Anna edwards is in for jon ferro and lisa abramowicz. Ferro taking the entire month off. Lisa only taking half the month off. We are thrilled anna edwards could join us today as well. Remember when augusts were boring . August is no longer boring, is it . Anna i remember when all of europe went on holiday in august, but no longer. We got alltime highs on u. S. Stocks. Is that really out of kilter with the underlying u. S. Economy comes with the underlying global ok . Omic story, and is that tom the persistency across yields is amazing. Yields come up 4, 5, 6 days, and they roll over and come back down. We are not through to new lows in the last number of weeks on yield, but nevertheless, watching that very closely. We will get to that with an important guest any moment. David malpass with us later in the hour. I want to go to a story which we have been covering the last number of days. For me in america, it has gone radio silent. That is belarus. This is between poland and russia, with
Cleaning our closets. We somehow wound up with this shocking News Coronavirus pandemic is doing something many once thought impossible. As of tonight, los angeles has the cleanest air of any major city in the world. Jimmy but please, do not go out to enjoy it. Is there a way to save some of that for later . So, if that doesnt signify the end is near, i dont know what does. You know, weve seen many, many videos of neighbors singing on their balconies playing music having socially distant dance parties, but i believe this is a first. A guy on the what appears to be the third or fourth floor poured a glass of wine for a woman below him. This was in portland, oregon. They were hanging outside the windows to applaud nearby hospital workers making a shift change. Thats the new way to drink responsibly. In tokyo it is graduation season and at least one university there found a way to hand out the diplomas using ipads and robots. Known as noomys, the robots walk across the stage to accept dipl
Best performing index in the s p and that is more than get that going to is sending the likes of las vegas sands, caesars, and all of the gaming stocks higher. The volume, as well, is massive in those stocks. The 10 year yield at 1. 88 following the ecb this morning. That is a pretty good incline in. Ields we were at 1. 85 just a couple of days ago. Definitely selling in bonds with more positive outlook for the economy. The dollar index repairing some of its declines. Guy stocks here in europe off their highs, but higher on that trumped week. Bonds selling off, yields higher. The pound is trading lower. We are down by 0. 6 percent. The polls close at 10 a click p. M. London time tonight, 5 00 p. M. New york time at 10 00 p. M. London time tonight, 5 00 p. M. New york time. President trump indicating that we have a very big deal on the way, getting very close to a big deal with china. They want it and so do we. It is that last bit that is important. The s p leading an alltime high a lit
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Consumers and businesses cut spending and asked its fell. That is a set of that is a setback for shinzo abe. Germanys chancellor Angela Merkel is saying she is willing to consider debt relief degrees. She made her first Public Comments since area finance ministers endorsed bailout for greece. She is confident the imf will join bailout. There may be some leeway on the Interest Rates the greeks are paying on their debt. Searchers in indonesia have found the wreckage of a commercial prop just that appeared to have crashed prop jet that appeared to have crashed into a mountain. There were 54 people on board. And lost contact with the air Traffic Control while flying in cloudy weather. He is elected president , donald trump says he would deport all undocumented immigrants from the u. S. The republican president ial candidate laid out his position on immigration in a fourpage document yesterday. He appeared on meet the press. Donald trump we have to a whole new set of standards. When people