Thrilled you are with us, the simulcast, Bloomberg Radio coasttocoast, and good morning on bloomberg television. The new york city Christmas Tree lighting tonight at rockefeller center. All of the worry we have talked about of this pandemic, death set a record level in the United States come breaking the april 29 level as well. Jon, the markets speak. Moments ago, euro out to new recent record strength. Jonathan a record high in the equity market, the unwelcome record of the pandemic. 1. 21 53 on eurodollar. Once again, it is broadbased dollar weakness. You just wonder how uncovered it will this will make the ecb and how comfortable the move in eurochina will actually keep them. I think that is key, what happens broadbased for euro against other currencies. The im looking at bloomberg terminal here. You can see that on Bloomberg Radio right now. Renminbi comes down as well, with an abrupt move. At all correlates together, and then theres this zombie, the gloom of the bond market. How d
I look at gold as the gold capital of the world. Still in we are lockdown pays, although the economy is gradually reopening. I dont think we are effervescent at the moment about anything. But certainly, it did move the markets quite a lot when you saw it above that line. We had a good conversation with jay hambro about that. I know we will look at metals a little more in depth later on. Tom going to be interesting, to say the least. Serious dues on the pandemic worldwide. I emphasized this is not just about america and united kingdom, but real worldwide pandemic. That news here and there some of optimism but it is a challenging story. Diseasesectious Anthony Fauci once the u. S. Is going in the wrong direction. He told the Senate Committee the country could see 100,000 new coronavirus cases a day, from the current level of about 40,000. Several dozen in western states are seeing increases in infections. That is prompting some to put reopening plans on hold. A new poll shows joe biden w
Markets could hit that Circuit Breaker limit. It is incredible when we think about the volatility. It doesnt seem like the Federal Reserves jay powell has calms kets by any has combed has calmed markets by any means. Francine lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news in new york city with viviana hurtado. Viviana we begin with the most extreme effort yet to slow the march of the coronavirus in the United States. The cdc recommending events of 50 people or more not be held for two months sports, weddings, parades, concerts. All of these are on a twoavoid list. The economic slump in china is worse than analysts feared be the coronavirus leading to factories, shops, restaurants enclosed across the nation. Industrial outlets plunging 2. 5 . Retail sales were down more than 20 . Now the first oneonone debate between president ial hopefuls joe biden and Bernie Sanders. They sparred on ideological lines over how the government should respond to the coronaVirus Outbreak. Mr. Sanders s
Mark senator franken issued a statement which reads in part i respect women, i dont respect men who dont. The fact that my actions have given people a good reason to doubt that makes me feel ashamed. Firmwbased cybersecurity is releasing new details about how its Software Uploaded classified u. S. Documents several years ago. Its raised questions over whether the companies popular antivirus really works as described. Confirmed, said that it was accidental and the files were quickly deleted. The head of russias Antidoping Agency told reporters today his anization has reformed to conformed to World Doping Agency standards and is now completely independent. The comments came as the world Antidoping Agency refused to reinstate the antidoping program. The agency demands that russia publicly accepts results including that the company ran a statesponsored doping program. Russia to allow access to urine samples that were collected. It could and russias hopes of competing at next years winter o
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