Isolating after coming into contact with lawmakers are tested positive for coronavirus. Good morning and welcome to bloomberg surveillance. This is a picture of the markets. A lot of the focus is on a number of infected. A lot of the focus is on the policymakers can do Going Forward. Onot of the focus will be some of the things we saw for example following asian shares. Buoyed by positive sentiment on trade. In thanar is falling the other thing im looking at is oil pushing higher. Treasuries edging up. The focus is on the sustainability of the economic recovery. Hoping for are also news on more vaccines coming up that could be positive after what we heard from pfizer. Now lets get straight to bloomberg first word news in london. Trump is still refusing to concede the election. The president tweeted the joe biden one because the election was rigged to. A claim flagged by twitter. Commentswalked back to saying i can see nothing. We have a long way to go. The u. K. Prime minister Boris Jo
Obtain. What you might see is a bit more bitesized approach to aspects of the trading agreements. To get a greater engagement in a more constructive engagement. You talked about the covid recession. We have had a second wave of covid coming across europe in the last couple months. Indicators of the economy show that is causing a double dip in many economies in terms of activity. Youhelpful you are are that we could have a fast recovery this time around and see that vshaped recovery people have talked about . I think the vaccine is going to be a very important story for the 2021. From the irish perspective we moved early on in the early the second wave, the Second Lowest interest in europe now. We are doing very well in terms of the downward trajectory of caseys. Of cases in hospital and icu. Somewhere at the end of this month we move out of what we call level 5. Our schools of state construction has stayed open. Our domestic economy. Our investment side is doing very well. Science and
From home and implementing new restrictions he is speaking to the uk as we speak. And big tech stocks gaining back some ground after a rough month. Amazon climbing up analysts say the selloff created an attractive entry point. Sara, we have 59 minutes another volatile session amazon is nicely higher. The Broader Markets are slightly higher yeah, taking all of Consumer Discretionary it with. Retail winners today as well coming up on todays show, despite the upturn, the nasdaq is the underperformer in the month of september so far. Were going to ask tiech investr dan niles where he is putting his money to work. Even the ceo of levi will join us with a look at how consumers have spending money. And speaking of retail, were counting down to nike earnings to day after the close, nike by the way, best performer in the dow right now. Well get results from stitch fix, kb home and teslas Shareholder Meeting and battery day. It is shaping up to be a busy afternoon of news. 58 minutes left of tra
We were up 259 earlier. S p 500, as you can see, it is up more than. 5 . We just came off the best sixmonth performance for the s p actually since 2009. Youve got the nasdaq higher right now, up 1. 5 . All of this, were watching. Were watching washington. House speaker nancy pelosi, treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin are continuing their discussions over this coronavirus stimulus bill that could pour trillions into the economy and help airlines, Small Business owners and the unemployed. We will have up to the minute details on the state of negotiations as they go on right now in washington. Then the travel industry is desperate for help from congress as a new study says the Hotel Industry might not be able to hold out much longer. One of the nations top hotel owner operators is here to tell us how his company is handling these challenging times. Hes here in a fox business exclusive. Meanwhile, pepsico is popping as people lock down at home during the pandemic, turned to its snacks and d
Bad reaction. Astrazeneca slams the brakes on a phase 3 vaccine trial after one test patient contracted an unexplained illness. Watch the vaccinemakers at the open tomorrow. The rout resumes. Asian equities post losses after more devastation for u. S. Tech investors. Slumps ses 7 but tesla by a stock record 21 in yesterdays u. S. Session. England prepares to reimpose coronavirus restrictions on the public. Starting next monday, gatherings of more than six people will be banned. Youve been warned. Just under an hour away from the start of cash equity trading in europe. Lets look at the futures picture right now after, you know, the major u. S. Equity benchmarks dropped more than 2 . The nasdaq more than 4 . Now were seeing red arrows once again for european futures. Yesterday was a down day for european stocks as well. Take a look at u. S. Future this is morning after the big drops that we experienced yesterday. Remember yesterday was the first day of trading for u. S. Stocks. They were