History in the United Kingdom as they extend the pandemic watch out to march of 2021. Jon ferro, theres no other headline for me this morning. All of us dealing with this pandemic, and Boris Johnson sets us a new timeline. Jonathan jonathan new restrictions on the u. K. Economy being announced today. We will hear from the Prime Minister addressing the nation at 8 00 p. M. Local time. Those restrictions could last a solid six months. Lets get straight to the price action to give people a feel of how things have turned around in the last 30 minutes or so. Equity futures were positive, now slightly negative. In the fx market, the pound was positive. It is now slightly negative. In the bond market, yields were up by almost a basis point. 0. 67 . Y are unchanged at it is a subtle shift, but a reminder of the difficult moment we have ahead of us as we go deeper into the end of the year. Tom so much going on here. We welcome all of you on Bloomberg Television and Bloomberg Radio across americ
Tom good morning, everyone. An exceptionally busy day here at bloomberg surveillance. Lots to talk about on the news front. Stimulus in washington or nonstimulus, the breaking news on china, and markets as well. The dollar moments ago breaks down to new week this of dxy new weakness of dxy. An ever weaker dollar index. That will be one of our themes across the hour. Our Kevin Cirilli reports a deeply divided reports on deeply divided republicans, and there are fire trucks in houston. Jonathan they are united on one thing in washington, and it is china. The consulate in houston shutting down after the u. S. Demand. We have looking up 70 times to that headline woken up so many times to that headline, so we have woken up so many times to that headline, u. S. China tensions. Gold, 1863 note an ounce. On a weekly basis, gold has had a record high. Go to the dynamics you have seen in highyield and ig. Lisa if you take a look at highyield bond spreads today, you can see to have shrunk dramati
Yesterdays market turmoil. Certainly, futures are doing better than the carnage of yesterday. Mohamed elerian will be joining us. We will get to dr. Elerian soon. What did you see in the literature overnight about able or a bear market reversal . Bearbowl a bull or market reversal . Jonathan the driver the last few weeks has been the sequential movement we have seen. The limits of normalization, the limits of recovery. Iec think several states in america this week, that is what to keep in mind in this market. What i found fascinating was the separation of Ig Investment grade from real, tangible carnage in high yield. First of all, oil prices are tumbling the most since april. That was the main driver of what we saw in the highyield space. All through the market, you saw this grab for cash. A return to what we saw in march. We saw the dollar surge and goal declining. People looking for cash to offset risk positions. ,t raises the question again what does this say about the feds ability
For jobs that coming up friday, it is stunning deliver depression across the developed countries. The labor depression across the developed countries. Francine there is this raging debate we have been trying to focus on bloomberg surveillance for two weeks, inflation or deflation. I think the one thing we need to try and figure out is when does job creation comeback . Will we ever come back to the to what we had even 12 months ago or will a lot of the jobs be lost and therefore you need some kind of schemes to retrain people, to put them in other jobs . How and what the legacy of this covid19 illness will be for how the economy changes is critical in trying to make sure people get back to work. Tom you really saw the tension over the weekend. Prime minister johnson dealing with the United Kingdom and that idea of a locked, certainly, we are that last night from the president at the lincoln memorial. Here is viviana hurtado. Viviana we begin with president donald trump, is many as 100,0
Yields down by about eight basis points, once again under 1 for the 10 year. Time now for global exchange. From hong kong to washington to new york, our bloomberg voices are on the ground with this mornings top stories. Want to beginning asia. Total coronavirus cases around the world is now above 95,000. Cases seem to slow in south korea, while switzerland reported its first death. With us now is sophie kamaruddin. Is reporting an increasing number of recovery patients, roughly 62 of those who have been diagnosed who have been discharged from hospitals. The number of fatalities reported wednesday totaling 31, all of which were in hubei province. Jinpings scheduled visit to tokyo has been delayed, and Prime Minister shinzo abe did reveal tighter border controls and japan, including two weeks of quarantine from visitors arriving from china and iran, as well as south korea, where cases have topped 6000, but the daily count has slowed has monday at the country been testing hundreds of thou