2000 and stay there . Crude is at 40 a barrel, up. 8 . There is concern. Is a concern in terms of the pandemic. Point. Own one basis look at lets have a the first word news, kicking things off with the global coronavirus case levels. Passing the 17 million mark. All out with a Record Number of deaths. California had its second deadliest days deadliest day. Texas, hospitalizations dropped for a ninth straight day. Almost 10,000 people in the u. K. A earlystagen vaccine. Almost 1000 new infections in germany. The australians have a cas
We are looking at currencies, strength coming through for the yuan. Dollar weakness is a big factor. Of the planthe back signed off or agreed to on 0. 1 . Us, the euro is up weaknessollar again, down 0. 2 . Hade is still value to be when it comes to chinas bonds, 2. 96 is the yield the. Is the yield. Gold is closing in on 1900 an its spot price. Future is pointing to 1900 in the near future. Il down 0. 7 demandweakness is a factor. Rishaad lets get some sense in all of this. Joining us is frank benzimra, head of asia equity strategy, societe generale. Thank you for joining us. How was your strategy evolving . The last couple of months europe become bullish on , and here politics is playing an Important Role in closing the gap in terms of undervaluation. In asia we have been reinforcing the view on hong kong liquidity. Our remaining strategy is on china. Is that all down to this Recovery Fund and what that presents in terms of a more united cents in europe and the eu itself . A relation
Rates on hold at one quarter of 1 . The rbnz saying they are going to be they are committed to reviewing their quantitative easing program. The policy committee reached consensus on this decision. They are saying they are prepared to provide additional stimulus as is necessary. All the economists we talked to the benchmark Interest Rate in new zealand staying on one quarter of 1 . Little to no reaction on the new zealand daughter new Zealand Dollar. 64 u. S. Cents. Tom lets get some of the views from our guests at the bloomberg summit. Sharing their views on the prospects of a recovery from the pandemic. I do not think anybody can be confident with the kind of uncertainties that prevail. I would put say is my odds on a v shaped recovery. How we are going to share the burden in a credible way. It is not just financial and fiscal support. It is also regulatory charges we have undertaken to support the economy. As recently as early april, i saw china could only i thought china could only
Seeing whippy action. Lots of movement happening all over the place. We are going to take you through all the news with global exchange, the market moving news from all around the world. From hong kong to new york to washington, our bloomberg voices are on the ground with all of this mornings top stories. Announced newj measures to pump liquidity into the markets to ensure financial stability. Joining bs enda curran. What do we see joining me is in the current joining me is enda curran. What do we see . They bought around 100 billion worth of stock funds and came out with an emergency statement making it clear that they will do whatever it takes liquidity ande is stability in the markets. The boj actions are flecked growing concern about dollar reflect actions growing concern about dollar shortage. We have seen australia pump in a lot of money, and china centralbank top off today with the rrr rate cut. That is all about freeing up funds for banks to lend more to companies that need it
Manus a warm welcome to bloomberg daybreak europe. Do you believe that phase one trade deal between the u. S. And china is the most momentous day in trade history . Those are the words of lighthizer. Bank of america, a cracking note out this morning. Get ready. It will be frontloaded. 5 up on the s p 500. To e old rates are going bang up. Nejra how worried should we be about the potential curse of phase one and done . We have seen a risk rally. The phase one trade deal for china but also the u. K. Election, but the question this morning, as we sit here going into 2020 becomes is the absence of some bad news going to be enough for risk assets or do we actually need more good news to come along . Manus indeed. To the markets. There are the believers, the doubters, and there are a course those people that have yet to be convinced. The yuan is truly one of the believers. We come off that break point down to one of the biggest 1 ony drops moving by friday. What does it take to rerate you wa