Come whichrevious also been revised higher. There was some expedition that as prices come up because of the fact you can get cheap lending at the moment or cheap borrowing , you would expect that at some have, that would start to an impact on a month by month basis. Nevertheless, the market was looking for this month on month number two actually slow, and that hasnt happened, which is really interesting and the light of what we are starting to see in the employment market. We saw initial jobless claims out a little bit earlier on. Youre starting to see the negative data could begin from the employment side of the economy, starting to come in a little softer. Bloombergs mike mckee joining us now with the details of that. Michael at one point on the housing numbers, existing home sales or closings, so these contracts were signed a couple of months ago when things were a little better in the economy, and we got low mortgage rates, so the one thing the fed has been able to do is stimulate
You have run one of these. You know what a gargantuan task it is. How difficult is it because we have been delayed getting it started . Valerie needlessly hard. The president elects team has been assembled, they have been working diligently on policy and staffing recommendations for the president elect, both in the white house and in the cabinet. Withe midst of a pandemic, millions of americans losing their jobs, it is more important than ever the agencies be available to the Transition Team. I always say one of the things that surprised me with president obamas transition was the unbelievable degree of cooperation we received from president bush. We may not agree with him on but whathat what president bush believed is a smooth and orderly transition from power. When president obama was leaving, he did the same thing in his direction for President Trump. This is not about politics, is about keeping our country safe and healthy. There is about but a focused on the Daily Briefing the pre
Good morning on Bloomberg Radio, good morning on bloomberg television. Too much to talk about. You hear it within those voices, that maybe it is the morning after, and the vaccine is really not out there. Now we get into a churn of the immediate news. Jonathan it is a tugofwar between the forward outlook looking better and the nearterm outlook looking worse. A real divergence between the two. How policymakers navigate the former will allow markets to keep the help about the latter. That is the hope for the market. First half of the week about cyclical appetite. 500 downhalf, the s p 0. 6 and nasdaq futures just about positive on the day. Tom we are going to roll the data check here through because it is a mess this morning. I just saw a 93 print on dollar. That speaks to the resiliency of dollar. Weve had a weaker dollar, but we just seem to come back when the uncertainty reigns. Lisa that seems to be the theme with all of the uncertainty on the dollar. When there is a risk off feel, p
Ofto see geoffrey yu there bny mellon in our opening. With the new slow out of washington, how to get ready for ferro, do you think the secretary of treasury will be watching mr. Powells press conference . Jonathan i hope they speak before the press conference. These two need to get on the same side. It is not good to wake up ever to see the chairman of the Federal Reserve and treasury secretary on different pages on an Emergency Program that, lets be clear, has really helped keep financial conditions loose at a really tough time for the u. S. Economy. I am surprised, maybe even shocked, that the market is where it is this morning based on the spat between those two individuals. Tom there are distractions in washington, but maybe it was beneath the radar off of president trumps efforts to tolection 2020 lisa move election 2020. It devolves to a market that looks like the fourth week of is taking myferro vacation days. Lisa how do you price the future with a present that is very much dy
The shift we saw in washington yesterday about 4 00 p. M. We dont need to be on this all day. Every other network is going to cover it up and sideways come but this this is original actions by a president of the United States, really reminiscent of what we saw in 1876. It is a story our Washington Team will cover. This election of 2020 continues. Jonathan that tuesday night still continues in some ways. The news of the last 15 minutes is on the vexing front. Pfizer on the vaccine front. Pfizer set to file today for emergency other ration emergency authorization use. Think that has been the sequence, and each time there is a lesser market reaction. Jonathan i tugofwar continues. If we think about the tugofwar right now, the tension is phenomenal. On the one side, the darkening near term outlook because of the restrictions in the of the economy, and then the brightening forward outlook it can get vaccinations started in month. In the last 24 hours, the Federal Reserve and the treasury se