Yesterday, were up the inflation rate as well. They saw exports came in at 13. 3 contraction. The headline number, 16 point 60 contraction. 16 contraction. Tom the question is whether on the fiscal side they will need to do more. The markets. N with a mixed picture in terms of sentiment from investors. You have got some significant southgs in japan and korea. The asiapacific almost back to the prepandemic levels. 169 is what you are looking at. Over on the mainland we have got red on the screen. The shanghai composite is down. Mike pompeo talking about attempts to really divide the internet and the tech space between the u. S. And china. The foreign minister saying he wants to avoid a cold war with the u. S. Got earnings now, looking at those shortly. Seeing gains of. 3 . Looking ahead to jobless claims. The private numbers were a big mess. Jobless numbers later in the u. S. And then the perils friday. Atcan move it on and look the individual stocks. It is earnings season. We have had
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
Earnings results and a price of oil. Gold, topping 2000 and so you have gold topping 2010 same time, european stocks gaining so it is a risk off mood, high volatility for the month of august. The 10year treasury yield, steady near the lowest since march. There are signs american lawmakers are making progress on an economic aid package. Lets get to the first word news in london with laura wright. James the white house and democrats hope to have a deal on a new relief package by the end of the week. Sides remained far apart on key issues that they appear to be moving closer to an agreement. Any vote on a deal would likely not happen until next week. U. S. And china are planing to assess their phase one trade deal this month. Sources tell bloomberg the discussions between trade representative lighthizer and the chinese vice premier will take place around august 15 amid a backdrop of rising tensions between the two countries. And u. K. , lawmakers are urging Boris Johnson to be more open a
Potentially coming close to price later tonight. This could be the biggest ipo of the year but we are getting word that that also could be coming in at the lower range. It will be interesting to see what Risk Appetite is like or if it can be measured through what has been going on with these ipos. Taylor we are awaiting some earnings and starting to see Western Digital and a few others start to trickle out. I wanted to pose a question to dennis. You were talking about real rates being low and what that just your equity markets. Do you believe rates should be the slow and if so, what is that doing to an inflated discount rate and how does that translate into what should be effectively higher valuations or can you not use 50 basis points as a discount rate because it is not feel appropriate . How are you thinking about that . Points i think 50 basis is a fair discount rate if you have a global savings. There seems to be a desire for Institutional Investors around hold risk. O that is bec
Over two days, as the biggest oil etf dumps short dated contracts once again. We will speak about this and earnings with the bpce l, Bernard Looney, coming up shortly bp ceo, Bernard Looney, coming up shortly. Aboutl speak to the ceo the impact of coronavirus and the business shortly. Get to some numbers coming through this morning. We have got numbers coming through from bp this morning. They are talking about how the industry has been hit by supply and demand shock. They remain committed to delivering their net zero ambition. We heard about that back in february or so from the company, from Bernard Looney, the relatively new ceo at the helm of dp. First quarter dividends bp. Dividends, so maintenance of that dividend at least at the same number. Bp saying it had around 32 billion of liquidity available at the end of the quarter. The bp ceo, we are taking Decisive Action to strengthen finances. We have heard about how they will not be taking government money, they want to get through