Surveillance today on television, on radio. We welcome all of you worldwide, across this nation, where the linkage, the urgency that we see within our politics and our economics is truly front and center. Get out the calendar. I believe it is 23 july, and this is a nation staggering to the first week of august. Jonathan what urgency . It is sunshine and rainbows in the equity market. In washington, d. C. , we havent seen the urgency we actually need. There are a lot of people still out of work. This market is in a lot of pain, and it is not going to heal as quickly as we needed to. In about 30 minutes, initial jobless claims set to come in at around 1. 3 million again. We need to see much bigger improvement. Tom that will be a key statistic of the week. Rule number one in the equity market is follow bonds. I continue to see yield compression, lower yields and flatter curves. Jonathan sunshine and rainbows lisa sunshine and rainbows very much funded by real yield that is negative by the
Tom good morning, everyone. An exceptionally busy day here at bloomberg surveillance. Lots to talk about on the news front. Stimulus in washington or nonstimulus, the breaking news on china, and markets as well. The dollar moments ago breaks down to new week this of dxy new weakness of dxy. An ever weaker dollar index. That will be one of our themes across the hour. Our Kevin Cirilli reports a deeply divided reports on deeply divided republicans, and there are fire trucks in houston. Jonathan they are united on one thing in washington, and it is china. The consulate in houston shutting down after the u. S. Demand. We have looking up 70 times to that headline woken up so many times to that headline, so we have woken up so many times to that headline, u. S. China tensions. Gold, 1863 note an ounce. On a weekly basis, gold has had a record high. Go to the dynamics you have seen in highyield and ig. Lisa if you take a look at highyield bond spreads today, you can see to have shrunk dramati
Resee recovery in retail sales dow down 271 session lows 59 minutes left of trade the nasdaq has been the underperformer is actually off its lows were kind of moving around, as we speak, in the final hour. All the major indexes are lows ahead on todays show, well speak to mike sievert. Well get an upgraciointergrac sprint and the president of the university of arizona will outline his plan for the fall semester as cases and hospitalizations rise in that state. Well focus on the big stories were watching at this hour Steve Liesman with details on todays jobless claims will is digging into Big Bank Earnings and meg has details on johnson and johnsons results. But, steve, start us off with the jobs picture. You know, were getting two different stories from the jobless claims one of improvement and one where the improvement has kind of flat lined. Well take a look at the numbers. Claiming coming in at 1. 3 million. Above expectations dow just 10,000 on the weekly jobless claims thats kind
And across this nation, particularly those of home, alling at different home, all different shades. My major message today is the crosscurrents that we the of where welysis are this middle of june. Of where we are this middle of june. The bar for the good news gets higher. That has been the big debate the big debate we cant choose one or the other. We know a lot more than we did when this first hit. I think the spikes we are going to deal with down the road here, we are going to be better prepared for them. Weve got the population operating in a much more safe fashion than when this first hit. I believe weve got a lot of companies putting a lot of energy into how to operate a business with a pandemic, and i wouldnt underestimate capitalists figuring that out. Weve got scientists working for treatments that can reduce the death rate before a vaccine is discovered. Theall, we kind of nowhere primary death rate is among older and compromised individuals that we can put a big ring around.
Will accept junk, recent fallen angels as collateral. Time now for todays market moving news from brussels in new york. We want to begin in europe, where the pandemic drove the economy to a record slump in april. Pmi Area Services completely decimated, falling to 11. 7. Manufacturing also dropped to 33. 6. Bloombergs maria tadeo joins me from brussels. Maria what you are seeing is that the Coronavirus Crisis is going to do a lot of damage to the european economy. [indiscernible] brussels tell us they do anticipate a contraction for the entire euro area. This is potentially huge. Youre seeing again the European Central bank stepping in to try to shield some of those markets, in particular in countries like. Taly ,he other side of the equation what exactly are european leaders going to do to help the ecb, to put more money on the table and also protect their own economies . There has been a lot of backandforth. Perhaps a 2 trillion euro package. But all of this is still very much in the