Workers of an annual cost of a billion dollars and thats why the stock is down. Down 1. 6 . Tesla, the stock thats going straight up and it has nothing to do with the virus. Tesla, 500 index meaning a lot of Money Managers have to buy the stock so up it goes and by the way the gain of 53 13 makes elon musk the third richest person in the world. Overall, the market is in a mild selloff mode. Dow jones closing and 29950. Its retreating a bit. S p down about 25, nasdaq a slight gain. A big tech is doing okay. We are in creeping lockdown mode and thats the problem for the markets as many states and cities imposing new restrictions as virus cases arise. Wear a mask in north dakota, utah. No Indoor Dining in california, michigan and in philadelphia, no indoor football watching parties. My opinion, thanksgiving next week, confrontation is coming. Who will enforce limits on your thanksgiving celebration . Where does president elect joe biden the stand, lockdown joe, where does he stand . Hes n
But im good and im back. Tom we are thrilled that you are back, and this illness is something, whether it is the flu or covid or whatever. Betsy grace at Morgan Stanley yesterday, and she said she is focused on the original moment we had in earnings yesterday. We will see that with j. P. Morgan and wells fargo. As you mention in your opening, the major thrust here, country to country come is on lockdown, and if and when anybody can really wish country to country, is on lockdown, and if anybody can relinquish the quarantine on society. Francine we will have a full round down rundown on the possibility of a vaccination, but we are nowhere near that yet. We also have to look at antibody testing. Lets get to the bloomberg first word news in new york city with viviana hurtado. Viviana President Donald Trump hopes to reopen the u. S. Ahead of schedule. The president saying within days the administration will issue guidance for governors who want to relax social distancing practices. The pres
Particular pressure early in the session, but paring some of those losses, down by about 0. 3 right now. We had seen the pound gaining on the back of those polls i mentioned in the headline, but that seems to be shortlived. Now we see a fairly flat pound. 1. 2916 is where we trade on the u. K. Currency right now. Lets check out a bloomberg first word news update. Heres leighann gerrans. Ighann beijing told the u. S. Ambassador to quit meddling in hong kong affairs. The chinese also warned the bill could affect cooperation in important areas. The u. S. And china are in the midst of negotiating a trade deal. The white house is pushing to wrap up negotiations on a new trade deal with mexico and canada. The agreement known as usmca has become President Trumps top legislative priority. The administration and House Democrats have been locked in talks for months to secure a vote before the end of this year. Democrats want more enforcement of labor issues. Both mexico and canada say there has
Level, i was president thinking about the fed like everybody else i was thinking that stel, yes, stel is a wonderful thing. Hallelujah. What do i mean by scale a company with scale is a company thats big enough and powerful enough to control its own destiny. A company that scales is one that survives and then thrives in even the toughest environment that a fed chief is worried about or anybody else. Just listen to nothing but washington scale, scale simply being bigger than the other guy, a lot bigger is an enormous advantage we saw the benefits play out today. Exhibit a, amazon. It crossed the trillion dollar threshold this morning amazon didnt become this unstoppable behemoth because jeff bezos is brilliant, which he is. It got here by leveraging scale. Amazon is dominant because its so big they use that scale to get better price from the suppliers to pass on to you. We have antitrust law because when you get big enough, well, no one can compete against you bezos saw how he could use
Jonathan it was better with cable down and the euro at 1. 17. Alix talking about cable, take a look at the gilt market. In the gilt market you are seeing yields up about four basis points. After thetively flat data out of the u. K. Unemployment and wages. Dollarmex down slightly. Aluminum missed, down 1 . David it is time for your morning brief. We will start out here in from two fed president s, bill dudley and Robert Kaplan in a discussion. U. S. Nutes later we get Housing Starts and Building Permits for september, and the Senate Finance committee will meet with President Trump. Jonathan chinas president xi jinping laid out a roadmap to turn the country into a leading country by 2050. He warns there may still be a bumpy road ahead to success. Our development is due within a great situation. Slight but our challenge is tough. Jonathan opening chinas doors to foreign businesses and monetary policy. Joining us are Tom Mackenzie and enda curran. Just run us through the highlights of what