Materials, industrials hitting new intradays. The small caps doing well. The russell 2,000 at the far right side of your screen. Jim, i want to know where you think we are now you have great vaccine news. Its consistently great. Were not that far from 30,000 on either day we have headwind tailwind. Each day you can make a tailwind case i can make a tailwind case that you have to buy the airlines right now. This norwegian cruise deal is done, you want to buy that group. I can make a case that you have to buy the stay at homes, the deep cyclicals, a case for the technology stocks. This is what weve looked for. Thats why i came in gunning for the armageddonists theres a fabulous piece out that covid did not rescue the armageddonists from underperformance and purgatory its time to call them out im asking all the panelists to call out the people who said it was the end of the world call them out. Well, weve gotten great vaccine news it sounds like to me youre saying you can still buy the cr
Quiet. Youve really got to believe, with the tone we got from the president last night, i thought more invigorated than the recent days, that this is really going to heat up into the kind of Campaign Money people have been expecting, as you say, with 20 days to go. Jonathan heating up on capitol hill as well. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi under a little bit of pressure. A 2 trillion game of chicken playing out in washington, d. C. Tom shes going after wolf like,r of cnn, which is, unamerican to do that. [laughter] seriously, talking to mr. Adams of kentucky, mr. Adams made clear that mr. Mcconnell is comfortable there. Political report came out about 4 00 yesterday afternoon and went to a seven seat dane for the democrats seven seat gain for the democrats in the senate. The momentum in the change is now extraordinary. Jonathan the shift has been phenomenal. Weve got to talk about the back numbers as well this morning the bank numbers as well this morning. Bank of america provisions lighte
5, 6, seven major stories, are driving us forward. Simply an open question with all that is going on, what has your eye this morning . Jonathan the italian bond market. I know that feels a bit off the beaten road, but right now rallying aggressively over the less capital weeks. Look at the spread of btps to german debt at the moment. It is about 20 basis point. That was about 280 earlier in the year. That is one to watch in the debt markets. Tom bond price up, yield down. What is the why . Is it a flight to quality . Jonathan reduced redenomination risk, i am not sure we are completely there yet where we can say that this market now trades like a proper sovereign. What that means, we used to question how long some of these countries would play into the euro zone. The risk of redenomination, moving out of the euro and being repriced in a different currency. The fiscal backstop of a couple of months ago, even though it has not been fully implement it, i think that gave people some confid
Have a durable exit from the health crisis. Including Amnesty International had written to the g20 finance ministers ahead of that meeting to warn that the world is facing a crisis unlike any in the last century, and that debt suspension is only a first step. The group said many of the poorest nations are spending more on debt payments than on lifesaving public services. There is growing pressure on british Prime Minister Boris Johnson to order a socalled lockdown. The Opposition Labor Party and government Scientists Say it is needed to get the coronavirus under control. Deaths have soared to the highest level since june. Concerns are mounting that johnsons new system of restrictions will not be enough. Pressure continues to see a Record Number of coronavirus cases. Officials work reported 14,000 new cases today, the most since the beginning of the pandemic. Russia has the Worlds Largest caseload. Despite a surge in new cases, russian authorities have dismissed suggestions of a Second
Reportedly uncovering Quality Control concerns at eli lilly plant set to manufacture its covid antibody treatment and apple debuts the new 5g phone line speedier devices, also coming with an even heftier price tag carl, back over to you. All right jim, on the banks this morning, conversation once again about loss provisions. Also about bond trading at goldman. I dont think it is just bond trading. I think goldman did a remarkable job taking some share, which i say remarkable because imagine youre at home, zooming and taking sharefrom others. I do believe that goldmans back to its old ways which is that it is a dry cleaner it doesnt have any risk remember, dry cleaner, what do we do with the dry cleaner give them our clothes and pick them up and they make money. That has been the goldman way until a couple of years where i think it got wayward where it became much more about, hey, lets invest in this, invest in that, no, to me, what theyre investing in, that i really like, theyre invest