The coming days will be pivotal in reaching a trade deal. Two of the most senior officials from the Brexit Campaign left Boris Johnsons inner circle last week. The chief negotiator says he will not be changing his position. Hurricane iota will be slamming into Central America today as the strongest hurricane of the year. Now a category five storm, it will bring torrential rain and catastrophic wind to an area still reeling from a storm two weeks ago. Global news 24 hours a day, onair, and on quicktake by bloomberg, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. Im Mark Crumpton. This is bloomberg. Vonnie it is 1 00 p. M. In new york, 6 00 p. M. In london, and 2 00 a. M. In hong kong. Im vonnie quinn. Welcome to bloomberg markets. Here are the top stories we are following on the bloomberg and from around the world. U. S. Equities in the green after that positive news on a covid19 vaccine, sending shares tied to an economic reopening higher. Stayathome stocks l
The postelection risk rally faltering. Of good morning, everybody. 7 00 in london. Eight in paris or berlin. Lets have a look at the equity markets. Look like europe this. Negative. This is indicative of what we have seen on u. S. Futures or are seeing. U. S. Futures down 0. 5 . Nasdaq futures off their lows but still pretty negative. We are losing our nerve on Global Equity markets. Three days into this neverending election account it seems, the context of course is important. The rally we have seen must have been forgotten when we look at nasdaq futures, up nine, down one. Lets have a look at the gmm. Going on other things here. Oil prices are interesting, down by just over 2 . Dollar, not all about what is going on the dollar. Inflation trade unwinding. Investors wait, the electorate in the United States waits for the counting to continue. The race for the white house is still too close to call. Counting continues in crucial swing states with joe biden catching up in georgia and pen
That really picked up after the good jobs number. That is the election uncertainty lets get back to election uncertainty. Joe biden has taken the lead in pennsylvania and georgia, remains ahead in nevada and georgia. We expect updates from all four today. For more, we are joined by Bloomberg Government congressional reporter emily wilkins, at the biden headquarters in wilmington, delaware. What is the latest . Emily the Biden Campaign has a tricky thing to do today. They have to continue to project confidence that biden is going to be the winner. That is what it is looking like right now. But what he also has to do is make sure that he doesnt get out there and declare victory. Biden has already said he cannot declare victory, trump cannot declare victory, but that they need to wait for the votes to be counted and for it to be called. Thank, indeed. Bloombergs thank you very much, indeed. Bloombergs emily wilkins. Lets bring in Josh Wingrove in washington. The Trump Campaign saying this
The and pennsylvania. No sign of qe for the boe. Officials boost stimulus to prevent a doubledip recession. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to bloomberg surveillance, but welcome to our Election Special. Votes are being counted. I am Francine Lacqua in london. Tom keene is a new york. Tom, we look at the senate, the legal challenges. I know you and i have not slept much in the last 24 hours as we were roaring through the votes, trying to figure out exactly how throughident poring the votes, trying to figure out exactly how the president can mount a challenge. The other big news is the bank of england, because they did more than the markets were expecting, but remember this is in the middle of a brexit negotiation. Lockdown in london starts today actually, the u. K. As a whole starts today. If you look at futures in the u. S. , european stocks, they are tom, twocompared, yesterday. Liking what they see at the moment, but whatever the outcome of the u. S. Election was, it was pretty much
Future signals against are set to continue. Commerce bank swings to a loss in the Third Quarter as the pandemic and restructuring charge hits revenues. We speak with the cfo shortly. Good morning. Plenty to talk about on the u. S. Election front. Breaking news on the bank of england. Maintaining its benchmark Interest Rate at 0. 1 , entirely expected. The bank of england saying that was the news amount around maintaining its Interest Rate. They are raising the total bond target. Unanimousf englands on this Interest Rate and bond purchasing story. We will speak to the governor of the bank of england at 11 00 this morning london time. Stay tuned for that interview. Pound toor a in the this announcement. A pairing of losses coming through. Get some analysis. Dani burger is outside the bank of them went for us. There had been an expectation that as lockdown measures are extended, implemented in england, even if it is less strict than march, we would see more coming through from the bank of