News from california yesterday and have been. ,olatility is a little elevated and we have got a really negative u. K. Two year yield. We were below japan a little bit early on. Slightly better retail numbers, but i have to say a bleak forecast coming out of the obra. Even the medium one i do not think it was positive. What are we going to be talking about . We will be talking commodities. We will chat oil and a little bit of copper and gold. Francisco blanch will be joining us a little bit on a little bit later on, and he is the head of the Global Commodities research at the bank of america. His dash cam weighing in on those commodities commodities. Fargo, citibank and jp morgan with jp morgan the outperform or. What stood out to you. It was something that one of our guests said earlier, validating the thesis that the strong get stronger, banks like jp morgan can use their skill to build up the dominance. In terms of how the shares are performing it is a mix. Jp morgan all the loan gai
Money away for loan loss reserves. Alison Williams Joins me now. What were some of your takeaways. [no audio] actually, we are still working on her audio, so lets go to Annmarie Hordern first. Part of what we heard was from fatih birol of the iea talking about how bad demand would be, despite any production deal. Annmarie some seriously drastic headlines out of the iea. The other part is what they are talking about what this means for storage. It is testing the logistic capacity to the limit. On the demand side, they see april serious demand destruction, down 29 Million Barrels a day. For the year, what that means is 9. 3 Million Barrels a day, the worst we have ever seen on record in terms of demand. What the opec cuts probably did was maybe pull us back a little bit from the brink, but not doing that much. You can see that with what is talking about in storage. They say that could be exhausted by the middle of the year. All of this putting downward pressure on the future prices. Wti
Moving news from all around the world from frankfurt, to london, taiwan, our bloomberg two iowa, our bloomberg voices are on the ground. Commodities leading the charge for the quarter. Here for more is bloombergs sonali basak. Income net interest coming in above analyst expectations is a great thing for bank of america because it shows the bank is doing what a bank should do. That is loan growing, deposits growing. Investment banking mergers and acquisition fell short than expectations, but we are seeing that across the board. We want to see confidence among corporate clients now that we know consumers are holding steady. Alix what were some of the worries through the quarter . Sonali the expenses were up, but bank of america was a costcutting story. Something we are hearing from all of the banks is the propensity to keep investing because the cycle is getting competitive at this moment. Alix thank you very much. Now i want to go to the latest on trade. President trump is ready to sign
Bit despite news of increased inventories. For the global exchange, where we bring you market moving news from around the world. Are bloomberg voices are on the ground with this mornings top stories. Da tart with e curran. Had positive signs since sunday, when the government said they would push through new oversight of ip protection, and they want to punish those who are guilty of ip theft. That was followed by some details in one of the state newspapers that china is also looking at the oversight of any trade agreement with the u. S. In ways of ensuring that any deal isnt limited. Then we had the news yesterday from the Commerce Ministry talking about reaching consensus on core issues. The moonbeams it is been nothing but positive in recent days, matching what is coming out of washington, though we dont yet have any further details on when or if an agreement might be signed. We have your minder did have a reminder on the economy when profit for industrial firms dropped almost 10 from
Some pessimism over in europe. The bond rally echoing what we saw yesterday in europe. Yields down by about four basis points. Bank earnings are kicking off this morning. Beats onp reporting everything except equities and trading. Sonali they did not be dont Equities Trading, but they did beat on fixed income, so that is good. They want to be the number one Equities Trading shop, so not beating there is not a great sign. Average loan growth a little sluggish. Jamie dimon put some notes of caution in the initial statement, saying that Consumer Sentiment might be strong, but generally a lot of weakening sentiment here. In the initial statement, they dont give the outlook for Net Interest Income. However, if they revise downward once again, they already revised downward last quarter, that could be a big deal as well. Alix Net Interest Income is 14. 23 billion this last quarter. Walk us through what we did now. Billion . Ed it to 57 to 57. 5he revised it they revised it from 57. 5 billion