Net 245 thousand people went back to work in november. That is significantly slower than we have seen every month since we started gaining again. Private payrolls, only 344,000. Last month in october, that was 877,000. The unlimit rate does fall to 6. 7 , but that is in large part because fewer people were in the labor force looking for jobs. Heres the thing that i think is really going to be important as we look at how the pandemic reshaped the economy. You look at what happened with retail hiring. 35,000 jobs lost in retail in a month when they are usually hiring for holiday sales. Createdad 118,000 jobs in the warehousing and courier sectors, which are the people who work for the online sales departments. It is a real change. Finally, the total labor force is still 9. 8 million below where it was in february. So no matter how well we have come back, no matter what that initial v looks like, it is starting to flatten out now, and you still have almost 10 Million People who had jobs i
Budget copper mise. This is going budget compromise. Eu budget compromise. That is going to be one of the stories we are focusing on next week. Brexit talks are a difficult place, according to one u. K. Official. We will watch carefully that story over the weekend. We will see what happens monday morning. Aroundare higher, up by 0. 4 . The payrolls seem to have provided a reason to believe that stimulus is coming. It is interesting to see what is happening there. Bonds on the other side of the atlantic to where i am now, we are up to yield highs, march highs. An aggressive move we are seeing stateside. The pound is 1. 3475. Brent crude catching a bid, just sub 50. 49. 08 is where we sit now. Alix lets get to the latest on the coronavirus pandemic. We learned yesterday pfizer scaledback vaccine targets for 2020 because they ran into difficulties getting all the materials it needs. They say they have fixed that problem now. Joining us now is sam fazeli, Bloomberg Intelligence senior phar
Rising by 2000s a day. A vaccine on the horizon. The u. S. Could approve the pfizer shot as early as thursday. Secretary alex azar says all americans who want a vaccine should be able to get one next year. Azar we will focus on the front lines with the initial 40 million doses in the next month, and we will progressively keep adding more and more people. Be thinking in the februarymarch time frame you are going to see more general vaccinations. The Second Quarter of next year, we will have enough vaccine for everyone who wants it. Is dr. Georgeme rutherford, university of california San Francisco professor of epidemiology. You are in california, locking down as of yesterday. Give me some perspective. What is going on on the ground . How bad is it . Dr. Rutherford this week, we are having more cases than we have ever had. The icus are starting to fill up. Fresno and bakersfield, los angeles, metropolitan Southern California the icu capacity is below 15 . It is very, very problematic and
Come whichrevious also been revised higher. There was some expedition that as prices come up because of the fact you can get cheap lending at the moment or cheap borrowing , you would expect that at some have, that would start to an impact on a month by month basis. Nevertheless, the market was looking for this month on month number two actually slow, and that hasnt happened, which is really interesting and the light of what we are starting to see in the employment market. We saw initial jobless claims out a little bit earlier on. Youre starting to see the negative data could begin from the employment side of the economy, starting to come in a little softer. Bloombergs mike mckee joining us now with the details of that. Michael at one point on the housing numbers, existing home sales or closings, so these contracts were signed a couple of months ago when things were a little better in the economy, and we got low mortgage rates, so the one thing the fed has been able to do is stimulate
Is come down really sharply on the brexit news. Walk johnson prepared to away. The pound is plummeting on the back of that. We recovered a little bit, but still down. 9 . 1. 12. E sterling is at in europe, the equities are rolling over, the euro stoxx the euro stoxx down. We have money moving back into of bonds, in the same in the United States. Lets talk about brexit. Prime minister Boris Johnson and the European Commission prime minister, set to start a crucial phone call starting about now. Could it be make or break . Pound falling sharply . The counseling sharply. Walk away. Pared to the real deadline appears to be eu summitahead of the on thursday. Joining us now, we have our bloomberg governments and brexit reporter. What are we expecting from the phone call with Boris Johnson . Reporter one of two things, either we get them saying we will keep talking. Think we could get an agreement here or this is the moment where they say, we should notkeep talking, so why into this now . We