Zealand is set for a shallower recession than previous years. The pandemic may have a lingering impact when it comes to government expenses. We bring you the numbers breaking this hour. Lets get you started with our lets get you started with a quick check of our markets trading at this hour. We had a mixed finish. Stocks, in fact, fell, erasing earlier gains after that selloff intensified. Tech fed chair powell not sure if this economic recovery will continue, that really dampening the moon. Tech communications leading declines. Switch of the board and you can see what small and midcaps did with the russell 2000, outperforming, look at that, up 9 of the close. We had the fed really keeping rates low, helping that entire sector. Pressure, andf that paired most of its losses with treasury yields climbing after chair powell also said the current size of the Asset Purchase Program was appropriate, the 10year yield hanging around the highest levels in almost a week. We also have the 530 yie
The dollar gaining some ground after paring losses after that meeting. Fx sellinging asia off, especially the renminbi after reaching may 2019 highs. There are signs perhaps the currency is being overbought. Expecting boj, boe, and Bank Indonesia today. Those currencies and focus. Watching the bond market as well put it did not get adjustments on qe from the fed. We saw the 10 and 30 yield spike coming off a little now but that did lead to earlier the yield curve steepening and coming off a little. We are watching brent crude as well as wti. Also saw off some of the highs we saw overnight. There is optimism for demand but that is also losing some of those gains right now. Tom lets get you up to speed with some of the first word News Headlines and other stories. President trump says a Coronavirus Vaccine could be just tribute it widely as early as october, contradicting statements by some of his top health officials. The head of the centers for Disease Control and prevention told a Sena
A lot of the focus has been on what mr. Powell said yesterday and what we heard from the fed. We are seeing a bit of Movement Across the board. If you look at some of the european stocks, they are actually retreating after jay powell highlighted uncertainty about the economic rebound. We sought asian shares falling the most in a week. Treasury yields, that curve steepening slightly on wednesday after mr. Powell stopped short of offering specifics on the feds approach to the monthly bond purchases. Lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news. Here is leighann gerrans. Good morning. President donald trump is not happy with what he has heard about the terms of the oracletiktok deal, but says he briefed on the details on till this morning. Sources have told bloomberg that the Top White House officials have raised concerns about the proposal. They say it falls short of Satisfying National Security concerns. President donald trump says a Coronavirus Vaccine could be widely available a
Boris johnson concedes a veto to parliament over his plan to illegally override the brexit treaty. Slumped after accusations of fraud by a short seller. The selloff deepens even if the company rejects the report. Good morning. Welcome to the program. Lets get to breaking news across the bloomberg. Capex andto go to the eu car sales. European collar sales falling 17. 6 in august after a 3. 7 drop in july. This is the story that we are essentially tracking. Europes car sales setback stoke fears over annual drops. This headline was written by our colleagues at bloomberg news. 18 slump snapped a three month streak of improvement. The result may indicate that subsidies are shortlived. We have seen that improvement coming through. Whether that has been a shortlived experience rather than showing underlying resilience, we will have to see. These numbers are not so good. We will watch the automakers as a result of that. Acrosso to the picture European Equity markets. The futures picture. We ar
You can see the mountains and the sky. I love the blue sky. Steve, says its going to be sunny after some of the clouds go away. It looks like theyve already gone away in san jose. One direction fans celebrating the 10th anniversary of when the boy band was formed. We have one person in the newsroom who is all fired up about this. Some other people are too. They have gone on to solo careers. You know that you know one direction. They launched an anniversary website with interactive playlist and more. Because this is the way goes the site crashed within the first few hours of its launch. Speaking of music its a good day to be at a taylor swift fan. Shes releasing the album tonight. She posted on social media the entire video shoot was overseen by medical inspector and everyone involved wore masks and practice social distancing. I think thats going to be a trend as we need to remind people that this was done safely so people dont start asking questions. Look, im glad the music is mrs. Get