Cramer, david faber coming to you live from separate locations this morning its risk off following those onemonth highs from yesterday empire and retail sales for march were abysmal the worst on record. Below Expectations Oil below 20 earnings from citi, goldman, bank of america showed the major banks are, as expected, bracing for a wave of defaults some more than others when you look at the percentage of the total loan book at jpm and city. Jpm is the one that people decided wasnt that great. When i look at it, i think it had to do with tone. Jpmorgan, the crucial lines were something that were uttered by jamie, which were, look, may is not realistic. It will be june, july. The problem with basing everything on that is that you dont realize these banks are much more much better prepared than we thought you have a citi thats down from its tangible book value, its actual youll have multiples that are incredibly low because people feel the dividends are in question yet you have a tremend
Now conversations continue with airlines regarding their potential participation no thats of course what. Joining us now to discuss is boom bust cohost and investigative journalist ben swan ben thank you so much for joining us today you know yesterday when we saw the reports of this all coming out it was interesting to see how it was written as the airlines have accepted this bailout theyve theyve done a gracious moment and accepted it but im going to start with the issue of repayment so so far we know that about 30 percent of these bailout funds will be in loans and the other 70 percent will be in grants why exactly is that. Thats where the acceptance part of this story comes from because the airlines didnt want to have 70 percent of these come in the form of grants and 30 percent in the form of loans they wanted 100 percent of them to be grants we dont have to pay any of this back because were so important to america and to the economy of course they didnt get that deal so thats why
Protesters brought the citys financial district to a standstill. Teargas disrupting the commute for a second consecutive day. Executive carrie lam says she still hopes district elections will be held as scheduled. We still hope we can hold the elections and try our very best to do so because it is an important election to respect and safeguard, but theres the issue of safety in order, so we have to work hard to satisfy these two requirements. Alix 20 meet on the phone from hong kong is karen joining me on the phone from hong kong is karen leigh. What happens next . Karen carrie lam urging order, and at the same time, we had two days of really jarring images and clashes, especially here in the financial hub. These arent images weve seen before. This feels like a bit of an escalation. This is something that led police this afternoon to warn that the city was on the brink of total breakdown. Carrie lam talking about how she still hopes district elections will be held in a couple of weeks.
Now out of germany. I have my screen here on the bloomberg terminal. We can see the number coming in a little bit better than expected. The business number at 94. 6, the survey was for 94. 5, and that is better than the 94. 3 that was the prior meeting. The expectations worse than expected, this is where we thought we might see the disappointment. Indeed we got it. We were looking for 92 and we got 91. 3. Course lower. This is better than the estimate of 96. 9. But bottom line is the is atations down at 90. 8 disappointing reading. Lets look at what is going on in markets, a little data check, the stoxx 600 is up 0. 2 . It has been up all morning long. We even have the dax showing gains, 0. 1 . The cac is up as well as the. Tse, 0. 2 we see the individual indexes rising. The euro falling a little bit in dollar terms. Down . 48 a barrel. Crude coming down as we see the u. N. General assembly get ready to hear Donald Trumps speech later today. The u. S. 10 year yield also coming down as
We are getting green on the screen and european equities. Investors are focused on the trade narrative as weve heard from President Trump that a deal with china could be closer than we think. We saw u. S. Stocks jumped the most in weeks. The 10 year yield has jumped some nine basis points moving down three today. Perhaps a bid for safe haven along with risk on trade and the dollar index caught a strong bit yesterday as well. Was that to do with concerns around the impeachment inquiry . Could it been something to do with Charles Evans . The dollar is holding on to that strength in the session. Lots of dynamics to digest. Coming up among dont miss our exclusive conversations with the ceos of xo and ab inbev as well tesco, ab inbev, as well as spains Prime Minister. Boris johnson came out fighting in his first appearance back in the commons. He refused to resign or even apologize saying the Supreme Court was wrong. He challenged his opponents to trigger an election, accusing them of cowar