About financial repression. This has been widely predicted by a lot of people, deals have to be made. Revenue isnt there, so youve got to go out and buy it. You got to get better. Bigger. Athave not confirmed it here bloomberg, bob but that is a story tom nine tom whats john, lisa and i do is we go to bloomberg experts on this. John farrell, jonathan tice said exactly the same thing. Yeah right, but there are all sorts of reasons why that combination could be the giant bank of the continent of europe. Ritika a lot Jonathan Jonathan a lot to get through including lisa getting excited about tiktok. [laughter] we know lisa does tiktok often with the kids. Youve got a decent excuse. Lisa it is a verb. Do you tiktok or not tiktok . Politics front and center today. Including tiktok and oracle being the likely bidder. We now are talking about brexit. Boris johnson putting his controversial brexit vote to a vote. We will hear about whether or not he will get immunity if you go against the agre
U. K. s chief negotiator rejects a proposal to avoid a no deal. Him ask exclusively with he plans to shore up recovery. A lot of things for markets to grapple with. We have concerns about the record cases in the u. S. A number of states, not just texas, pausing on reopening. The initial jobless claims causing some concerns. Could we see layoffs coming through, even with the reopening . We look ahead to Consumer Spending data in the u. S. , and the news flow yesterday and overnight. On the one hand, given one hand to the banks volcker rule, and dividends. We did see the s p 500 yesterday. Chinese markets are closed. We do see a risk on trade in equities. In terms of her features are positioned, muted, up to 10th of 1 . 1 2 10 of 1 . The bloomberg other index is pretty much unchanged. The 10 year yield is study. For oil is study. For is steady. , its beenor oil tempered with a sharp drop in export plants. It is headed for its highest weekly decline since april. Wall street lenders will s
Moves higher on reports that saudi arabia and russia could cut global output by 10 Million Barrels a day. This comes as the u. S. Cuts its Production Forecast ahead of tomorrows opecplus meeting. Welcome to bloomberg daybreak europe. After the rally and equities yesterday that took them above the march low, the cac 40 and the ftse in europe also into bull market territory. You have to ask yourself whether this is the biggest bull market trapped in history or the shortest bear market on record. When it comes to credit, you have howard marks saying maybe now is time to move from defense into offense. Cautions saying cautious positioning has served its purpose. Waiting for a market bottom. You look at bernanke and he talks about a gradual restart to the economy. Maybe we are all running before we can walk in that regard but it is not going to be the Great Depression according to ben bernanke area good morning. Nejra we were seeing futures negative in the asia session. Seeing some green on
The session. S p futures have been fading, but this after what was the second 4 gain in three days. Safe havens have also been big. Dollaryen, the bestperforming currency. At the same time we see a goal above 1600. 10year treasury yeild continue to hover around 1 . According to that millard have signe says that this is a that the safe haven assets he further weakness ahead. If it was up to him he would say sell into the rallies and there is a large chance maybe we will see a returns debtfree chance of equities from last week. Paul our cross asset reporter in new york, thanks for joining us. China has reported its latest coronavirus numbers, adding 139 new infections and 31 debts. Those figures are inline with the lower trend in recent days. The contrast for the acceleration of an infection rate elsewhere in the world. But get over to our china correspondent Tom Mackenzie in beijing. China is seeing a dramatic drop in infections, but there are doubts about whether we are getting the ful
Countries. We are continuing to see the corporate fallout, we will get more details on airlines. Delta saying it is suspending u. S. To china flying routes through april 30. Asked theirsoft staff to work from home. Amazon as well. The longer it takes to test anybody, the greater the risk they will be spreading the disease. Mike pence saying most cases are mild and they have flulike symptoms. Compared to the tests the u. S. Have carried out, 2000 by the end of last week, compared to 140,000 in south korea. In the u. S. We are seeing 11. Lities rising to this is having a concerning impact on the markets. Lets get to the Market Action. Speaks,president pence we see markets accelerating losses. Now trading at the lowest level since september. The chinese equity come back facing a roadblock. Seng headedg hang for its lowest level of 2020, and s p 500 futures extending the trading session losses, closing down 3. 4 , now off 0. 8 . Earlier futures were moving higher as much as 0. 7 , so quite