Abramowicz and tom keene. The first full week for america. We welcome all of you to our simulcast, Bloomberg Radio and bloomberg television. It is merger monday. Across the headline from verizon, they will buy track phones from america mobile for 6. 25 billion. It is like an afterthought this morning when you look at the frenzy to get out there and by revenue. Announced 60 minutes ago, if you have access to these Capital Markets and many people do, they have the money to go do it. Immediate fixed income picture, William Gross will join us at the bottom of the hour. We will get an update from the retired one. I want to talk to him about the financial repression. Lisa, that is a backdrop to everything we talked about. Anybody with yield after inflation is losing. They are falling behind every day. Lisa it is cheaper to borrow money and invest in anything else because it is so cheap to borrow. That is what is driving a lot of the frenzy. There is a question about how far can the financial
Bloomberg surveillance. This is what the markets are focusing on. There is quite a lot of m a news. That is giving a lift to the market. What im looking at is a couple of technology stocks. Couple of other things such as crude oil edging higher, so does gold. Global shares off a back to back decline. To bloomberg first word news in london. Optimism over a coronavirus vaccine. Pfizeref executive of says its likely it will by the end of the year. They say theyre dependent on Regulatory Approval but says the firm has a good chance of knowing the efficacy by the end of october. Secretaryief cabinet won the race to replace shinzo abe. National in the group will use this majority to install him as Prime Minister in a vote on wednesday. The uks justice secretary has warned he may quit over the government plans on brexit. He says it hasnt reached that stage just yet. The controversial rule has this week. Boris johnson is facing a growing rebellion to override part of the divorce agreement alre
About financial repression. This has been widely predicted by a lot of people, deals have to be made. Revenue isnt there, so youve got to go out and buy it. You got to get better. Bigger. Athave not confirmed it here bloomberg, bob but that is a story tom nine tom whats john, lisa and i do is we go to bloomberg experts on this. John farrell, jonathan tice said exactly the same thing. Yeah right, but there are all sorts of reasons why that combination could be the giant bank of the continent of europe. Ritika a lot Jonathan Jonathan a lot to get through including lisa getting excited about tiktok. [laughter] we know lisa does tiktok often with the kids. Youve got a decent excuse. Lisa it is a verb. Do you tiktok or not tiktok . Politics front and center today. Including tiktok and oracle being the likely bidder. We now are talking about brexit. Boris johnson putting his controversial brexit vote to a vote. We will hear about whether or not he will get immunity if you go against the agre
Manufacturers from foreign competitors. French president emmanuel micron is calling the attack of russian Opposition Leader Alexey Navalny in assassination attempt. He is calling on russia to launch a transparent investigation. The comments came on a phone call with russian president Vladimir Putin as to more european laboratories found traces of a nerve agent. Navalny is in a hospital and is said to be improving. President trump started a process that could cut u. S. Drug costs. An executive order would tie prices to those paid by countries with National Health systems. Of ander falls short immediate cut the president has said would lower patients outofpocket costs. Global news 24 hours a day on air and on bloomberg quicktake, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. I am Mark Crumpton. This is bloomberg. Vonnie it is 1 00 in new york, 6 00 in london, 1 00 a. M. In hong kong. Here are the top stories on the bloomberg and are in the world we are followi
Oracle shares rising on news the company could be the winning bidder for tiktok but it will not involve an outright sale. Bytedancehinese owner Sarah Ponczek has been following the ups and downs. Tech has been leading the comeback. Also, this latebreaking news ikola, and the sec investigating the company over shortsellers. Sarah the last i had checked, down about 8 or so after the market closed. Examining nikola based on this claim that came from the platform hindenburg. 30 , 35 ors fall so from last week. It has been quite the ride for nikola. Still up more than 200 this year but certainly getting hit pretty hard after these original allegations took hold. Now, getting even more focused with the sec taking them on. Emily this on the back of gm taking a huge equity stake in nikola. Lets talk about tech more broadly. News, continuing development. Oracle is in the leading position but a potential deal still under review. Oracle shares did rise. Walmart could still be a part of this. Sara