Talks continue into today. The s p global is in advanced talks to buy ihs mobile markets in what would be one of the biggest deals of the year. A very warm welcome to the program, everybody. Just under one hour away from the start of cash equity trading for European Equity markets. Good to be back in the studio. Thats have a look at the future is and what they tell us about where we are headed this monday morning. Futures dont look great. European features move to the downside. The Asian Session has been fairly negative. These have been record months for global stocks. Rebalancing at the end of the month perhaps is part of the story here. We will talk to the market live team about this shortly. Lets take a look at what is going on on the gmm. Some of the weakest in the weakness in the Asian Session, down one point 3 on the msci asia pacific. Indonesia under pressure. A host of emerging markets under pressure. China outperforming a little today. The Manufacturing Activity we referenced
Stocks into value encyclicals keep up . Havens are bringing back some ground. The Federal Reserve warns there could be major downside for asset prices if the Economic Impacts of the virus is not mitigated. Will a vaccine or stimulus come soon enough . Welcome to the program, happy tuesday. Picking news from the u. K. , jobs data giving us a picture of the damage done or avoided on the u. K. Economy. The unemployment rate, a three month figure, we get an ,nemployment rate of 4. 8 exactly what was anticipated. It was on the rise. Very cushioned by the furlough scheme over the summer, and the end of september. Where we are on the jobless claims number, we have i go to this because we do not have survey data but it is interesting because it is october data, a little more impactful. The jobless claims change down by 29,800. , that looks lower than the prior period. Some of the data seems an improvement on the previous period. I go to that redhead line on the u. K. Unemployment story. 164,00
Hold onto a recent rebound and global stocks head for a second week of losses. The European Union is giving Boris Johnson until the end of the month to back down on his controversial brexit bill. Cable holds at 1. 28. And citigroup names jane fraser ceo, making her the first woman to run a major wall street bank. She faces the challenge that alluded her predecessors, boosting the banks profitability in line with its rivals. Just under an hour away from the start of cash trading in europe. Lets take a look at where futures are pointing here on the dax, ftse, and euro stoxx 50. Futures all pointing down, although slightly lowered right now, with ftse futures off by about 0. 3 . Take a look at u. S. Futures quickly after the drops we saw yesterday, almost 2 drops. We have a bouncing futures bounce in futures. Anna lets have a look at some data out of the u. K. We are getting monthly gdp data. The u. K. Economy growing by 6. 6 in july. It is almost in line with the estimate of 6. 7 . No su
Cash trade. Here are your top headlines from the bloomberg terminal. Trumpa on the defensive. The president stands by his handling of the coronavirus on day one of the Republican National convention. Says democrats are still blaming America First Nikki Haley Says democrats are still blaming America First. The chinese arrives in europe today. Demandsla merkel answers from russia after it was putin critict the was likely poisoned. We have figures crossing the wire right now. The German Economy shrank 9. 7 in the second quarter. The initial estimate was for a drop of 10 point 1 . This is a second look here, and so it looks like it is a little better than expected. Still, of course, a massive drop , the quarter over quarter figure. The yearoveryear figure is a drop of 11. 3 , so a big drop in the german gdp. That the bloomberg economists expect a rebound in the second half, and of fullyear drop of about 6 for 2020. Lets take a look at what futures are telling us after the new record highs
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