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
Was when the ceiling went. It is interesting to see reporter what is happening in the bond market. To see what is happening in the bond market. We have seen curve flattening throughout most of this week. We see a little bit of steepening today on the back of the payroll number. We see that ripple around the world, and that is reflected in the german 30 year. Twostens in the state basically back to where they were almost a month ago. Alix thanks very much. The s p now dropping like a stone. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi speaking right now. She is saying to everyone, be calm, be confident, be patient, but she did call biden president elect biden, having a strong mandate to lead. She says she is hoping republicans can come back to the table on stimulus. Moments ago, we also heard from larry kudlow as well that they also wanted to try to move forward on stimulus and come to some kind of agreement. Will they or wont they is really the big question, what the s p taking a nosedive as we are stil
At tray Glen Astrazeneca on the defense after critics say it failed to give an update on patient data on the vaccine trials. Futures after markets were closed for the thanksgiving holiday, they are in the green as you can see, dow jones 54 in the premarket. Weve got a lot to talk about today with wall street. Were going to have a half trading day today, markets closing at 1 00 p. M. Eastern time some good news to show you, nice gains there, the nasdaq is in record territory as the dow is looking to crack 30,000 once more today after the index crossed the milestone earlier in the week. Ruling on religious restrictions, the Supreme Court telling new York Governor Andrew Cuomo he cant put a capacity limit on houses of worship. Were on this story today. Plus, it is black friday, its going to look a little bit different. Retailers going with the shift to online sales as brick and Mortar Stores are rethinking foot traffic this year. Mornings with maria is live right now. Its a brandnew day.
I want to hear more of the music that was blaring in my ear. Heres where we are. Big out for big outperform are coming through, the s p 500 is up. The pound actually, as you can see now, positive, bouncing around all over the place, getting a negative hit earlier on around the idea that the u. K. Would walk walk away on the 15th. I dont think the market thinks either side will walk away. The eu said earlier on, and this was a report by bloomberg, the eu side is going to call the bluff on this. Britain saying were deftly going to walk away. The market is basically shrugging its shoulders. As you can see, a selloff in bonds is unsurprising, given whats going on at the moment. At the backend over the last few days, cathodes continue to steepen in the United States. Alix we did hear that music and you did an amazing job talking to that techno music. Thank you for that. In the u. S. , part of that is going to be about where we are and stimulus talks. Markets weighing down on the trump tweet
These are your top headlines from the bloomberg terminal. , nancyg the deadline pelosi sets a tuesday time limit for more progress on u. S. Fiscal stimulus if the president wants a deal before the election. Backing down, a bloomberg exclusive says the u. K. Good rewrite its lawbreaking brexit bill, a move that may revive talks with the eu. Sterling gains on that. Plus, restrictions tighten as virus cases surge around europe. Italy is the latest government to add lockdown measures, prioritizing its struggling economic situation. Under one hour away from the start of cash equity trade in europe. Lets take a look at the futures this morning. If you pull up the European Equity Index Futures you will see a pretty mixed trade. You have ftse futures trading a little lower, now bouncing off up about a quarter of 1 . Ftse futures are a little changed right now. Take a look at the u. S. Futures picture. You have more green arrows there. Dow jones and s p many contracts up 7 10 of 1 . Nasdaq 100