Forecast. We will bring you that interview with the ecb president. And the ax falls again at goldman. The bank prepares to cut jobs for the second time in three months as the focus returned cost cutting. Very good morning, everybody. Welcome to the program. Lots of breaking news to get to. Lets have a look at some of these numbers coming through. Have the numbers coming through from the shipping business which transports 1 5 of the worlds containers so really interesting insight into the way the Global Economy is spinning and the shipping industry in particular. We are getting the numbers through. We already heard from them last night about how they were upgrading their guidance, raising their fullyear guidance so that already sets a positive tone. They said they will initiate a new Share Buyback around 10 billion danish krone. That program will run for 15 months. E will be speaking to the ceo that is the conversation at 7 30 u. K. Time, so in around 25 minutes time. Let me get to some
Market, that is the title. Retail earnings rolling out this morning. Economic data showing customers are slowing their spending. October retail sales data shows the slowest growth in about six month. Joining us to break it down is michael mckee, Bloomberg Economic and policy correspondent. Michael we call it getting whacked upside the head here in the colonies. In april, just a 0. 3 gain for the month of october, down from 1. 6 in the month of october, with the pendant was at its worst in april. Only five of 13 categories rose last month, compared with 11 of 13 in the prior month. October andm november seems to be getting worse. Jp morgan economists report that chase card spending has fallen notably in the first part of this month. It is, as they say, really dropping off,. That suggests a weaker month ahead. Who knows what will happen with black friday, if anybody cares about that anymore, but it is a clear americans are cutting back. The actual results come a much less meaningful than
For thanksgiving. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to bloomberg surveillance. I am Francine Lacqua here in london. The markets are little bit on the move. On the one hand, we have a vaccine and encouraging news from the pharmaceutical companies. I am looking forward to catching up with the roche chief executive on the treatment out there. On the other hand, we get infections rising in the latest one from the cdc, saying lees try not to travel for tryksgiving please not to travel for thanksgiving. U. S. Futures are actually down. The dollar edging up somewhat. If you look at, you know, health and industrial shares, they seem to be rallying here in the u. K. , and i want to show you yields on the spanish bond. I think we will have that board shortly, so we will bring you that, but you can see in general, it is a twoway system for what the market is looking at. Now lets get to the bloomberg first word news in london with leighann gerrans. Hi, leighann. Leighann hi, francine. Over in georgi
Billionaires index. Raise 30 5ting to billion in hong kong and shanghai. Aviation in australia. Alice springs emerges as the ideal place to store passenger planes left idle by the coronavirus. Shery. Shery breaking news out of south korea. We are getting the preliminary thirdquarter gdp numbers and we are seeing the quarter on quarter the economy has grown 1. 9 , which is beating expectations of 1. 3 and this is also coming after its first recession since 2003. We saw a contraction of more than 3 in the previous Second Quarter. Youre on your, still a contraction of 1. 3 but its a much smaller contraction than was expected and it is also a contraction that has eased from the previous quarter. We have seen growth and strength when it comes to south koreas exports and manufacturing industries. Thirdquarter manufacturing actually growing 7. 6 quarter on quarter when you look at the details in the gdp numbers. We have seen the rebound in china. South koreas biggest trading partner helping i
Shares of boeing helping lead the dow higher following positive comments from a top european safety regulator about the future of the 737 max. More on that in just a moment. Boeing is up about 3 . The s p up around a percent, close to that at the moment, 59 minutes left, sara. Coming up on todays show, shares of Kansas City Southern they have held up relatively well this year ticking lower on the back of earnings today we will talk to the railroads ceo about those results. Plus we will talk about the impact the coronavirus is having on the world of sports with the ceo of a Testing Company they test for big 10 and pac12. The company is quidel. Their stock be that flying 58 minutes left of trade, mike santoli, megger theel and joining us to talk about boeing today is sheila kaiialo. Mike, the market strong. A gentle rise the market found its footing for the second straight day around the time the european markets closed in the late morning we have been trudging higher since then the s p