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
Ginsburg made the political picture in washington significantly more complicated with some analysts saying the odds of another round of stimulus before the election falling sharply. Bank stocks are getting crushed today as well amid new report about major firms dealing in suspicious funds well have more on that in just a bit. We have 59 munz left left to goy volatile session still make for the worst day in a while. Percentage terms, were down 2. 2 as we stand ahead will be all over the selloff in the final hour of trade. Billionaire investor Mike Novogratz will join us with his take on todays plunge and whether he is buying any of the dips after three straight lease losing weeks and well speak with john kerry in an exclusive interview. Well get his take on the Supreme Court, on stimulus, on the election and that final month run in of campaigning which, of course, he knows so much about lets focus in on the big stories were watching on a very busy day of news mike san toll toli is track
Or highs just yesterday alone. Bit of a pullback today. As for the nasdaq, yeah, it closed above 12,000. There was a massive runup in tech stocks again, a pullback is to be expected, and take a look at that, thats what weve got. Got it. Next, vaccine news. Very positive. The centers for Disease Control is telling states to get ready for Vaccine Distribution on a large scale come november the 1st. Which vaccine . Dont know, but this is a firm date and, of course, its right before the election. And it is exactly two months to the election, and the two campaigns are in high gear. Joe biden has reversed himself. He will travel to kenosha today. He said he wouldnt go, now he is going to be the comforter in chief. What will he say to the burnedout Business Owners . President trump goes to pennsylvania. Hell speak at Arnold Palmer airport just east of pittsburgh. Ive got a feeling hell talk about fracking. Stay with us, please. Youve got to say what Speaker Pelosi is saying about her break th
Perfect sense. But then there are days like today when i cant take how stupidly bullish this market can be the dow gaining 164 points nasdaq climbing 0. 35 . You often hear people saying that the whole things been manipulated. Its a desperate Federal Reserve and its a scared powell and its President Trump winning the election no, the feds just doing its job. And if the white house wanted to juice the stock market, dont you think they already wouldve cut a deal with the democrats on the next round of stimulus see, there is a much simpler explanation. I call it clueless buying. I always say you should never underestimate the wall street promotion machine. But never underestimate the power of enthusiastic buyers who do not know what theyre doing they know nothing some people accuse me of taking the thing too far. They say im not willing to call people out for being morons that are more likely to put retire clorox ceo than i am to put a departing Ceo Jim Hackett on the wall of shame. They
John, to me the silence of this friday is the unemployment checks that will go away and the silence from washington. Jonathan i hope they are not looking at the equity market this morning. I hope they are focused on the highfrequency data and jobless claims. The recovery that we have been doing a victory lap on over the last couple of months. There will not be one this time around. Jobless claims are higher. Recovery is stalling. The economy needs more assistance. And congress is going for a long weekend. Tom so many things this morning and we will have a lot of different conversations to get you ready for the weekend. Lisa abramowicz, we all know in equities and commodities and currency, the bond market talks. It is speaking with a vengeance this morning. Lisa you are earning nothing on safe bonds. That is what this is telling you. Inflation will not take off. We are seeing record low yields. Almost back to its record low. I think you pointed to the most important yield we are looking