Were up, and then lifted nicely at the pfizer announcement, 1. 11, up 12. We are near dow 30,000. To me, the clarion idea is that the vix is peeling away the fear , the volatility that is out there come up with a vix at 22. 01. Jonathan wejonathan have been doing that since the election, and the move got a big boost of the pfizer news from last week. The final efficacy rating, and the number is decent. Lisa 95 , better than the initial read last week of 90 . S is the mark on brands this is the more comprehensive data. Of over 65, so preventing illness. An incredibly good display here. The interesting thing to me is that we are not seeing more of a reaction in markets. It is already baked in, and in fact, you are seeing bond yields a little lower on the day. They are just flirting with this idea that longterm, we are not changing the scenario, even with this incredibly good news. Equity futures are elevated on the s p 500. A big move in the equity market. We stayed elevated over the las
With the pandemic, so different in america. Francine im sorry, tom, you cannot forget about brexit. Almost there, and certainly by next monday, london will have moved to tier two, which is where you can still meet people outside but you cannot let people come into your home. We should have a better idea of what london will become over the next couple weeks. Is similar moved by the french president , emmanuel macron, announcing that eight cities will go in lockdown. That is hurting a lot of the stocks. Go, there are eight ways to and just because there is compressed time, are the chancellor of the exchequer and the Prime Minister on the same page . Francine they are on the same page, but we heard from the london mayor, who is from the labor party, and the opposition leader, asking for a national lockdown. We call it the circuit breaker. The idea is for two weeks we go back in lockdown so that the cases go down. This is not what the Prime Minister wants to do, but we also know that the l
Absolutely extraordinary. I know lisa is going to touch on this. Can we all focus a moment on 800,000 in claims at 8 30 . What is still involved in our politics and our markets is a labor economy that is, to be polite, fragile. Jonathan secretary mnuchin throwing some cold water over that. We need to talk about the new restrictions across the continent in europe. The economic recovery in europe was already fragile, already stalling. These restrictions will make that worse. Tom ive so glad you bring this up. You and i have been going back and forth on this since you got up at 9 00 a. M. London time. What i really want to focus on is the federal solution and application in europe versus the statebystate solution in america. Is that accurate . Jonathan youve also got the local issues in the United Kingdom that have really brought london into the equation. The north of the country was facing much tougher restrictions , looking down to london and asking, what about them . The answer is lond
So much for these phrases that we love. Lisa we learned something yesterday. We take that pile of cash and split it into quarters and then you have more money. That is what we learn from our end has left. Apple and tesla. Tom we are doing a lot of strategies,equity fixed income strategies. Futures up, another equity lift to the markets. Lets get right to the morning brief. Lisa we are going to get the manufacturing data for the month of august at 10 00 a. M. Youre getting, u. S. July construction spending. Housing, red hot. We are likely to see more edification of that trend. Look at lumber prices tripling. U. S. August to get wards total vehicle sales. There may be cooling there. What does this mean about how much money people have to spend . Also today, President Trump visiting kenosha, wisconsin against the wishes of some local officials to discuss recent events that have transpired there, the death of one of his supporters, the rioting come of the protests the rioting, the protests
September. What is interesting, with the this on the screen, unconventional transaction of tesla. Additional 5an billion of shares geared toward perhaps the nonmainstream, the nonwall street crowd. Tesla is interesting because people using bubble with stocks. 2 tesla. Tom a recent secondary, even with moonshot on the markets. This will not be publicly offered. It will be Equity Distribution and distributed by banks as tesla chooses. Somewhat akin to what we saw with lesser successes. Here,l be widely studied the why of this transaction as well as the need for 5 million they are looking for. Here andarkably up big still elevated from where they were. What else are you looking at . Ina the story today markets, aside from tesla, is the dollar and the question of whether people are going to say this is the end of dollar supremacy or if this is just an indication of the low yield, the negative real yield and this idea of global trade. It is the two sides of the story. Tom not only yields do