A little hard. It looked to me like it was twitter. Like watching twitter for 90 minutes. I did not stick to my original plan. Baseball and bed the two bs i stayed up. I want my time back. I didnt stay up for that long you can play this game with me i felt dissed. How much words can you come up with disappointing, disturbing, disspiriting, distracting, disheartening. Disgusting. You can probably go there disspiriting i looked it up thats exactly what i wanted to say. After all those disses, i wound up with disinteresting thats when i was gone right . It was a let down ly say that. Some people like to watch the fighting it is hard to turn around from it if you were somebody who was tuning in. In my core pin of both candidates, nothing really changed. Mike Wallace Chris wallace had a tough job. I guess he did okay. Im not going to nominate him why do you bother having rules for a debate if nobody is going to bother to follow them kill the rules or give the moderator a kill switch. Both s
Madrid could announce a state of emergency today. A golden reopening. Beijing is back to work efforts week long holiday. Chinese equities and the yuan outperform. Very good morning to you. 6 00 a. M. In the city of london. Happy friday. Its one week since we learned the president of the United States tested positive for covid19. D. C. Politics is messy. We will talk about that a little bit later. We are 25 days away from the u. S. Election. Some optimism that we have had a bit of shift on stimulus in the white house. Nancy pelosi, Steven Mnuchin, are talking again, but many skeptical we will see support. The hope of that is moving markets this morning. S p 500 futures to the upside this morning alongside euro futures as well. Chinese equities outperforming. We are up more than 2 this morning, 1 00 p. M. In beijing. China is back to work after golden week. Its back with some good optimistic measures when you look at the equities space. The bloomberg dollar index lower against all of g10
An inperson showdown. Commission holds firm it will be virtual. Good morning, everyone. This is bloomberg surveillance. I am Francine Lacqua here in london. Stimulus talks could be closer, or at least they. Are back on the agenda. Here is what. I am looking at across the board. Is movingr yield attached, dollar declining, global stocks rising as the white house appeared to shift track, which signaled it is open to a large. Later on surveillance, we talked to armand sarkissian, 9 30 a. M. U. K. Time. Now lets get to the bloomberg first word news in london with leighann gerrans. Hi, leighann. Leighann good morning, francine. Leighann the debate will happen. The commission organizes it insists it will be virtual, but President Trump says he will not debate,t in a virtual calling the commission a joke. He is calling for to be rescheduled, but joe biden is rejecting that. He says the president pulled out, not joe biden. As dailyaximum alert coronavirus cases exceed 18,000 for a second strai
Tom yesterday was extraordinary. We are still regrouping in new york from the news flow yesterday of transactions and of course of the president of the United States. The number one breaking story here in the zeitgeist of the east coast is that the president appears to be healthy, and the real decision for him today is, does he do a rally tomorrow in one of these key battleground states . That seems to be the topic is topiceck the topic the du jour. Francine lets get to first word news in new york city with ritika gupta. Ritika the white house is once again shifting its position on a stimulus package. Treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin told House Speaker nancy pelosi the administration now once an agreement on a largescale relief bill. Earlier this week, they president pulled negotiators from talks on comprehensive legislation. Officials are keeping up the pressure on washington to renew fiscal support for the economy. Dallas fed president Robert Kaplan sees a Slower Economy without mor
Forward today. I think lisa is going to talk about it. The last moment i saw as we wait for washington to awake this morning with the president nudging away from the republican reticence more towards the place of Speaker Pelosi. I have no idea what that means. After what we went through yesterday, we are littered literally we are literally monitoring when does the president wake up and advance his campaign through any actions throughout the day. Jonathan we understand there will be an interview at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on fox news. 1 3negotiations for me, the of the negotiations that really matters and has hardly moved, Senate Republicans and leader mcconnell. Where are they in this . Weve heard from mnuchin, from the president , from Speaker Pelosi. Mcconnell is on the sidelines. Hes the guy that finalizes that deal. Tom this is really important, and it goes to what axios said about the republicans really fighting for their lives, having to do with attorney general barr and all of that.