Fromsion off of the news pfizer. Lets just frame where this market is. Ill let lisa worry about bonds. I am looking for an entry point, and i dont have one coming with s p futures out to record highs, up 120. Jonathan lets get straight to the price action of this moment. Equity futures are absolutely surging, up by 3. 3 . It is a huge turnaround. On the 30 year we go about to 88 basis points. A bit of dollar weakness back through this market, just south of 1. 19. A vaccine possibly helping us normalize this global economy. What does that mean . Bti with a 40 handle. Lisa it looks like pfizer will get some of the safety data necessary to see whether they can get some of the emergency approval to roll this out. This is what everyone has been waiting for. I simply, what is the Circuit Breaker to the surge in covid cases we have seen . Could this be yet . The market is saying yes, and the chances of higher growth, very high according to the market trade this morning. We can bring in sams n
York times article today on the gravity across the entire sunbelt. It is going to be fascinating to see how the mayors and the with ars buttress up washington that seems to feel like the pandemic has moved on. That is decidedly not the case this morning. Jonathan the pandemic has not moved on. We turn to the Economic Data a little later this morning. We constrain the reopening process for the economy. Neither is positive for the economic outlook. We are already seeing that was companies hesitant to rehire people as a result of a lack of confidence. Read ofget the latest initial jobless claims in the united states. The pace of filing is still very high, 1. 3 million filings expected. Hear from, we will the sec chair in front of the House Financial Services committee. Interesting to hear what he says. Later today, we get the fed stress test results, possibly indicating whether banks may have to cut dividends. A lot of people are already expecting they will curtail those payments. See wha
Our bloomberg voices are on the ground with all of this mornings top stories. We begin in japan, with efforts to calm the market jitters over the coronavirus outbreak. The boj says it will provide ample liquidity to ensure stability. Joining us is enda curran. It help to the market for a second. What did we learn . Enda it seems like it is part of a coordinated push by the worlds Central Banks. To be a g said they would provide liquid it the boj said they would provide liquidity and followed up by putting money into the market. It is important to also say what they are not doing. They didnt signal an Interest Rate cut. Interest rates are already in the get of territory in japan. They didnt indicate any outright easing. They already have a huge Balance Sheet from years of quantitative easing. It is in sync with steps being taken by others. It is more designed to ensure confidence than outright easing. Alix lets stay in asia right now. Global coronavirus cases are at 89,000. Indonesia re
Cant believe we didnt tell him it wasnt for sale. I cant believe this is even a conversation. David when this first came out, every one thought it was a joke. Hes just getting hes just kidding. And then maybe not so much of a joke. Alix do we know why he wants greenland . David because the arctic, particularly because of climate change, has become much more important. There are really Strategic Interests in greenland. In fact, president truman tried to buy it in 1948 for similar reasons. You invited meis to my house, im not coming unless you sell me something. Alix in the market, we had retail earnings coming out. We get a nice rally underway here. Eurodollar is flat. It is a mostly weaker dollar story in the g10 space. Selling in the bond market with the exception of italy. Inflation expectations continue to rollover. No one taking any big positions headed into jackson hole. The question is how you hedge this. David time now for the morning brief. At 10 00 this morning, we get u. S. E
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