Im Francine Lacqua in london. These are your markets. 0. 4 . An markets down a lot of the market put a position that the economy and a lot of the earnings would go through the coronavirus. Not so after the apple news yesterday. There is more concern about the deadly coronavirus trade looking at treasuries, they are rising. Americans reopening after a holiday. Yesterday was president s day. Jumping as much as 24 after unsuccessful bid for the small arrival. This may be the kickoff of banking consolidation in italy and then further into europe. Coming up on bloomberg surveillance, our exclusive conversation with the hsbc Financial Officer on the banks job cuts. First word news. Viviana hsbc is set to slash 80 of its workforce. The lender taking more than 7 billion of charges and suspending buybacks as part of a restructuring plan. Plans to exit some businesses and cut costs. Hsbc still hunting for a permanent chief executive. We also spoke to the lender cfo about the coronavirus outbreak
Look at how we are doing on the sector picture. It looks fairly split. To theng of a bias downside. Materials and the Energy Business look in the red. We will look at the bp share price in a moment. Financials, industrials and health care mixed. No clear picture coming through. Many of these sectors look fairly mixed. Matt we see more stocks losing than winning. Down, 250 gaining right now. If you look at the moves to the upside, you see Louis Vuitton rising, only 0. 5 . Bp up 0. 4 after putting out earnings. You see a lot of metals and minors stocks to the upside. Hsbc down 0. 75 . , a lot ofvartis drugmakers and consumer staples, Household Goods coming down. Diageo also declining. Down about 0. 4 . Lets focus on the fed ahead of tomorrows fmoc meeting. A Third Straight rate cut is expected, but the focus will be guidance aspowells far as policy to come. Powell has said the economy is in good shape, but gdp growth is expected to slow further in the Third Quarter. Peterg us now is, Pet
Some of the optimism when it trade, s pe tone on futures back down after the cash trade yesterday. Markets are optimistic about the situation in italy, you can see bid, nowian btps are down to 1. 21, less than 200 basis points above boones. The dollarer against as the greenback falls. Italy thatews out of the Fivestar Party has halted Coalition Talks unless the democrats agreed to keep Giuseppe Conte on as Prime Minister. They previously pushed back against that, especially the leader of the Democratic Party, for hisis supporters Parliamentary Group had any say, they will have to concede, because they will want to say. We will continue to cover the story in italy. Coming up, we will speak to nigel wilson, the ceo. You can catch that interview at 11 30 a. M. London time. Lets get to the bloomberg first word news with Viviana Hurtado standing by in new york. Talking, but only if the u. S. Lift sanctions first. Thats according to hassan rouhani, following President Trump signaling he woul
that the spread of the particularly in the u.s. and coronavirus is slowing, especially in china. implications for policy. it is hard to predict the two investors basically at the back of their minds. saying that outcomes of the virus or how the economy can weather the trade will evolve or what will happen in the november elections virus. the u.s. 10 year yield is a good way to look at risk out there. , so we are trying to do fundamental work and have a currently at 1.63%. longer term view on what asset the new zealand dollar. it is currently up a touch after its classes and mary that with bottom-up work with companies central banks of the impact of the virus will actually be who have the best opportunity to short-lived. they did not project any rate generate cash flow over the shortest time. francine: does the virus change cuts. coming up later today, we will be speaking with the chief executive of ep. don t miss that interview on everything when it comes to the markets, or