Election story, and whether the market is saying we want to seek some safety and the dollar is the place to do that. The yen was trading lower against the dollar a little bit earlier on, but eurodollar now trading with a 1. 17 handle. What youre seeing in germany, u. K. , canada, and the United States is quite a sharp curve flattening, pivoting around the tens. The 30s are down quite hard in terms of the yield, so a big bid at the back end of the bond market. Alix all part of that is the virus story you were discussing, so lets get to that. U. K. Chief scientific advisor warning of 50,000 new cases a day by midoctober if urgent measures are not taken. Cases are increasing. Hospitalizations are falling. Deaths unfortunately will follow that, and there is the potential for this to move very fast. At the moment, we think that the roughly is doubling every seven days. If we dont do enough, the virus will take off. If we do not change course, we are going to find ourselves in a very difficu
Abramowicz and tom keene in new york. Good morning on Bloomberg Radio across the nation. Good morning on Bloomberg Television worldwide as well. Theferro, without question most mysterious jobs report ive ever witnessed. Jonathan we talked about the wide range all morning. Lets talk about it again. At the top, 2. 4 million. Thats the high estimate. Below, 100,000. The pace of the recovery is slowing. I wonder if we have seen more evident if we are seeing more evidence of that a little later this morning. Tom i thought of one of your good questions earlier, the idea of this shift to the new unemployed. Forget about furloughed. Forget about all of the other language. It is people terminated. Lisa people are becoming permanently laid off. Initially it was temporary. My question today is going to be is bad news good news, and is good news bad news . The idea that if we get a worse than expected report, we will get into this for some as we will get impetus for some kind of fiscal support we
With malan for another year. [laughter] i know youve missed me. Everyone has been saying youve been crying every sickle morning. Tom this has been something, folks. Theres a lot going on in europe, who will be great to have jon in london for a bit to keep track of things. Just to go away from jobs, away from all the news flow we got, i mentioned this to anna edwards, i am thunderstruck by the tone barnier on of mr. A United Kingdom that is not even responding. Has brexit fallen off the United Kingdom at . Jonathan can we agree on one thing . Just because i am here, i am not the brexit correspondent. I still have very little interest in that debate. I also want to talk about this market. I think theres been two down days the whole time. Tom absolutely. We have seen a paring back here. Pause, andis just a i think theres a lot of buzz out there right now about the lack of liquidity and people hedging along the way, creating an acceleration ever higher. That will be tested in the coming da
August 15 but also continuing down. 7 the nikkei and the futures in the u. S. Are looking lower as well. Data expected out of the u. S. Later today. And in terms of looking at some of the currencies in the region, we talked about the bloomberg dollar index. Down about. 10 . Dollar weakness is essentially beneficial to equities in this part of the world and currencies as well. Aussie, thats what youre looking like, essentially flat and new zealand had jobless numbers that came in less bad than expected. The kiwi dollar up. 2 . Lets move on to some of the commodities, gold again looking strong and well, above 2000 an ounce, a little bit of weakness in the last hour or so, down about. 2 . Terms of oil were looking at the beirut story, the port explosion there and there was concern that have geopolitical tensions emanating from that. Thats the yield picture in the points. St over 10 basis rally washe dollar rather short, and then weve got gold, the inverse correlation back at the moment. T
Chancellors statement . Were they in strong agreement with him . Anna he has a lot of support within the story within the tory party. Good morning to you, tom. Rishi sunak thrown into this incredible task of managing the u. K. Economy through all this. He remains very popular within the party. Interesting to see from the other side of the political spectrum, the criticism that he is not done enough. Maybe he is saving something for the autumn, but it will be crucial to watch what happens with unemployment. That we have an end mechanism for the furlough scheme that has done so much to support employment for this country. How much happen and will employment spike . Thiswere people riveted to , the statement at the beginning that the pandemic is terrible. Were people riveted to his speech yesterday . Anna im not sure that riveted is a way to describe it. Earlier, that dominated the day to day conversation, the conservative party stepping in in a way that you might expect a Labour Governme