People disappear from westminster and it is quiet. You have been reading about the problems, and that is something on the social scene i suppose, and the controversy over which songs should end the problems, a musical event that happens every year. Of course it is much scaledback. I am preoccupied by the latest comings and goings. Tom we have Economic Data on thursday, jobless claims. What is the trend of the economy that you see . Right now in america aims to be almost a two art economy, very separate. A twopart economy, very separate. Anna we are talking this morning about the kshaped recovery. Going to john olsens great piece this moaning about how tech stocks do well, value stocks, other left behind sectors not doing as well. Even as we look at the u. S. Right now. Also really dominating in the news overnight. Anna a recovery, kitd juckes writing on that as well. An unusual august. For our briefing with first word news, there is ritika gupta. Ritika President Trump and speakers at
His body he thought independently he was monstrously and original he had intellectual courage the world seems much smaller today than before september 2nd david rest in peace yeah he is a intellectual giant i guess you could say of this era and wrote about death its a point of view which i guess would some would say would be anticapitalist in a lot of ways and he explored that vigorously i remember a very long walks with him through the city of london and he would reveal his extraordinary sense of humor hes a very very funny guy as most highly intelligent people are they do are capable of it its not always what david graber would want to show because hes known as a public intellectual so you dont want to show that side of yourself too much but privately. And walking in me and we have great fun you know playing around with words and concepts and things like that and just probing these things in a very funny ways a very funny man was well he was born he was 59 years old born in new york
Abramowitz, Jonathan Ferro off. Anna edwards joining us with the london perspective. The vix, 21. 59. The marketrn to overall. Yields coming in two basis points on the 30 year bond. Bond with a0 year negative yield had record interest. That is how odd that is not in the textbooks. , with a lot of things that are not in the textbooks now. The extent to which Central Banks are manipulating markets, keeping yields low, keep borrowing costs for everyone low. There is nothing normal about what we are seeing here. Incredible movement on the equity market yesterday in the United States, getting back to valentines day levels. This is the strangest recession, heard in that clip at the top of the session. The fundamentals of the economy look so daunting, but is the equity market just doing its job discounting way into the future . Tom we will have to see. It is very important to understand yields have come back. Over to a lower yield regime. Anna edwards, you have the morning brief. Anna yes i d
Last 10 years. That doesnt get it done. Guess what . Job cuts. Lisa how much more can Central Banks do to juice job growth at a time of zero Interest Rates . I find it fascinating that coke is offering voluntary separation programs with its employees, read, job cuts. More interestingly, yesterday salesforce. Com, one of the winners of this, and also job cuts. Tom cocacola managing the message as they always do. I dont know what their cute phrases for firings. Lisa separations. Tom exactly. That is just as phony as all of the rest of the. What is so important in that set of announcements across the bloomberg, as they make clear this is an International Strategy to right size on 86,000 employees right now, what we really need is a morning brief. Where you start . Lisa at 8 30, ancient history, which is u. S. July income and spending data for individuals. This is very backward looking based on how quickly the jobless benefits are running out and the changing scenario. We are also going to
We get prices down and yields up across bond. I dont know how long it can last, given the fact that we still are getting signs that there are going to be layoffs, and thinking in particular of delta coming out overnight and saying they may have to lay off nearly 2000 pilots after the september period. Ive got to say, still a lot of headwinds out there. Tom i agree. The partition of america is extraordinary. We just spoke to the congressman from the court could from the fourth Congressional District of arkansas. He made clear the economy is really good and sets up the inequalities and differences you see between democrats and republicans. Of course, our convention coverage. One quick point before we get to the complete data check, futures up 15. You looked at the brief for the morning. Lisa Consumer Confidence for there hasof august, been greater resilience than in coronavirus cases. After that, we get a tale of two markets. Roadforce. Has given a into the Consumer Confidence. As you me