this while the topics index ended its trading day down on friday as well now moving to india the sensex is down on the week as the country remains on lockdown the market index tumbled just over 2 percent the sensex is plunging as india seeks as much as $6000000000.00 in loans to fight the coronavirus pandemic moving to australia the a.s.x. is up on the week now most sectors actually finished lower including industrials and consumer discretionary which both fell more than 4 percent of the material sector help offset those losses now the a.s.x. 2. 100 lost $500000000000.00 and that 1st quarter of 2020 which i actually heard a lot of people moving over to south africa the johannesburg stock exchange all shares in south africa is up for the week this is the rand we could to all time lows on a friday so we're going to move across the ocean here and head towards europe in the americas where things are looking very similar but we do have a trend of red arrows there is one bright spot it won't be too hard for you to notice that one now in the u.k. the footsie it is down for the week as britain

a jump on friday where it was able to hold some of its gains on the week now moving to india the sensex also up on the week and it ended with gains of 1.4 percent on friday in its final hours of trading the private banks index jumped by 8 percent with private banks axis bank and i see i.c.i. leading gains by 13 and 9.5 percent respectively let's move to australia the a.s.x. $200.00 it's also up it rose on the week after 4 consecutive weeks of gains now it finished higher across most sectors nearly closing at a new one month high getting 1.31 percent. it was out the week and in south africa the all share is also up for the week so that's green markets all the way around there so let's go ahead and take a walk across the studio and check in on markets in europe and the americas where things are still positive but we do have a few red arrows to take a look at in london the footsie is one of the green arrows gaining more than 3 percent on early trading on friday again amid optimism on possible treatment for the coronavirus and prospects of lifting some restrictions in france we see our 1st

thursday after oil markets stabilized but still losing at just under one percent on friday in india the sensex had mostly rebounded from some midweek losses but they closed down the week roughly down by one percent after some steep losses on friday the financial sector is really being hit with e.c.c. and interest in bank all sliding by roughly 5 percent then over to australia where the a.s.x. finished out the week gaining half a percent but it still wasn't enough to bring the index into the green health care and consumer staples struggled throughout the week the all shares in south africa finished on the green this friday even after a steep drop made weak the gold mining sector in south africa it is thriving the ran as weaker earlier this week. over a $26000000000.00 stimulus package now moving to european markets all 3 major indices are in the red this is even though the e.u. finally agreed on a $540000000000.00 euro stimulus package it simply wasn't enough to drive markets up in london the footsie appeared that it would actually end green on the week but it fell by 1.5 percent on friday losi

the us will come to school relations and once in a decade sensex with limitless consistency will it get the full picture april on al-jazeera the arab. the are. struggling to cope with its coronavirus day new york a star of record told for a 3rd straight day and the pandemic puts millions more americans out of work. its 5 g.m.t. a watching al-jazeera live from doha with me fully backed people also coming up indonesia decides to get tough after a record rise in infections and criticism of the government. producing countries reach a deal to cut production in an effort to offset the global drop in demand and prices and here they come again dramas in east africa prepare to battle millions of no concern for the 2nd time in months. millions more people have been added to the queues of america's jobless the wider effects of the coronavirus pandemic become clear another $6600000.00 claimed unemployment benefits last week alone that takes a total to nearly 17000000 people in the past 3 weeks and there's fear the rate could rise to numbers not seen since the end of the great depression in some cit

indeed we have opened up by one quarter of 1% on the sensex against the backdrop of the strongerdinglar counterpart. take a look at the stocks making waves. reliance industries of course, mukesh ambani becoming asia's richest man after this deal they did with facebook, which has jion a stake in his platforms. financial difficulties at the moment for one company, being asked whether they can have planes back because they missed payments. vodafone 10% up. could be getting something like 200 million u.s. dollars to steady operations at the indian business. have it. haslinda: u.s. secretary of state mike pompeo is calling for china to be more transparent about the coronavirus. it comes amid mounting frustration in europe over beijing's handling of the outbreak. tom mackenzie has the story. this is further escalation in rhetoric. tom: the rhetoric has been ratcheting up, particularly from the u.s. side. pompeo is the latest visual to add -- individual to add to this. in the early days he accused china of covering the disease up. he said they did not report there was human to human transmi

sensex higher by almost 2%. india joining a broad rally in asia, lifted by sentiment in the u.s.ngs. taking a look at reliance stocks, it is out with earnings earlier. tech mahindra reliance up by about 1% in the lead up to those numbers. talk to us. what are investors looking for when reliance announces its earnings today? look investors are keen to for various commentaries. there was the facebook deal. investorsndustries will clearly be watching out for the new business, which includes consumer and telco. any kind of decline in markets from the oil and mining business would be offset by these new numbers. that includes numbers from reliance jio and retail users would be keenly watched by investors. investors will also be looking for various divestment plans, including saudi aramco. any update on saudi aramco will excite investors. anything that will help reliance industries to make net debt zero will be keenly watched by investors. haslinda: we await those numbers. our indian conglomerates reporter, thank you for that. plenty more to come. this is bloomberg. ♪ haslinda: a group