Madrid could announce a state of emergency today. A golden reopening. Beijing is back to work efforts week long holiday. Chinese equities and the yuan outperform. Very good morning to you. 6 00 a. M. In the city of london. Happy friday. Its one week since we learned the president of the United States tested positive for covid19. D. C. Politics is messy. We will talk about that a little bit later. We are 25 days away from the u. S. Election. Some optimism that we have had a bit of shift on stimulus in the white house. Nancy pelosi, Steven Mnuchin, are talking again, but many skeptical we will see support. The hope of that is moving markets this morning. S p 500 futures to the upside this morning alongside euro futures as well. Chinese equities outperforming. We are up more than 2 this morning, 1 00 p. M. In beijing. China is back to work after golden week. Its back with some good optimistic measures when you look at the equities space. The bloomberg dollar index lower against all of g10
Problems persist. The white house and democrats failed to strike a deal on stimulus. The chief of staff says the differences are still significant. Julys job report looms. Welcome to daybreak europe. We are seeing red on the screen, but it is china and hong kong bearing the brunt of the losses, and in particular tencent after the president s move to ban tiktok. In terms of what we have been seeing, the u. S. Benchmark is getting close to a record this week. Global equities heading to a weekly gain, but that perhaps faltering slightly on this latest rise in geopolitical tension. We also see some weakening in the yuan. Ae dollar strengthening on broad basis, looking at the bloomberg dollar index. Acting like that safe haven again with these tensions and concerns rising. The 10 year yield also reflecting the risk of sentiment. Lets get more details on that story as trump moves to ban tiktok. The u. S. President signed an exec at of order prohibiting residents from doing any business with
Quickly after the crisis, as u. S. Jobless claims could hit in even bigger number than last week. And daily fatalities continue to rise in spain and the u. K. , as france proposes an economic rescue fund. Lets get the markets. Sixttle weakness in asia, a percent drop for the s p 500 over the last two days. Futures are positive, though, up over 1 , and european futures pretty much unchanged. Its difficult to look at fundamentals, for where equities go. A lot of people looking at technicals, saying there is a range we could fall into in the next few weeks. Is10 the 10year yield steady, but if we see a renewed selloff in equities could more money move into treasuries . The bloomberg dollar index is steady today with yen weakness. Have we found a floor on oil . We are bouncing back a little above 21 a barrel for wti. Now, a classified u. S. Intelligence report seen by bloomberg says china conceal the extent of the coronavirus outbreak within the country. U. S. Officials suggest beijing int
Powerful pmis. The European Manufacturing sector powers on with german and european pmis hitting a sixyear high. Good morning, everyone. Were back from a long weekend. We have plenty of data to get through. Want to tell you about the eurozone factory activity hitting a sixyear high in april. The eurozone final factory pmi is at 61. 7. Inflationary pressures stayed quite strong. Lets tell you what the european markets are doing. Were higher to the tune of a quarter percent. Euro dollar at 1. 0904. Lets look at the european markets one by one. What were seeing is that if we can swap on to the indices. We are broadly higher across the board. The cac 40 up by a quarter of a percent. Ftse 100 up by twothirds of a percent. The xetra dax inching higher to the tune of 10 points. Lets get back to the bigger stories. Ocado shares surging to the top of the stoxx 600 on reports of a tie up with marks and spencer. Better than expected numbers are lifting Aberdeen Asset management and bp. Lets show
Far theres scant evidence of this. European equities open in negative territory after u. S. Stocks post their largest oneday reversal in over a year as a more hawkish fed indicates it will start unwinding its Balance Sheet this year. Unilever bucking the european trend announcing they will be selling their spreads business. The business has leading market shares in most of the markets in which we operate in, so im sure there will be a lot of interest. A series of polls sees french president ial frontrunner emanuel macron lose ground to Marine Le Pen after the Television Debate as his alleged lead in the first and second round narrows. Good morning, everybody. Welcome. Its pretty red out there. It is pretty red. We saw that reversal in the u. S. , based on what fed was saying about high valuations, also about reducing its Balance Sheet and then the comments from ryan about tax reform. Seems we have more timing now, more timing with regards to the reduction of the Balance Sheet. When loo