Television worldwide, good morning. 11 days to go on the election. What are we trying to do . We are trying to get through friday. This is a serious time, a serious debate last night. This pandemic has worsened worldwide. The challenge of a 3 trillion deficits. The civility of last night was noted. Jonathan it was civil. It was muted. But stark differences on the outlook, particularly over covid. The president promising a vaccine within weeks, and biden focusing on the failures of the administration and the winter ahead of us. The Vice President talking about winning hope over fear. That really goes to one of the themes this week we havent talked about, which is the partition of economic america. Lisa the idea that the jobless rate perhaps is going down, but stagnant at one rate. We got those initial jobless claims. The number of permanently unemployed americans, frankly those around the world, is increasing. It is going to take a long time to remedy some of the scarring taking place.
It was the big gainer. It closed at an alltime high. Tech has been leading the way. Sales force, facebook, taketwo and qualcomm at record highs you have to watch one stock in particular apple. After more than 10 gain on friday and thursday night, it closed up 2. 5 to an alltime high percentages away from hitting the 2 trillion market cap that 4 to 1 stock split is hit that price has to sit 477 not far off. Weve been talking about the pressure that has been put on yields in the treasury market. Right now, the 10year note at 0. 45 . Scott . Becky, im listening to you talk about tech and these companies. We have to get ready to talk nasdaq 11,000. As crazy as that would sound, we are on the doorstep. In spitting distance, basically. Unbelievable. Largy carri largely carried by these big five apple, amazon, facebook and alpha bes alphabet and microsoft looking back in march, would you have thought we would be talking nasdaq 11,000 by summer . No way. There is reason for it if you look at s
Oppression of muslims. The bank of england is expecting to boost bond buying today as investors watch for hands on yield curve control. Boris johnson and Emmanuel Macron meet in london. Welcome to daybreak europe. Caution coming back into the markets today. Perhaps signals that u. S. China tensions could come to the forefront again. Signaling a reserve ratio cut. Perhaps even on the weekend. Hearing from the governor throughout the is in session, saying that chinas Monetary Policy is still in a normal range. Economic fundamentals are sound. Those comments have given a lift to chinese equities in the asian session. You will see a bit of a retreat. Some weakness in u. S. And european futures. A lot of that seems to be down to second wave concerns dominating among other things. Jpmorgan sounding a warning on market correlation at 20 years highs. You are seeing the 10 year yield to drop as well. Yen strength in g10, aussie the surge the Unemployment Rate in australia. Oil dropping on u. S.
And russia seeing sharp rises in their cases brazil topped 127000. 00 and factions leading to an even gloomier outlook for the 2nd largest economy in the western hemisphere this as analysts Capital Economics have predicted at least a 10 percent decline in the nations quarterly growth this due to the outbreak while russia still seeing a surge in cases with most of its capital and largest city moscow the virus lock down combined with the global drop in oil prices well theyve contracted russian economy activity by one 3rd according to the countrys federal tax service chief meanwhile the us still the epicenter of the global disease with more than 1600000 cases the us unemployment numbers are still growing last week another 3300000 people filed for jobless claims bringing the 7 week total to 33500000 this while President Trump has renewed his calls for the Supreme Court to strike down the countrys Affordable Care act also known as obamacare this is a move criticized even by his own general
Hemisphere this as analysts Capital Economics have predicted at least a 10 percent decline in the nations quarterly growth this due to the outbreak while russia still seeing a surge in cases with most of its capital and largest city moscow the virus lock down combined with the global drop in oil prices well theyve contracted russian economy activity by one 3rd according to the countrys federal tax service chief meanwhile the u. S. Still the global epicenter of the disease the u. S. Unemployment numbers are still growing the last week another 3200000 people filed for jobless claims bringing the 7 week total to 33500000 this while President Trump has renewed his calls for the Supreme Court to strike down the countrys Affordable Care act also known as obamacare this is a move criticized even by his own general attorney or attorney general rather according to sources. Obamacare is a disaster but we run it very well were going to replace obamacare with Great Health Care at a lesser price an