Cases are stuck. If you go back into lockdown, you will have a revolt. I am more interested in china. We broke the story that they are looking this was reuters they are looking a little more when it comes to renminbi. I did spend a good of time looking this up, on sunday, china clearly said it was trying to push to have a bigger international this means more pboc report. Reutersst report from we broke saying that china will remove a countercyclical factor in the yuan bay point in that direct and may point in that direction. Halt, shelf will its plan to let hedge cut to let hedge funds conceal stock holding. That is a big decision. That is just breaking. Thatll have to see where leads this morning. Futures up six. Dow futures up 20. We will do the data check in a moment. But now, first world news with ritika gupta. Ritika Amy Coney Barrett has been sworn in as a justice of the supreme court. Boothsst of two required administered. Every republican but one voted in favor. Chief Justice Jo
Surpasses its nordic neighbors. We hear from magdalena andersson. Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, everyone. This is bloomberg surveillance. Im Francine Lacqua in london. Lets look at the markets to give us a sense of what they have been doing. Stocks in europe are rising with u. S. Equity futures. Easingconomy lockdowns in some major countries seem to be Calming Anxiety because geopolitical tensions between the u. S. And china. Shares off in hong kong and sydney. Treasuries dipping in european trading after the threeday u. S. Weekend. I am also looking at wti. That is advancing past 34 per barrel and new york in hopes that the market may actually rebalance after historic output cuts. Lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news. Virus hotspot of europe, yesterday, italy reported the fewest new cases since february. Daily fatalities in the country were below 100 for a second day. It comes as the global death toll tops 340,000, with nearly 5. 5 million cases. Prime mini
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The list and flat screen televisions this will take pressure off retailers ahead of the Christmas Holiday season still other product that will get hit. Only a little pressure. Because in the breakdown that some conducted for the items hit with tariffs on september 1st versus december 15th there are still tens of billions of dollars of foot wear and apparel categories that will be included in september 1st you have Musical Instruments, sporting goods, and a lot of food items that will be hit on september 1st. Musical instruments, is that a big market in the United States chinese made Musical Instruments . I dont know im happy that today youre serious today. It is a big show it is a big show. It is a big show every day thats the part that bothers me sometimes it is not. You say it is. Other times he says i will be honest with you. Im like really . Thats nice. In this one vignette you will be honest youre not always maybe honest but you say its a big show every day. You have backish today
I am Maria Bartiromo tuesday march 19, your top stories right now, 6 00 a. M. On the east co coast. The fed and focus, futures indicating again at the start of trading, take a look, as the Central Banks march meeting begins today at 9 00 a. M. Eastern the markets are lower the dow industrial down 56, the nasdaq 1055 and s p 500 lower by 11 and three quarters. The meeting is coming up and were watching for any clarity on when the Federal Reserve cut Interest Rates this year. Data on deck Housing Starts and Building Permits 8 30 a. M. Eastern. European markets are mixed. Eurozone next down two points, the cat crown up to 20 and dax higher by 30 points. The bank of england will make the right decision on thursday. In asia overnight markets finish mostly lower, the bank of japan raising Interest Rates for the first time in 17 years. That has the average overnight up two thirds of 8 , the others were lower. The worst performer hong kong with the decline of one and a quarter percent. Back at