Come on, jon. Theent an hour reviewing dynamics. Theres been a real deterioration. Mike Allen Publishing moments ago for axios, and he melds the two stories together. Hes focused on wisconsin and montana being those swing states with huge pandemic issues. Jonathan and yet, wheres biden and harris going to be this week . Biden in georgia, harris in texas. Who would have thought that was to the election, those are the two places they would be. Tom georgia has really been front and center. Londonitical analyst in Francine Lacqua mentions she is focused on george as well. Jonathan new restrictions across the continent, and what are we not talking about this morning . We are not talking about stimulus conversations. This market adjusting lower. Lisa perhaps you can blame the fact that we havent gotten a fiscal deal. Week, wasch a huge andt days to the election, the data does stay pretty soft. 10 00 a. M. , we are getting u. S. Newhome sales. Expect deceleration in the full number based not
Bloomberg television. Eight days to the election across the station, and those watching around the world. The confluence here this morning, futures up 33. I get it. At the confluence here of really grim news worldwide on the pandemic, along with major uncertainty on the United States senate elections, makes for an interesting monday. Jonathan i couldnt agree more. The composition of congress all about what happens next with fiscal stimulus for market participants. Playing out for everyone to see, the increase of infections in the United States and europe, and extra restrictions coming down italy and spain at a time when the economy was already losing momentum. Youve got an equity market that gets hammered. The s p down almost 1 . Say full credit, i hate to this because jon is only with us for a brief hour today on bloomberg television, but the basic idea i have is that you were way out front on this. P guess if i am an sa shareholder, im a little surprised off of where it was friday. L
Instructed the u. S. Navy to shoot down and destroy iranian gun boats if they harass or ships at sea obviously thats a policy, thats going to make it so that anyone who is short oil theres so many people short oil, might say its worth covering here. I had a big win. Its geopolitical, the fact theres a failed instrument out there called the uso, i say its failed because its not been able to handle the selling yeah. Executing a 1 for 8 reverse. Are they really we talked about the usa more th than we ever have. Some things should have never been created, the uso was blessed when the s. E. C. Not around, people lose money, but theres no constituency that says you cant lose money. What do you make of the general notion that the president s tweet aside that some of the results last night were better than feared. You have a list of companies now that have been able to either sell a stake privately or through secondaries and well get to that in a moment. Plus the Senate Package making progress
Let me bring you two new lines coming in in the last few moments. Reuters news agency reporting that alerts are being sounded in more towns in northern israel. Warnings of incoming aircraft, i say aircraft, the thought is we are talking about drones. That is happening in the north, alerts in more towns in northern israel with warnings of incoming aircraft. We are keeping an eye on that, we have been talking to our correspondent on the borders with lebanon so well get the latest on that line. And diplomatically the Afp News Agency reports that china has urged, quote, an immediate ceasefire in a call with palestinian officials. That is coming from the Foreign Ministry in the last few seconds. If there are more details we will obviously return to those. Time for a look at the Business News now with ben thompson. Thank you, matthew. We will look through some of those top Business Stories right now. Economies around the world are assessing the potential fall out of the conflict between isra
Significant additional risks. Speaking this morning, ahead of the Imf World Bank meeting in marrakesh, ms yellen said washington was monitoring the potential Economic Impact of the escalating conflict. While we are monitoring potential Economic Impacts from the crisis, im not really thinking of that as a major likely driver of the Global Economic outlook. So we will see what impact it has. Thus far, i dont think weve seen anything suggesting it would be very significant. Janet yellen speaking earlier. Joining me now is gregory peters, co chief Investment Officer at pgim fixed income. Thank you for being with us. Janet yellen says so far things are ok, that there are lots of moving parts right now, notably how long this conflict goes on for and who else if anyone gets involved, i am thinking of saudi and iran. It is anyone gets involved, i am thinking of saudi and iran. Of saudi and iran. It is clear there are lots of of saudi and iran. It is clear there are lots of moving of saudi and