Coronavirus cases continue to surge. Latin america sees infections climb. Beijing cancels hundreds of flights amid a new outbreak. Welcome to daybreak europe. We are not seeing any clear catalyst for the markets as we get going today. Overnight, we have seen a mixed picture in asia. Unchangedndex is overall. There are still the second wave concerns in the market. Yesterday, we saw some light volumes in the u. S. And ended unchanged. Not getting a lot of direction in futures. Euro stocks futures treading water. We are heading for a weekly gain for Global Equities. Resuming gains for this week is what we are looking at. The 10year treasury yield is unchanged on a 70handle. Both the dollar and the yen are headed for weekly gains. That says something about the risk off tilt we might be heading for. Oil in the green today and also looking to resume weekly gains. Aat is after some signs of comeback in demand. We got some commentary on that this week. We have some breaking Corporate News to g
Big stories here, francine, the idea in america, the spread of the virus, just getting ready of this hour of bloomberg surveillance, you hear the sirens constant in the background here in upper East New York city. In particularne is of focus on louisiana, and the other issue, francine, picking up the debris of all the those factorsof is able market with a vix of 63 a bull market with a vix of 63. Francine yes, we will have a lot more on the market. First, lets get straight to new york city and bloomberg first word news. Here is viviana hurtado. Viviana we begin with a major change in tone overnight between the u. S. And china. President donald trump and xi jinping pledging in a phone call to cooperate, this in the fight against the coronavirus. This comes after weeks of rising tensions between the two nations. President trump tweeting, we are working closely together. Relations between the two sides are on a critical moment. Now the u. S. Press surpassing china now the u. S. Surprising
Rollout of disney next week as well. Gap is down 7. 5 after the announcement that the ceo will step down. Change of any business might take longer. Guy here in europe, bit like the United States, moving lower on this trump headlines, and then bounced back up again. We are still negative on the day. The euro down as well. The dollar has been catching a bid today. What has been interesting is the bigger reaction in the bond market. Earlier today, italy was down for five basis points. Down by one basis point sorry, up by one basis point. We have probably seen a bigger reaction in bond markets then in equity markets, which is interesting. Its been a big week. Theres been a big selloff this week for btps. They are up by 21, 22 basis points this week. Lets talk about these markets, try to figure out where we are as we wrap things up. Erik nielsen, Unicredit Group chief economist, joins us out of berlin. How critical is it to the markets, to this trade deal, that we see a rollback of tariffs
Nevine we could go with all three drivers, but if you are looking at the dow on track to close at a record a lot of Health Insurance stocks are helping take us there. Absolutely incredible the moves happening in these stocks. Theyve all really underperformed all year long because of all of what is going on in washington the rebate rule dismissal is really a very, very big deal because it would have made pbms extinct in the medicare world. Are you a buyer i am. I have been buying United Health care because the stock had fallen Something Like 25 from its december high, but even now down 13 from its highs. Trades at about 18 times forward system the real name to own, the levered one would be cigna, trading at a 40 discount to anthem, absurd, and they have the express skrip as a pbm the stocks are attractive, though and very under owned thats the real key here. Big moves in yields, ten year at 211 lots with stephanie to come over the next hour. Focus in on the big stories, bob is on record
The major market open. Shery the top news this hour, mix earnings and data, treasury as well as the government prepares to increase issuance of the longer end. Haidi donald trump indicted on alleged conspiracy to overturn the 2020 elections. Shery here is what u. S. Futures are looking like in asia, a little bit of pressure, this is after we saw a mixed ending with the dow getting slightly up, the s p 500 falling from the high we have seen in 16 months. This is ahead of the jobs data out of friday, we have job openings in june below lowest since april 2021. We are watching the bloomberg dollar index after the resilient labor market data showing that we are now on a three week high with emergingmarket currencies on the others pressured across the board. Oil prices trading at around the two dollars a barrel level in the asian session, we are saying the upside of. 8 percent. We also have heard the u. S. Is delaying a refilming of the emergency stock files a refueling of the emergency stoc