This is the august 12th, 2020 budget and pre prations meeting. Im sandily fewer, chair of the budget and Appropriations Committee. I am joined by Committee Member supervisor walton, mandelman, ronen and yee. Do we have any announcements . Due to the Health Emergency and to protect our members citi employees and the public, the board of supervisors and ledge lay ter of chamber and Committee Room are closed but members will participate in a meeting remotely. This is taken pursuant to the local, state and federal orders declarations and directives. Committee members will attend the meeting through Video Conference and participate in a meeting to the same extent as if theyre physically present. Public comments will be available on each item on this agenda and streaming the number across the screen, each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. Comments are opportunities to speak during Public Comment period are available by calling 415 6550001. 415 6550001. Meeting i. D. 1460772734, a
Options. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to bloomberg surveillance. I am Francine Lacqua here in london. Now, there is quite a lot going on in the markets, simply because the stimulus in the u. S. Is getting people quite excited. Part of it is what we are hearing from Central Banks around the world, the projections. This is what the markets are doing overall. Stocks are turning higher. Gold at the same time is ascent, and then we have the word on the latest american stimulus package. We need to mention pound, rising against the euro, after the bank of england said it did not plan to tighten policy until the inflation outlook is more clear. Now lets get to the bloomberg first word news. Here with me in london is laura white. Hi, laura. Laura as fast as they can, but that does not mean safety is being sacrificed. Dr. Anthony fauci he hopes the vaccine is at least 70 effective, but he says he would still feel good if it is at least 50 effective. Classical history of viruses, particula
United states, and it is simple. He wants to get this thing done now. Jonathan he was asked specifically about some of the details in a News Conference yesterday evening. He took a sidestep. He is leaving the swing to secretary mnuchin. Weve got a real fiscal test, and yet this equity market is still doing ok. Futures this morning up 11. Tom it is an absolutely fascinating tape. Point, lisa is going to talk italy, spain, something. Look at where the vix is. Crisis over. Jonathan dr. Talk about the data 90 minutes away, initial jobless claims. To seehis will be key the deceleration, potentially even decline in job growth. At 11 00 a. M. , the other backdrop is the widening deficit in the United States. The u. S. Treasury set to announce their plan to set sales of debt. Later today, Major League Baseball is kicking off with a shortened season, the shortest since 1878. The think is against the Washington Nationals cardboard cutout fans. Jonathan it is the shortest season since 1878. Thats
Only in credit, investment grade, high yield. That you go to the dow, which has typically been the laggard. Some of the big winners, caterpillar, home depot, boeing, classic industrial procyclical trade that our guest was referring to earlier. To more, i want to go back our guest from market field asset management. How do you make days like today when everything is positive, it seems like we are in the all clear, yet we know that might not be the case. Curious on days like today how much of this comes from a procyclical trade overseas in china relative to perhaps any optimism here in the u. S. Chinas stock has been on a tear. Ish of that you think filtering back through sentiment here in the u. S. Not that much. Today came after yesterday. We started off in the morning and fell like a rock in the afternoon. I dont actually think people are paying that much attention to china yet. I think they will be. I think the easy money to be made this year has been on technology, on stayathome, wo
How to taper without hitting prices . Polands president ial election is too close to call. We have the incumbent ahead by a thin margin. The result is seen as pivotal for the nations future ties with the European Union. Welcome to the European Market open. Matt is off this week, but just a month under an hour until the start of the trading day. European futures and u. S. Futures for you and both tell a similar story. European equity fund its pointing to the upside, u. S. Futures pointing to the upside. Between. 6 andp. 8 . Weve got u. S. Banks reporting, plenty of those coming through the week. Weve got a few Central Banks giving us their Interest Rate decisions, a little less likely to drive sentiment this week. Looking to the earnings season for any clues. Lets have a look at the gmm to see where weve been overnight through the Asian Session and any clues into the european session. Flying, chinese assets taking off despite caution in chinese papers. The japanese nikkei come also stro