Assessment of Global Energy demand. Saudi arabia is cutting output to the lowest level since 2002. As mentioned, we are looking at the start of the trading session. Thats get over to Sophie Kamaruddin in hong kong. We are expecting moves to the downside. U. S. Futures holding onto a three day decline in kiwi stocks. The index is off by about. 33 and markets are priced in new zealand to join the negative rate club. Amid calls for more stimulus around the world, we are waiting to see if china will cut the rate for the third time this year as the country grapples with a week start and millions of unemployed. Emerging from lockdown, the global stock rallies are sputtering. Risk is wave infection being weighed alongside the threat of business failures and job losses becoming permanent. Beyond that, the aussie dollar is bearish and ahead of the april jobs report. It is seen with a deeper impact. President trump says fed chairman jay powell is doing a good job but disagrees with him on negati
Lose social distancing measures in indonesia, perhaps having a slower recovery. Were still seeing gains. The sti also snapping out of a whole week of losses we saw yesterday, where every day last week was in the red. But we do see singapore the most affected nation in the nation region in the nation. The nikkei 225, watching the boj, a lot of focus on bond buying. Will they scrapped that ¥80 trillion target and launch that unlimited qe . The yen has been satellite steady ahead of the policy decision. Were watching wan related assets given the speculation of kim jonguns health. We still see strength to the korean won. The berlin be indeed were maybe were at 64 u. S. Cents right now. Ceo market calls with the of dalton in about 10 minutes. Lets get first word news now with Corinna Mitchell in new york. Corinna confirmed coronavirus cases around the world is approaching 3 million, according to bloomberg and john hopkins university. More than 2000 people have died so far, the u. S. Talkin
A surprisenk posts profit after saying it made below the ratio target. The ceo joins us, dont this it. Dont miss it. Manus a little bit later on, joining us at 7 30 a. M. That isravity defying, the word used. You look at the numbers. Of 66 million, and revenue comes in at 6. 4 billion, beating the number of 5. 7. Undoubtedly, those are good numbers. They do warn that we might have a little bit of a problem. Nejra of course, we will get the full details scheduled for april 29. I do wonder why they said they may modestly and temporarily dip cet1 the target for the ratio. Otherwise, markets very much focused on the gradual reopening of economies around the world. You had a report from the who over the weekend saying that if you get coronavirus, it might not make you immune to new infections. He wonder if the market might be underestimating the prospect of early opening. In japan, after what we heard from the boj overnight. U. S. And european futures powerfully higher. We did see some gree
Alphabet, apple, companies in the s p 500. Folks are going to get a real snapshot. Aey are really going to get much better sense of how these Companies View the next couple quarters. It will be interesting to see whether investors are willing to look past those quarters and whatever help they may have for some type of recovery. George, global macro strategist at Bespoke Investment group. A lot of folks are focusing on the Consumer Spending side of the equation. Once we are all free to move about the cabin, so to speak, we are going to go back to spending money, buying things. The other side of this equation is something that wasnt in good shape prior to covid19, business spending. Do you anticipate any material rebound from businesses sometime this year . Depend on is going to the economy. I cant say theres no chance of a rebound. I think tracking how Business Investment evolves is going to be somewhat of a challenge. Acts isance, oil cap going to fall dramatically. It is a much smalle
Medical team to north korea. We are pulling together the latest claims. Shery lets get you started with how markets are trading. U. S. Futures are extending gains we saw on friday. Last week we saw Downside Pressure across the markets. The s p 500 was led higher by consumer stocks. President trump signing the 484 billion spending package including money for small businesses. Congress has doled out 3 trillion in that package. Upsideinue to see the with u. S. Futures. Joining the intel ranks of those companies that are now opting to withdraw fullyear guidance. There seeing oil falling as session begins in asia, after the wti hovered around 17 a barrel. And we are going towards the opec output cuts that begin may 1. It is all about the latest headlines on coronavirus cases around the world. They are approaching 3 million according to Data Collected by Johns Hopkins and bloomberg. Has the state saying it death rates have continued to fall and now at the fewest in a month. This as Governor