Hillary vaughn on site at Salt Lake City for tomorrows debate. Edward well start with you. President trump shocked the market, democrats, and told his representatives to stop negotiating because the democrats are negotiating in bad faith. He started out his tweet saying that House Speaker nancy pelosi wants 2. 4 trillion package to help poorlyrun, in his words, poorlyrun high crime democratic states. Money no way intended for covid19. Adding she is not negotiating in good faith. The president is saying he is rejecting their request, instructing his representatives to stop negotiating until after the election. He urged Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell to nominate and approve his Supreme Court nominee. This comes on a day that the Federal Reserve chairman jay powell also stressing that stimulus, more stimulus for the economy is something that is needed. He laid out how in the first cares act the federal government, help from the federal government and the Federal Reserve helped ste
Further. We are joined this hour by finance minister. The other big story today, lawmakers in washington take aim at the power of big tech. Saystitrust investigation they are abusing their dominant status. Australia coming online. Lets turn to Sophie Kamaruddin in hong kong with a checkup on markets. A two day rise, we are seeing pressure come through for the benchmark while the aussie dollar is testing that 71 popl after forming a double early this october. We are seeing action in the bond space. The front end of the aussie curb slipping with the three year yield falling as much as four basis points earlier in the session. This after australias updated debt issuance coming in less than expected. I want to highlight bhp shares. We are seeing the stock fall as much as 2. 3 this morning. Tesla bhp in focus be at flipping the board to check in on futures, s p eminis under pressure. The yen trading study but theres upward pressure on the stimulus deadlock. We are watching iphone makers aft
Across this nation and worldwide. In morning on bloomberg television. Coming up, an important conversation with the vice chairman of the Federal Reserve system, Richard Clarida of columbia university. Jon, were way out front on the collapse of the United Kingdom suffered on the pandemic. But the bombshell you and i didnt see was the Prime Minister taking this Natural Disaster out to march of next year. Jonathan and maybe beyond. We certainly didnt see that in march 2020. We had three months of happy talk around europe versus the u. S. Many people have come on the program and talked about it. The data is not great either this morning. The service data softer than people expected. Manufacturing data ok. Do we start to hit some road bumps not just on the policy around covid, but also on the economy and this recovery . Tom what is your measurement of the American Economy now, in the many conversations you have on this . I am getting the sense of down big, up big, but i dont understand wher
Stocks . Tom i agree that it is secondary or tertiary but at the margin was the list in the markets today with presumed stimulus, government to the rescue and all of that. I wonder if it has a good feeling to it versus what we have seen over the last two weeks. Francine do the markets move on just a good feeling . Paul do you remember . Ts a good feeling to know im thinking 1970 one. Francine its a good morning when you sing to me on air. Lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news, heres riddick a group that gupta. gerard the first question had to do with the coronavirus after the squared off they squared off. Thetor harris you respect American People when you tell the truth and have the courage to be a leader and speak of the things that you may not want people to hear but they need to hear so they can protect themselves. Pence when i look at their planet talks about advancing testing, grading pbe, developing a vaccine, it looks like plagiarism. Which is something joe biden kn
. O a presumed debate october 15 crisis, go to cash. Do you understand we are 3 from a dow record high . Jonathan the narrative has really shifted away from the worries about a contested election, and now the conversation about the potential of a blue wave. No question about it. We like to see more polls coming out. The candidates really migrate to arizona today and tomorrow to come off the messaging from utah. Have you seen the polls for going to be at polls from quinnipiac . A fivepoint lead in iowa for biden. The average right now, 9. 4 points to biden. I feel you, tom. I get it. Everyone else does, too. They are conditioned by the experience of four years ago. That is a conversation with kevin later this morning. Tom again, i look at the markets. The doom and gloom out there, the vix, the volatility at 28, im sorry. Look at the equity recovery and look at corporations adjusting. This breaking ibm news is important. Jonathan after a big acquisition last year of red hat, the restruct