Optimism toward a vaccine. On the other hand, bonds, we have this quiet rally. The 10 year yield firmly in this range. Bonds are pricing for the possibility of nearterm challenges around virus spread, oil stocks are looking ahead. It is not clear which side is right. Theres going to be some interesting activity ahead. David thank you so much to abigail doolittle. Fast congressional action helped bring the u. S. Economy back. Theome now one of those at center of the debate over future stimulus, republican congressman patrick mchenry. He is Ranking Member of the finance committee. As i say, i think most people agree, congress acted big and fast and help bring the economy back. Now we are seeing wobbly notes. Do we need more stimulus to avoid a double dip in the economy . Rep. Mchenry yeah, i think we do and i think the Federal Reserve agrees. Art of our country and segments of our economy are doing quite well. You have other segments, like the Restaurant Industry for instance, that are j
Save the lives of one of your childrens teachers, maybe it saves your life. Please, i implore you, wear a mask. Do it for yourself. Do it for your neighbor. A mask is not a political statement. It is a good way to start pulling the country together. I want to be very clear. The goal of mask wearing is not to make your life less comfortable. It is to take or take something away from you. It is to give Something Back to all of us. A normal life. The goal is to get back to normal as fast as possible. Masks are critical in doing that. It will not be forever. That is how we will get our nation back, back up to speed economically. We can go back to celebrating birthdays and holidays, so we can attend sporting events, so we can back to the live and connections we shared before the pandemic. It does not matter who you voted for. We are americans in our country is under threat. We are now called to do the same thing generations of proud americans have done when faced with crisis throughout our
We said tuesday night we knew there would be an effort to count votes that will extend through the week, and now was not the time to get ahead of ourselves. This is how the electoral process is supposed to work. These votes are being counted that were cast in places like arizona. Stage votes were people dropped off ballots on election day. They were set aside, there love the last ones to count, they have a different look to them than the ones cast in advance of the election. We see joe bidens lead diminishing in arizona. In pennsylvania, they set aside all of the early votes and counted the election day votes first, which looked good for donald trump. Now they are counting those ballots that came in later through the electoral vote process, through the early vote process, and it looks much better for joe biden. Until the votes are done, this election is incredibly close, just like in 2016 we have to be patient to decide who the end is. I would say all indication in each of these open s
And surrounding counties are playing a large role in this National Drama as the votes are being counted. Right now, as expected, joe biden has taken the lead. I think that we will continue to build. I dont think there is any drama about that. Most of us who have been in politics know exactly what those mailin ballots will yield. Right now, it looks like joe biden will broaden his lead in pennsylvania. David we want to count all the ballots, we all agree with that, but we heard joe say it is pointing in one direction. We spoke with ed rendell yesterday, and he said he things it will be an 80,000 margin for joe biden. As a political scientist, does that sound plausible . Jeanne i think it does. Joe biden could win with an even larger margin than donald trump won pennsylvania in 2016. The number he gave you yesterday sounds about right. We know the ballots being counted now, absentee mailin ballots, are going in the 70, 80 range for joe biden. Those are lifting his numbers. That is why we
Christine lagarde, president of the ecb, moderated by Francine Lacqua. Francine what a great pleasure to be here with Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central bank, and welcome to the forum here at bloomberg. Everyone is talking about the vaccine. How will that actually change your forecast and the economy if we do get a vaccine early next year . Ms. Lagarde it is lovely to see you and to participate. To your question, i am not sure it is going to be a major game changer for our forecast, simply because what we had anticipated in our baseline was that some stage in the first half of 2021, there would be a vaccine, and that it would be rolled out in the course of 2021. So it might be a little back celebrated a little bit accelerated given the news we are receiving from the various horizons, germany, the u. S. , but i dont think it is going to be a game changer, so to speak. I think that our forecast is being revisited all those times we speak, and we will be releasing on dec