[no audio] tom good morning, everyone. Bloomberg surveillance. We welcome all of you worldwide, on Bloomberg Radio and Bloomberg Television. Some technical difficulties there, which usually start with tom keene because i am the one most remote today. I am still at my home here near the mount sinai complex. It has been a most extraordinary morning. Let me give you a sense of the new slow right now before we get to our good conversation this morning. Is certainly decidedly new and more grim news on the pandemic. This has been the seachange news this morning. We have seen it over the last couple of days as well. And in the markets, as Jonathan Ferro has mentioned, a real deterioration over the last number of hours. All of this the reality. I think i could simplistically just say because we have wiped away any sense of a vshaped recovery, that ended somewhere in the vicinity of 2 40 p. M. Yesterday, didnt it . I think there was Jonathan Jonathan i think there was a little bit of exuberance
Talking to strangers from one of my favorite authors, Malcolm Gladwell. I was so jealous last week my husband and son attended a breakfast where he was speaking and of course i Read Everything that he has written and followed his cones for years. Along with blink, out wires, whats a dog saw, the others i have now downloaded on my kindle talking to strangers. Just a little bit into it, not that far but totally intrigued. Ive also made certain that i have my 2020 farmers almanac downloaded and looking at that. You cant be good reading when it comes to the farmers almanac. Its just, i love it. I keep track of it, im a gardener i love being outdoors. So you got to have the farmers almanac. What kind of information can you get from that . By the mac s it the sickness acorn swelling of the trees or the hickory nuts, you will find all sorts of things and that farmer almanac. Before he got to back to other books i want to go back to Malcolm Gladwell for a second. He so counterintuitive and a l
kentucky. it s hard to put into words the amount of devastation that we ve seen. you know, you re talking about some really, really good people here in eastern kentucky don t have a whole lot. and a lot of them have lost everything they ve got. you can hear just sorrow in his voice. the fast rising flood waters forced many people to evacuate, but the storms ended up catching a lot of people by surprise because they happened the middle of the night. and we are learning some really heart breaking stories, like this one in knotts county, four people killed when kids and their parents were forced to go to the roof. the young ones were swept away as their parents tried to hold on. there was a house there and this trailer with this family of six. and it just washed them away. cnn s joe johns joins us live now from hazard, kentucky. you can see some of the damage behind him. joe, tell what you say the latest is. reporter: well, just let me give you an idea, sara, of wher
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A look look at the european Equities Trading and were 30 minutes away from the end of the monday session. Stocks are holding on. Look whats happening in spain, no big impacts on equities from the governments plan to take over the administration of catalonia, the best up 2. 8 and sterling up ahead of the b. O. E. Meeting this week when its widely expected to raise Interest Rates for the first time in a deak. Bond yield are falling commodities and your final two columns today, i want to get to novartis shares who agreed to buy advance accelerator applications, 3. 5 billion in cash, forming up a Pharmaceutical Company whose drugs are used to diagnose and treat diseases such as cancer and novartis head Joseph Jimenez is stepping down after eight years at the helm and announced 30 billion in deals the last four years, the Company Hunting for assets to bolster its business in areas away from cancer, cardiovascular disease, and more m a is considering a merger with u. S. Rival exeltor Coating