New york orders fresh measures to stem the spread. Cases in texas exceed one million. Risks. Ing the Christine Lagarde says all options are on the table to fight the crisis. She will be joined by the boe governor and fed chair. It is the ecb for. Warm welcome to the show. We are waiting for numbers to cross the tape. It is europes single biggest engineering company. I think youve got a little bit of merck. How are the merck numbers looking . Good morning. Annmarie pretty strong. Third quarter net sales coming in ahead of estimates at 4. 45. The estimate was 4. 3 8 billion. Net sales higher. That was a beat on merck. We will speak to the cfo. , inthing to look out for august, he thought it would be another 15 months to a vaccine. Im wondering if that timetable has changed, given the pfizer and biotech news. Biggestt is the Single Company in the world. They did better than some of the others in terms of their stoicism through this. Profit rises into 2021. Thats the key take away from thi
Priority. Pandemic under control is his top priority. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to bloomberg surveillance. I am Francine Lacqua here in london. A lot of the focus is on the number of infected with covid19. At bond growth, a lot going on, treasuries, for example, rising. Overheated equity markets, the deteriorating coronavirus situation in many countries. Oil demandtting its outlook, saying they will not rescue the market, and then i got a look, not very often, but coming out with figures that were not great but were better than expected, leading to burberry gaining one point half percent. 1. 5 . Now lets get to the bloomberg first word news in london with laura wright. Hey, laura. Laura good morning, francine. The recovery is being derailed by a rise in virus cases and a. Ew lockdown president elect joe biden is naming longtime aide dr. Vinjamuri ron claim as his chief of staff. His leading role during the Health Crisis of the Obama Administration leaving the white house in the 2
To challenge records. Eu finance are set to meet today. Italy lays out fresh restrictions. Chancellor merkel urges germans to follow the rules. Bmp bounces back, the french Bank Benefits from volatility. A bullish tone on the numbers. If you look at the bottom year ago, andus a nine months, it is ahead of the target we gave for the outlook for the full year of 2020. We are under one hour until the start of cash equity trading. Good morning. Lets look at futures. Some real strength coming through futures markets sees the european picture up 0. 8 . If we look at the u. S. , we get a similarly positive picture. He saw strength yesterday. We have not erased losses from last week. The coronavirus is still very much with us. Yesterday the u. S. Equity markets recovered to some extent, and in europe, the cac 0. 2 . X up by today we see more of that positive trend. We can see positivity coming through in the asian session. Japan is closed, but we have the asian equity session fairly positive.
Future signals against are set to continue. Commerce bank swings to a loss in the Third Quarter as the pandemic and restructuring charge hits revenues. We speak with the cfo shortly. Good morning. Plenty to talk about on the u. S. Election front. Breaking news on the bank of england. Maintaining its benchmark Interest Rate at 0. 1 , entirely expected. The bank of england saying that was the news amount around maintaining its Interest Rate. They are raising the total bond target. Unanimousf englands on this Interest Rate and bond purchasing story. We will speak to the governor of the bank of england at 11 00 this morning london time. Stay tuned for that interview. Pound toor a in the this announcement. A pairing of losses coming through. Get some analysis. Dani burger is outside the bank of them went for us. There had been an expectation that as lockdown measures are extended, implemented in england, even if it is less strict than march, we would see more coming through from the bank of
Spreading the next few months could be challenging. Approach with caution. Jay powell warning over economic challenges, despite the prospect of coronavirus vaccine. Treasury yields fall amid growing concerns around the pandemic. California joins texas reaching one million infections. U. S. Election Officials Say the vote was the most secure in u. S. History. Bandss President Trump investment in firms controlled by chinas military. What a week. Clarity in the u. S. Election. A hope old date on a vaccine. We are ending the week with a surge in covid cases. A push poll between the euphoria of a vaccine versus the pandemic. We wake up to french hospitalizations breaking a record. California joining texas surpassing one million infections. Chicago, the latest u. S. To issue a stayathome advisory. The mayor saying, this is literally a matter of life or death. Lets take a look at how this is playing out into markets. A stunning week. We have covid weighing on equities. Into session feeding fe