And that because your point on bonds. Right now we have the 10 year yield backing up six basis points on the week, up 14 basis points. The worst week for bonds going back to august. Bonds selling off. That pushes yields higher on the idea there is some kind of recovery happening around the stimulus. It is going to be interesting to see whether or not the 10 year yield can break out of this range. David we will have to watch that carefully. We knew the job numbers would not reflect all of the covid surge, but we did not expect them to be showing downward trend before the covid came roaring back. To take us through what the numbers may indicate we welcome douglas holtzeakin, president of American Action forum. He earlier served as director of the Congressional Budget Office as well as chief economist under president george w. Bush. Great to have you back with us. Disappointing on the downside. How much should we read into that . Douglas the real significant piece is on the Household Surv
Budget copper mise. This is going budget compromise. Eu budget compromise. That is going to be one of the stories we are focusing on next week. Brexit talks are a difficult place, according to one u. K. Official. We will watch carefully that story over the weekend. We will see what happens monday morning. Aroundare higher, up by 0. 4 . The payrolls seem to have provided a reason to believe that stimulus is coming. It is interesting to see what is happening there. Bonds on the other side of the atlantic to where i am now, we are up to yield highs, march highs. An aggressive move we are seeing stateside. The pound is 1. 3475. Brent crude catching a bid, just sub 50. 49. 08 is where we sit now. Alix lets get to the latest on the coronavirus pandemic. We learned yesterday pfizer scaledback vaccine targets for 2020 because they ran into difficulties getting all the materials it needs. They say they have fixed that problem now. Joining us now is sam fazeli, Bloomberg Intelligence senior phar
Look at the really disinflationary dampening you are seeing in the bond market. I dont want to make a big deal about it, but yield gives way to lower yield. Im looking at fiveyear, fiveyear breakevens, and there is a little bit of an ebb, an increase in the disinflationary tendency. That claimsort number at 8 30. Francine a really important one, and we have some great interviews coming up from the Bloomberg New Economy Forum focusing on health today. A conversation also with bill gates. Lets get to first word news in new york city with ritika gupta. Ritika joe biden warns that the delay in starting the president ial transition could set bet the effort to distribute the coronavirus vaccine. Could setback the effort to disturb the coronavirus fencing. Trump thent Trump Administration is being urged to begin working with biden. Wisconsin Election Officials have ordered a partial vote recount that was requested by the top by the trump campaign. There will be recount in two heavily democrat
Declining. We saw a constructive things. Waiting for the eighth or ninth year of expansion is not a perfect strategy. There is an issue of wanting to do as much as we can to avoid exacerbating the longstanding inferences and get back to a Strong Economy or we can start making progress again, which is what we were doing in february. Senator smith as the fed chair and at the fed you have the mission of low unemployment and managing inflation. And this need to spur job growth. We said there is not been a big worry about inflation. What if the fed were to lower its target for employment, even under 3 . What impact might that have on addressing longterm needs for addressing inequality. Changeowell we made a in our operating framework which addresses that directly. We will have an estimate of the natural rate of unemployment. We will not act on that, even if unemployment goes below that, unless we see inflation or some other problematic thing that seems to be late to where our rates are. We
[no audio] year. The start of the he will give us a report card on how Remote Learning is going across the nation. Of ceo says he is sick talking about microsoft. He joins us to talk about salesforce and the deal and plans to spell dispel the myth the competition had anything to do with it. Reiterating the new stayathome order in the San Francisco bay area taking effect january sunday through january 4. It is different from intensive care thresholds. Businesses will be taking a hit with new restrictions and workers still looking for relief from washington. There were good signs today that lped smooth thehe markets. It meansoolittle, closing all dining and gatherings with anyone outside your home through the holidays. As a San Francisco resident, this will be happening as of sunday. Are you seeing any moves in the market . Abigail there are small declines in s p 500 futures, very small moves off the record high of the day. I am sorry for the difficulty you and family and friends might b