Coronavirus case fails to improve overnight. The u. K. Prime minister is still conscious but has received oxygen treatment dominic raab is deputized. Equities heading for their first backtoback games in two weeks. Futures pointing higher in the u. S. While oil rises ahead of thursdays opecplus meeting. Coronavirusthe maybe reaching a plateau in europe as cases slow across the continent. Italy could start ending its. Ockdown on a gradual basis just under an hour away from the start of cash trading in europe. A quick look at futures here. A gain in futures at the cash trade closed higher yesterday. Gains in u. S. Futures with the 0. 4 the dow s p up 0. 4 . Anna everybody still focused on what is going on with coronavirus globally. Cases are being handled and death rates. We need to get to the first word news update. Prime minister Boris Johnson is in intensive care. His Coronavirus Infection worsened. He had been selfisolating for 10 days, struggling to shake off covid19. Dominic raab is
I am nejra to pitch. Nejra cehic. I the stoxx 600 in europe up almost 3 . Pushing to a higher open is in todays session. Nasdaq all higher by more than 2 . The question is whether this is a polish signal in equities or just a blip in a downward trend. Around the 75 handle, moving higher by seven basic basis points. You are seeing the broad dollar weakness. Bloomberg dollar index, out performers and underperformers against it, even though they are stronger, signals from the rba and of course in japan, record stimulus. Talking about a state of emergency, reflection and deflation, the yen up on some optimism on talks from opecplus and producers. Lets get to bloomberg first word news with Viviana Hurtado in new york. Hey, viviana. Viviana our biggest story is Boris Johnson being in intensive care after he was hospitalized over the weekend after his coronavirus symptoms worsen. For 10 days, he was in isolation. Are expecting to say the outbreak peak is in the next seven to 10 days. Restrict
The dow down as much as 123. The s p is up and the treasury at this point, it looks like the yield has been something people are watching again you dont want to see these move up too quickly it has shown some strength wti, yesterday was down 24 . That was the third worst day ever for oil prices. 18year low. This morning, wti is up better than 13 last i looked it was around 23. These moves with the dow, s p and massive moves yesterday in the market, all of us were a little relieved when the 4 00 p. M. Bell range. I was happier like you. I dont even know what you are thinking at 2,300. When it comes back 1,000 mike spointed out at one poit the dow was down 2,300 points. Im reaching for straws in the ocean but walmart. New highs. Close to alltime highs. I know why i know all of that if walmart lives, i think im going to live. I hang my head on amazon hiring another 10,000 people you saw amazon hiring like 10,000 people. People are still shopping. Becky, i saw we wrote an article. Higher y
What has been fascinating is that up until now, the data basically coming out today has driven us towards the idea that we are starting to see a manufacturing stabilization. That was certainly they field that came out of the china data earlier on. Extent, ina certain the European Data as well. But now the bloomberg dollar index is beginning to move lower. We have until this point in time seemed bond markets in particular moving yields higher. Maybe we see that unfolding a little bit today. We still got generally a bond story that is quite negative. Yields are higher on the day. A little bit of movement in that u. S. Tenyear. Vonnie exactly. We will dive into the finer details of the report with tom porcelli of rbc in a few moments. It will be interesting to see what the other indicators suggest, for example, and the china data. We saw that employment improved, so that is one good side for the chinese economy, even as other indicators in that manufacturing data declined. Also, germany w
South african politics members of the governing anc begin to vote on a new leader who will likely become president in next years election. A very positive morning across europe so far when we look at equity training. The stocks at 600 up nearly 1 right now a lot of green across the board. Lets take a look at the specific markets action across the continent. The foots see up 1. 5 . The cac ka rant in paris up and lets take a look at the specific sectors that are driving that positive movement this morning we can see from across the entire country the sectors, lets take a look at the numbers as they come through coming very shortly. Waiting for that foots see action there very slightlyup more than half a percent. Lets talk about whats going on in the United States so talking of taxes, President Trump has defended the 1. 5 trillion expected in cuts that could stem from the new tax reform bill. He said the economy, meanwhile, is going to, quote, start to rock the bill will create jobs and