FOX News reporter, Chad Pergram, reaffirms the earlier story
Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, and House GOP leader, Kevin McCarthy, will be headed to the White House later to discuss the next stimulus bill with Trump and Mnuchin. This adds to the story from earlier in the day .

European equities creep a little higher alongside US futures
Risk sentiment has picked up in the last hour, with the DAX now seen up by ~0.6% and trading at the 13,000 level for the first time since 25 February. Meanwhile, US futures have also improved to be down by ~0.1% after observing around ~0.6% losses earlier.

Comments by ECB vice president, Luis de Guindos
Well, the thing is while the sharp drop in Q2 isn’t quite the worst-case scenario, it is still bad. The issue now is will the recovery thereafter be as robust as what policymakers and lawmakers expect it to be? That is the more pressing concern in my view