Vice President Biden is just six electoral votes away from the white house. Bloomberg chief washington correspondent Kevin Cirilli joins us for more. What is the vote count . What do we get over the next couple of hours . Kevin joe biden is just six electoral votes away from reaching the magic number of 270 electoral votes, which would put him at the threshold for the presidency. Within the next 30 minutes, georgias secretary of state is going to give a News Conference, and which they are going to provide an update on what is going on in the battleground state of georgia. 15 electoral votes, that would put him over it he is able to beat trump in georgia. In the noon hour, we are going to get an update from clark county, nevada, where the over and willing the overwhelming majority of electoral votes are cast in that state. This evening, not a clock eastern time, arizona, Maricopa County is going to provide an update. In terms of the dataflow on the president ial election front, we will
Pound nowing the euro the highs of the session. The cable rate coming in a little bit weaker. Joining me now, Stephanie Flanders here on set with me, and from london, guy johnson. Usst blush for you, walk through some of the results. Guy this is pretty much exactly as expected. The pound is barely budging on the news. The market is pricing and very little action from the boe going forward. It is very hard to call exactly what the outcome of brexit is going to be. I think weve got 10 basis points priced in on the downside by next march. Just 17 by the end of 2020. The market doesnt know which way to call this one. The bank of england is indicating that the risk of a no deal brexit has declined. When a new deal brexit happens, the risk to the economy will be lester medic than having been be lessd for, but dramatic than having been perceived before. The market finds it hard to find credibility. Alix particularly if they go the way of norway. You have to wonder how that works. Talking abou
Francine good afternoon if you are watching from asia. This was a couple of days after the news from the saudi attack on the infrastructure of saudi aramco. Bank raised its benchmark rate to 1. 50. They had flagged they would raise rates. Wereeason why people questioning whether they would do it is because the World Economy is more uncertain than a couple of months ago and you see a lot more dovishness from the ecb and the fed. Toit is quite difficult raise Interest Rates in this kind of environment. Eurodollar at 1. 1, and because it has been a very big week in oil, we have a look at the oil price. Norwegian krone on the back of raised, having a significant move to 9. 85. , we speak to the governor of the norwegian central bank. Dont miss that interview just after 10 30 a. M. London time. Lets get straight to bloomberg first word news in your city. New sanctions against iran are coming. This is from President Donald Trump in response to the attack on a key oil facility. Michael pompeo
Difficult it will be to get that measure passed. But we do have the story covered. Julia chatterley is in brussels. Michelle carusocabrera is in athens. And Steve Liesman. Well have more from the three of them. As higher up on the news. But it looks like a deal is going to be reached. You can see the dow jones up 125 points. S p up close to 15 points. The nasdaq is up by 37. This is all coming as the markets in europe are higher. Dags up 1. 5 in germany. The cac is up 2 . The ftse higher. Italy 1. 5 . Portugal up 2. 75 . And the dollar is up. The euro despite the news it looks like the euro is kept together. Trading higher at 1. 1075. Part of the fact if you deep greek economies in thats going to add pressure over time. Also you can see whats happening to the yields in the european markets. In greece be the fiveyear yielding 17 . If you look to the bund thats the german tenyear thats trading at. 927 . If you check out whats happening with treasuries here in the United States youll see
Microsoft executive. Does he have what it takes to move the stock higher and get the Company Performing on all cylinders . Well find out and discuss it. And here it comes again. More snow coming. Two significant systems developing and targeting the eastern third of the country. Lets check in, meantime, with sue down at the new york stock exchange. Its all that pesky groundhogs fault. Stocks are higher today, up about 93 points after yesterdays big selloff. The dow higher for only the third time in 111 sessions. 94 to the upside on the dow. The s p up 15 points and the nasdaq up 44. The tenyear note, look at the yield there, its crept up just a little bit more, 2. 68 on that, because we were looking at a sub2. 6 Interest Rate yesterday. Check out the other global indices today. Japan taking a big hit, down 4 , and overnight, now down about 13 for the year as a whole. The nikkei certainly has everybodys attention and they are watching not only the nikkei but the yen as well. Up to you. T