That is the shoes, right . The shoe extension . Francine i dont know if you can hear it, but it is a neighbors. It wont last very long. Hammeringtle bit of there. We welcome all of you here, to the realities of the pandemic. The pandemic is front and center, but there is a lot of other news. I would note pacific rim currencies continue strong. Francine they certainly do, and there is quite a lot going on also in pound talks, so lets not forget brexit and the u. K. E. U. Relationship. Les get to first word news with ritika gupta. Ritika the Trump Campaign is abandoning demands that almost 700,000 is withdrawing a key part of its lawsuit against the Election Results in pennsylvania. It is abandoning demands that almost 700,000 mailin ballots be thrown out because observers were kept too far away from the count. The challenge is now against a far smaller number of ballots, almost certainly just a fraction of bidens lead in the state. Joe biden is Meeting National security experts, but his
Tech and bond trades play out. Lets dig a little deeper into the virus story in the u. S. U. S. Infectious disease official Anthony Fauci says it wont be a pandemic a lot longer because of vaccine progress. Joining us now with more is bloomberg Senior Editor drew armstrong. We all want to have the monday where we were very happy about the Pfizer Biontech results. What if the state of play in the u. S. . Drew the state of play in the u. S. Is brutal. We are sitting case records because of uncontrolled spread in huge amounts of the u. S. Hospitalizations are higher than they have been at any point during the pandemic. During thet pandemic. Depend on who you ask, 1500 sorry, 1506 to two deaths in the u. S. Yesterday, a number we havent seen since the early days of the pandemic. Numberout every single or way you look at this that you can is going in the wrong direction right now, and newman the hospitalizations and knowing that hospitalizations after that, it is going to be a grizzly pictu
The u. S. Election and there is profit taking in parts of the market. Investors, trying to figure out what a biden possible blue sweep and the senate means for markets. The focus is on brexit. Rushing outstories and we go to the fed and jobs tumbling. Oil two other stories we are watching, euro area october are thanring pmi, that expected, 54. 8 instead of 54. 4. Se extra this is pretty lockdowns. Watch down for some of the stocks because there was an input error. Maybe we look at individual countries instead of the stoxx 600 as a whole. Lets get to the first word news in new york in london with leighann gerrans. And thank you. With one day until the u. S. President ial election, democratic nominee joe biden is leading incumbent donald trump in a series of polls. He remains ahead nationally as well as in key battleground states although some of the races remain extremely close. A number of polls put widen and ahead in the key swing state of pennsylvania. The u. K. Is set to enter a loc
I do want to highlight a 10 year yield in the u. S. , the yield is lower by about one basis point. 60 to 70 basis points, and how much can we tolerate on higher upside when it comes to yields . The Democrat National convention will be focusing on joe bidens vision of the party. Last night focused on trumps performance in office including his handling of covid19. To everyone who supported other candidates in the primary, and to those who may have voted for donald trump in the last election, the failed federal government that watched new york get ambushed by their negligence and then watched new york suffer but all through it learned absolutely nothing. Itay, six months after began, the nation is still unprepared. Magic if we had a national strategy. So everyone has access to a safe vaccine. More than 150,000 people have died and our economy is in shambles because of a virus that this president downplayed for too long. That even before trumps negligent response to this pandemic, too many
July. It is the last week in july and we are running out of Unemployment Benefits and the rent is due august 1. There is a lot going on. Francine we will spend a lot of time on that. Lets get to first word news gupta. Itika group unveileditch mcconnell the new relief package, listing unemployment to 70 of prepandemic wages. Makes to pelosi panned that proposal. Health officials around the world are getting a reminder of how tough it is to permanently stamp out coronavirus. They are grappling with second waves of the pandemic. China reported the most cases since midmarch, and spain is scrambling to stay ahead of new outbreaks. Posed a new imposing new quarantine on travelers from there. Will stay near zero for a longer while. Policymakers open the twoday meeting tomorrow. The last day they met was in early june. Florida and california have yet to see the surges have that if that that have afflicted them since then. China eagle authorities following the closure, the latest development in