Lots of interesting things going on today, but the number one thing without question is a deteriorating take in the last hour, and what is front and center in the United States is a reaffirmation of the first wave of the pandemic. Other issues on the virus worldwide, including in india, for example. Bombay shifting to really grim news out of delhi, a flareup in tokyo as well. Isthe United States, there no other topic than this pandemic. Jonathan totally agree. Claims 30 minutes away as well. We face elevated long unemployment. What we need is a clean reopening so we can bounce back quickly, and hopefully the temporary job losses dont become permanent. From an economics perspective, that is why the pandemic and the fragile data in states like texas is so worrying. Reopeningins the process. If it reverses it, worst case an area, we face a lot of pain for a lot of people. Tom i am going to suggest you put separately the pandemic and claims. I would like them quite closely together, in tha
We have a number of exclusive interviews for you. As always lets check on your markets. One of the things we watched the most. Rising, european stocks were up, they are turning a little bit lower. The risk on kicked off the week is starting to show signs of easing. Yields under recovery. Also looking at Sterling Sterling rallying. Well have plenty more in your markets. Lets get straight to the bloomberg news. Trump is escalating his threats against the World Health Organization, he is unhappy over its handling on the coronavirus pandemic and may personally just permit the cut u. S. Funding of it doesnt make sweeping reform bring saying the agency is to close to china. President xi gave the who his full backing. The u. S. Is going to have to suffer through a spike in virus cases as the economy reopens according to lowell lloyd banks Lloyd Blankfein break saying they can afford to wait afford to wait for vaccine before reopening. Most historical credits would have to acknowledge. Can i c
Crude posting its longest winning streak in a year. Opec cuts may be draining the blood. And top fed officials weigh in on negative rates, saying such a move is not on the agenda for the foreseeable future. Shery lets get to a quick check of the markets. We are seeing u. S. Futures holding steady, after we saw the s p 500 fall on rising u. S. China tensions that we saw in the regular session. The s p 500 fell eight tense of 1 . Technology and utility also leading the losses. We have heard from china responding to act as asians from President Trump warning that responding to comments from President Trump warning that nasdaq sides biggest composite fall in more than a week. We also have some abysmal Economic Data. Millions of americans claiming jobless benefits. We are seeing wti under pressure, but still above the 33 a barrel level. This after sessions of gains. We are talking about the longest winning streak in more than a year. Haidi and really that crude story may be a bright spot as
Prevalent absolute everywhere. Lets get a sense of where we go from here in these markets. A good time to take a look at where the rest of the year looks with davos kicking often switzerland. The World Economic forum now underway. Joining us for a little bit further down the road from geneva, the silly askew not geneva,of bank from the cilia skin not because gkionakis. Vasileios i think a major suppressor of volatility and supporter of markets is the fed coming out in october and starting to it bet to expand its balance sheet. Question is that the market clearly took that guy as long as the market thinks it is kind of kiwi light kind of qe lite. Does the fed start to pull back a bit from that support, and the market feels like theres maybe a little less monetary stimulus in the system . That would be one nearterm catalyst that could lead the market to change the volatility regime. Guy do you think Central Banks are brave and up at this point to withdraw some of this stimulus . Wouldnt
Excited. All right. Hi, everybody and good evening thanks for joining us on a busy thursday all that ahead but we have to start with the top story because 2020 is looking like 2019 mor new records. The s p dow and nasdaq all posting alltime highs but there are a couple of big events that could change things up in the coming days beginning with the big jobs number tomorrow the expected signing of the phase 1 trade deal next week now iran has calmed but not gone and everyone seems to be, guy, wondering about the fed. How should investors be getting ready for this the macrosetup with the market that just cant be held down. Ive said it for a while, i definitely made this more complicated than it has to be. Its interesting, the knock against bitcoin its created the out of thin air. Thats exactly with the Federal Reserve has been doing since september. Creating liquidity out of thin air and thats justing the market north of 400 billion over the last three and a half months by april the Balan