Francine one week to go, biden picks up his campaign pace as the senate hands the Supreme Court judge confirmation to trump and republicans. Syphilis Nancy Pelosi Nancy pelosi and Steve Mnuchin failed to make a deal. And chief executive noah quinn cast credit losses. Paybank aims to conservative diffidence. Welcome to bloomberg surveillance. Tom keene in new york, im french on the quad and london. That Francine Lacqua and london. We have hsbc, we talk about dividends. Bp saying it will be a very volatile couple of quarters ahead. Tom the pandemic overlay was still ahead. That was the theme yesterday, far more than the election, it was certainly the talk of new york. Every conversation was about a reinventing of the pandemic. Thee going to try to put nearlyhrough today, not as much damage as you would we are witht here futures up six. Francine and what is also significant is a lot of european countries, there seems to be a backlash against governments that are trying to put too many res
Francine i agree. The sports angle is extremely significant, and i hear more people say what does it mean for the future . If you have so much power and are able to bring so much pleasure to so many people, that seems to be the future of where this is headed, unless we get a vaccine. I was looking forward to seeing about inflation and if the Central Banks are right in saying we shouldnt believe all the hype, or if we get a vaccine, even if it is quick, it will be a cureall. One of the things we will explore further in this hour. Tom election 2020 is still ongoing. And somehow weekend stagger through the holiday season. You wonder what the news flow will be about 8 00 p. M. Tonight within the United States of america. In new york city with our first word news, here is karina mitchell. rejecting President Trumps claims of widespread voter fraud. They say last weeks election was the most secure in American History and there is no evidence any Voting System deleted, lost votes, changed vot
Good morning on bloomberg radio. Good morning on bloomberg television. It is extraordinary to be the beginning on global wall street of the holiday season, and i can never i can never think, even the tragedy of 9 11, i cant imagine how much of a tragedy this holiday will be with the pandemic. Jonathan the numbers are terrible. We talked about it an hour ago. We started this month with daily infections in and around 80,000. That has doubled in 11 days. If Health Care Capacity gets tested, they will start to introduce more restrictions. Heres the critical issue. Who is going to step in . Where the fiscal policy maker . Bridgewaterf says we have a mismatch between the length of the pandemic and the willingness of fiscal policy makers to do something in equal length. Tom it has widened out, without question. What is so important here is to gauge the pandemic, and we are all doing that on a local basis. You and i, we hear more sirenss again in new york city, and we are all dealing with the
What we are get interesting the university of Michigan Sentiment survey. The headline number, way, way weaker than anticipated. That number coming in at 77. Thats down from 81. 8 last time around. When things are good well north of 100. The expectation was for 82. Current conditions, 85. 8. Thats actually ahead of expectations. But its the expectation number, the forwardlooking number here, that is really sharply lower. Coming through at 71. 3, alix, versus 79. 1 in terms of where the market, the economists had forecast that number. Down from 79. 2. A much more gloomy outlook for the u. S. Consumer from the u. S. Consumer. Alix no doubt. As covid cases are spiking everywhere here in the new york, it feels like we are headed for a School Shutdown as well. Get the read on what that means to the consirmse with ajay. Its always good to get your read. You have this more pessimistic expectation outlook from the consumer. Then you have rising covid cases and you have targeted regional shutdow
Cases are stuck. If you go back into lockdown, you will have a revolt. I am more interested in china. We broke the story that they are looking this was reuters they are looking a little more when it comes to renminbi. I did spend a good of time looking this up, on sunday, china clearly said it was trying to push to have a bigger international this means more pboc report. Reutersst report from we broke saying that china will remove a countercyclical factor in the yuan bay point in that direct and may point in that direction. Halt, shelf will its plan to let hedge cut to let hedge funds conceal stock holding. That is a big decision. That is just breaking. Thatll have to see where leads this morning. Futures up six. Dow futures up 20. We will do the data check in a moment. But now, first world news with ritika gupta. Ritika Amy Coney Barrett has been sworn in as a justice of the supreme court. Boothsst of two required administered. Every republican but one voted in favor. Chief Justice Jo