Welcome to our special 2020 election coverage. It is so nice to stay up altogether. I think the world is really riveted by what is happening with the vote counting in u. S. I am francine lacqua. Tom keene in new york. Interesting to look at market movement. The world is watching this razor thin election, just trying to understand why it is taking so long in certain counties, and of course trump to find out what happens in the senate race and what happens with the president. Tom its going to be extraordinary this friday and the uncertainty of where we are friday afternoon, where we are into the weekend. One thing that is very evident as we edged towards recounts, which will move us nicely from november and even into december. One telling statistic, the sum right now of the five states, forget about alaska, the five state disparity between these 3,919 votes out5 of 150 million that have been made. Francine we are talking about razor thin changes. The latest electoral vote count 64, the m
Many of indices. The nasdaq is 3. 2 higher. We are also seeing a recovery for oil. We are still below 40 per barrel. The vix is up there but well below 30. For all the recent volatility is favorable for some investors, lets welcome our first guest. She is managing director and head of longshores equity. Talk to us about the strength of a strategy these days. It has been a couple of years for hedge funds. What is the driver of this . Thank you for having me. This is such a great question. It is head spinning which way the markets are going to go. There is daytoday volatility. We have the election, a vaccine, theres a lot of volatility in this market. Whats important for strategies most importantly is dispersant. To see winners and losers. Short Equity Strategies struggle predominantly more because of the short book. It was the short book that was a challenge in this rising market. Accelerate to where we are today in the cycle and where we are today in the pandemic and we have real oppor
How oil fits into the microeconomics of this great contraction. It is remarkable, francine, to see how the markets churn yesterday after you and i were justen we saw the fed simply come to the rescue. There is no other way to put it. Francine and the markets keep saying dont fight the fed. That was a Good Opportunity for market participants. Expecting a 60 figure, better than expected. Bloomberg first word news in new york city. Here is ritika gupta. Ritika good morning. President trump is weighing an infrastructure proposal worth nearly a trillion dollars to spur the u. S. Economy, according to bloomberg sources. The plan would reserve most of the cash for traditional work such as roads and bridges, what funds would also go to 5g wireless and broadband. Existing funding is up for renewal at the end of september. It is one of the largest of occasions north korea has made to south korea in years. Grownnguns regime has that blown up an entry Korean Liaison Office on the side of its borde
Chip botox straight ahead and we start with the rorschach test. Which did you see today . The dow closing at its highest level since march 10th and vaccine hopes with stills and stocks closing near session lows and the relationship 500 failing to hold its 200day moving average or guy adami, how do you interpret the ink blot being that i cant see it, is that the guy from welcome back cotter, mel or no, that rorschach test guy i think were having problems with guys audio tim seymour, well go to you on this which ink blot did you see today . I actually heard guy and he made a bad joke of welcome back to cotter. It was closing near march highs and i think we have a case where the reopening has allowed people to look at industrial and call them value stocks, but the ones that were the most beaten up and to begin to assess what schedules are going to look like for airlines out through kind of early to midsummer. We have no idea, but we also have some sense that the worst case has been largel
Time now for our top market moving news from our new york team. Joining me Bloomberg Opinion columnist brooke sutherland. What were some of your Key Takeaways . Brooke i think what is interesting is target talks about First Quarter comparable sales being up, but nearly all of that was from digital. Digital comparable sales were 141 in the quarter. Those sales come at a cost. They are more expensive. The natural supply chain dynamics of delivering products to homes rather than having them purchased instore is more expensive for target, so you are seeing that market squeeze. Clothes,rent buying where target gets more of a higher profit margin. They were buying food any essentials. Is this a structural shift . Are people getting so used to ordering online that they will continue to order these items . They did also callout market share gains, which is key. Given Amazon Logistics troubles, are you going to be seeing customers rediscovering target and walmart, some of these longerlasting st