Will try to fill in his space as he expresses his culinary abilities. Francine we will get clarification on what he is working on. Lets get to the bloomberg first word news in new york city with ritika gupta. Ritika good morning. S p global is on the verge of a giant deal in the Financial Information industry. Bloomberg has learned that the company is in advanced talks to for 44s markets billion. An agreement could be announced as soon as today. It would be the second biggest deal of the year. President trumps coronavirus taskforces propping promising a rapid rollout of the vaccine to 2 million americans i the end of the year. The Surgeon General expects that most americans will have access by early in the second quarter. He says the government hopes to quickly ok requests from two drugmakers for emergency approval of their vaccines. A group of opecplus ministers could reach an agreement on whether to delay januarys oil a fullincrease, before meeting of the cartel and its allies today.
Down 600 points recently. We are not near a correction yet on s p, but we are getting there rapidly. I dont think this can be underplayed the virus, the pandemic is really front and center on a global basis, even with an america distracted by an historic moment. Momente and a historic that could possibly sway the election. Lets get to the bloomberg first word news in new york city with ritika gupta. Ritika good morning. The death of Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg has thrust the Supreme Court into the political spotlight. Republican leaders in the senate are hoping to rush through a replacement with President Trump expected to nominate his pick this week. Democrats are warning of a constitutional crisis. If joe budden wins the election but a trump candidate is still confirmed to the Supreme Court. President trump is celebrating the tiktok deal, despite it falling short on some of its key demands. The white house gets a promise of new jobs sources have told bloomberg that tiktok is taking a
Buyer beware, ipos that have doubled do not have a great track record after the debut. Plus the president and tiktok, he says hes not prepared to sign off on anything for an oracle tiktok deal. And wall street poised for a sharply lower open following the feds pledge to keep Interest Rates low for years and Technology Stocks do lead the declines speaking of which, jim, sounds like your conversation with joe a moment ago kind of rings with what Credit Suisse says today about tech valuations overall, that is that there is some excess and theyre lightning their weight at least on software. I count 30 companies that are selling at 30 times sales and then theres a number, even more, maybe another ten that are selling above that, 50 times sales for zoom along comes snowflake at 100 times sales. You just have to put the stop sign up because what it says is theres going to be so much supply that is coming. Look, if you own a company youve been waiting for it to come public you just got the gre
The fed warnings on risk theres a lot to watch the and an airbnb ipo is now officially in the works. You were just talking about becky about claims and this onagain narrative, the split between Public Companies and smaller businesses. When you keep thinking about what target said, brian with a tour deforce performance, talking about taking 5 billion in share you know he took it from somebody i keep thinking about that, thats the 5 billion that probably would have gotten into Smaller Companies that dont trade or companies that are starting to lay people off or file bankruptcies. The i call to attention estee lauder today you dont expect that perfume or skin care gets hurt. Hopefully lipstick sales are better usually when other things are weaker were not seeing that. Were ripe for stimulus, but nobody is talking. Yeah, jim, thats interesting, estee lauder layoffs, american dropping 15 minutes. But covid cases are lit rally collapsing shouldnt this be going in the other direction . Yes, b
America, i find extraordinary. How closed down is london . ,rancine much like new york depends on whether its the metropolis, parts of the city, if you look at the city of london, which bloomberg is located in, its quiet. If you go to the center, its quiet, theres hardly any tourists because of the quarantine into the u. K. But if you look at residential places, thats when people come out. Waitinghen people are for Boris Johnson to announce an opening of pubs. It really depends on the communities and whether they feel comfortable. Many people might be elsewhere. And this harkens to your interview with that officer from ubs, and you wonder what the Service Sector is going to do on working from home or the office, what do you think . Greatne we had the conversation yesterday, she could see up to a third of the workforce never coming back to the office area if you think about it, it has huge and look asians for real estate, certainly commercial real estate for offices it has huge implicat