Tested positive. 10year fore spanish bonds and portuguese bonds ever lower. Yesterdayorld shifted in the United States of america. We are on the cusp of a constitutional crisis. I have no idea in america how friday is going to work. The president is clearly inserting himself on a constitutional basis into the state crisis in michigan, and into wisconsin. What im watching friday is simple. Vice president pence travels to georgia. It will be fascinating to see if he makes Public Comments on this contested election. Absolutely, tom, and we are also trying to find out what the next step is. Lets get to first word news in new york city with ritika gupta. Ritika good morning. Another legal setback in President Trumps bid to overturn joe bidens election victory. Last night a federal judge denied a request to halt georgias certification of its election results. That is supposed to take place today. According to a hand recount completed wednesday, biden won georgia by more than 12,000 votes. Me
Priority. Pandemic under control is his top priority. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to bloomberg surveillance. I am Francine Lacqua here in london. A lot of the focus is on the number of infected with covid19. At bond growth, a lot going on, treasuries, for example, rising. Overheated equity markets, the deteriorating coronavirus situation in many countries. Oil demandtting its outlook, saying they will not rescue the market, and then i got a look, not very often, but coming out with figures that were not great but were better than expected, leading to burberry gaining one point half percent. 1. 5 . Now lets get to the bloomberg first word news in london with laura wright. Hey, laura. Laura good morning, francine. The recovery is being derailed by a rise in virus cases and a. Ew lockdown president elect joe biden is naming longtime aide dr. Vinjamuri ron claim as his chief of staff. His leading role during the Health Crisis of the Obama Administration leaving the white house in the 2
Questions were raised over astrazeneca trial results. The ceo telling bloomberg within the last few minutes that it will now likely as a result run a new global trial, saying, now that we have found what looks like a better efficacy, we are going to have to validate this, and we need to do an additional study. It looks like it is going to be half of those full dose that could produce a higher efficacy then maybe a full dose. Europe and the United States continued to struggle with containing the virus resurgence. Germany is seeing a record increase in new cases, while new york cases are approaching 7000, hospitalizations hit their highest since june. Here was more is bloombergs, china here with more is bluebirds emma chandra here with more is bloombergs emma chandra. Emma astrazeneca are going to look to have a no other global trial to test the efficacy of the half dose, which they think will be better, and getting some more troubling figures out of large economies. The likes of new yor
The and pennsylvania. No sign of qe for the boe. Officials boost stimulus to prevent a doubledip recession. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to bloomberg surveillance, but welcome to our Election Special. Votes are being counted. I am Francine Lacqua in london. Tom keene is a new york. Tom, we look at the senate, the legal challenges. I know you and i have not slept much in the last 24 hours as we were roaring through the votes, trying to figure out exactly how throughident poring the votes, trying to figure out exactly how the president can mount a challenge. The other big news is the bank of england, because they did more than the markets were expecting, but remember this is in the middle of a brexit negotiation. Lockdown in london starts today actually, the u. K. As a whole starts today. If you look at futures in the u. S. , european stocks, they are tom, twocompared, yesterday. Liking what they see at the moment, but whatever the outcome of the u. S. Election was, it was pretty much
Everyone here is really waiting with baited breath on who the president of the United States is. We understand through the counting that joe biden could win it. It is razor thin, but we dont know for certain. The markets dont expect some kind of surprise, which is why they are stable and up. The other story is the bank of england, talking possibly about negative rates. Although, not for now. Guy johnson in the conversation with the governor talking about the Downside Risk. I think we have learned earlier this year with thoughts of covid, that we act both andkly and we do at clearly scale. We have a very substantial genocide risk on the forecast, and a lot of that relates to how covid itself will evolve. The bank ofernor of england. Extensive comments on this. Really important interview, mr. Johnson, with Nestor Bailey on the bank of england. I should note, sterling rallies nicely. Some of the headlines this morning are pretty shocking. Let me do a data check. Jonathan ferro just emaile