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Russia calls for new enlarged OPEC deal to tackle oil demand collapseA new OPEC+ deal to balance oil markets might be possible if other countries join in, Kirill Dmitriev, head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund said, adding that countries should also cooperate to cushion the economic fallout from coronavirus.“Joint actions by countries are needed to restore the(global) economy... They (joint actions) are also possible in OPEC+ deal’s framework,” Dmitriev, head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), told Reuters in a phone interview.Dmitriev and the Energy Minister Alexander Novak were Russia’s top negotiators in the production cut deal with OPEC. The existing deal expires on March 31.“We are in contact with Saudi Arabia and a number of other countries. Based on these contacts we see that if the number of OPEC+ members will increase and other countries will join there is a possibility of a joint agreement to balance oil markets.”
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-oil-opec-russia-rdif-exclusive/exclusive-russia-calls-for-new-enlarged-opec-deal-to-tackle-oil-demand-collapse-idUSKBN21E13T
Xi calls for coordinated response to coronavirus at G-20 meetingChinese President Xi Jinping called on leaders from the Group of 20 nations for greater international coordination of macroeconomic policy to restore confidence in global growth in face of the impact of the coronavirus.Leaders from major world economies, including the U.S., Japan and Germany, held an extraordinary meeting via video conference to respond to the global pandemic. The disease first emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan in late December and killed more than 3,200 people in the country since. Overnight, data showed the number of confirmed cases in the U.S. has now surpassed that of China.“Countries need to leverage and coordinate their macro policies to counteract the negative impact and prevent the world economy from falling into recession,” Xi said, according to a state media transcript of his remarks on Thursday.
Dyson Goes From Vacuums to Ventilators in Just 10 DaysDyson—most popularly known as a vacuum company—has committed to making 15,000 ventilators to support hospitals and healthcare providers who are running dangerously low on them.A representative for the company says that the ventilators should be available around “early April.”
Trump, Xi Vow Cooperation and EU Leaders Bicker: Virus UpdateU.S. President Donald Trump and China’s Xi Jinping pledged to cooperate in the fight against the pandemic after weeks of rising tensions, while European leaders struggled to agree on a strategy, leaving key details to be negotiated in the weeks ahead.
Coronavirus: European shops could face shortages of fruit and veg but ‘green lanes’ may help suppliesUK farmers working on plans to hire more pickers from students or those made redundant in pandemicEurope’s supermarkets say they are still receiving most produce, but in Kenya, a major supplier of green beans and peas to Europe, half of the sector’s workers have been sent home on mandatory leave because orders cannot be shipped.“Their [European] stocks are being depleted by the day,” said Okisegere Ojepat, chief executive of the Fresh Produce Consortium of Kenya, which represents more than 200 growers and exporters.Those planes that are flying are charging more. Operators have tripled the price per kg of produce in the past two weeks, said Hosea Machuki, head of the Fresh Produce Exporters Association of Kenya, representing 117 growers and exporters.Shipments from South Africa are also becoming tougher, with the country beginning a 21-day lockdown this week.“We were in reasonably good shape until earlier this week but now things are becoming very difficult,” said Hans Muylaert-Gelein, managing director of Fruits Unlimited, which exports to the UK. “More flights are being grounded so I expect there are going to be disruptions.”He said even longer-lasting produce such as citrus fruit, which is normally transported by sea, could be stranded because of a shortage of shipping containers resulting from China’s shutdown.“Oranges and lemons, the old ambassadors of vitamin C, are in high demand,” he said.A shortage of migrant workers also threatens to disrupt production at suppliers including Spain, the biggest exporter of fruit and vegetables in the EU.Some 16,000 Moroccan seasonal workers, mostly women, were expected to arrive in the Huelva region in Spain to pick strawberries and red fruits. But less than half had made it by 12 March, as Morocco closed its borders to passenger traffic, according to a Moroccan job promotion agency. The country’s lockdown is due to last until 20 April.Farmers and unions in Spain said the production, processing and export of fruit and veg was still going smoothly.In the UK, the NFU said that with restaurants closed, it was also pressing to allow those supplies to be redirected to stores, a spokesman said.He added: “British farmers are continuing to work around the clock to produce food for the nation in these exceptional circumstances and we are seeing the importance of a robust and secure domestic food supply chain.“However, due to significant disruption in the hospitality and out-of-home sector we are beginning to see farmers who supply them become affected by the disruption. For example, some farmers supplying this market have had prices cut and heard that payments will take longer to arrive.”A spokeswoman for Tesco said she could not comment specifically on fruit and vegetables but in general there had been a surge in demand and there had been some empty shelves as a result.“We would ask our customers to buy only what they need so that there is enough for everyone,” she said in a statement.
