Report help to boost sent men this morning with the u. S. Economy adding 638,000 jobs in october. The Unemployment Rate fell to 6. 9 the coronavirus surge remains in focus, the u. S. Setting a record with more than 121,000 cases on thursday according to Johns Hopkins data 59 minutes left of the session in what has been a crazy week. Today though essentially flat, sara. Holding onto the gains i would argue, which are very strong so far this week. Ahead on todays show we will ask jeff sonnenfield how americas Corporate Leaders are thinking about the heated election race. Big news out of cvs as larry merlo announces hi retirement. We will also speak with the ceo of hershey asking about how cappy sales fell during this years unusual halloween season. Lets get to the final hour of trade, the markets and the election mike santoli tracking all the action for stocks. Frank has the vote count in pennsylvania ylan moi is covering the balance of power in the senate how georgias undetermined races
Good morning on Bloomberg Radio, good morning on bloomberg television. Too much to talk about. You hear it within those voices, that maybe it is the morning after, and the vaccine is really not out there. Now we get into a churn of the immediate news. Jonathan it is a tugofwar between the forward outlook looking better and the nearterm outlook looking worse. A real divergence between the two. How policymakers navigate the former will allow markets to keep the help about the latter. That is the hope for the market. First half of the week about cyclical appetite. 500 downhalf, the s p 0. 6 and nasdaq futures just about positive on the day. Tom we are going to roll the data check here through because it is a mess this morning. I just saw a 93 print on dollar. That speaks to the resiliency of dollar. Weve had a weaker dollar, but we just seem to come back when the uncertainty reigns. Lisa that seems to be the theme with all of the uncertainty on the dollar. When there is a risk off feel, p
All. Our. Own unwelcome jewels apart while all eyes are still on counting and recounting develops in the 2020 us president ial elections have already chappie latest whats been known all along that the United States it is one of the most politically polarized countries on the planet with little agrement on its history that got boring and above all what it means to be an american so they how is this schism going to influence the next 4 years for america regardless of all because its next president will to discuss that im now joined by david brady professor of Political Science and literature ballasts at staffer at the university and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution professor radians great to talk to you thank you very much for taking time to talk to your. Now i know youve been predicting him perhaps personally a wishing for a joe biden win and perhaps its a bit here early still to encore the champagne but have you at least put the bottle into the fridge. Think it looks pretty good
Incumbent, what happens now and is it time to stop labeling trump voters races especially so many are black, hispanic, postelection error of potential new speaker of the house and the 2018 the media raise about the emails democrats elected to congress, have you heard too much about the republican women, i didnt think so there breaking records only joined by congressional candidates elect nicole malibu dockets and much more on making money. Loca. Charles the market is taking a breather after a sizzling week of gains, the notion of a divided government essentially you have a democratic president and then the split congress, historically the s p as turned an average of 13. 6 every time this happened since 1945, that is average, i think the market had a chance to look back at the strong earnings season for tickly with the positive to negative guidance ratio and this of course still hope the stimulus happens less than three or maybe less than 2 trillion, meanwhile he resisted point have bee
A record turnout we hear from commentators on the key issues. Sort of so they want to stop the killing over so if you want to continue tell me its a joke every night after night after that except when i watch the big board our system is the worst we also see that in the United States constitution voting is never mentioned at all welcome to the international on to our coverage of the u. S. Election counting in key battleground states continues. The contest for the white house could be over in the coming hour was with a Democrat Joe Biden looking more and more likely to be declared the went on increasing his vote margins in key states however a recount has been announced in the state of georgia leaving america on tenterhooks attention is focused on a handful of states and well still waiting for crucial results and nevada on. To have the democrats hold a slot and. Well as it stands this is how it. Has 264. 00 alexis if you include arizona which some say is too early to cool but if we assu