The next 100 days. Tom the transition challenges are simple. He needs a single letter out of gsa and that has not happened yet. We will do with Greg Valliere a on this in a moment. There are still four states with under a 1 count, and that is really what matters around all the hoopla. Francine it certainly does. Lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news in new york city with ritika gupta. Biden is launching his transition effort while President Trump continues legal challenges over the election. The news media declared biden the winner of the president ial election on saturday. The former Vice President won or was leading in states that would give him more than 270 electoral votes needed for victory. Meanwhile, the president has falsely claimed victory whilst saying there was widespread in legal voting. He has not offered any evidence. President elect joe biden will take the first step to one of his Biggest Campaign promises today, to bring the Coronavirus Crisis under control
Fromsion off of the news pfizer. Lets just frame where this market is. Ill let lisa worry about bonds. I am looking for an entry point, and i dont have one coming with s p futures out to record highs, up 120. Jonathan lets get straight to the price action of this moment. Equity futures are absolutely surging, up by 3. 3 . It is a huge turnaround. On the 30 year we go about to 88 basis points. A bit of dollar weakness back through this market, just south of 1. 19. A vaccine possibly helping us normalize this global economy. What does that mean . Bti with a 40 handle. Lisa it looks like pfizer will get some of the safety data necessary to see whether they can get some of the emergency approval to roll this out. This is what everyone has been waiting for. I simply, what is the Circuit Breaker to the surge in covid cases we have seen . Could this be yet . The market is saying yes, and the chances of higher growth, very high according to the market trade this morning. We can bring in sams n
7. 44 . As you noted before the yield curve. Steepening and a rally in the financials you mentioned that june 10 was the high that was the day where the markets had their maximum enthusiasm about the strength of the recovery and how fast it would be that was the peak where the come back of value and cyclical sectors. That seems to be the dynamic and the push for which stocks were preferred and the market seven days in a row of records is not to be dismissed guys the intraday record high in this session and well have to see if this continues . Yesterdays high is around 3,500. Coming up, well talk about the abrupt halt to the sports world. We ha we have fed president s and the interim ceo of tiktok. What a story it has been and a soap opera all week long we are learning more in the details in the sale of tiktok after walmart confirmed it has teamed up with microsoft sources tell us that walmart ineshlly wanted to be the lead buyer together with what was alphabet and soft bank coo and ran
U. S. The global focus. Ines surged cases surged california and texas. Walmart demands customers wear masks. Knowing green. New south wales has a new plan for renewable power, energy and the environment. Quick check of the markets, u. S. Futures opening flat. This after u. S. Stocks climbed to a fiveweek high in the regular session. We have 10 of 11 s p 500 sectors closing up. He had vaccine developments bringing this rush of optimism to financial markets. This, despite escalating tensions between china and the u. S. Moderna and astrazeneca are rising on the optimism. More positive ecodata, u. S. Industrial output rebounding in june. Pickup in Economic Activity. Take a look at what oil is doing. Under a little pressure, headed towards the 40 per barrel level. This after jumping to a four month high. We had strong ecodata and we have President Trump indicating he doesnt want to add more sanctions against chinese officials for now, not to mention a report on a drop on u. S. Crude stockpi
Us venezuelas legal battle to access gold reserves in the u. K. It moves to britains high court. The rate of cover 1000. 00 infections have surged across southern and southwestern u. S. States new cases of the virus spiked for bars restaurants and other businesses reopened early it has some questioning whether restrictions have been lifted too soon rob runnels reports from los angeles. 29 u. S. States and territories are seeing a spike in coronavirus cases several including arizona california oklahoma and texas reported record high single day infections governor rhonda scientists says worrying numbers of new cases involve young people who were previously thought to be at lesser risk huge huge numbers of people particularly in that 20 to 30 cohort who are testing but then testing positive 62 percent of all new cases in florida for the week of june 7th are under the age of 45 decentest says some younger people have let down their guard i think that weve started to see you know some erosi