An estimate of expansion. About 1. 3 . Switching out the boards and having a look at the other asset classes, which are in the mix at the moment. The u. S. Election, according to a survey, sending the dollar in opposite pumps. If donald trump wins, we could see a stronger dollar. If joe biden wins, the reverse. Also wests going on with the also was going on with the yen. Against the backdrop of a slightly better industrial read out of japan. Opposed to. 8 . Al, despite coming back, has 36 a barrel handle. Oil is set for its worst month since march. It is down to coronavirus demand fears hitting things. Bring livee want to pictures from vietnam, where mike pompeo is meeting with the vietnamese deputy Prime Minister hanoi. Counterpart in this is part of his tour in asia. Some have called it an empty china tour of asia. Thats happening right now. Both are expected to exchange ideas. Up relations with the two countries. Vietnam had been boosting its import of u. S. Products. Mike pompeo wr
Francine i agree. The sports angle is extremely significant, and i hear more people say what does it mean for the future . If you have so much power and are able to bring so much pleasure to so many people, that seems to be the future of where this is headed, unless we get a vaccine. I was looking forward to seeing about inflation and if the Central Banks are right in saying we shouldnt believe all the hype, or if we get a vaccine, even if it is quick, it will be a cureall. One of the things we will explore further in this hour. Tom election 2020 is still ongoing. And somehow weekend stagger through the holiday season. You wonder what the news flow will be about 8 00 p. M. Tonight within the United States of america. In new york city with our first word news, here is karina mitchell. rejecting President Trumps claims of widespread voter fraud. They say last weeks election was the most secure in American History and there is no evidence any Voting System deleted, lost votes, changed vot
For a september quarter. There are also concerns about the ant ipo fallout. And america awaits the outcome of the president ial election, seven states now holding the keys to the white house. Wisconsin heads to a recount and others face challenges in court. Foropen here in sydney friday trading in asian markets, we have seen an eerie calm and trading across equity markets, and globally, on expectations that policy gridlock will me know extreme measures when it comes to the tax front being taken and more status quote when it comes to the visible markets. We are up. 2 when it comes to sydney, the in aussie dollar and commoditieslinked currencies it particularly well. We have the u. S. Dollar fall to its lowest in two years. The nikkei 225, we expect weakness going into the open but we have japanese stocks trading in the green every day of the week. Also watching the yen, but interestingly, as an election respirometer, we continue to watch price action in china as well as volatility in ch
The news flow in the United States and the pandemic i dont believe i have ever used this word before, it is just grim. Abi did in april. But the headline this morning maybe i did in april. The headline this morning is that we have a president. Just as importantly, as you mentioned, the Chinese Government has commented on this. It will be fascinating to see what President Trump does today and into the sunday talk programs. Francine and absolutely, we will see the executive order. I was looking at security briefings, which is something i know you want to talk about and is very significant at the moment. A security briefing for the president elect. Lets get to first word news in new york city. State and federal Election Officials are rejecting President Trumps claim for widespread voter fraud. They say that the election was the most secure in american history, that there is no evidence that any state lost votes, changed votes, or was, must. China has congratulated joe biden and Kamala Har
Good morning on bloomberg radio. Good morning on bloomberg television. It is extraordinary to be the beginning on global wall street of the holiday season, and i can never i can never think, even the tragedy of 9 11, i cant imagine how much of a tragedy this holiday will be with the pandemic. Jonathan the numbers are terrible. We talked about it an hour ago. We started this month with daily infections in and around 80,000. That has doubled in 11 days. If Health Care Capacity gets tested, they will start to introduce more restrictions. Heres the critical issue. Who is going to step in . Where the fiscal policy maker . Bridgewaterf says we have a mismatch between the length of the pandemic and the willingness of fiscal policy makers to do something in equal length. Tom it has widened out, without question. What is so important here is to gauge the pandemic, and we are all doing that on a local basis. You and i, we hear more sirenss again in new york city, and we are all dealing with the