Down 600 points recently. We are not near a correction yet on s p, but we are getting there rapidly. I dont think this can be underplayed the virus, the pandemic is really front and center on a global basis, even with an america distracted by an historic moment. Momente and a historic that could possibly sway the election. Lets get to the bloomberg first word news in new york city with ritika gupta. Ritika good morning. The death of Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg has thrust the Supreme Court into the political spotlight. Republican leaders in the senate are hoping to rush through a replacement with President Trump expected to nominate his pick this week. Democrats are warning of a constitutional crisis. If joe budden wins the election but a trump candidate is still confirmed to the Supreme Court. President trump is celebrating the tiktok deal, despite it falling short on some of its key demands. The white house gets a promise of new jobs sources have told bloomberg that tiktok is taking a
China is doing better than good. We get a nice lift. To your point, i cannot remember a fed meeting where i have been more distracted by other news. Jonathan because the other news matters more. At the moment, the Federal Reserve is basically done when it comes to the framework shift. We have seen that. When it comes to the Balance Sheet, we have seen a huge expansion. Butink there will be tweaks for many people, the most important catalyst is physical. Tom it is physical based on week demand. I can or where i saw this. I will give axios credit. It was a food bank in richmond, automobile, car, by and it looked like field of dreams the line of cars went off into the distance and it was shockingly sad how people were lined up to get food, having that much difficulty. Jonathan could not agree with you more. Were living in two worlds. The old world is struggling. Love the we see our place, particularly in the airline business. Airbus talking about the prospect of more than still to come. T
We see the dow below the 50 day for the first time in awhile nasdaq hit that last week were off of the lows, 32. 29 maybe just ten tonights off of that the problem is not so much technology, but the reopening sectors. They are weighing on the s p if you just take a look energy, industrials, and materials. They have separate issues with suspicious trading activity. Not as they are notably week taed and this is another sign that the reopening story is not going as well as people anticipated. Remember the bucket thats we watched the market with. It is true there have been advancements with treatment and vaccine. The delays in the stimulus program, europe locked down is a worry. Concerns about the potential for the european lock down is there. As far as the stock market goes, we have been looking at valuations for a long time many people feeling the market is over valued but earnings overall have been improving. There is a lot of balance and debate going on. That happened on friday, nasdaq
School district . What should be the next steps . This is perhaps an instructive case. This is one of the first School Districts in the country to open to facetoface instruction. I would say it shouldnt be surprising they had a number of positive cases right off the bat. I think thats going to be the case all across the country. Then unfortunately what happened is because they did not really have social distancing measures in place, they did not have universal masking. Cases were very, very high. So i think lessons to be learned here are, if youre a School District looking to have inface, inperson instruction, its so important to make sure that you have social distancing in place, that you have masking. That way when those positive cases come, the number of exposures will be much lower. I think the second big lesson is that really, every school needs to have a plan for online instruction. Because as weve seen in this School District, you may rapidly have a need to convert to online ins
3000 jobs will be cut under bains new ownership. Bain capital ownership, which in addition to these details relating to jobs, we are also expecting to hear about aircraft fleet and the future as well, this after bain bought Virgin Australia in what is a pretty bold that on an industry that has been shattered by the travel restrictions and the coronavirus pandemic. Virgin australia committed to regional and charter flying. Of targetsindication and priorities when they are restructured in addition to 3000 jobs being cut. Also getting data out of australia. Manufacturing pmi, services as well as composite index coming through. Dropping from that preliminary number for july. The composite number of 67. 8 also a little bit weaker. The performance of Construction Index coming in at 42. 7, higher than 39. 5. Lets take a look at the aussie dollar. Largely to do with the situation in victoria. We have that renewed lockdown, stricter stage four restrictions. At this time, later on today and tomo