Significant challenges. Hedges rise, oil falls for a cplus talks ope are delayed for a third day. Crude had capped its biggest monthly increase since may. Heading for the exit. Unicredits ceo is stepping down after four years at the top of italys biggest bank. It comes amid clashes with Board Members over acquisitions. It is 6 00 a. M. In london, 7 00 a. M. In vienna. We are where we are supposed to be. You wanted to start with oil. I absolutely applaud the decision. There is this line that the prince threatened to resign. My question is simple, is that petulance, posturing, or productive . Good morning . Morning. Annmarie i am certainly sure it is not productive. They are meeting on thursday. A brilliant note overnight saying that like with everything with opec the first day, there is always drama. She compared it to as much as drama you would see in an episode of gossip girl. A lot of infighting. Usually, you and i will report on it between saudi arabia and russia. This time, it is r
Stepping down after arguments over strategy, the bank prepares its search for his successor. Morning, under one hour until the start of cash equity trading. Equity markets under pressure. The futures picture shows relief. Ftse futures up 0. 4 . U. S. Futures point to the upside, up 0. 8 . Global stocks up 12 in november, the biggest monthly gain on record. Lets not forget that will me think about the losses yesterday and the rally he will maybe see today. Greens what we see now, a picture and it comes to the asian stock markets. Data from to take asia whether chinese or korean on the factory side. Be taking aems to turn for the better. In china a decade high for chinese manufacturing. Up on thed enthusiasm, and commodities in focus. Oil prices moving to the downside for a third day. No deal yet on opec and opecplus, and their plans for january. That will be a focus on thursday. Lets get a first word news of eight. Laura president elect joe biden has chosen janet yellen as his treasury
Percolating issues, whether it is trade tensions or brexit, which goes to the heart of the uncertainty in 2021. Francine there is a lot going on, and i guess this is the concern, you have a million angles of things that turn out sour. Bloomberg first word news in new york city with ritika gupta. Senatorone republican dix President Trump will get on board with a bipartisan 908 billion senator bill cassidy told foxnews Senate Majority leader mcconnell will back it, too. Cassidy is a member of the Group Pushing the measure. President trumps lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, has tested positive for the coronavirus. According to reports, he has been hospitalized in washington. Giulianis son says he is getting great care and feeling well. Giuliani has been leading the effort to overturn the results of the election. In china, exports jumped in november by the most since 2018, pushing its trade status to a monthly record high, and thermined underlined how pandemic and global related goods is helping the
Markets. Dow is up 181, 30,150, all three of the averages setting record highs today. Shannon, you have made some very interesting moves in your portfolio, both what you have trimmed and what you have added to first to what you have trimmed apple and microsoft. T tell me why. So really two different stories here, scott. First of all, ill start with microsoft. As i talked about on the show, this is our Largest Holding and remains a very high convince for us we still have a lot of confidence in azure and the endtoend software it offers but from a portfolio perspective, it was time to trim apple, weve seen a significant runup, 75 in the last year and we really feel like a lot of that has come on multiple expansion. Weve gone from about 15 times to about 27 times. Although we do believe in the services storyand the mo monetization, we think there are better opportunities we trimmed back from a market weight to an underweight were going to continue to hold the stock and maybe look for oppor
Pfizers chairman admits that theyre not sure if someone can transmit the virus after vaccination. And call it a box office reset, warner bros. Will release films simultaneously in theaters and streaming platform hbo max it is a seismic change, carl, in the economics for those related to the film business and well certainly be willing to and happy to take a closer look and discuss it. Yeah. Fascinating change in the economics there. But, guys, jobs numbers, the story of the morning, jim, not just the number itself and the trend it outline, but the degree to which it is going to color the debate on capitol hill today and maybe next week. I think it is enough ammo to say, look, we have to do something, there is some areas of the economy that just are cannot be sustained. Dont forget, these numbers are ahead of what will be a gigantic eviction notice that more than maybe more than 13 Million People get in january. I think this number is just enough to be able to say, lets compromise it is