Belgium urge eu leaders to step up plans for a no brexit. 50 questions from german lawmakers. We will talk to a member of the team. Rd investigative a warm welcome to the program. U. K. Data. Datac sector net borrowing coming in this morning. Excluding the banking group. At 28. 3ber has come in billion pounds. That is below estimates. The estimate was for 30 billion. That are than anticipated. Really interesting aspect here payhat the Public Sector conversation will look like from here. We have a Spending Review coming wednesday of next week. In july, the chancellor made the point that the fed felt publicsector pay was needed. We are bracing for some effort from the treasury with regard to Public Sector pay. Squeeze in Public Sector pay perhaps coming. We will focus on that and it will be interesting to see the comments coming through or the numbers coming through on the banking sector. That is the u. K. Data. Markets. Futures looking a little bit mixed really if you take a global pict
The strongest week since back to april. However, you have to put that in context. Two weeks ago was a lousy week in fact, two weeks ago the dow lost just over 1800 points, down by 1833 points last week the dow was up by 1821 points so that was a giveback for the dow kind of starting things over if you look at the other major averages, they got back much more ground than they had lost the previous week. Last week the s p was up 329 points after being down 195 the week before and the nasdaq was up by 983 points last week after losing 636 points the week before but again these gains this morning are significant ones they are adding to what we saw last week. Also, take a look at whats happening in the treasury market youll see that right now the treasury, the tenyear, is yielding 0. 812 so its stabilized after bouncing around quite a bit during the election and the election counting last week stabilized at 0. 812 andrew thanks, becky our top story this morning, president elect biden wastin
The most important issue. The blur of information we are getting, the effect on the markets, the effect on the nations politics, it doesnt matter. The pandemic statistics, the cases, the hospitalizations, and yes, rising death rates are front and center. Jonathan couldnt agree more. The conversation is so familiar to everyone sitting in london, in europe watching this play out. You start at 10 00 p. M. Curfew you start to limit dining. Then what . That is the concern for a lot of people this morning. Tom im going to use the hands up. That has proven so effective on radio worldwide. Think of it like three hockey bucks of death in europe. Inis only one hockey puck the United States. Europe is way out front of this, and i am frightened by the idea we will begin to see the deaths expand. The other thing i am frightened by, lisa takes a day off, and rumor has it she left day bear, and i think shes returned a bull. [laughter] jonathan lets see how long this one last. I reckon we can get to a
How retailers are shifting Sales Strategies online this Holiday Season then, questions over astrazenecas vaccine trial, what the ceo is saying this morning. And finally what a salesforce acquisition of slack means at this hour. Right back at you in terms of this market action, we have seen it a lot, mike in terms of the dows performance this month there has been some rotation lets start there. Somebody this morning saying aerospace is up 40 . Which frankly i did not necessarily know it has been that strong in that short amount of time does it continue in this rotation or do we have to watch this in last day, day and a half of trading there has been a stutter step in that rotation. We had a couple of these since march. One of them peaked in june now it has been very, very aggressive aerospace is part of the industrials group. Industrials fully kind of got back to precovid levels and the valuations of industrial stocks are well above where they were based on expected earnings eight month
Gdp readings are expected to show an 18 rebound from the covid19 fallout. 15 asiapacific nations formally launched the biggest freetrade deal. The accord covers 2 billion people and is a decade in the making. Howi lets take a look at it is feeding through. Havent seen much of a reaction when it comes to the kiwi aussie dollar. We are seeing bond markets the little bit cautious. We are seeing 3 10 of 1 when it comes to trading in sydney. Thirdquarter gdp numbers showing a sharp rebound in japan. We are seeing nikkei futures trading mildly optimistically. That is the picture when it comes to u. S. Futures. Back to thiss get incredible trade deal. After eight years of difficult negotiations, the largest ever freetrade deal has finally been signed. The regional, comprehensive, Economic Partnership includes 15 countries with china, japan, on. Ralia and all of aussie how important is the timing of this considering the damage caused by covid19 . This will be, as trade ministers will say, a bi