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Markets around the world are headed for a third day of deep selling after President Donald Trump's tariff announcement on Wednesday, but the President and his team appear undeterred by the investor reaction. Trump says his trade policies are already paying off because of the tariffs.
We have seven trillion dollars already committed to be invested in the United States, building auto plants, building chip companies, and all sorts of companies are coming into our country in levels that we've never seen before.
President Trump spoke a board Air Force one last night, as heard here on Bloomberg, and his economic team fanned out across the Sunday political shows to defend tariffs. Treasury Secretary Scott Besson said he's not worried about the selloff.
Record volume on Friday, and everything is working very smoothly, so the American people they can be very.
Take great comfort in that.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessen appeared on NBC's Beat the Press.
Well Nathan on ABC's This Week National Economic Council Director Kevin Hasset acknowledge that tariffs could boost inflation in the short term.
Well, there might be some increase in prices, but the fact is that if there were going to be a heavy burden on the US consumer, then this trade deficit that for thirty years we've seen, really since China entered the WTO would be something that would have gone down.
And on CBS has faced the nation. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnik said the so called reciprocal tariffs on some sixty nations will arrive on schedule this Wednesday.
The United States of America is going to protect the people who invest in America. This is the economy of the world. We are the consumer of the world, and companies need to build it here and we will protect them from building it here.
And you can hear face the Nation this week and meet the Press every Sunday on Bloomberg Radio.
And Karen As the White House continues that defiant tone markets continue the sell off, and several experts are weighing in. This morning, Bloomberg's John Tucker begins our global team coverage in New York.
John, good morning, and good morning, Nathan Limmy Cantrell of PIMCO says tariffs aren't going away. As she puts it. They are high and they will be high for a while.
There's going to be stickiness to these tariffs, and even if there are some negotiations and some concessions along the way, I think the direction of travel here is very clear.
Mohammad l Arian, president of Queen's College, Cambridge, says uncertainty dominates the markets. The hardest thing for the markets right now is not only to try to evaluate what the destination is, but how Bumpyle the joining edge fund billionaire Stanley Drunken Miller and Bill Ackman are slamming the tariffs. Ackman of Pershing Square, a vocal Trump supporter, says bluntly, the new trade regime is a mistake. He added, this
is not what we voted for. Karen George's, an equity fund manager at Echovi, says it may feel like COVID again, but this sell off is man made. A strategist at Morgan Stanley say investors should be prepared for the S and P five hundred to drop a further seven to
eight percent. If the S and P five hundred falls another five percent today, this will mark the worst stretch since the market meltdown of nineteen eighty seven, and futures do indicate last week's five trillion dollars wipeout isn't over, you knoww York. I'm John Tucker, Bloomberg Radio.
All right, John, thank you. Checking some of the stocks on the decline this morning. Shares A Tesla down about seven percent, in Video off by four and a half percent, and shares A Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, and Alphabet down roughly four percent.
And Karen Betts are increasing on Wall Street that the Federal Reserve will need to take action and cut rates. Sploomberg's Lisa Matteo continues our team coverage.
Lisa Hi, Good morning, Nathan.
So, traders now expect policymakers to slash and just rates another five times this year. According to overnight interest rate swaps, markets pricing in one hundred and twenty five basis points of easing by year end, which is equal to five quarter point moves now. Bob Michael, global head of fixed income at JP Morgan Asset Management, says the Fed can't sit on the sidelines. He also added that they may have to cut interest rates before the next meeting in May.
We already know that businesses in the lower rated end of the quality spectrum have been struggling. When you look at private credit and look at the percentage of amend and extends, it's very high. What happens when their cost of funding just ratcheted up another couple percent and they're going to see top flying growth come down as well as their input costs go up. I think this is a serious moment now.
TD Securities also pulled forward its policy easing expectations. In a note, strategist Oscar Munos wrote that the brokerage is advancing its forecast for the rate cut to June from July and now expects the committee will ease rates at each meeting through May twenty six. But at all experts feel the same way you have. In a post on X Double Line Capital's Jeffrey Gunlock, he said he does not see a single cut anytime soon unless the losses and risk assets greatly increase. Lisa Miteo Bloomberg.
Radio, all right, Lisa, thank you. Both stocks are selling off around the world. The hardest hit this morning is in Asia, where stocks in Hong Kong plunged and stocks in Japan fell into a bear market. Let's get the very latest and check out with the Bloomberg steal thesis. Who continues our global team coverage in Hong Kong and Jill please give us an update on the carnage.
