Treasury yield target. Chancellor merkel looks to repair the transatlantic trade ties but bidens Irish Heritage threatens the u. K. s special relationship as his views around a hard border in ireland remains central to brexit talk. Welcome to the program, everybody. Just under one hour to go until the start of cash equities trading. Lets have a look at where users have us positioned. We saw a strong appetite for risk assets last week and that continues with the big news over the weekend about president elect biden. Point 21. 550 futures percent, echoed by ftse futures and dax futures. Buyave a sense of if not everything, buy risk and treasuries. We are not seeing full wholehearted embrace of the fixed income asset class this morning. This is what got on the global stocks outlook. Mastec futures outperforming. A lot of this had to do with hyden the optimism around what President Biden might do around stimulus although there is a senate conversation. What does this mean for reflation . W
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
Painful losers. If you got big gain is a time to take profit . Should you harvest losses and beatendown stocks cannot next, is pandemic togetherness making you feel squeezed in your home . Is better to remodel or trade up for a bigger place . This year americans were given the chance to make penalty free withdrawals from their Retirement Savings what you need to consider on the barrons roundtable like colleagues beverly, jack so beverly, what a year this year we saw stock zooming higher when they benefited from the pandemic and then we saw other sectors get slammed. While we usually recommend a buy and hold approach there are some moves that investors ought to be considering this time of year, right . Spewing absolutely. As you noted, jack, 2020 has been a tale of two markets. Stocks are all almost 40 this year but its been driven mostly by big attack. Apple, amazon for instance, they are both up more than 60 weve also seen pieinthesky evaluations on pandemic stock. As he has nearly tr
Still have a crack at taking the senate, but with biden inching to the white house, what policymaking is the market baking in . Biden hasy rains, but taken many by surprise. Joe the real winner this week, not biden, not trump, the good old 6040 portfolio. Everybody had left it for dad not long ago. Theof the best weeks for 6040 portfolio in a long time. End of election volatility. We are not likely to get a big stimulus. The diversified investor wins again. Romaine another big winner on the week was anyone shorting volatility. Most volatility measures started to pick up. The idea that we were going to get a contested election, at least today it looks like we may get a result here. That seems to have settled the market a little bit here. Some clarity as to what congress will look like. Your main measures of market volatility, and bond market volatility, all moving forward. Keyline diversification is and Asset Classes for the year that have beaten all of them, crypto. Who would have thou
We welcome all of you to an onraordinary friday morning Bloomberg Radio and Bloomberg Television. It is jobs day. We will look at the state of this pandemic economy at 8 30. But we will also begin to see substantial count and returns from these key states of georgia and pennsylvania. Jonathan really tight races in places like georgia and nevada, tightening in arizona and pennsylvania. That is the focus for market participants. I would go one step further. Also a focus on the senate. A reporter a little while ago said it wouldnt be a blue wave, it would be a blue mist if we got a 5050 in the senate with a Biden White House. That would really change the story. Then youve got to reshape the narrative of the past couple of days that have been driving this market. Tom we will get to the data here as we move along. Futures, 38. The dollar a little bit weaker. Gold up 50 over the last number of days. Michael holland scheduled to be with us on the market. I am still trying to find an entry poi