Italy is seeing its worst coronavirus numbers yet. The Company Country reported 8800 new cases today, up from 7300 the day before. The number of patients in intensive care also rose. Imposed aime minister series of new curbs on nightlife, social events, and amateur sports as the pandemic intensifies throughout the country. Global news 24 hours a day, onair, and on quicktake by bloomberg, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. Im Mark Crumpton. This is bloomberg. Vonnie it is 1 00 p. M. In new york, 6 00 p. M. In london, and 1 00 a. M. In hong kong. Im vonnie quinn. Welcome to bloomberg markets. Here are the top stories we are following on the bloomberg and from around the world. London and paris among cities ordered to clamp down and curb an increased spread of coronavirus. Countries looking to avoid reinstituting lockdowns. Lena komileva joins us to talk about the virus and the passing of the october 15 deadline for a u. K. Eu trade deal. Coronavirus
Today as republicans look to fast track her nomination before the election day and in the gulf, clean up from hurricane delta continues this morning as nearly half a million residents still remain without power and technology under fire yet again this time from across the atlantic its monday october 20t12, 2020 youre watching Worldwide Exchange here on cnbc. Sh good monday morning kicking off this morning with a hearty congratulations to the Los Angeles Lakers you can see them there jumping around they won their 17th nba title beating the miami heat in game six last night 10693 lebron james helping lift the lakers over the top with a triple double himself while Anthony Davis logged a doubledouble of his own you can see the dow jones implied higher by 16 points and the nasdaq up by 134 Big Technology in focus yet again. And with fridays 160 point advance the dow is now positive for the First Time Since september 22nd you can compare that with the s p 500, the dow transportation stocks a
Good to see you. Cant wait to talk to you about all of those things. What kind of a grade would you give on the direct listing yesterday . I would give it an a. It didnt have the wild volatility or a huge amount of money left on the table that traditional ipos have. I think it was a pretty good day for direct listings. Spencer, good morning, you took zillow public nearly a decade ago if you had to do that again with a company, that is the same, would you do Something Else . I would either do a dreskt listingov or a spac merger. They dont allow the company to leave money on the table we went public at 20 a share. We closed at 37. So we lost a lot of money on the table for an ipo so i think that there is a lot of innovation in the ipo space since a decade ago when zillow went public and i think there is now great alternatives available. Its julia here we look forward to sees what you do with your speak a question for you now that it is a public company. We have seen so many of the Public
Against former National Security advisor john bolton over his book, the room where it happened. Decided to accuse bolden of breaking contract with the government for disclosing classified information. The government sued in june to prevent the release but the book was published and scheduled. Russian Opposition Leader Alexei Navalny blames president of Vladimir Putin for poisoning him. He told a german magazine that the russian leader is behind the crime and, i dont have any other version of events. The kremlin has denied responsibility. It said navalny is taking orders from the cia. Former president jimmy carter marks his 96th birthday. It is the latest milestone for mr. Carter who has lived longer than any other former american president. A spokesperson for mr. Carter says he plans to celebrate at his home in georgia with his wife of 74 years, former first lady carter. He was in office from 1977 until 1981. He has largely receded from public view but this summer he recorded an addres
Less. The 30 year yield is interesting, it had a six basis point move earlier, probably the largest we have seen in any part of the curve recently. I want to point to the European Bank stocks index. It isn 6. 3 index down 6. 3 on the news of how banks are money laundering. An agency coming out saying this all proceeded their 2017 deferred agreement. We see how it progresses through the month. One stock to point to is universal health services, just an example of how Health Care Insurance and hospitals in particular are selling off today. Lets bring in Bloomberg Intelligence chief equity ategist jason Martin Adams Gina martin adams. Gina, if that had been your contention, how do you add in the death of Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg and how that will play out in the coming weeks and months into this market . Gina i think we already have a market that is pretty nervous about what is going on in washington with respect to the upcoming election upcoming election. Ago, we wereonth really prici