Headwinds remain. Welcome to bloomberg surveillance. I am Annmarie Hordern, in for Francine Lacqua in london. Fall to 46. 2, the forecast was for 46. 7. Manufacturing pmi 54. 4, forecasted 53. This,e were expecting given what happened last month, and france and london, and they were just talking to anna about this. The risk to the Service Sector employmentek, 75 of in the eurozone, so the services are where things will be much softer. A bit of a friday feeling on the euro stoxx index, especially for banks and autos. We are poised for a weekly decline, the worst in a month. S p 500 futures have been drifting between negative and positive territories the entire morning. Eurodollar 118, a little bit from euro versus the dollar. That is your market check. Now lets get around the world with first word news in london with leighann gerrans. Hi, leighann. Leighann good morning, annmarie. A second wave of Coronavirus Infections gains momentum. Told 46 Million People to stay home after 9 00 p. M
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
We spoke this morning and we dont know how much they are paying for this vaccine supply. We dont know whether they will have the right vaccine so many questions on how administrations and i ministers at access to vaccines for their citizens. Tom the virus dynamics are just particularry, make note of the glide path of texas and south carolina. In new york city with our first word news here is ritika gupta. InsistsMitch Mcconnell that businesses, schools, and other organizations be protected against coronavirus lawsuits which is talking down talks over a new stimulus package. Changes inding that Liability Law be included in the legislation. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says that shows he is not serious about a deal. Federal reserve policy makers will focus on how to jumpstart a rebound from the recession. Almost certain to keep their benchmark rate the same. The fed will make a statement at 2 00 p. M. New york time. Jerome powell will make comments 15 minutes later. Amazon Ceo Jeff Bezos p
And we expect a normalization of that. But you need to remember as well that in our case, we have been working to stabilize, grow the franchise, recover some market share, so what we are pleased to see is that underneath that sort of outperformance in the market environment that we have been in, we have seen really good franchise stabilization traction , client engagement, improvement in clients. We think that bodes well for the future. You are expecting slightly higher revenue for the full year. Not too conservative now given what we have seen in the first half . It it would be james would be a normalization but i think an improvement on last years second half. Again, especially in our businesses, where a year ago, we were going through a restructuring and there was some uncertainty around our people and franchise, so with that now behind us, we see momentum in the core business, and we would like to see a secondhalf performance well ahead of last years second half, but we will see ho
A lot of the folks just focus on earnings and what we heard overnight out of the u. S. A lot of banking as well. Later on we will speak to the astrazeneca chief executive asking about vaccines or medicine that will work in treating covid19. If you look at the markets and the pressure we see on the dollar, probably one of the biggest stories out there. 0. 2 ,an stocks gaining eurodollar 1. 08. Lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news in new york city. Italy, the with nation seeing its delivering an out of cycle downgrade, one level above junk. The timing of the move may catch some investors off guard. It wasnt scheduled for review until july the 10th. But the outlook made fears of a future cut to noninvestment grade. Over the u. K. , Boris Johnsons top aide crest scientists for a lockdown. He swayed the discussion towards faster action. Number 10 denied the political advisor influence the committee of experts saying its appropriate for aides to sit in on the meeting and ask qu