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There are 8 00:00:32,159 --> 00:00:35,720 Speaker 1: some corporate stories that will affect trading when US markets open. 9 00:00:35,840 --> 00:00:38,559 Speaker 1: The US government saying it may not need Apple's help 10 00:00:38,640 --> 00:00:41,880 Speaker 1: to unlock a terrorist iPhone accord. Hearing set today over 11 00:00:41,920 --> 00:00:44,479 Speaker 1: a judge's order to require Apple to help the FBI 12 00:00:44,600 --> 00:00:48,840 Speaker 1: bypass the phone security has been canceled. Former Intel chairman 13 00:00:48,880 --> 00:00:51,760 Speaker 1: Andy Grove has died at the age of seventy nine. 14 00:00:51,840 --> 00:00:56,160 Speaker 1: No cause given for his death. Deutsche Bank is declining 15 00:00:56,160 --> 00:00:59,080 Speaker 1: after Moody's Investor Service signaled it may cut the German 16 00:00:59,160 --> 00:01:02,640 Speaker 1: lenders credit radi AMID concerned it will struggle to restructure 17 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:07,240 Speaker 1: its businesses. But as we know, the main focus today 18 00:01:07,280 --> 00:01:09,520 Speaker 1: is on the Brussels bombings. Let's bring in. Michael Byr 19 00:01:09,600 --> 00:01:13,639 Speaker 1: Now with the latest details, Mike, Mike, thank you very much. 20 00:01:13,800 --> 00:01:17,319 Speaker 1: Airport and subway blasts and Brussels have prompted a city 21 00:01:17,360 --> 00:01:20,920 Speaker 1: wide lockdown. Belgian Minister Maggie to Block says at least 22 00:01:20,959 --> 00:01:23,880 Speaker 1: eleven people were killed. You know what officials say our 23 00:01:24,080 --> 00:01:28,399 Speaker 1: terror attacks. Bloomberg's Jones Hayden has more from Brussels. Well, 24 00:01:28,600 --> 00:01:31,160 Speaker 1: at the at the airport, they're treating it as a 25 00:01:31,160 --> 00:01:33,880 Speaker 1: as a suicide attack. I'm not sure if that has 26 00:01:33,880 --> 00:01:37,679 Speaker 1: been confirmed, but that's what they what the prosecutor has said. 27 00:01:37,720 --> 00:01:40,039 Speaker 1: They're also looking to see. You know, it just seems 28 00:01:40,040 --> 00:01:42,160 Speaker 1: to be a coordinated attack, and this is one of 29 00:01:42,200 --> 00:01:46,160 Speaker 1: the things that this UM, this network that they've been investigating, 30 00:01:46,440 --> 00:01:49,760 Speaker 1: and they they arrested the main guy on Friday. In 31 00:01:49,800 --> 00:01:51,840 Speaker 1: this network, one of their things is to have the 32 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:54,960 Speaker 1: spread out attacks. So it certainly seems like the same 33 00:01:55,040 --> 00:01:57,680 Speaker 1: kind of attack that we had in Paris. 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We are two hours away from the US Open. 66 00:03:32,160 --> 00:03:35,800 Speaker 1: The biggest decliners so far in premarket trading travel related. 67 00:03:35,840 --> 00:03:39,640 Speaker 1: American Airlines is down by three point four percent, Delta 68 00:03:39,640 --> 00:03:45,040 Speaker 1: Airlines off by two point seven percent, Carnival down almost 69 00:03:45,200 --> 00:03:48,800 Speaker 1: three percent on the day. Starward Hotels hasn't open for 70 00:03:48,840 --> 00:03:52,040 Speaker 1: trading yet, but they say their hotels in the Brussels 71 00:03:52,200 --> 00:03:55,680 Speaker 1: area are on lockdown. We can imagine that will have 72 00:03:55,720 --> 00:03:58,680 Speaker 1: an impact on their trade today. In Europe, Air France 73 00:03:58,800 --> 00:04:01,440 Speaker 1: off by four point six percent, Left Tons and down 74 00:04:01,480 --> 00:04:05,440 Speaker 1: by one point seven per cent. The Belgian in the 75 00:04:05,440 --> 00:04:08,200 Speaker 1: stock market is still open. The Belgian twenty off by 76 00:04:08,240 --> 00:04:11,960 Speaker 1: two tenths of a per cent. You're listening, of course 77 00:04:12,040 --> 00:04:18,919 Speaker 1: to Bloomberg Radio worldwide. This is Bloomberg Saveillance. I'm Michael 78 00:04:18,960 --> 00:04:23,279 Speaker 1: McKeen along with Tom Keane US futures reacting to the 79 00:04:23,360 --> 00:04:27,000 Speaker 1: terror attacks in Belgium. Right now, SMP features are off 80 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:29,920 Speaker 1: by seven points, three tenths of eight percent down features 81 00:04:29,960 --> 00:04:32,159 Speaker 1: down thirty nine. That's a two tents decline. It's a 82 00:04:32,160 --> 00:04:35,480 Speaker 1: four tents drop. For Nasdaq one e mening futures, they're 83 00:04:35,480 --> 00:04:39,360 Speaker 1: off seventeen points. The stock six hundred PAN European Index 84 00:04:39,400 --> 00:04:42,880 Speaker 1: down two points right now, six tenths of a percent. 