Billion. That is the rumor promising 850 billion. That is the rumor from secretary of the treasury Steven Mnuchin. Crude also recovering. We still have a two handle, all after the vix hit a record monday. Time now for global exchange. We are going to bring you todays market moving news from all around the world. From new york to brussels, washington, and berlin, our bloomberg voices are on the ground with this mornings top stories. Futures trimming early gains this morning, then rallying. Here was more in new york is bloombergs annmarie hordern. Walk us through some of the action so far. Annmarie as you said, we hit limit up on those futures. We then went lower into negative territory, but now back in positive territory. It does look like the bears are in control of this market. The biggest plunge on markets since 1987. In europe, similar story. We were seeing a lot of gains, then went negative. Right now on the stoxx 600, we are about flat. We are seeing some Massive Gains on the lose
Going to me on the phone is chuck grom, Gordon Haskett retail analyst. Joining me in new york is Lauren Goodwin, new york life multiasset per folio strategist, and Brooke Sutherland of bloomberg opinion. Give us a rundown of where walmart fell short. Brooke it was not great all the way around. The fourthquarter came in weaker than expected, and they called out unexpected softness in the weeks leading up to christmas, which is not what you want to hear from a major retailer. That is in line with what weve heard from a number of Different Companies that are not named amazon, which raises a lot of interesting questions about what the Competitive Landscape actually looks like. Also weighing on investors is the 2021 fiscal outlook, which was also weaker than expected on sales and profits. Alix the stock rating is heavy here in premarket. The bad news baked in. Is that is why is that why you have a buy rating here . Chuck weve had a buy rating for a while, not just here on the fourthquarter.
But it turns out that may not be the case. In the big banks launch a earnings season with a bang. Jp morgan reports of most profitable year ever for any u. S. Lender. News from south korea, were the jobless numbers for the month of december. Writings coming in at 3. 8 , which is higher than estimated and higher than the previous month of november. The jobless rate has been creeping up since the month of august and now we are seeing it shoot up to 3. 8 . Although it is worth mentioning that the economy still added 516,000 jobs in december, which is 200,000 more than in the month of november. Conflicting signals right there, but we have seen the government has tried to create jobs, they have tried to support the economy, but we continue to see declines in the manufacturing and retail sectors. Now the jobless rate coming in at higher than expected 3. 8 . Austrian markets have now open for trade. Lets turn to sophie for what to watch. Sydney a flat open in after a fresh record on tuesday.
Moving news from all around the world. Delhi, newg to new jersey and washington come our bloomberg voices are on the ground todays top stories. In asia, you had the pboc lowering the rate it charges on shorterterm loans to lenders. Index added 150 billion yuan into the banking system. Joining us is tom mackenzie. Is this the start of an easing cycle, or a shortterm term liquidity crunch into the new year . Tom it seems like more of a shortterm liquidity crunch. We are looking ahead to january, what it looks like you will get a withdrawal of cash out of the Financial System here of about 450 billion. They take that liquidity out ahead of the chinese new year, which comes in towards the end of january. It does seem like it is more of a seasonal effect. More broadly in the economy, credit has been tightening. We saw today from the pboc was some gradual measures to try and address this queasy liquidity, and a couple of basis points and a sevenday reverse repo as well. About 28ly, you got b
Time now for global exchange, where we bring you todays market moving news from all around the world, from hong kong to berlin, dubai, new york, and washington. Our bloomberg forces are on the ground bloomberg voices are on the ground with todays top stories. Boeing and airbus will go dubaiohead at the annual airshow. We will be talking about may be the first next year, possibly even a bit longer. But in the end, i will repeat the question, the only entities which will sanction the flying of these aircraft are the regulators. It is not boeing. Alix for more, our correspondent joins us on the phone. Walk us through some of the big take away from the dubai airshow and some of the surprises. Reporter thank you. A maxlly, boeing secured , the biggest order after a drop. Version ofse, the the max has been [indiscernible] 8 secured the 737 max from a supplies only character in the uae. [indiscernible] airline, ofsister emirates airline, which makes it the second largest customer for the 737