Good morning, Karen and Nathan. Yes, it's been an absolute bloodbath in Asia this morning, throughout the entire day, really the NIKA two two five stock average and Japan slid into a market. As you mentioned that blue chip indecks closing down seven point eight percent, experiencing its first bear market since August. That's back when the Bank of Japan unexpectedly hiked rates. We're also seeing quite a lot of fallout in China. That's where closely watched gage Chinese shares
in Hong Kong A tumbled nearly fourteen percent. That was also entering a bear market. We've seen some similar stories in Taipei where TSMC really led losses. India has also experienced, you know, some fallout today. I mean, really, what investors here in Asia are experiencing. What they're trying to gauge here is not just the impact from these tariffs, the Donald Trump tariffs, but also what kind of reaction we're really seeing in region it's really China. I think that's
really kind of you know, led this region here. Just a couple of days ago, launched a bunch of retaliatory efforts, including measures to introduce a thirty four percent tariff on all American goods starting April tenth. That sort of led to fears that this trade war is really just going to escalate. Donald Trump has really sort of hit back against that, you know, ended up sort of calling off what he said was a deal to reach a sale for TikTok. So you're really seeing a lot that's developing there.
We'll have to see whether this continues to spread out through the rest of the week. We're still waiting to see how other governments in Asia are ultimately going to respond here, Hong Kong, Jill Esis, Bloomberg News.
Jill, thank you. Stacks in Europe are feeling the pain as well. This morning, Bloomberg's U and Pods continues our global team coverage from London.
You and good morning. What's the latest there, Nathan and Karen.
European investors will have had a heads up from trading in Asia that today was not going to be a good start to the week. Stop markets around the region opened in the reds and the stampede from global equities gather momentum. The stocks the ten hundred currently down five point nine percent in the next now less than three
percentage points away from a bear market. Surveying the damage around the region, the Dacks in Germany off six point four percent, the CAC in France down six point three percent, and the foots are here in London down four point eight percent. All twenty industry groups trading lower. Defensive sectors not proving a place to hide out this morning. Worst hits as things stand, energy, industrial goods, and technology stocks. If any trader who can take their eyes off their
plummeting investments this morning worth watching for. Headlines today coming from Luxembourg. European Union trade ministers are meeting there to discuss us their response to President Trump's tariffs, Spain's economy minister telling Bloomberg today that the EU needs to be open to all potential means of retaliation.
In London, I'm youw in pots.
Bloomberg Radio, all right you and thank you. But we're also seeing some big moves in the commodities markets this morning, and checking oil right now, and I'm exscurute oils down three point eight percent. It's at fifty nine dollars sixty cents a barrel. Goldman this morning cut its oil forecast for the second time in less than a week, as the escalating trade war raises recessionary risks. It's been a
very volatile morning for copper. At one point, the metal was heading for its worst three day routes since the Great Financial Crisis. It was down more than eight percent. It has since trim those declines, and we're seeing more stability in the gold market. Right now, gold or Comax gold is up a third of up percent. It's at
three forty six dollars twenty cents an ounce. Time now for a look at some of the other stories making news in New York and around the world, and for that we're joined by Bloomberg's Michael Barr Michael, Good Morning, Good morning.
Care and rivers rose and flooding worsen across the South and Midwest, threatening communities already water log and badly damaged by days of heavy rain and storms that killed at least eighteen people from Texas to Ohio. Utilities scrambled to shut off power and gas, while cities deployed sandbags to protect homes and businesses. Forecasters warned that flooding could persist
for days, especially in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Alabama. De Wi West is the public information officer for Bowling Green, Kentucky.
This is yet another heartbreaking weather event for the city of Bowling Green and Warren County. While we have had no loss of life reported, loss of property is expected to be substantial.
Some rivers that innundated towns rose to near record levels and were expected to cress today. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin at Yahoo will visit the White House today to meet with President Trump. They are expected to talk about Gaza, tariffs and other issues. Bloomberg will bring you comments to reporters with Trump and det and Yahoo starting at two thirty pm Wall Street Time. Among the more than two hundred people the Trump administration deported to an Il Salvador
prison last month is Kilmar Abrego Garcia of Maryland. Trump officials admit he was deported due to an administrative error, but have signaled they may not comply with a separate judges order to return Garcia to the US by eleven to fifty nine pm tonight. Arguing the judge does not have jurisdiction, and the President says Garcia is a gang member, just not with TDA.
They say, oh, we made a mistake because he's not with them, He's with MS thirty.
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Garcia's family says he is not with any gang. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior now throwing his support behind the vaccine. It comes after he attended the funeral over the weekend of a child who died from the measles. The US has now seen more than six hundre it confirmed measles cases across twenty one states. Global news twenty four hours a day and whenever you want it with the Bloomberg News. Now. I'm Michael Barr, and this is Bloomberg Kron.
