And the markets say by gold. Global google searches for the phrase hit levels not seen in nine years as the yellow metal barrels passed 2000 an ounce. The cash trade is less than an hour away. Here are your headlines. The white house and democrats aim for a virus relief deal by the end of the week and bill gates tells bloomberg exclusively the u. S. Should help poorer nations get vaccines. Rocked by a massive explosion at its main port, killing dozens and injuring thousands. Authorities are yet to confirm what caused the blast. In fromcontinue to roll europes largest countries. Commerzbank anticipates a loss for the year. We will speak with a host of top executives in the coming hours, including from the frankfurtbased bank. We are just under an hour away from the start of cash equity trading in europe and out in the u. K. Lets take a look at what futures are indicating. Green arrows across the board. For ures up the most, 0. 4 . We get a slew of earnings out of German Companies this m
This is bloomberg surveillance. This is what the markets are focused on. The markets are looking at some of the data out of germany. Business confidence coming in. 86. 2. Instead of the estimated 85. We are watching out for the case surges in the virus. Something i dont look at very often, but we decided to put in aussiedollar. It did reverse gains. It does seem that european stocks are slumping as investors figure out asset types. Now lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news. Here is dani burger. Dani the pandemic spread in the u. S. Is leaving some state officials to consider slowing or even reversing plans to reopen. Infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci is concerned about the uptick. Struggling to pump out its 2 trillion of virus aid. Much of it remains stuck in tokyos aging bureaucracy. Still 40 of the funds have not reached people despite being approved in late april. For loans to Small Businesses, only 14 have been lent out. For job protection subsidies, it is even w
Airline heavily criticizing the bailout deal the worlds biggest lighting maker has made a product that can degrade the virus and disinfect indoor areas all the applications we are putting into the markets are safe the good news is that it is also good for covid19. South koreas minister agrees to step down after north korea shows footage of it blowing up on the border a warm welcome from street signs. The stoxx 600 is in the green. There have been a few significant positive developments in the last 24 hours, we had those strong retail numbers come through providing a boost in the u. S. And europe. On the health care front, we had Health Care News the uk major drug trial found that a 60yearold steroid, very common, widely available, cheap drug actually reduces the mortality rate of Covid Patients this is the first drug they have found that reduces death from the vie vus. We have remdesivir but this drug, dexamethasone cuts the death rate. We are eyeing beijing where theyve seen a new set
Ease concern over coronavirus. 1 10 year yield falls below for the first time in over 150 years. Uncoordinated action. Other g7 Central Banks are yet to follow suit, though expectations for the central bank of canada, japan, and korea and furtherrowing to fall. Scott meinhardt said u. S. Equities could slump another 15 but a surprise come back for joe biden on super tuesday cease turn positive. Speaking of the biden news, we are getting a breaking headline on the bloomberg terminal that joe biden has won the Texas Democratic president ial primary, state that was expected to show strong support for Bernie Sanders, has gone instead for joe biden according to the associated press. Of super tuesday for joe biden. A contender who had almost been counted out after the initial caucuses, coming back in a big way after getting endorsements from Amy Klobuchar and pete buttigieg. Matt, lets go from the United States politics to Money Management in the u. K. Breaking news on the uks largest manage
Lets look at these markets and our into the european trading day. Stoxx 600 in europe up by. 1 . And even start to the trading day. Evenly divided winners and losers on the European Equity markets. Lacking any direction. Into the u. S. , also lacking direction. We have seen a little bit above the flatline. Not getting a great bicker great bit of direction. A big focus on Central Banks and a u. S. And a focus on u. S. Policy. Titians, ay trade tensions, that coming up. Wrist bank leaves behind five years riksbank leaves behind five years. Is now what we are showing you. We were showing you the norwegian krone. Not to be confused with the riksbank. Bank, we scroll back to what they did there. That was as expected. See a to this picture, we number of Central Banks leaving policy unchanged. They were treated for negative Interest Rate hiking. They were moving in their own direction moving against the cutting cycle for many previous months. We continue to do that. Lets get a new lets get an