Ofto see geoffrey yu there bny mellon in our opening. With the new slow out of washington, how to get ready for ferro, do you think the secretary of treasury will be watching mr. Powells press conference . Jonathan i hope they speak before the press conference. These two need to get on the same side. It is not good to wake up ever to see the chairman of the Federal Reserve and treasury secretary on different pages on an Emergency Program that, lets be clear, has really helped keep financial conditions loose at a really tough time for the u. S. Economy. I am surprised, maybe even shocked, that the market is where it is this morning based on the spat between those two individuals. Tom there are distractions in washington, but maybe it was beneath the radar off of president trumps efforts to tolection 2020 lisa move election 2020. It devolves to a market that looks like the fourth week of is taking myferro vacation days. Lisa how do you price the future with a present that is very much dy
President trump in florida, i noticed about an hour ago. He will leave in the early evening. I believe Vice President biden scheduled for ohio. What is so odd is the relative invisibility of the leader in the race, Vice President biden. This was a trump weekend they trump discourse. Jonathan the president has been in the spotlight for all of the wrong reasons the last couple of weeks. I think the former Vice President wants to leave him there. Not just orlando later this evening. I believe pennsylvania tomorrow, iowa wednesday, and thursday in north carolina. The numbers at a national level, and it some of these states, particularly iowa, where he crushed Hillary Clinton four years ago, much tighter this time around. Tom the polls are really showing the challenges there. What is important for me, for our international audience, it is surprising how the voting rules and the voting process devolves to the state level and even to the city and county level. Very different from the united k
The cash trade is an hour away. These are your top headlines from the bloomberg terminal. Traversing course. Goldman sachs tell staff in london to work remotely, reversing course after the u. K. Government appeal to britain to head back home if they can. Temporary power. The ecb says the central bank risks legal trouble if it tries to extend crisis era flexibility to regular Bond Buying Program area and battery day with no sparks. Elon musk disappoints as tesla fails to unveil any major innovations, but it does promise a massmarket car by 2023. We are just under an hour away from the start of cash trading in europe. Look at futures and you will see green arrows. The percent missed price points to stronger than 1 gain on the Major National benchmark indexes here. You can see ftse futures up 0. 9 . Take a look at u. S. Futures. More of a mixed picture there. Dow andgreen arrows for s p futures. Nasdaq futures are little changed. Slightly to the downside. What do you see on the dmm . Attr
Election story, and whether the market is saying we want to seek some safety and the dollar is the place to do that. The yen was trading lower against the dollar a little bit earlier on, but eurodollar now trading with a 1. 17 handle. What youre seeing in germany, u. K. , canada, and the United States is quite a sharp curve flattening, pivoting around the tens. The 30s are down quite hard in terms of the yield, so a big bid at the back end of the bond market. Alix all part of that is the virus story you were discussing, so lets get to that. U. K. Chief scientific advisor warning of 50,000 new cases a day by midoctober if urgent measures are not taken. Cases are increasing. Hospitalizations are falling. Deaths unfortunately will follow that, and there is the potential for this to move very fast. At the moment, we think that the roughly is doubling every seven days. If we dont do enough, the virus will take off. If we do not change course, we are going to find ourselves in a very difficu
They are higher on this monday trying to work their way back from last wem wooeks sell off. Jon, i go to you first you saw enough in the sell off in big tech to put some money back to work you added to things you had. Why . I saw a lot of institutions doing that when that wave starts picking up, i start paddling faster. I rounded up certain stocks like after that split in apple. I needed to add shares to get myself to a more tradeable lot size than some of these odd lots after you get through a stock split. You end up with instead of 11,000, maybe you want 15,000 shares or whatever it is they were so accommodating letting us get to those levels thank you for that for the folks that pushed it down there. Micr microsoft was down in the premarket. It made the big turn after people were reacting to the news in oracle and tiktok and then its up 4 there was a lot of constitutional interest in many of the names of those battery stocks are you making a statement here are you making a statement