Indicating it. We are a few days in december, and clearly we get no respite for the holidays. There is no question about that. An extraordinary 46 minute video from the president last night, hugely commented on in washington. Attorney general barr, you wonder how he gets through the weekend with the president. I agree with you, this french issue is not a small matter. Memory of if in the that macron decided to rip a page out of the textbook from 30 years ago. Francine we will have a lot more on the dynamics of europe and france, but lets get straight to bloomberg first written with with rickets with or take a group with ritika gupta. Nancy pelosi and Chuck Schumer are backing a bipartisan stimulus plan. They see the proposal from house and Senate Lawmakers with a new round of negotiations. The plan calls for 908 billion dollars in spending, less than what democrats want, increased from the number being floated by Senate Majority leader mitch mcconnell. The u. S. Has had its deadliest d
Cheaper auction it could be a cheaper option. Tom we will talk about that with sam fazeli. Over here it is about the hospitalization. It has been an extraordinarily difficult pandemic weekend fulltime america tries to move on, and someone moving on is the president elect with news from bloomberg overnight on appointments to be had, i believe, tuesday. Even while the president contests in wisconsin. Francine we will have a full round up of u. S. Elections as well. Lets get to bloomberg first word news with ritika gupta. Ritika another Promising Development in the fight to end the coronavirus pandemic. The vaccine developed by the university of oxford as astrazeneca prevented a majority of people in a large trial from getting the disease. It stop and average from 70 from falling ill, below the high bar set by pfizer and moderna, but effectiveness did rise to 90 for one of two dosing regimes. Joe biden plans to name anthony en as secretary of state. When he was when biden was Vice Preside
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Trade, even if we arent seeing it so much in the equity session. Lets bring in bloombergs dani burger in london. People a belot of playing in todays market after the thanksgiving holiday, but there is one cohort still coming on strong, and those are the day traders. If you dive into the charts, you can see they really have dominated when it comes to call volume. We have seen a lot of the robinhood crowd really prefer call volume calls as their option to bet on rising stocks. We have seen some of that call to put ratio plunge to record lows, and at the same time, it is the Retail Stocks which have been outperforming the pros, outperforming the s p 500 as well. What we get in todays session is a continuation of that. When we look at some of the big names here that are favorites of these retail traders, they are also outperforming. Things like talent here, zoom , those haver, zoom had a lot of call options as of late. A lot of them have calls that are expiring today. All of these actually
Caroline bloombergs economic model is seeing a doubledip downturn. There was much good news on the vaccine front, but joe, the euphoria has ended. Investors are trying to work out how they get through until spring when the vaccine is going to be more widespread. Joe weve had a powerful rally for the first couple days, but then you look at the action with the nasdaq surging and itrything else lagging, and does seem like the vaccine opposition is running head to head with reality, which is that right now the covid situation is bad. Hospitalizations, hitting a record. Ineurope, you see the surges germany, italy. At some point, it seems likely we are going to get a vaccine, but the current situation, not good. Romaine it is really the sustained trajectory of this latest wave that is most concerning. The one thing, if we are going to find some silver lining, his hospital seem to be more prepared this time around than where they were back in march and april. Joe absolutely. With more, tech r