Consumer in this covid economy and a ventilator boost from medtronic, but sales for other medical devices remain lower medtronics ceo will join us exclusively later this hour. Carl, jims shaking his head already. I dont know speculative market ive ever seen i was going to say, jim, i mean, what a confluence of headlines and then to layer on what you were talking about with becky, this seemingly endless generational bid for stocks in general. You know, look at these plug power did a deal last week, 38 million shares of 22. 25, norwegian did a deal of 40 million shares at 20. 80, carnival did a huge deal at 17. 59, up huge on that, American Airlines did a deal, huge amount of stock, and about price that is a dollar below where this it is trading. Ive never seen anything like it where are the profit takers . Where are they i dont know. This is listen, we have been talking about this new cohort in the market, theyre for real, man. They are real it is not just ev stocks that are ev Companie
Tom jon, get out of the sand trap, or whatever he said last night. Just absolutely extraordinary. We have been talking about it all morning. I would think the worldwide audience must be. Just extraordinary. Can we also note there is a job economy coming up, and maybe the next debate they can talk about where this unemployment factor is maybe going . Jonathan and maybe the csuite is still very strategic about when they drop bad news. The Walt Disney Company talking about dropping 28,000 jobs a few hours before debate. Tom well said. Jonathan it is amazing for me to wake up this morning, to watch back at that debate and hear the former Vice President call a sitting president a racist, and it doesnt even register. It is not even a headline this morning. That speaks to where we are at currently in the political discourse in washington, d. C. Tom some of the discussions on the white super missy issue last night are beneath the fold because of the turmoil, the emotion, the rage and the rank
And tom keene. A postdebate bloomberg surveillance. We welcome all of you on bloomberg television, Bloomberg Radio across this nation after an extra ordinary evening observed by all last night. We have good analysis through forward in the view towards october 15 and the second debate. I know we are going to try to focus on where we are in economics, finance, investment and that. Ive just got to go to your observation of seeing the debate from london. Was london engaged in that of a last night in the debate last night . Jonathan it was the talk of breakfast this morning, i can tell you. I was watching it on my phone and the waitress came over and discussed what she thought as well. I think many were surprised come about at the same time, what else did you expect when you were going to put these two people in the same room on the same stage . Tom you are absolutely dead on. When they started in last night with Chris Wallace, at times almost debating with the president , to see what they
Strongso getting some data coming through and it comes to pending home sales. The month on month number blowing past expectations. We do better on a month by month basis of 8. 8 . That was well above expectations. That takes the nonseasonally adjusted year on year number two 20. 5 . This is a market that has come back in a really big way. Alix and continues to stay strong, like auto sales, undermining that fall off a cliff scenario. ,ast night, the highlights president trump, democratic nominee joe biden, which a debate, but turned out to be a boxing match. Everyone knows hes a liar. Pres. Trump you are the liar. You graduated last in your class. Mr. Biden you are the worst president america has ever had. Pres. Trump when needed, i wear masks. I dont wear masks like him. He could be speaking to hundred feet away from you and he shows up with the biggest mask ive ever seen. What is the Trump Health Care plan . Pres. Trump first of all, i guess i am debating you, not him, but thats ok. I
Plan, but Republican Leaders warned the gap remains wide. Mitch mcconnell says the plan contains poison pills. Bloomberg economics cuts its growth forecast for japan, saying the recovery is weaker than expected. This hour brings a survey showing what business thinks. We are getting breaking news crossing the bloomberg. President trump has moved to sign an order which would expand u. S. Mining, citing a threat from china. President trump has moved to expand rare earth mining in particular according to an official. We know china has in recent years have a huge presence when it comes to rare earth mining, which is used from everything from cars to mobile phones. Officials say President Trump has moved to expand rare earth mining for the u. S. There is a political element where union votes will be key going into the election. We will get you more details as they get to us. Lets take a look at the thursday session with sophie kamaruddin. Miers we are watching across the region following tho