Onwelcome all of you Bloomberg Radio across this nation and bloomberg television. Extraordinary Market Action yesterday, truly historic. We will get to that in just a moment with someone who has a wonderful test but a wonderful tapestry of the history of the market. First weve got to get to the news flow. Are we still doing election 2020, or have we moved on from that . Jonathan i think it may come back on the agenda, but today is as yesterday once again, just a little flavor of mondays price action. You will find it in names like amc entertainment, and the airlines. You will find it at the index level. The relative performance of the russell versus the nasdaq continues. You could drive a truck through it this morning. Russell futures are up by about 1. 6 . Nasdaq futures are negative on the session. Cyclicality starting to come back into this market. Youve got to ask yourself where the risk is in this market, and the risk for many people in this market is where people thought was safe
It is an extraordinary day. We are to have a conversation here on what do you do with your money given what we have seen. The fed upstaged by the bank of england today with actual talk about the process to affect negative Interest Rates. Jon they have stepped up the flirtation, that is for sure. In the last 24 years, the whole thing is relatively ridiculous. Theyre forecasting 4 unemployment for 2020, 2 inflation with rates still going nowhere. If they are willing to tolerate that, rates are going nowhere for a long time. Tom the dissidents of the press conference was some really weak questions. Right near the end, mike mckee stopping traffic with a question about the efficacy forward, the path forward for the fed. It is a mystery. Jon you brought up this News Conference a couple of times. Do you want to vent a little bit . Tom im going to vent. Im doing this with jon, who has real experience in europe. The questions that the ecb and see morengland informed them what we see in washingt
Alongside lisa abramowicz, im jonathan ferro. Tom keene back on monday. The equity market unchanged right now on equity futures. It is the bond market tickets your attention. The worst week for 10 year treasuries going back to june. Lisa very low rates, but it seems like theres at least a little bit of a concern creeping in about the record bond issuance from the u. S. Government. The question is whether this is a momentary blip. Today, people seem to be treating it as a buying opportunity. Jonathan so far, so good this week in terms of expectations. Claimed yesterday, positive relative to expert patients. Cpi hotter, ppi hotter than expected as well. Perhaps fueling that moving treasuries and not just the supply story. Lisa weve had this conversation over and over again, the idea of lagging indicators. In a fastmoving pandemic where you get states reshutting down and people losing confidence, and people are looking to the july sales data shown the last retail sales gain before unemplo
Resee recovery in retail sales dow down 271 session lows 59 minutes left of trade the nasdaq has been the underperformer is actually off its lows were kind of moving around, as we speak, in the final hour. All the major indexes are lows ahead on todays show, well speak to mike sievert. Well get an upgraciointergrac sprint and the president of the university of arizona will outline his plan for the fall semester as cases and hospitalizations rise in that state. Well focus on the big stories were watching at this hour Steve Liesman with details on todays jobless claims will is digging into Big Bank Earnings and meg has details on johnson and johnsons results. But, steve, start us off with the jobs picture. You know, were getting two different stories from the jobless claims one of improvement and one where the improvement has kind of flat lined. Well take a look at the numbers. Claiming coming in at 1. 3 million. Above expectations dow just 10,000 on the weekly jobless claims thats kind
From new york and across this nation today, any number of themes, but there are two front and center. The Vice President will speak in scranton, pennsylvania before ending the hour and jobless claims well over one million widely expected. All of that devolving into the layoffs here, the layoffs presumed to come and it sets us off for an American Labor economy that must be addressed. With that, the Market Reaction, as well. Jon ferro, the news flow has really been on recently and crescendos this morning into these announcements of job cuts at too Many Companies. Arethan by any standard we in a labor market crisis. There is a ton of work still to come. What we have seen from the Big Companies is they are starting to right size the business. We talked about this we talked about this week ago on the program. Companies are turning around after the shutdown and saying, we have to cut into this new world because we are not returning to normal anytime soon. You highlighted this yesterday, that