Uch more going on in this hour, chair yellen will join us. I will ask about the speculation of her taking a position within the biden administration. Yes, we will talk about Climate Change and the Nobel Laureates process. I want to go to the equity markets right now, and ben laidler talking about a multiple. Is this morning the beginning of a melt up . Jonathan not for me to call that. The habit talk around the happy talk around more stimulus, maybe. This market just wants to go higher. Market participants find a narrative to tell us why is going higher. Three months ago, a blue wave was bearish. Three months forward, a blue wave potentially is now bullish. I think that is this i think that is just the mood of market because of its right now. Tom what is so important then is to see the china gdp statistic today. 4. X percent is 4. X percent. Jonathan we have been talking about the Global Economy as one complete entity. There is so much divergence right now. The chinese economy is reall
Trading could be numbered. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to bloomberg surveillance. I am Francine Lacqua here in london. The markets are telling the story of three things we are watching. First of all, Central Banks, second, politics, number three, rising some kind of program, so trying to temper that with relief to companies with furloughs. We did have senator kamala , and what that means is the widening polls for joe biden seem to have been taken in stride when it comes to the markets. I am looking at dollars weakening, travel Companies Leading gains in europe on the stoxx 600, and i am looking at a couple of other things, treasury yields steady and gold getting a little boost. Coming up, looking at the decision from chairman lorenzo bini smaghi, we talk brexit and Central Banks. Now, lets get to the bloomberg first word news in london with leighann gerrans. Hi, leighann. Leighann good morning, francine. Record daily increases. National politicians are leading leaning on politi
The u. K. Considers new curves in london. The rda prepares to meet with melbourne again in lockdown. Pam braces for more economic gloom with First Quarter growth data. We are expecting a steeper downward revision. Lets get a check of where mark were markets are setting up. Here Sophie Kamaruddin in hong kong. Here is Sophie Kamaruddin in hong kong. Sophie a cautious start to the month of august after asian stocks have a fourth monthly gain. We are seeing sp Futures Holding steady and looking like a soft start to this trading week. Gold futures testing 2000, bouillon extending its rise after the best month in four years while u. S. Real yields lingered near record lows. Money managers are shifting gears a touch, decreasing the bullish gold bets to a six week low at the end of july. In the forex space, looking steady with offshore yuan staying below seven. We have the aussie dollar easing its earlier drop as investors assess the lockdown in victoria state. With a earning stock, we have t
Again. Microsoft, amazon all hitting record highs the nasdaq flirting with another record close despite the Broader Markets selling off. 59 minutes left of the session sar yash sara, were down. 5 . We have big guests coming your way well be speaking with Loretta Mester about the economic signs she is seeing in america and how the fed is weighing the spike in cases. And the rollback of the reopening measures across this country. Shes a Voting Member of the fed. Plus, 150 million, that is how much Deutsche Bank agreed to pay in the settlement with regulators over the dealings with Jeffrey Epstein Deutsche Banks ceo will join us to talk about that settlement and a whole lot more an important update on the business lets get straight to the big stories were watching with one hour left of trade mike santoli tracking the market meg terrell has details on a 1. 6 billion as part of the operation warp speed effort to battle the coronavirus and get a vaccine. And phil lebeau has the latest on the
With the u. S. Cases jumping the most in almost eight weeks. Anthony fauci says a new mutation could speed the spread. Will tell citizens to act responsibly as pubs and restaurants in england reopened today. The nation will also use quarantine rules from some European Countries, including right here in germany. Lets take a look at some of the risk assets that could move markets today or indicate what we are going to see. S p futures, first off, actually, as i mentioned, there will not be any trading in the u. S. Today, but still a good idea to see what is going to happen in terms of risk sentiment. We see them down. That said, european futures are kind of mixed right now. Gold is trading slightly lower right now but still looks set to end the week higher and nymex upde as well down today, but above 40 a barrel. So it is relatively strong price for wti, and then finally, take a look at the bloomberg dollar index. Interesting today. It is slightly higher, but the dollar index looks set t