Ofto see geoffrey yu there bny mellon in our opening. With the new slow out of washington, how to get ready for ferro, do you think the secretary of treasury will be watching mr. Powells press conference . Jonathan i hope they speak before the press conference. These two need to get on the same side. It is not good to wake up ever to see the chairman of the Federal Reserve and treasury secretary on different pages on an Emergency Program that, lets be clear, has really helped keep financial conditions loose at a really tough time for the u. S. Economy. I am surprised, maybe even shocked, that the market is where it is this morning based on the spat between those two individuals. Tom there are distractions in washington, but maybe it was beneath the radar off of president trumps efforts to tolection 2020 lisa move election 2020. It devolves to a market that looks like the fourth week of is taking myferro vacation days. Lisa how do you price the future with a present that is very much dy
Ive got to go to the pandemic and the fold in to our foundations of this coming quarter, our foundations to 2021. Youve got to comment on what the eu saidd yesterday. Jonathan a call for more fiscal stimulus across the continent as well. Christine lagarde pretty clear about what she wants to do in december. The colder it gets, the harder it gets in europe. Cases are going up. More restrictions are coming on. Big question for the United States, whats next the deeper we get into winter . Tom weve gone back and forth this morning with differences of opinion. It is a movable feast. I would say that the one item this item as the president adjusts his plans for what he will do Election Night because of the pandemic. He had plans to go to his hotel. He will not. The rumor is he will stay at the white house. Jonathan according to open what the new york times. According to the new york times. Lisa we will get some earnings from exxon mobil, the thirdquarter earnings. The reason i am interested
Really interesting flow out of the United Kingdom. Weve got a very nice lift to the market. I dont want to oversell it, but in the last 20 minutes or so, a lift to the market. I see sterling coming in and even the yield space with a little bit lower yield. Certainly not the risk of agony we saw yesterday. Jonathan sterling lower. Down about 0. 2 on cable. Reuters reporting that the Prime Minister is about to say get ready for an australia style brexit deal. When i say australia, think something closer to no deal. When i say canada, think something closer to a freetrade agreement. If the Prime Minister frustrated with the eu . October 15 was meant to be a deadline. Mr. Prime minister trying to ramp things up to get concessions from the other side, something he has failed to do in the last month. Tom and there is the norway deal. An australian deal is a much more distant deal, a much more traditional agreement. The love and affection of a canada deal where you respect the agricultural pr
History in the United Kingdom as they extend the pandemic watch out to march of 2021. Jon ferro, theres no other headline for me this morning. All of us dealing with this pandemic, and Boris Johnson sets us a new timeline. Jonathan jonathan new restrictions on the u. K. Economy being announced today. We will hear from the Prime Minister addressing the nation at 8 00 p. M. Local time. Those restrictions could last a solid six months. Lets get straight to the price action to give people a feel of how things have turned around in the last 30 minutes or so. Equity futures were positive, now slightly negative. In the fx market, the pound was positive. It is now slightly negative. In the bond market, yields were up by almost a basis point. 0. 67 . Y are unchanged at it is a subtle shift, but a reminder of the difficult moment we have ahead of us as we go deeper into the end of the year. Tom so much going on here. We welcome all of you on Bloomberg Television and Bloomberg Radio across americ
Im Francine Lacqua in london. European stocks edging higher. U. S. Futures pinning hopes on the american stimulus package. The dollar is slipping. I am also looking at treasuries pretty much steady. Texas crude oil steady at 40 a barrel. Lets get to the first word news. In the u. S. House democrats have started drafting a new stim in this proposal of roughly 2. 4 trillion. The plan could get passed by the house next week. While smaller than the package in may, it is larger than what Senate Republicans say they can accept. President trump has excepted he will go as high as 1. 5 trillion. Your Governor Andrew Cuomo says he does not trust the Trump Administration over a vaccine. He vows the state will independently review anything authorized by the federal government. Polls show a growing mistrust over a vaccine. New york may require travelers from europe to abide by its 14 day quarantine rule. In the u. K. , rebel numbers of the conservative party are threatening to seize the power of pa