Stepping down after arguments over strategy, the bank prepares its search for his successor. Morning, under one hour until the start of cash equity trading. Equity markets under pressure. The futures picture shows relief. Ftse futures up 0. 4 . U. S. Futures point to the upside, up 0. 8 . Global stocks up 12 in november, the biggest monthly gain on record. Lets not forget that will me think about the losses yesterday and the rally he will maybe see today. Greens what we see now, a picture and it comes to the asian stock markets. Data from to take asia whether chinese or korean on the factory side. Be taking aems to turn for the better. In china a decade high for chinese manufacturing. Up on thed enthusiasm, and commodities in focus. Oil prices moving to the downside for a third day. No deal yet on opec and opecplus, and their plans for january. That will be a focus on thursday. Lets get a first word news of eight. Laura president elect joe biden has chosen janet yellen as his treasury
Did i do that ok . Francine a minus for that. It is about fisheries, but it is also about brussels. There is one train. There is one train a day that departs london to go to brussels. Looking at the train timetable. He has missed this train. What does that mean . We are really uncertain. People say we could get a deal by sunday. Watch and see. Tom the train to brussels is called maria tadeo on the oriental express. Lets get to dr. Roubini. Here is ritika gupta. Ritika joe biden says he will ask all americans to wear a mask the first 100 days of his administration. Cnn hesidentelect told will issue a Standing Order requiring face coverings in federal buildings and interstate transportation. He says that will leave to a significant drop in coronavirus cases. On capitol hill, the chances are on a stimuluseal package by year end. The basis of negotiation is getting more interest from the republicans. Is spending 908 billion, less than what democrats are calling for, but they say it is a st
They call the process excruciating. Good morning, everyone. Happy friday. We have made it to friday. It has been quite a week. Welcome to bloomberg surveillance. I am Francine Lacqua here in london. The markets are focused on brexit, oil because of opec, and focus on u. S. Stimulus in the u. S. Stocks are holding gains, key data of course out of the u. S. , it is the u. S. Labor market. It is going to give us an indication of whether the economy needs support or not, and Oil Extending Gains after ninemonth high after this opecplus deal. I am looking at the dollar, treasuries pretty much nudging higher. A lot ofve a prett volatility because of brexit do we have a deal, do we not have a deal, have they walked out . It has been pretty unclear so far, talking about lastminute ships come up the british saying it is because of eu demands at the last moment, but it seems like it could be up in the air. Now lets get to the bloomberg first word news. Here is leighann gerrans. Hi, leighann. Leig
And the u. S. Adding two Key Chinese Companies to its defense black list o and everybody just chill, the ceo of warner media down playing news that sent Movie Theater stocks cratering yesterday it is friday, december 4, and this is worldwide exchange. Jolene, jolene, please dont take my man good afternoon, and welcome from wherever in the world that you may be watching. Happy friday, folks. We made it lets jump right into the markets and your money because friday futures where looking pretty good. Dow futures are up 113 points. Up once again for the week the nasdaq 100 higher by nearly 2 to kick off the month of december technology back in command and this could be the number of the day. 47 no, that is not the number of days that were in march this year, that is how many times the nasdaq 100 has hit a record high this year and well see if we can make it a steady 48. For the dow, boeing has been the star rising 6 again yesterday and accounting for pretty much all the dows gains. This af
Good morning, everyone. Welcome to bloomberg surveillance. I am Francine Lacqua here in london. A lot going on, because we have Christine Lagarde testifying in parliament. We will bring you anything that comes out of it. The markets focusing on infections rising around the world. They are focusing around the fact that we could see a stimulus. Lets get to the markets. I dont know if we have them. If we do, it could be great, and it would be a good time to look at them. Overall,ok at stocks they are falling along u. S. Futures, tougher restrictions, progress toward a vaccine. We have plenty more of course on that. Astrazeneca at rising amidst positive news on its coronavirus vaccine. We are hearing from Christine Lagarde. We had an exclusive conversation days ago. The focus is on the need for a stimulus. The focus is also on the need for markets to do a little bit more. She said basically the ecb delivered in the first wave. She is talking about the physical packages, on course for a fis