14 days to the election. It is a tuesday october. Obviously. Lettingpreme Court Pennsylvania go after that election to count ballots. Weve got lots of politics to talk about, and extort an area markets after the drop yesterday that we saw. How much do you think link yesterdays 700 point down drop to stimulus . Jonathan not me, but i think other people might make that link. I think if you want to make that inconsistency an because treasury yields climbed. If you think all of this stimulus was going to drive yields higher, then stimulus talks pulling apart would mean lower yields, higher yields. I think the temptation is to take every single piece of price action and draw a line back down to d. C. From wall street. Israelcretary mnuchin in for the important siding of the united arab emirates, israel, and United States of america. He will have a call with pelosi. Pelosi is going to be briefed by westin later on bloomberg. Lisa i am trying to understand Mitch Mcconnells role in all of this
Tom for the International Audience and for you, i will just say that the nation stopped to see this. There is no other way to put it. Obviously a Vice President ial debate, Kevin Cirilli is on top of that. But far more, we will find the path of this virus with the president. He says he is maybe not immune. Rumor has it he is not immune, he does have the virus. So we will see on that. But far more, we will see the polling after the debate, and then the polling after this illness, and that will be fascinating. That is a great unknown. Francine and that will of course play out into how the market perceives the election on november 3. Less than 30 days away. Lets get to first word news with ritika gupta. Ritika President Trump is released from the hospital where he was treated for coronavirus, leaving Unanswered Questions about his condition. The white house doctor says the president may not be entirely out of the woods yet. He said further care would be provided over the next few days. Pl
Europe is different than america. The 12 number is equivalent to number yesterday in the United States. It is showing tension in europe as well. Friday low on this is it absolutely extraordinary . Francine i feel like we have not had a quiet newsday on a friday in quite some time. E had quite a lot of earnings quite a lot of politics with the latest declarations by President Trump, and there is just quite a lot overall in geopolitics as well, so we will get through that in a second. Thats get to the first word news with ritika gupta. Ritika good morning, francine, tom, Senate Public is want to go on the record saying they tried to restore supplemental jobless benefits to millions of americans. Mitch mcconnell is trying to force a debate on a stopgap measure for those 600 a week checks. Democrats want the jobless but onlyextended, too, as part of a larger relief package. President trump is coming under pressure to Setting National strategy for the coronavirus. The white house has largel
Responsibly. Welcome to surveillance. I am may originated in london. Betterthanexpected jobs data. We have u. S. Stock and bond cash market closed today for labor day. If you are watching in the u. S. , happy labor day. The nasdaq at a record against the s p 500, of course, as well as a record, what blistering momentum we have seen so far this year. It is sustainable is it sustainable . We will discuss that with our guest this hour. In terms of the bloomberg dollar index, a weekly drop in a month. You see a little bit of weakness in oil, but it is heading for a weaker gain. Toois edging higher, not much momentum on this friday, but Global Equities poised to cap their best week in a month at the end of this week. The first wordo news, we have got breaking news, euro area june services pmi coming at 48. 3, so we did get the german pmi coming in better than expected. It is contractionary territory. Europe, betterthanexpected, but still in retraction mary territory. We have also learned th
Up to the top of lafayette park, but really it is a nation that awaits the next step from the president. He was out tweeting in the vicinity of 12 00 midnight on general powell. We will talk about that today. It was an eventful weekend and it continues right into this monday. Francine thank you, tom. We will have more on that and now we will get straight to first word news in new york city with ritika gupta. Ritika the u. S. City hit the hardest by coronavirus starts to reopen today. New york city will allow construction and manufacturing at wholesale trade to start operating again. Rios Retail Stores can offer instore pickup. If all goes well, new york and reexpand the can expand the reopening in two weeks. Theggressive proposal from minneapolis city council. Majority of its members say they do this they support disbanding the city police department. That comes as the state launched an investigation following the death of george floyd. One city councilmember says she wants to end poli