Im jon fortt. The dow is down. 5 with walgreens and boeing leading to the down side. The nasdaq still slightly in the green. Looking ahead to a huge week tech investors need to be watching cloud, software, devices, and fitness in cloud, the period beginning next week is a time of peak demand for amazon even more so this year. In software, retailers going to need targeting tools from Companies Like adobe to bring shoppers in and keep them loyal. Devices, pcs and con soles are going to keep us watching the likes of fit and in fitness in we cant hit the gym after all that pie, are we going to hit the peloton . Thats the question . Thats a good question. Or my personal favorite, a club row class. Its a good question, john particularly as the opportunity to go to a physical gym, that is diminishing as we see cases rise across the country and more restrictions or, you know, partial lockdowns. But as you lay out the themes, im thinking of some of the companies that have spent the last, you kn
Everyone here is really waiting with baited breath on who the president of the United States is. We understand through the counting that joe biden could win it. It is razor thin, but we dont know for certain. The markets dont expect some kind of surprise, which is why they are stable and up. The other story is the bank of england, talking possibly about negative rates. Although, not for now. Guy johnson in the conversation with the governor talking about the Downside Risk. I think we have learned earlier this year with thoughts of covid, that we act both andkly and we do at clearly scale. We have a very substantial genocide risk on the forecast, and a lot of that relates to how covid itself will evolve. The bank ofernor of england. Extensive comments on this. Really important interview, mr. Johnson, with Nestor Bailey on the bank of england. I should note, sterling rallies nicely. Some of the headlines this morning are pretty shocking. Let me do a data check. Jonathan ferro just emaile
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Road. Oakland road where theres a crash but only on the on ramp. The freeway itself is open, standard slowing there. At the bay bridge toll plaza a backup here, the metering lights are on, shifting around pretty light. Well talk about whats holding it up north. Back to you. Thanks so much, mike. Well, as election day nears, americans as the race to the white house comes down to the wire. People are voting in masses. More than 94 million votes have already been cast. Thats more than twothirds of the votes that were cast in 2016. Today in the bays tracie potts, i want to start with the news President Trump is making calling out dr. Fauci. Reporter so we know theyve been bumping heads over covid for months now. At a rally in florida last night the people, the president s supporters, were cheering for fauci to be fired and this was the president s response. Fire fauci fire fauci fire fauci dont tell anybody, but let me wait until a little bit after the election. I appreciate it. I apprecia
To north stream 2 now the contentious pipeline which is to transport gas from russia to germany has long anger to donald trump drive a sell us gas to europe. This is a small harbor town on the baltic islander for you can. A lot of tourists pass through but otherwise theres not much going on here. What have we done to make u. S. Senators think that they have to threaten us in this way. It was poised to surprise when sasnett suddenly became the focus of an International Political fight the latest iteration of a longstanding conflict the mash owes us a letter to the company that manages the potence us net which is majority owned by the municipality it was written by 3 republican u. S. Senators in august threatening crushing legal and economic sanctions. Thus the letter is a threat. Where they state that they dont want north stream due to be completed by ford thats the main point or die and the threat is directed at our port because we have a plant there that used to case the pipes for nor