El primer ministro británico, Boris Johnson, ha anunciado en su cuenta de Twitter que ha dado positivo en el test del coronavirus, después de tener algunos síntomas como fiebre y tos persistente.«Durante las últimas 24 horas, he desarrollado síntomas leves y he dado positivo por coronavirus. Ahora estoy autoaislado, pero continuaré liderando la respuesta del Gobierno a través de una videoconferencia mientras luchamos contra este virus. Juntos venceremos esto», escribió en el mensaje que acompaña al vídeo en la red social y en que aprovecha para agradecer a los integrantes del sistema nacional de salud y a «todos los que están trabajando» para combatir las consecuencias de la pandemia.
Buenos días.@ senslevLe ruego disculpe el tono del post de ayer al respecto del enlace que puso.Sí bien me reafirmo en el contenido, al releerlo vi que podía interpretarse como ofensivo por menospreciar la aportación de un forero. No estoy en contra de opiniones opuestas a las mías, sí a no ser justificadas.Yo mismo doy continuamente opiniones personales no basadas en más que mi nariz. Pero no creo aceptable citar o enviar a fuentes que se supone técnicas y pueden contener argumentos de autoridad, que exigen tiempo para escucharlas y que no tengan más consistencia que una opinión cualquiera sin fundamentar.También es probable que si uno sigue a ese autor, pueda conocer esa fundamentación si es que existe, y que haya que conocerla previamente.En fin, estamos en una gran lucha entre toros y osos en todo lo alto.No pretendo menospreciar en absoluto ni su opinión ni sus aportaciones.Por otro lado, creo que su reacción fue realmente fuera de lugar. Entiendo que por el modo en que me expresé.Discúlpeme si le molestó.Ánimo a todos.
Fed's term repo operation receives no bids for first timeThe Federal Reserve’s term repurchase agreement (repo) operation on Friday morning received no bids out of a possible $500 billion for the first time since regular operations began last year.The lack of bids suggests that liquidity has improved in the market for short-term borrowing of government securities. For the overnight repo operation, only $6.75 billion out of a possible $500 billion were submitted and accepted.
In Stunning Development, Dealers Run Out Of Securities To Use In Fed Repo Operations... we finally got a failing repo operation, when this morning the Fed saw no bids (i.e., submissions) in either Treasurys, MBS and Agency securities in its $500BN 3-month repo operation!Today's other repo operation, the $500BN overnight repo saw just $1.5BN in TSYs submitted (the remaining $5.25BN were MBS) into the $500BN operation.For those who haven't been following the Fed's repo operations, this was the first time since the bank restarted its repo operations that it received no bids on its term offerings. But it's not just term: as the charts below show, ever since the Fed announced unlimited QE concurrently with massive repos, the amount of securities submitted into repos has collapsed and for Treasurys has been $0 on most of this week's operations...To be sure, having predicted this outcome, it is now obvious - if only in retrospect - to everyone: according to Bloomberg, "the lack of interest may stem from the fact that the central bank is buying $75b of Treasury securities a day."Well, duh.So what can the Fed do to unbreak the repo market? Why undo some of its massive QE!According to Barclays' Joseph Abate, the scale of the Fed's asset purchases may be "inadvertently creating dislocations" in the repo market (inadvertently because it was perfectly obvious to everyone what would happen, except the Fed of course). "The increase in specials volumes, their spread widening to GC, and the pick-up in fails are all symptoms of a distribution problem", adds Abate who suggests that the Fed might consider increasing counterparty lending caps in its securities program."Why on Earth you would tie something up for three months in repo with the Fed buying," said Ian Burdette, managing director at Academy Securities, who followed up with a very apt observation: "I think people are getting wise to the fact that an absolute tsunami of global sovereign debt issuance is on its way. Best to sell it all to the fed now probably."That is indeed, spot on, however it also means that going forward the Fed's repo operations will be a "fail" virtually every time as Dealers chose not to park their securities with the Fed but instead sell them to the Fed, a contradictory outcome which was obvious to most people as far back as two weeks ago.All... except the Fed of course which is just making things up as it goes along and no longer ever realizes what it is doing.
1. Se pongan como se pongan, este virus microbiológicamente no es nada, pero nada, extraordinario: * Es un virus que el sistema inmunitario reconoce, combate y elimina. No es el VIH. No es un virus extraterrestre, pero hemos decidido que lo sea, a juzgar por lo que se ve y oye. * Es más contagioso que la (desde ya innombrable) gripe, pero menos contagioso que la Influenza, de la misma familia. * El 99% (pongan 98-97 si se quedan más tranquilos) de la población lo encaja y la enfermedad cursa sin apenas síntomas. Es letal sólo para una fracción muy pequeña, y afortunadamente respeta a los jóvenes. * El COVID-19 probablemente lleva con nosotros mucho tiempo, y fácilmente lleva más de uno y más de dos años aquí. Las cifras de 2018 serían un buen punto de partida para la investigación periodística si por ventura tuviéremosla, que no parece ser el caso.