Worldwide, a number of stories, including 21 days to the election. Both campaigns gearing up and finetuning. We are distracted by Bank Earnings. Jon ferro, jp morgan doing better than good. Citigroupi am getting , on first blush giving us the same enthusiasm we heard from jp morgan. Jonathan jamie dimons jp morgan delivering the beat, and it looks like city group is repeating the action. Figurepoint out, the eps third quarter, 1. 40. A little bit of an upside surprise here. I believe we have sonali basak with us. What are we seeing. Sonali we are seeing a beat on revenue, on fixed income. We are seeing loanloss provisioning higher than what jp morgan put in, but lower than what analysts expected. Perhaps wall street has just gotten it wrong compared with the banks are expecting in terms of loan losses. They are higher than jp morgan, so we are going to want to understand why the divergence, but overall, pretty clean numbers here. Tom as we see the numbers come out, we are getting this
5, 6, seven major stories, are driving us forward. Simply an open question with all that is going on, what has your eye this morning . Jonathan the italian bond market. I know that feels a bit off the beaten road, but right now rallying aggressively over the less capital weeks. Look at the spread of btps to german debt at the moment. It is about 20 basis point. That was about 280 earlier in the year. That is one to watch in the debt markets. Tom bond price up, yield down. What is the why . Is it a flight to quality . Jonathan reduced redenomination risk, i am not sure we are completely there yet where we can say that this market now trades like a proper sovereign. What that means, we used to question how long some of these countries would play into the euro zone. The risk of redenomination, moving out of the euro and being repriced in a different currency. The fiscal backstop of a couple of months ago, even though it has not been fully implement it, i think that gave people some confid
Ins a draw as they say soccer right now. Jonathan im not sure anyone calls Bank Earnings season the great derby. Darby. Y the fixed trading revenue number. Equity sales and trading revenue. Message fromng the the city ceo. Balance sheet a has plenty of capacity to serve clients. This is the continued message that the Balance Sheet is not an issue, this is an earnings issue. The Balance Sheet is still strong. Tom every bank has different language. 20 some billion dollars of cost of credit. Citigroup and jp morgan lifting a little bit. Wells fargo is its own story. Sonali basak joins us now. We have citigroup out here now i want to go back to wells fargo. How broken is wells fargo . A 2. 4 just posted billion loss. Down to is being cut . 10 compared to . 20 expectations and . 51 where it was before. They are putting up a fraction of what they had before. They are jp morgan with relatively solid results in the face of a tough time. Jonathan is there a broad take away yet for all three . A
Underperformance of Large Cap Technology and outperformance of value. Guy, what did you make of the action today so i know you remember everything, so you may recall yesterdays show every once in a while something sticks with you, like an onion or Something Like that, yesterday there was something said on the show that resonated with me. We were talking about the vix. He correctly said just because you have an elevated vix, its not any deby definition a negate thing for the market today illustrated that exactly im shocked by todays performance. The reversals we saw yesterday should have followed through today. Maybe that happens tomorrow, i dont know what i make of it is the resilience of this market continues to be unprecedented, in my opinion. Still label me a skeptic lets pause this conversation we have some breaking news from moderna. The stock is up in the after hours session. Meg . This is the phase one study of modernas covid19 vaccine program. The full results being published i
Is real simple. The economic gloom is tangible and the market brushes it aside. Good morning, everyone. This is bloomberg surveillance. On bloomberg radio, on bloomberg television. The bid keeps coming in. It is not about being up. It is the quality of the up that is so important. Jonathan the last several months, rotation on, rotation off. It was rotation off since june or so. In the last several hours, rotation back on. That means the cyclical parts of the market do better, tech underperforms. The Treasury Curve steeper. Dollar in the mix as well. That is the thing a lot of people were trying to position behind. It didnt quite develop over the last month. It is back on this morning. Betterldman sachs with than good earnings. I have not gotten the appropriate up remotes the appropriate eyebrow, whats amowiczropriate abr briefing. Lisa theres an incredible dissonance between the pessimism we are hearing from the banking chiefs right now and the optimism you hear from a lot of fixed inc