France Speeding Up Post-Lockdown Restart

Johnson to Meet EU Officials on Brexit

Jun.15 -- U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson makes a direct intervention into the Brexit talks today. He’ll hold a video call with three EU presidents in a bid to rejuvenate attempts to find a deal. Negotiations have struggled to make progress since March with neither side shifting dramatically from their starting positions. Bloomberg’s Maria Tadeo reports on “Bloomberg Daybreak: Europe.”...

Recovery rally has further to run, so buy stocks – Morgan Stanley

Stock market gains have further to run and investors are still under-pricing the scale of the world's coronavirus recovery, investment bank Morgan Stanley said in an outlook note. "While the last four months have been exceptional, we think that this cycle has been, and will be, more 'normal' than appreciated," said Andrew Sheets, the bank's chief cross-asset strategist. The call, made in a note dated Sunday and distributed on Monday, comes as global markets pull back from a sharp rally that has lifted world stocks about 36% from March lows....

U.S. Stock Index Futures Fall Amid Growing Pandemic Concerns

(Bloomberg) -- U.S. stock index futures dropped in Asia as the latest figures on the pandemic deepened concerns over the global economy.Contracts on the S&P 500 declined 2.5% as of 2:45 p.m. in Tokyo. Futures on the Nasdaq 100 Index and Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 2% and 3%, respectively. On Friday, U.S. stocks rallied from the biggest rout in 12 weeks as dip-buyers emerged for firms that bore the brunt of Thursday’s selling.“There is a definite risk-off tone to Asia’s financial markets this morning as the week gets underway,” Jeffrey Halley, senior market analyst for Asia Pacific at Oanda, wrote in a note. “Despite Wall Street stabilizing and finishing the week with a positive session, it appears that the FOMO, fast-money, peak-virus, buy-everything, v-shaped recovery herd remains nervously grazing near the edge of the cliff.”An outbreak of cases in Beijing raised fears of a resurgence of the pandemic in China....

U.S. Futures Tumble, Havens Gain in Risk-Off Wave: Markets Wrap

(Bloomberg) -- U.S. futures tumbled and haven assets climbed on Monday, returning markets to last Thursday’s risk-off mode, spurred by worries over a second wave of infections that could dash hopes for a v-shaped recovery.Futures on the S&P 500 slid over 2% and European contracts were down about 2%. Japanese, Australian and Hong Kong stocks also slumped, with South Korea seeing outsize losses. The dollar climbed along with the yen, and Treasuries advanced. Crude oil crumbled. The moves suggested the stabilization on Wall Street Friday in wake of a near 6% stock slide may be temporary.“We’ve gone risk-off because the reality of the U-shape pick-up” is hitting home, David Bloom, global head of foreign-exchange strategy at HSBC Holdings Plc, said on Bloomberg TV. “It’s a U-shape pick-up, and it’s going to be slow and patchy” he said of the recovery.Chinese economic data Monday showed the world’s second-largest economy had a smaller...