U. S. And european stocks are hit by the worst rout since 1987, as the panic takes hold of markets. The today session offer brief relief . 5 trillion, the u. S. Central bank offers a huge liquidity, at least nominally, injection into the treasury market after the ecb stimulus measures fall short of combing investors. And delaying the worst. The u. K. Abandons its containment strategy as efforts to push back the peak of the virus takes precedence. New york city declares a state of emergency. We are just under an hour away from the start of cash trading across europe after we saw yesterday, the biggest drop for the stoxx 600 of all time, doubledigit losses yesterday in terms of the dax, more than 12 . The ftse mid was down 17 . Now we see a mixed picture in terms of futures. Dax futures are still down. Investors are still waiting for some kind of comment out of berlin. In terms of the fiscal help that Christine Lagarde, shirley wants, the market wants to hear about it to, and Angela Merk
We are live on the ground. Good morning, welcome to bloomberg daybreak europe. Just after six 00 a. M. In london. Lets go to hong kong and get the latest on the protests. Stephen engle is standing by on the ground. Great to have you with us. The debate on the bill has been delayed, give us an update. Stephen good to see you. The debate and the dialogue on the bill in the building behind me it has been postponed until down a littles more. Some of the protesters with masks and goggles and paraphernalia rallied yesterday, and were repelled by the police force, including teargas and rubber bullets and pepper spray. Some of them came here this morning, they congregated around us and were waiting to see if the Legislative Council would have the reading of the controversial bill. It turns out they have decided not to meet today or tomorrow, they saw that as a moral victory. They have not gone home. They have retreated out of the main street here, and we have one protester wanting to jump into
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