A beautiful new york today. Good morning in washington boston. Early good morning out in san francisco, to all of you across this nation on sirius xm. We also say good morning to anna edwards in london. Why are we doing this . It is august. Ferro is off. From whats is off abramowitz is off. I said, i want anna edwards, and here she is. I am going to go optimism here with bob doll any moment, with home depot and walmart and all that. Explain to our american audience the place of Marks Spencer in the United Kingdom psychology, and what it means that one in 10 bodies will be shown the door. This isnt necessarily a very optimistic way to start the hour, but Marks Spencer, a huge retailer that was on every high street in the u. K. It is going to be getting rid of one in 10 of its staff, mostly through retirements and the like, but it is not just about covid19. This is a secular trend that has been affecting the retailers. Not only do they have to deal with the fact that a lot of their custo
Euroyen shows you the dynamic away from the dollar, translated. It is all about the weaker dollar across the board when i look in yields, i really look at the inflationadjusted yield as a 0. 92. 2012. Reaches the jonathan 2 trillion and 99 days. A 2 trillion spread between democrats and republicans, and 99 days until the election. You have to believe the president steps forward and says it needs to be bigger. Tom no question about it. The president just reads the riot act to his republicans about losing the house, losing the senate, losing the presidency, and getting out. I dont think it is 1. 5 trillion where we are heading with mr. Trump. What i would focus on in a week of Technology Earnings is that equities are so resilient here compared to what else you and i see on the bloomberg terminal. Jonathan a massive week ahead. Lets get to the morning brief. A fed decision coming up later this week. Tech earnings in the mix. Latere get u. S. Gdp data in the week. Heres the price action to
A whole bunch of other smart people set lower for longer. That is the message this morning. Futures up 19 but to me, the story is the bond market. As you know, those huge negative and persistent real yields. A range of assets and securities, it is interesting to see dollaryen breakdown. Still, equities are firmer on the day, futures up by 6 10 of 1 . We do this going into a battle down in washington, d. C. As long as it is just about size, we will have an agreement. These negotiations are now about thats great, but that means there is a timeline and i dont believe we have the luxury of a timeline because in the state of ,he economy, the unemployment the economic dynamics dont give you a comfortable august. Dont. Incentive to say we not negotiating until you negotiate. Right now, looks like new market is not picking up on it. There are some real nuances, maybe start off gold. Treasury yields down a basis point. Weve broken out of that sticky range for 0. 58 . The lows very much insight
Banks face. I do want to point out, governor bailey of the bank of england writing an important essay for Bloomberg News today. That will be a point of discussion as well. This,bramowicz, i look at the reopening of new york city. I am going to be at lunch on the sidewalk today at 12 00 noon. How are you going to celebrate the reopening of this great city . Lisa i have no doubt you will be there. Beefully i will also out. I love how restaurants are blocking up streets and sidewalks to expand their seating. You can feel the energy starting to come back. Theres a question, how many people will come back . Sayingll street journal only 10 to 20 of Office Workers are expected to get back to their desks today. I just struggle to understand how people will get back in, public transportation, as well as the willingness to leave their homes while we still have a great deal of uncertainty around the virus. Tom it has been an upanddown path. We know the leadership of Governor Cuomo and mayor de bl
Billion. That is the rumor promising 850 billion. That is the rumor from secretary of the treasury Steven Mnuchin. Crude also recovering. We still have a two handle, all after the vix hit a record monday. Time now for global exchange. We are going to bring you todays market moving news from all around the world. From new york to brussels, washington, and berlin, our bloomberg voices are on the ground with this mornings top stories. Futures trimming early gains this morning, then rallying. Here was more in new york is bloombergs annmarie hordern. Walk us through some of the action so far. Annmarie as you said, we hit limit up on those futures. We then went lower into negative territory, but now back in positive territory. It does look like the bears are in control of this market. The biggest plunge on markets since 1987. In europe, similar story. We were seeing a lot of gains, then went negative. Right now on the stoxx 600, we are about flat. We are seeing some Massive Gains on the lose