85 00:04:43,640 --> 00:04:46,040 Speaker 1: The Bloomberg n j I T STEM Report brought to 86 00:04:46,040 --> 00:04:48,320 Speaker 1: you by the New Jersey Institute of Technology, partnering with 87 00:04:48,360 --> 00:04:51,320 Speaker 1: government and industry to apply the university's world class research 88 00:04:51,320 --> 00:04:54,800 Speaker 1: assets to innovate and spur economic growth. Learn more at 89 00:04:54,839 --> 00:04:58,000 Speaker 1: heg I T dot edu. Here's Bob Move Michael, good morning, 90 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:00,880 Speaker 1: and here's what's making news in science, technolo, lergy, engineering 91 00:05:00,920 --> 00:05:03,960 Speaker 1: and math. A heart lesson on the limits of technology 92 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:07,080 Speaker 1: out this morning. From the terror attacks in Brussels. People 93 00:05:07,080 --> 00:05:09,159 Speaker 1: in the Belgian capital are being urged to resort to 94 00:05:09,240 --> 00:05:13,960 Speaker 1: texting and internet messaging rather than calls because mobile networks 95 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:17,600 Speaker 1: are overloaded. Phone carrier ap Proximus says the company's network 96 00:05:17,760 --> 00:05:21,039 Speaker 1: is operational, while encouraging the use of text messages for 97 00:05:21,120 --> 00:05:25,120 Speaker 1: communicating if calls don't get through. Other wireless carriers, including 98 00:05:25,279 --> 00:05:29,000 Speaker 1: Mobile Star, also asking customers to use WiFi networks or 99 00:05:29,040 --> 00:05:33,200 Speaker 1: text messaging. That brings us to Facebook, which, after some delay, 100 00:05:33,240 --> 00:05:36,239 Speaker 1: this morning, has activated its safety check service. The tool 101 00:05:36,320 --> 00:05:39,120 Speaker 1: works by sending a notification to all users in the 102 00:05:39,160 --> 00:05:43,080 Speaker 1: area affected by a crisis, which Facebook determines either based 103 00:05:43,120 --> 00:05:46,080 Speaker 1: on the city listed in a person's profile, the location 104 00:05:46,160 --> 00:05:48,640 Speaker 1: of their Internet connection, or from the location of their 105 00:05:48,680 --> 00:05:51,920 Speaker 1: mobile phone. If the user has allowed Facebook to access GPS, 106 00:05:52,360 --> 00:05:55,120 Speaker 1: asking if the user is safe. If the person says yes, 107 00:05:55,440 --> 00:05:58,919 Speaker 1: a status update saying so is automatically generated for that user. 108 00:05:59,160 --> 00:06:03,200 Speaker 1: A person's friend can also check them in as safe. 109 00:06:03,720 --> 00:06:07,000 Speaker 1: And that's this morning's Bloomberg and j I t Stem report. 110 00:06:07,760 --> 00:06:10,479 Speaker 1: Bob Boman, thank you very much the latest figures on 111 00:06:10,680 --> 00:06:14,960 Speaker 1: casualties that we have from Brussels. According to UH minister 112 00:06:15,160 --> 00:06:19,480 Speaker 1: in the Belgian government, eleven people killed at the Brussels airport, 113 00:06:19,560 --> 00:06:23,400 Speaker 1: fifteen people killed on the subway there, so twenty total. 114 00:06:23,520 --> 00:06:26,800 Speaker 1: All this remains unofficial, but those are the latest numbers 115 00:06:26,839 --> 00:06:31,200 Speaker 1: from the government there. Francis President Francois Oland is speaking 116 00:06:31,240 --> 00:06:34,839 Speaker 1: from his office live on television now saying that terrorists 117 00:06:34,880 --> 00:06:38,159 Speaker 1: struck Brussels, but it was Europe that was targeted and 118 00:06:38,240 --> 00:06:42,159 Speaker 1: that all of Europe must take part in the terrorism fight, 119 00:06:42,680 --> 00:06:45,640 Speaker 1: all of Europe certainly being affected. In terms of markets. 