Shortly. What do you observe this morning, nejra . Nejra im observing headlines coming through right now from andrew bailey, in the core with journalists he is having right now, that it is clearly a commitment to take action, saying the qe program is highly aggressive and appropriately is so. Also saying there is no evidence the boe is targeting any part of the yield curve, but what is really interesting is we did see a little bit of differing views in terms of the decision today. There were policymakers that wanted to extend qe today, but the reaction to the fact we have had no change in policy today is coming. Analysts say we will get more qe in june or august or both, and the pound catching a bid off the back of the boe forecasting the vshaped recovery. That is what i find staggering. A 15 rebound in 2021. Tom i think you are dead on in that, nejra. There is no question what six out within all the excel spreadsheets and the heroic language at this moment, really with depressionera e
Combine creating the u. K. s biggest internet and phone operator. And decision at don. The bank of england makes a rare earlymorning rate announcement imminently. We will speak to governor bailey leader on today about that decision, but a mission to china. The who considers investigating the source of the coronavirus as britain prepares to ease parts of its nationwide lockdown. Just under an hour away from the start of cash equity trading across europe. Lets take a look at where futures are trading. Actually, are we getting bank of england headlines now . Are. Yes, we bank of england votes unanimously to maintain its benchmark Interest Rate, to keep it unchanged at 0. 1 . No change in the kiwi program and no change in the Interest Rate. The pound is Holding Steady against the u. S. Dollar as a way there had been increased volatility in the pound heading into the decision. We are also getting a lot of indecision over how the expectations for how the coronavirus will hit the u. K. Voted
Well as in london. We begin with a biggie week a busy week for Central Banks. Bank of japan says they will take on unlimited buying of Government Bonds, lifting the cap also on corporate holdings. I, he joins us now. , kitchen sink, we are still throwing it. Michael Central Banks are all as string the question of what you do when you have throwing the kitchen sink. In the back of japans case, you just make the sink a little bigger. The bank of japan already has negative rates, Corporate Bond and etf buying, and an emergency Lending Program, so they just decided to make those programs a bit bigger. Unchanged at rate 10 basis points. Remember, they do yield curve control. They mentioned they would buy as many Corporate Bonds as they need to and expanding access to its Emergency Loan Program for a wider range of banks. For analysts, theres a bit less here than meets the eye. They dropped their ¥80 trillion limit on Government Bond buying, but they werent buying anywhere trillion, so it d
Commitment to reviving inflation after yesterdays landmark German Court Ruling. Disney takes a 1. 4 billion hit. Bmw joins Fiat Chrysler and vw on warning for the Second Quarter. Unicredit set aside 900 Million Euros. We break the full forced quarter members. Firstquarter numbers. Have we have manus we those firstquarter numbers, a loss of 2. 71 billion for the First Quarter. The market penciled in a number of 1. 95 billion. You are bang on the money. They were one of the first to come out with 900 million set aside for covid19. Italy will contract by 13 . This is the challenge for they were one of the lead nonperforming loans. Unicredit, the stoxx 600 banks index still underperforming. The exposure is a critical issue for all of the banks. We do not seem to have broken that symbiotic relationship between banks and the sovereign. First quarter loss, 2. 71 billion. Net profit a year ago. This is a bank influx at the moment. In flux at the moment. We are waiting for numbers to come throu
Outperformance of small caps for a sixth straight day, so that is sort of the good news, but it is all a waitandsee game as we head into the ecb. Underperformance happening with btps in europe. Twitter earnings breaking as well. Revenue coming in stronger than estimated at it hundred 7. 6 million. 876are shifting at. Illion has a look at the monitor bullet daily active users, they came in at 166 million. That did beat estimates. They did add 14 million average monthly daily active users since the previous quarter. Seeing more activity. Now it is about monetizing that activity. Twitter is up by about 10 in premarket. More coming out later on in the show. We do want to give you a snapshot of all that is moving the market from our team in new york. We are going to begin with the data overnight in europe. Recession,s record plunging into record contraction, shrinking about 3. 8 . The slump adding a lot more urgency for joint physical support and puts more pressure on Christine Lagarde late