Nation, and Bloomberg Television as well. I love how we end our opening withistopher Christopher Verrone of strategas. A lot of people rationalizing where we are and beginning to rationalize outcome a way utes come on down 30,000 where we are and beginning to rationalize out, wait a minute 30,000. Jonathan lets be clear about something, they have been bullish and right through most of the last eight months. Most hatedlked about bull market, but this recovery has been underappreciated. I have sat here many times waiting for it to fade. It hasnt. But i think now things have changed. Restrictions are back. It is our closing indoor dining. The letdowns wont be the same as early spring, but the restrictions are there for all to see. The question is how much of this do you tolerate. ,om what is just as important moments ago at Deutsche Bank on the fact of a weaker dollar. How weak is weak . What do you see was in the literature . Jonathan if you are ecb president Christine Lagarde, too weak
Market, that is the title. Retail earnings rolling out this morning. Economic data showing customers are slowing their spending. October retail sales data shows the slowest growth in about six month. Joining us to break it down is michael mckee, Bloomberg Economic and policy correspondent. Michael we call it getting whacked upside the head here in the colonies. In april, just a 0. 3 gain for the month of october, down from 1. 6 in the month of october, with the pendant was at its worst in april. Only five of 13 categories rose last month, compared with 11 of 13 in the prior month. October andm november seems to be getting worse. Jp morgan economists report that chase card spending has fallen notably in the first part of this month. It is, as they say, really dropping off,. That suggests a weaker month ahead. Who knows what will happen with black friday, if anybody cares about that anymore, but it is a clear americans are cutting back. The actual results come a much less meaningful than
Caroline you know what . I will go for the interruption technique. No, i am going to play nice. By caffeine and sugar. I tried sweet potato with marshmallow on top, and American American top, an delicacy. Not so sure about it. Onathan a quiet day ahead both sides of the olanta. Caroline of the atlantic. Caroline this is like a black friday of no other. We will have empty stores. Everyone is online. But those traders will still be logging onto their computers. I feel as though perhaps we are going to get a little more activity than we use to. Certainly we sought on the cryptocurrency front. Jonathan we start with equity futures and work our way through the bond market, foreignexchange as well. Equity futures up about seven on the s p 500. We advanced 0. 2 . Outside of that, and the bond market, mentioned the bid into treasuries. Yields coming in on the 30 year to 0. 86 . Eurodollar, some really big calls coming through. Theres a feeling that maybe next year is a repeat of 2017, when we
For a september quarter. There are also concerns about the ant ipo fallout. And america awaits the outcome of the president ial election, seven states now holding the keys to the white house. Wisconsin heads to a recount and others face challenges in court. Foropen here in sydney friday trading in asian markets, we have seen an eerie calm and trading across equity markets, and globally, on expectations that policy gridlock will me know extreme measures when it comes to the tax front being taken and more status quote when it comes to the visible markets. We are up. 2 when it comes to sydney, the in aussie dollar and commoditieslinked currencies it particularly well. We have the u. S. Dollar fall to its lowest in two years. The nikkei 225, we expect weakness going into the open but we have japanese stocks trading in the green every day of the week. Also watching the yen, but interestingly, as an election respirometer, we continue to watch price action in china as well as volatility in ch
A googles dominance in searching an advertising online and space touchdown that nasa has plans for an ambitious landing on an asteroid more than 320000000 kilometers from earth. Thank you for joining us there are reports of gunshots in africa as most populous city lagos as authorities try to break up protests people are rallying in the finance of a 24 hour curfew that came into effect just hours earlier the restrictions were implemented after Anti Police Brutality protests turned violent with anti riot squads the ploy that nationwide in nigeria about 20000000. 00 people across the commercial hub of lagos and the surrounding areas will be subject to the curfew only essential workers will be allowed to leave their homes the state over a key has also moved into 24 hour curfew well the protests followed the release of a video on social media on october 3rd of a Police Officer from the now the span did spend. Robbery squad or saw as shooting a young Man Amnesty International says at least 1