Were going to have to be patient until the hard work of tallying boats is finished. Manus biden on the brink, michigan and wisconsin edging closer to the 270 electoral votes. Trumps campaign sued pennsylvania to stop counting votes. Treasuries are bid on policy uncertainty in the fed is set to focus on the pandemic, while the boe is expected to boost qe. The results may continue to flood in. Majors welcome to the show, and marie. Good to see you. What a difference 24 hours make. My guess in the past two hours have been saying you possibly have the genesis of chaos and hyperbolic language. Why . Because were going to begin to understand what the faceless Electoral College dissenters might do to spoil the road to the white house. Good morning. It is still risk on in these markets, but the question is the validity and veracity of a challenge to joe biden, if he gets the numbers. Annmarie we are still counting those boot those votes in america. Nevada, pennsylvania, georgia, were still wai
Future signals against are set to continue. Commerce bank swings to a loss in the Third Quarter as the pandemic and restructuring charge hits revenues. We speak with the cfo shortly. Good morning. Plenty to talk about on the u. S. Election front. Breaking news on the bank of england. Maintaining its benchmark Interest Rate at 0. 1 , entirely expected. The bank of england saying that was the news amount around maintaining its Interest Rate. They are raising the total bond target. Unanimousf englands on this Interest Rate and bond purchasing story. We will speak to the governor of the bank of england at 11 00 this morning london time. Stay tuned for that interview. Pound toor a in the this announcement. A pairing of losses coming through. Get some analysis. Dani burger is outside the bank of them went for us. There had been an expectation that as lockdown measures are extended, implemented in england, even if it is less strict than march, we would see more coming through from the bank of
Spreading the next few months could be challenging. Approach with caution. Jay powell warning over economic challenges, despite the prospect of coronavirus vaccine. Treasury yields fall amid growing concerns around the pandemic. California joins texas reaching one million infections. U. S. Election Officials Say the vote was the most secure in u. S. History. Bandss President Trump investment in firms controlled by chinas military. What a week. Clarity in the u. S. Election. A hope old date on a vaccine. We are ending the week with a surge in covid cases. A push poll between the euphoria of a vaccine versus the pandemic. We wake up to french hospitalizations breaking a record. California joining texas surpassing one million infections. Chicago, the latest u. S. To issue a stayathome advisory. The mayor saying, this is literally a matter of life or death. Lets take a look at how this is playing out into markets. A stunning week. We have covid weighing on equities. Into session feeding fe
Four days of losses is about to become five. Are down 7. 5 over the previous four days. Cross assets, we look like this. A bid into the bond market briefly in treasuries. It did not stick. It was a treasury market selloff. This morning, it is about yen strength. Dollaryen coming down on 0. 3 . Again. Rude is down 0. 9 mark wheret is that you have these massive producing countries like russia and saudi starting to worry. These are very hard prices to deal with when you try to balance your books. It all comes back to demand. Everything is about demand right now. When you have france and germany going into lockdown, that does not bode well. Euroyen is striking me this morning. I feel that for the first time it is acting like a haven. It is her membrane what it is supposed to do. Jonathan a bit of yen strength. Chancellor merkel giving a wakeup call to her fellow eu leaders. They failed to act quickly stop the pandemic. For more, our western europe managing editor joins us. Walk us through
Restrictions on the u. K. Looks to repair some of the economic damage in todays Spending Review. Words ofs back, the president elect joe biden as he introduces his Foreign Policy team. Janet yellen faces a tricky start, as Steven Mnuchin puts funding beyond her reach. Good morning. 6 00 a. M. In london, 10 00 a. M. Across the emirates. A jampacked show for you, including emirates president tim clark. He spoke to manus cranny about a host of issues in the travel sector. Also, likely an appearance from manus himself. What a day it was and a 24 hours it was, as chris weston put it, a nirvana has dissented over the scended over the market. Dow jones topping 30,000 for the first time. S p 500 index, we do have closing at an alltime high. We are losing a bit of momentum. Flat across the asian market and flat across u. S. Equity futures. We are seeing a steepening of the yield curve, not at the highs we saw recently, but we are seeing it steepening. Jp morgan this morning also saying 10 year