120 00:06:45,680 --> 00:06:49,440 Speaker 1: Simon Ballard is a credit strategist with Bloomberg News in London, 121 00:06:49,480 --> 00:06:53,000 Speaker 1: and Simon and there was an initial sharp reaction to 122 00:06:53,240 --> 00:06:56,840 Speaker 1: what happened in credit markets. Yeah, good morning, Michael Um. Yeah, 123 00:06:56,839 --> 00:06:59,800 Speaker 1: obviously we had a sharp a shop reaction risk aversion. First, 124 00:07:00,080 --> 00:07:03,080 Speaker 1: we had equities equities into the into the red um 125 00:07:03,160 --> 00:07:07,080 Speaker 1: and corporate bond spreads marketly wider, particularly through the synthetic indexes, 126 00:07:07,120 --> 00:07:08,760 Speaker 1: which are more liquid of course than the than the 127 00:07:08,760 --> 00:07:11,640 Speaker 1: cash bonds we hit we hit into day wide. We've 128 00:07:11,640 --> 00:07:13,280 Speaker 1: come back a little bit from those, but we're still 129 00:07:13,320 --> 00:07:16,840 Speaker 1: feeling surry, fragile cash bonds holding a little bit more 130 00:07:16,880 --> 00:07:19,720 Speaker 1: in actually the the investment grade spaces is net tieder 131 00:07:19,800 --> 00:07:22,640 Speaker 1: here in Europe this morning, still getting some support from 132 00:07:22,640 --> 00:07:26,160 Speaker 1: the prospect of that ECB corporate bond purchased program kicking 133 00:07:26,200 --> 00:07:28,320 Speaker 1: in by the end of the second quarter, but high 134 00:07:28,400 --> 00:07:31,120 Speaker 1: yield spreads marginally wider um and on the on this 135 00:07:31,360 --> 00:07:34,120 Speaker 1: eye tracks indices, then yes, we're still six eight, six 136 00:07:34,200 --> 00:07:37,160 Speaker 1: or seven basis points wider on on crossover with a 137 00:07:37,200 --> 00:07:40,680 Speaker 1: primary markets fairly well stymy today other than from a 138 00:07:40,720 --> 00:07:43,600 Speaker 1: couple of very sort of low risk issues that are 139 00:07:43,640 --> 00:07:46,080 Speaker 1: still attempting to tap the market. Yeah, this would be 140 00:07:46,080 --> 00:07:49,560 Speaker 1: a day when people are risk averse, and I would 141 00:07:49,600 --> 00:07:54,840 Speaker 1: imagine that trading wouldn't be wouldn't be huge. No, I 142 00:07:54,880 --> 00:07:58,160 Speaker 1: think the volumes will will certainly be muted. Easiest way 143 00:07:58,160 --> 00:08:01,160 Speaker 1: to trade uncertainty and listeners is to is to sit 144 00:08:01,200 --> 00:08:03,520 Speaker 1: on your hands and keep keep your powder dry. Um. 145 00:08:03,560 --> 00:08:05,680 Speaker 1: And of course we're going into the holiday weekend here 146 00:08:05,720 --> 00:08:08,240 Speaker 1: and over there in the United States, so we're already 147 00:08:08,240 --> 00:08:10,720 Speaker 1: expecting liquidity to to be on the decline as the 148 00:08:10,880 --> 00:08:12,440 Speaker 1: as the week progress, and I think this will just 149 00:08:12,520 --> 00:08:15,680 Speaker 1: expedite that that move towards sort of a less liquid 150 00:08:15,720 --> 00:08:19,000 Speaker 1: and less less volumeous level of trading. Should I say 151 00:08:19,040 --> 00:08:21,800 Speaker 1: we're seeing the biggest impact in equity markets in the 152 00:08:22,080 --> 00:08:24,760 Speaker 1: travel and leisure shares. Are we seeing the same in 153 00:08:24,760 --> 00:08:28,120 Speaker 1: the credit markets? Yeah? I mean generally, credit, as I say, 154 00:08:28,200 --> 00:08:34,000 Speaker 1: encapsulates all of that. The travel sector is being hit most. Um, 155 00:08:34,080 --> 00:08:36,440 Speaker 1: we don't go down to isn't that that much liquidity 156 00:08:36,480 --> 00:08:39,000 Speaker 1: within the travel sector per se within credit and corporate 157 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:41,959 Speaker 1: bond space itself. But if you would assume that that's 158 00:08:41,960 --> 00:08:44,040 Speaker 1: probably towards the lower end of the credit spectrum. If 159 00:08:44,040 --> 00:08:47,840 Speaker 1: you look at high yield eye tracks indusicries at seven 160 00:08:47,840 --> 00:08:50,200 Speaker 1: basis points wider versus one and a half basis points 161 00:08:50,200 --> 00:08:53,120 Speaker 1: wider in investment grade UM, it shows that the back 162 00:08:53,240 --> 00:08:55,440 Speaker 1: end of the quality curve is under performing. This morning, 163 00:08:55,440 --> 00:08:58,720 Speaker 1: the very nice and notably now do we have any 164 00:08:58,760 --> 00:09:03,319 Speaker 1: indication of or any good guess of how this plays 165 00:09:03,360 --> 00:09:05,200 Speaker 1: out in credit markets in coming days? And the reason 166 00:09:05,240 --> 00:09:07,440 Speaker 1: I asked us, of course, as we've been talking this morning, 167 00:09:07,640 --> 00:09:11,640 Speaker 1: is a political component to all this, the idea of Shingen, 168 00:09:12,320 --> 00:09:16,040 Speaker 1: the free movement of people across European borders being shut down, 169 00:09:16,080 --> 00:09:19,360 Speaker 1: and of course the Brexit whole question. And there are 170 00:09:19,360 --> 00:09:21,920 Speaker 1: so many moving parts to sort of portfolio management and 171 00:09:22,200 --> 00:09:24,640 Speaker 1: an investment strategy as it as it stands at the moment, 172 00:09:24,640 --> 00:09:26,160 Speaker 1: this is just sort of one and new part of 173 00:09:26,160 --> 00:09:28,680 Speaker 1: this UM. I think if we if we've got any 174 00:09:28,679 --> 00:09:32,440 Speaker 1: sort of further spread widening, any risk sell off on 175 00:09:33,559 --> 00:09:36,320 Speaker 1: as horrible it was got for a bit it happens, 176 00:09:36,320 --> 00:09:39,680 Speaker 1: you know, any further explosions or negative news headlines. Um. 177 00:09:39,800 --> 00:09:42,360 Speaker 1: Then over the medium term that may still be seen 178 00:09:42,760 --> 00:09:45,079 Speaker 1: as a selected by opportunity by some given that the 179 00:09:45,240 --> 00:09:47,199 Speaker 1: c B, as I said earlier, is going to be 180 00:09:47,240 --> 00:09:49,480 Speaker 1: a marginal bar of corporate bonds perhaps by the end 181 00:09:49,480 --> 00:09:51,840 Speaker 1: of the second quarter, which will give a new leg 182 00:09:51,880 --> 00:09:54,160 Speaker 1: to a potential spread tightening and a technical bid to 183 00:09:54,440 --> 00:09:56,679 Speaker 1: to the market. But yeah, you know, we're getting very 184 00:09:56,720 --> 00:09:59,640 Speaker 1: much into sort of that protection studiosyncratic type approach now 185 00:09:59,679 --> 00:10:02,880 Speaker 1: as we as we move through the geopolitical risk and 186 00:10:02,920 --> 00:10:05,640 Speaker 1: events within Europe, as we get into the UK EU 187 00:10:05,720 --> 00:10:11,080 Speaker 1: referendum debate and volatility and nervousness within Europe, sorry sterling 188 00:10:11,080 --> 00:10:13,600 Speaker 1: credit um. And of course there we've got the you know, 189 00:10:13,640 --> 00:10:15,760 Speaker 1: the headlines coming from the U S elections as well, 190 00:10:15,760 --> 00:10:18,560 Speaker 1: and protectionist headlines that you know Mr Trump is managing 191 00:10:18,559 --> 00:10:22,480 Speaker 1: to put out on the back of the the the 192 00:10:22,480 --> 00:10:24,640 Speaker 1: Brussels events today, et cetera. So you know, loads of 193 00:10:24,720 --> 00:10:27,559 Speaker 1: moving parts and you know, everything for for an importfully 194 00:10:27,559 --> 00:10:29,760 Speaker 1: managed to keep his eye on. But bottom line is 195 00:10:29,800 --> 00:10:32,560 Speaker 1: you know, in defensive In a defensive stance such as this, 196 00:10:32,679 --> 00:10:35,840 Speaker 1: it's very much key to focus on fundamentals and bottom 197 00:10:35,920 --> 00:10:38,920 Speaker 1: up analysis rather than just taking a broad brush view 198 00:10:38,960 --> 00:10:42,360 Speaker 1: to know spread winding as a bi opportunity. Simon Ballat 199 00:10:42,520 --> 00:10:45,959 Speaker 1: with Bloomberg News credit analyst in our London bureau, thank 200 00:10:45,960 --> 00:10:48,480 Speaker 1: you very much for joining us this morning. 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