Isolating after coming into contact with lawmakers are tested positive for coronavirus. Good morning and welcome to bloomberg surveillance. This is a picture of the markets. A lot of the focus is on a number of infected. A lot of the focus is on the policymakers can do Going Forward. Onot of the focus will be some of the things we saw for example following asian shares. Buoyed by positive sentiment on trade. In thanar is falling the other thing im looking at is oil pushing higher. Treasuries edging up. The focus is on the sustainability of the economic recovery. Hoping for are also news on more vaccines coming up that could be positive after what we heard from pfizer. Now lets get straight to bloomberg first word news in london. Trump is still refusing to concede the election. The president tweeted the joe biden one because the election was rigged to. A claim flagged by twitter. Commentswalked back to saying i can see nothing. We have a long way to go. The u. K. Prime minister Boris Jo
Is theail sales number only surprise i suppose. Juliette that is quite interesting given this had been this consumer driven recovery and the positive numbers we have seen and domestic travel. Gold is a miss. Still seeing the incredible strength coming through in offshore youuan. Onhave been seeing a risk momentum coming through in equities across the region. Signing havinghe a positive boost to markets. We are seeing momentum on the asiapacific index. It is going to close at a record high. When we look specifically at Chinese Markets themselves, we did have the csi 300 already near the fiveyear high. The csi 300 a little weaker, down by a 10th of 1 . Korean airlines coming out and saying they are going to to buy. 8 trillion yuan an airline. Raising 2. 5ng to be trillion. That is a bit of corporate breaking news. Lets get over to julia. She is at jp morgan. Thank you for joining us. What was your main takeaway . Controls glance have been maintained. Still looks like their recovery is pr
Concede and what this means for trade deals with china as well. Don i read about the trade deal. It is on the back burner for americans because both candidates, both parties are reticent to sign those deals. We can touch on that, but front and center in the nation is the stepbystep, the back, tweet by tweet with the president , but er than that is the pandemic. It was the oddest of weekends. Francine it was a busy weekend, and here in the u. K. With news that Boris Johnson, who contracted the virus in march, even went to icu, now having to selfisolate after coming into contact with someone who tested positive. We will have plenty more on that , and the consequences for brexit. First lets get to bloomberg renews with ritika gupta. President elect joe bidens top coronavirus advisers say a National Lockdown is not on the agenda. One of them, the former surgeon general, who says the approach to fighting it is a dial that we turned up and down, depending on the severity. U. S. Case records
Thank you for being with us on this simulcast, Bloomberg Radio, Bloomberg Television worldwide. Tremendous news flow wrapped around the details of a worsening pandemic worldwide, and indeed across this nation. Also looking at markets off the faxing news, futures up 10, dow futures up the vaccine news, futures up 10, dow futures up. New low on the vix as well. Looking at the calendar, everybody is recalibrating. Weve got a major house recalibration of the equity markets out moment ago. Jonathan at Credit Suisse, Jonathan Golub, they have a forecast yearend on the s p for the end of 2021 with a 12 upside. The 2021 forecast is designed to answer what the future will look like in the future. He makes the point at the end of this paragraph that the rotation into the cyclicals will largely be behind us, and they stay overweight on tech, also overweight on the financials. That is just a flavor of where Credit Suisse are at this morning. Tom the conversation forward, and i cant say enough on r
Happening here. We continue with this outperformance from the small caps. We continue with this rotation. Abigail we do, and today is relatively subtle. The outperformance came from energy and financials, which at the end of the day finished higher. Today we are once again seeing movement into the cyclical sectors even though the s p 500 on the surface is basically flat. The nasdaq 100 is lower. You were mentioning the small caps. The russell out another alltime high on the day. You again have investors moving to small caps, value, the cyclical sectors. Theres the financials. Industrials, energy, real estate can materials, all of the sectors in green are the growth and cyclical sectors. On bottom, you have tech and communication services. It is pretty interesting because tech is really being weighed on by apple right now, and they have cut their developer fees by to 15 from 30 . That is a pretty decent chunk of revenue in the past fiscal year, 1 3 of it to those apt of elements. That i