The most important issue. The blur of information we are getting, the effect on the markets, the effect on the nations politics, it doesnt matter. The pandemic statistics, the cases, the hospitalizations, and yes, rising death rates are front and center. Jonathan couldnt agree more. The conversation is so familiar to everyone sitting in london, in europe watching this play out. You start at 10 00 p. M. Curfew you start to limit dining. Then what . That is the concern for a lot of people this morning. Tom im going to use the hands up. That has proven so effective on radio worldwide. Think of it like three hockey bucks of death in europe. Inis only one hockey puck the United States. Europe is way out front of this, and i am frightened by the idea we will begin to see the deaths expand. The other thing i am frightened by, lisa takes a day off, and rumor has it she left day bear, and i think shes returned a bull. [laughter] jonathan lets see how long this one last. I reckon we can get to a
The u. K. Government sets up discussions with industry as brexit disruption closes in. Negotiations with the eu are set to crash through an informal deadline this weekend. Good morning. Just over an hour to go until the start of cash equity trading. Let have a look at where we are on the futures picture. Futures in europe looked to be a little bit to the downside. Lets break into the futures to talk about whats going on with the u. K. Economy growing in the Third Quarter from the previous quarter. Growing by 1. 1 in the month of september. The estimate was 1. 5. We were hearing that from our colleagues moments ago. They were talking about the estimates for september and the First Quarter. The number i have penciled in from them was 1. 5 gain in gdp for september. It is a little bit below that. The broad theme is the same. That 1. 1 in september adding to strong rebound numbers earlier on in the Third Quarter. The Third Quarter comes up by 15. 5 . That could be a smashing of a record in
New york orders fresh measures to stem the spread. Cases in texas exceed one million. Risks. Ing the Christine Lagarde says all options are on the table to fight the crisis. She will be joined by the boe governor and fed chair. It is the ecb for. Warm welcome to the show. We are waiting for numbers to cross the tape. It is europes single biggest engineering company. I think youve got a little bit of merck. How are the merck numbers looking . Good morning. Annmarie pretty strong. Third quarter net sales coming in ahead of estimates at 4. 45. The estimate was 4. 3 8 billion. Net sales higher. That was a beat on merck. We will speak to the cfo. , inthing to look out for august, he thought it would be another 15 months to a vaccine. Im wondering if that timetable has changed, given the pfizer and biotech news. Biggestt is the Single Company in the world. They did better than some of the others in terms of their stoicism through this. Profit rises into 2021. Thats the key take away from thi
Tech and bond trades play out. Lets dig a little deeper into the virus story in the u. S. U. S. Infectious disease official Anthony Fauci says it wont be a pandemic a lot longer because of vaccine progress. Joining us now with more is bloomberg Senior Editor drew armstrong. We all want to have the monday where we were very happy about the Pfizer Biontech results. What if the state of play in the u. S. . Drew the state of play in the u. S. Is brutal. We are sitting case records because of uncontrolled spread in huge amounts of the u. S. Hospitalizations are higher than they have been at any point during the pandemic. During thet pandemic. Depend on who you ask, 1500 sorry, 1506 to two deaths in the u. S. Yesterday, a number we havent seen since the early days of the pandemic. Numberout every single or way you look at this that you can is going in the wrong direction right now, and newman the hospitalizations and knowing that hospitalizations after that, it is going to be a grizzly pictu
Have Edward Lawrence and in washington. Reporter they are scheduled to talk about right now. They usually talk about an hour on these phone calls. There is very slim chance of getting a relief package to help americans by election day. President donald trump said this morning it is political. And House Speaker nancy pelosi does not want to help the economy because that would help the president win. His economic advisors say the House Speaker packed her package with a lot of stuff unrelated to the coronavirus. There is a number of political and idealogical points in that have nothing to do with covid and we dont want to go that direction. If it is targeted right, absolutely. It is not it is not going to work. Reporter even if a deal could be reached the president said he would go above 2. 2 trillion, still reaching republican senators for their vote might be a challenge. The president says he would lean on Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell to get the votes. It might be a hard sell