Upside. Looking at commodities. Crude moving to the upside. A big move to the downside with , on the vaccine and signs of Economic Growth in the u. S. Particularly helping people not to look for havens or avoid havens, get out of them. Gold down half of 1 . Bitcoin surging up again, it has above 18,500. Juliette lets get the first word news. The head of the u. S. Government Coronavirus Vaccine program says results of trials by astrazeneca show encouraging signs it may help block the most severe cases. No one given the vaccine developed severe covid, while 16 people on the placebo debt. He called the results excited. Nine, reports 70 process astrazeneca report 70 success. The centers for Disease Control a model shows weekly u. S. Cases and deaths rising every week for at least the next month. Italy is the Second European nation to report 50,000 total fatalities. The u. K. Is extending lockdown next week in favor of even tougher regional curbs. Reports from washington say the Trump Admin
Cspan2. Cspan2. Hi, everybody, im david, welcome to the National Book festival in the difficult time of the pandemic. One single they think we can do and i know youre loving it as i am, is to read good books. I wrote a book that was published this summer, the paladin, about a cia officer whos struggling with one of the central problems of our times, which is knowing whats true and what isnt. And its my great pleasure to have with me today two people who wrote two of the very best books of this summer about issues related to our new technologically sophisticated world and the dangers. First, i want to introduce bart gellman, my former colleague at the Washington Post who wrote an extraordinary memoirs and his dealings with Edward Snowden and the technology and surveillance and the title of the book says, the american surveillance state. And another outstanding office, thomas rid who teaches at Johns Hopkins and his accurate measure of history what weve come to call disinformation, the w
Commodities having a positive session the far. Astrazeneca stock is actually down today. The s p is up i 014 . It is a monday. We get vaccine news. Generally it is taken quite well. Cyclicals have a bigger day. That seems to be the narrative that is establishing itself. We do have a euro that has weakened. The manufacturing pmi data out of the united states, and i know the ism is more important in terms of what people look at, but nevertheless, the manufacturing data was strong, and as a result, the dollar went up. It does seem to be something of a consensus now that the u. S. Is simply a few weeks behind europe. You only have to look at what is happening with the eurozone data today to get a sense of how far pmis can fall. Highs,off our earlier off by 0. 2 percent. Boris johnson is currently talking about covid. We are also possibly making some progress when it comes to the brexit story. Certainly today, the big driver is definitely that news on astrazeneca. Alix Boris Johnson saying
Tom good morning, everyone. Bloomberg surveillance. And keep her being with us on Bloomberg Radio and bloomberg television. Thisan important our is an important hour. Will join us later, carmen and Vincent Reinhart. Morning,at we see this the only thing that matters. Dollar out to new weakness. Jonathan dxy taking out the lows of early september. That is the dollar index, heavily weighted towards this goal currency. The eurodollar nicely through 1. 19. Another monday with a cyclical tilt. Small caps outperform big tech, largely off of some positive vaccine news. Haddownside surprises weve in the Economic Data over the last week, we need to Pay Attention to that. Im excited to hear what david has to say about that. Tom lets frame that right now. I look at the 55year forwards. The answer is ive got disinflation in the united kingdom, a little bit of a rolling over of disinflation trend in the united states, and is some noland right now. Kind of the wrong upside surprise. That is the labo
Down 1. 6 yesterday, off of session lows. The dow industrials down 650 650 points, that was 2 and a quarter percent lower at 4 00 on wall street. Investors rattled over no progress on stimulus and a rise in covid cases. Its a big day for earnings, dow components merck, 3m. Caterpillar all reporting quarterly numbers this morning. We will get a snapshot of the airlines when jetblue reports and a look at big pharma when pfizer reports. The road to the white house, we hit the one week to go mark, americans are headed th to the polls in seven short days. President trump and joe biden begin the final push before election day. Stimulus negotiations losing momentum, time is running out for lawmakers to make a deal before november 3rd. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she remains opt my particular over talks optimistic over talks. Congressman tom reed told me yesterday if we dont have a deal by election day, we may not have one until february. Todays the day, my new book, the cost, trump, china