John malone with the legendary media icon has to say about the covid19 virus, direct to consum consumer, streaming, so many other topics we hit in our hour long shutdown. The ceo of goodrx, we had him last week, since then, amazon came into the business what does it mean for his business carl, well ask that question amongst others. Yeah, thats good stuff for this hour, guys. Jim, we talked for last week and a half about the fact that a path to the vaccine would face some setbacks and clearly new york city schools, new state of emergency in wisconsin, speak to that i think that one of the things that we needed was a bridge, which would be stimulus, to the vaccine we dont have the stimulus were getting terrible numbers, we have half the country that thinks the numbers are okay, given the fact that the death rate hasnt skyrocketed. We have the other half, were saying, look, if we dont do something about it, then the Healthcare System is going to be overwhelmed. In that scenario, it is ver
Furman, who was across from chair yellen years ago at the councils of economic advisors. It will be fascinating to see what she does in a very different job. The headline is she has to do with congress and the senate. Jonathan and she is conditioned by the experience of the previous cycle, and i think that is really important. This is about avoiding a premature declaration of victory. Chair yellen has lived that, and im sure she wont want to make the same mistake twice. Tom i am really focused on the department of defense after the chaos we have seen over the last number of weeks, so that will be an important announcement as well. The backdrop here is maybe the clearing of uncertainty, and look where the markets are moving. , 3600. N on the s p 500 64 off the is up march bottom. On a long chart, it is actually a very elegant chart with all sorts of good features. You really Wonder Within the debate of those good conversations opening the show, you really wonder what the next leg is. Th
Francine one week to go, biden picks up his campaign pace as the senate hands the Supreme Court judge confirmation to trump and republicans. Syphilis Nancy Pelosi Nancy pelosi and Steve Mnuchin failed to make a deal. And chief executive noah quinn cast credit losses. Paybank aims to conservative diffidence. Welcome to bloomberg surveillance. Tom keene in new york, im french on the quad and london. That Francine Lacqua and london. We have hsbc, we talk about dividends. Bp saying it will be a very volatile couple of quarters ahead. Tom the pandemic overlay was still ahead. That was the theme yesterday, far more than the election, it was certainly the talk of new york. Every conversation was about a reinventing of the pandemic. Thee going to try to put nearlyhrough today, not as much damage as you would we are witht here futures up six. Francine and what is also significant is a lot of european countries, there seems to be a backlash against governments that are trying to put too many res
Lets break it down with mike mckee. Is a it is michael it little bit odd. On the headline, 100. 9 is lower than it was in the month of august or september, rather, when it was 101. 8. You would expect that maybe the present situation would be causing people concern because of the coming closures of some businesses as covid cases spike but the number comes in at 98. 9 at up from 104. 6, up from 98. 9. Turnabouting quite a in the way people are looking at the economy. The interesting thing here is this bemay see is reasonably good news for donald trump because if you are looking at the economy, stupid, as the old saying goes, you are looking at the economy as it is right now, and the economy as it is right now is better. The employment number is something Everyone Wants to look at in the set up to next week. Jobs number is an improvement, so those who think we are going to have a dismal jobs report next week might be in for a surprise, at least according to the underlying Consumer Sentim
The transition process starting to kick in. Tom not only the good news, but just as much as there was no bad news today, and that gives a lift to equities and other adjustments in the market. Jeffrey currie will join us from Goldman Sachs, which is wonderful. Futures up 27 and we will talk about the data in a moment, but yes, chair yellen front and center in this historic moment for our politics. Francine lets get to bloomberg first word news in new york city with ritika gupta. Ritika President Trump is finally calling on his agency to cooperate in the formal transition process with joe biden. That follows weeks of inaction. The General Services Administration Made its official made it official with its acknowledgment that biden was the winner of the election. Still, President Trump says he will contest the outcome of the vote. Formeren has turned to fed chair janet yellen to be his treasury secretary. She would become the first woman in the job if she is confirmed. She is likely to wi