All right, Michael Barr, thank you all. Coming up, We're gonna have more on the market sell off. We are speaking with Morgan Stanley's Andrew Sheets. But first it's time for the Bloomberg Sports Update with John Stashauer.
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The global stock sell off that is greeted President Trump's Tarff announcement is reviving Black Monday memories from any on Wall Street, But the President is rejecting market concerns that his trade barrage will send the US into a recession.
What's gonna happen with the market.
I can't tell you. What I can tell you our country has gotten a lot stronger, and eventually it'll be a country like no other. It'll be the most dominant country economically in the world.
And that was the President speaking of Board Air Force one last night. This morning, we were joined by Bloomberg Markets reporter Valerie Titel as we watch the selloff extend into a third trading session following the rose Guard announcement. Valerie, the President says he might not be able to predict what the market's doing, but the market seems to be sending a pretty loud message to the President this morning.
Oh yeah, and I want to echo the flashbacks to Black Monday. If this move in the S and P five hundred futures holds into the clothes, we are looking at the worst three days for the US equity market since nineteen eighty seven, when it dropped twenty four point six in a matter of two days, So keep an eye on those kind of superlatives. That just really puts it into perspective. Black Monday, GFC, COVID, that is what
people are comparing the last market drop to. And Nathan, the one thing that's in stark contrast to what's going on now versus those other instances in the past is during those other instances you had the monetary easing floodgates open, the fiscal easing floodgates open after Black Monday, during the Great Financial Crisis, and during COVID. But what stands now is a start contrast, so that we have a FED who says that they are going to be patient and
wait for further clarity. Mike Wilson over at Morgan Stanley noting that the S and P five hundred could drop another seven to eight percent if the FED remains on hold and these tariffs continue in the market.
But while we're seeing these selling continuing here on Wall Street, it looks, at least at this point this morning, like the sell off is even worse overseas.
Valerie, Yeah, that's right.
And the European open, Nathan, was quite shaky. We had the dacks drop ten percent at the open that's its third biggest gap lower in history. We're also seeing credit spreads widen across a high yield and investment grade in Europe, and that's leading to a very punishing session for European banks. SX SEVNY is down six point seven percent and over the last three days, Nathan, it's nearing a near twenty percent slide in European banks in the last three sessions.
It's hard not to notice Valerie.
This more than thirteen percent close for the Hangsang in Hong Kong. The Asian session has been absolutely brutal. As China sounds like it's not willing to back down either.
Yeah, it was a bloodbath that HSI index, the Hangksang in Hong Kong dropping thirteen percent, Nathan. That's its worst one day drop since the Asian Financial Crisis of nineteen ninety seven. The Broader Asia Index, the MSCI Asia Pacific had its worst one day drop since October two thousand and eight. We had the Nicky entering into bear market territory, and the eight shares that trade in Hong Kong also
down more than twenty percent from peak. The one thing though, that may be a solace for those em Asian nations is the fact that we are not seeing a rip roaring rally in the dollar, and that could be you know, one aspect of perhaps positivity for these nations who in normal times of economic instability they have to deal with capital flight and their currencies depreciating strongly versus the dollar. We at least are not seeing that as yet.
Bloomberg Marketers reporter Valerie Titel, thank you for this as we continue to watch the global market sell off. Where you're joined now by Andrew Sheets, chief cross assets strategist at Morgan Stanley. Andrew, thank you so much for joining us this morning. And Valerie mentioned the call from your colleague at Morgan Stanley, Mike Wilson, the chief US equity strategist, saying stocks could fall another seven to eight percent if the tariff risk doesn't subside in the FED stays on hold.
Is that your call as well? Good morning, Yeah, good morning.
So I think, unfortunately you do have the confluence of a number of quite negative factors where it is hard to see enough offsets you had before the tariff announcement. I think already a deteriorating earnings picture in the US with negative revisions, You had deterioration and leading economic indicators like consumer confidence, and then you also had signs of inflation rising. You know, recalled that the last three prints for core PC, the Fed's preferred measure, have increased for
three straight months. So we walked into this tarif announcement, I think, with a quite challenging macro backdrop. And then the tariffs that we got were much larger than expected. They were, you know, I think, much more severe than our forecast than many forecasters has penciled in. And so that creates additional downside risk to growth, additional upside risk to inflation, and also this challenging dynamic where it's not clear that either valuations or a policy change is right
there for support. So I thought, your colleague, you know what they just mentioned about. You know, previously under some of this weakness, you had fiscal stimulus or you had easing. We think that's going to be much more more difficult. The FED is missing much more on their inflation mandate
than they're missing on the jobs part of their mandate. Right, we had actually a pretty good payroll number on Friday, whereas core PCE is two point eight percent in the US we think that makes it quite difficult for the FED to cut. We think that the FED will cut far less than the market is expecting this year at Morgan Stanley, and valuations still remain elevated. The S and
P is still at nineteen times. So I think you put all that together, and while it's always difficult to be too precise, that still means that there's potential for downside.
