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
Gdp readings are expected to show an 18 rebound from the covid19 fallout. 15 asiapacific nations formally launched the biggest freetrade deal. The accord covers 2 billion people and is a decade in the making. Howi lets take a look at it is feeding through. Havent seen much of a reaction when it comes to the kiwi aussie dollar. We are seeing bond markets the little bit cautious. We are seeing 3 10 of 1 when it comes to trading in sydney. Thirdquarter gdp numbers showing a sharp rebound in japan. We are seeing nikkei futures trading mildly optimistically. That is the picture when it comes to u. S. Futures. Back to thiss get incredible trade deal. After eight years of difficult negotiations, the largest ever freetrade deal has finally been signed. The regional, comprehensive, Economic Partnership includes 15 countries with china, japan, on. Ralia and all of aussie how important is the timing of this considering the damage caused by covid19 . This will be, as trade ministers will say, a bi
Recovery strengthening, thanks in part to a pickup in Consumer Spending. Has fresh hotp bind moves against beijing in the final weeks of his term. Eu are inks with the a crucial week. The u. K. Prime minister will have to amend his busy schedule. He is not isolated he is now isolating from coming into contact with a lawmaker who tested positive for covid19. Are at a juxtaposed moment. I concede nothing. There were many tweets, but that was the conclusion. The president concedes nothing versus the virus raging in the United States of america. But the president elect has a message for now. Lockdown, and thats critically important to sentiment. You look at michigan going into a partial lockdown. To that agenda . I will turn to the right camera. Trust thenley says recovery. Thats what they want you to do. Sell the dollar. Get all in. They want you to be overweight equity, corporate bond. The message is there, you should read the Bloomberg Intelligence narrative, it is not a v it is far fro
In this room in one sense by the presence of pat oliphant. So please greet pat. But even more by the work of pat which yowull see on the screen. The culture he reptde esreprese highly specific. Daily perspective over the course of more than 60 years as a cartoonist, producing more than 10,000 individual cartoons, five days a week for the denver post, for several years, for the washington star for several years, and then along the way, pat oliphant became the first 20th century cartoonist to work independently of any newspaper. Thats how popular his work was, and it was syndicated through newspapers all across the country, out of his studio. So a specific daily comments on events as they were occurring, far from being balanced, they were opinion atded. That was part of their virtue. And obviously, not so much in words, although there are words, but especially in pictures and the work of the art of pat oliphant not just confined to cartoons but also to paintings and sculpture. Before i i
Acceleration in investment since june as industrial output eats estimates beats estimates. Could a firmer recovery be underway . Treyew brexit e. U. Chief pulls no punches on his First Washington trip, cautioning President Trump about protectionism and shortterm thinking. We spoke about him exclusively on resetting relations. The objective of the visit is to try to reset the relationship,t ry to understand each other in relation at the moment and find Common Ground with the United States. We started on a positive note. Matt barclays is cutting around 100 senior jobs across corporate and Investment Bank as the lender looks to rein in costs. Morgan stanley plans to 80 dozens of staff at its wealth business in asia. Lets look first at futures. Even after the new record we hit yesterday, were looking at gains in futures, and fairly substantial gains at that. Dax futures up 0. 5 . U. S. Futures, not the same size but the same direction, green a rrows on the nasdaq, s p and dow jones futures