Good morning on bloomberg radio. Good morning on bloomberg television. It is extraordinary to be the beginning on global wall street of the holiday season, and i can never i can never think, even the tragedy of 9 11, i cant imagine how much of a tragedy this holiday will be with the pandemic. Jonathan the numbers are terrible. We talked about it an hour ago. We started this month with daily infections in and around 80,000. That has doubled in 11 days. If Health Care Capacity gets tested, they will start to introduce more restrictions. Heres the critical issue. Who is going to step in . Where the fiscal policy maker . Bridgewaterf says we have a mismatch between the length of the pandemic and the willingness of fiscal policy makers to do something in equal length. Tom it has widened out, without question. What is so important here is to gauge the pandemic, and we are all doing that on a local basis. You and i, we hear more sirenss again in new york city, and we are all dealing with the
Markets sort of whipsawed by the tweets last night from the president trying to figure out exactly where we are how are investors supposed to take this today . Well, you know, i truly do believe, scott, even after the president s tweet yesterday that sent the markets down almost 500 points in a very short period of time, the last hour and 15 minutes of the day, i still belief theres the possibility we have out there, and i brought this up last time i was on with you guys, the idea i thought we would get one done by the weekend or through the weekend obviously with some of the tweets and so forth, but then the president immediately seemed to have flipped back around and be a part of this whole thing. I do think we will see a stimulus at some point in the not too distant future because of that, i think it gives you a great opportunity on that dip yesterday, and obviously youre seeing a pretty nice rise today. We know what the temperature is of the markets and what people want to hear and
Lift. But i do not buy it for a minute. Jonathan it is tricky. You have to be vigilant about the downside risk, but you do not want to boost the euro. That is the fine road it she has to travel down. Tom tom what is so important is all the conversations we have had is they talk about 1. 30. We are are at 1. 18 and talking about this, things have changed in a month. Saw 1. 2 zero last week, gets it done. They will say, we do not target inflation or fx, but rather inflation, but the fx shadow hits are inflation objective. It is like being a kid when your mom shouts up the stairs and uses your full name, you know you are in trouble. If they hear that from Christine Lagarde, that is it. Are you long the euro . Maybe you shouldnt be. Tom there are other distractions. No you will do a data checki know you will do a data check as well. We are riveted by premier league opening this weekend, Lisa Abramowicz is a study. Lisa yes. Jonathan she might have chosen a team. Rumor has it. Lisa i will n
Gains in the region today. The csi 300 has been up 6 in the past five days, the biggest months. N four margin traders have returned and the stock rally is kicking off. The hang seng up 133 points. We are seeing the dollar slightly weaker, but marginal. We are watching the aussie, in t he red here now. They are all over the place. Aussie, j. P. Morgan saying expect low 60s. It is difficult to model the recovery we are seeing. Number more positive. We are watching oil, coming off of a four month high and likely to end the month in the green. Gold with four weeks of gains. Tom the u. S. Senate has given final approval to legislation that would impose sanctions on chinese officials, cracking down on dissent in hong kong. Page in his warning a strong countermeasures if the u. K. Act in response to the National Security law. Warning a strong countermeasure if the u. K. , australia and the u. S. Active response to the National Security law. In the measures appropriate the senate at this point
A virus so small joe i still dont see it has become an economic crisis so big. That you simply cannot be seen and this is why the commission is today proposing a new recovery instrument called next generation. Worth 750000000000 euro. Also coming up the harsh reality on the ground in the United States a 100000 coronavirus deaths and one president who said that would never happen. And i think will be substantially hopefully below 100 number and one is too many no say one is too many is a horrible thing that happened to our country. And to our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and all around the world welcome we begin the day with what was supposed to be a giant leap for private enterprise as the worlds eyes were all focused on Cape Canaveral florida this hour where some bad weather got in the way of history for today at least its a bold undertaking for the 1st time its hoped that the privately made spacecraft will eventually take astronauts into space nasa and commercial business