So then, Andrew, what do you make of the move that we're seeing in the money markets. The money markets pricing in fully five FED rate cuts this year and even some calls now for an emergency cut before the next meeting next month.
Yeah, we disagreed with that. We do think markets are looking at the equity weakness. As you mentioned, this is historic. It's one of the largest three day drawdowns that we've seen in a very long period of time, and you know, I think markets are understandably saying, well, a drawdown of that measure would naturally invite a response, But our view is that that will be much more difficult that inflations
in a more difficult place. And because it's I think it's also not clear that FED rate cuts would necessarily address the issue. The uncertainty from tariffs. The costs of tariffs are not easily offset by say, you know, an emergency twenty five or fifty basis point rate cut. The
issues go deeper. So you know, we think that the Fed will will need to and ultimately stay more focused on its mandate unless we see more seizure or tightness in say credit issuance markets, which we just haven't seen yet.
Well, what do you make of the widening and credit spreads that we've started to see now in Asia and in Europe.
Yeah, So, I think what's fascinating is that I think credit has a reputation, I like to think, a well earned reputation of usually being an early indicator. But in this cycle that has not been the case. Credit has been quite slow to catch up to weakness that has been in the equity market for some time. And I think that speaks to a credit cycle that is entering this downturn in a better place. You know, companies were somewhat more cautious and less aggressive coming into this m
and A was low. Balance sheet leverage has been stable, so I do think credit remains a follower here. I don't think that we should necessarily see credit as a leading indicator. I think it's following the broader uncertainty around the growth and policy that's coming from the administration and these questions around the Fed. But I think what we're seeing from credit should be seen as a catching up. You know, even after the moves this morning, we're really
kind of just back to average levels of spreads. We think that's kind of very reasonable given the risks that are surrounding the market.
We're speaking with andrews Sheets, chief cross assets strategist at Morgan Stanley as we continue to monitor this global stock sell off and flight, particularly this morning into treasuries, we're seeing gains across the curve in the treasuries market.
Andrew, where do you reallocate?
How do you advise clients to make moves in this environment?
Well, so, we do think that move in interest rates is correct that if the odds of a recession are rising, and I think that, unfortunately, is what is happening, given these risks to growth, and also the potential that the Fed cannot react as quickly to those growth risks because inflation is persistent, you know, we think the market will will respond to that by lowering interest rates, especially you know,
kind of somewhat further further out the curve. So you know, we do think yields will will fall here further in the US and in the UK and in Germany.
And you know, I.
Think that's also something that if we look back to say twenty eighteen, you know, in the fourth quarter of twenty eighteen, you also had a large draw down. You know, that was also somewhat related to tariff uncertainty, it was related to the FED the administration not shift policy as
quickly as the market was hoping they would. You know, real interest rates in the US, real interest rates on ten year government bonds are still much higher, you know, more attractive than they were during that episode at the worst part of that episode. While you know, equity valuations in the US today are still much more expensive than
at the worst part of that episode. So you know, I still think that if if investors are worried about growth picking up, then you know, we still think bonds offer kind of reasonable value here, and we think that that's the direction that reallocation will continue in.
If we do continue to see stocks and bond yields fall, what does that mean for financial conditions?
What could it mean for the FED and then that regard.
So, you know, financial conditions are tightening obviously, you know, you have some push and pull here with with with equities going down, you know, but also rates coming down. But I think that the challenge for the FED is it's not clear that those financial conditions are excessively tight. You know it, spreads today are kind of near the
long run average. That's that's fine. You know, the S and P has still roughly nineteen times forward earnings that that does not seem like an excessive level of equity risk premium. That would suggest some sort of market breakage. So, you know, and I think you still have credit markets where you know, you have credit markets have been open, it's been possible to issue. You know, the latest Senior Loan Officer survey suggested that credit standards were loosening a
bit in the US rather than tightening. So I think it's kind of hard to look at that full spread of financial conditions and say that there's something here that invites a really large shift. Again, we could get it, but I don't think you've seen it yet, And especially for a FED that is is also dealing with inflation that's above its target, is dealing with inflation expectations that
have been going up significantly. You know, we think that that is going to provide a level of caution that prevents this This larger intervention.
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