Consumer in this covid economy and a ventilator boost from medtronic, but sales for other medical devices remain lower medtronics ceo will join us exclusively later this hour. Carl, jims shaking his head already. I dont know speculative market ive ever seen i was going to say, jim, i mean, what a confluence of headlines and then to layer on what you were talking about with becky, this seemingly endless generational bid for stocks in general. You know, look at these plug power did a deal last week, 38 million shares of 22. 25, norwegian did a deal of 40 million shares at 20. 80, carnival did a huge deal at 17. 59, up huge on that, American Airlines did a deal, huge amount of stock, and about price that is a dollar below where this it is trading. Ive never seen anything like it where are the profit takers . Where are they i dont know. This is listen, we have been talking about this new cohort in the market, theyre for real, man. They are real it is not just ev stocks that are ev Companie
There is quite a lot going on in the markets mainly because of the threshold that markets crossed yesterday. Lets have a look at what that means for european stocks and even the global stocks rally pausing. We did have the best monthly gain in three decades. Investors awaiting a lot of Economic Indicators that could support the. Rally in risk assets. We have Consumer Confidence and of course personal income. We did have a gauge of asia pacific shares gaining. Above 45 alding barrel, and i also wanted to show you bitcoin and a second, because they were also, you know, within a sliver of a record high for bitcoin. At 19,130. It now lets get to the bloomberg first word news in london with leighann gerrans. Hi, leighann. Leighann good morning, francine. France will gradually start using its lockdown from sunday. Museums will follow suit from december 15, but restaurants will remain closed. President Emmanuel Macron says vaccinations could start at the end of december or in early january. M
Gate calls it corruption. And the United States senate, help impress your friends with inside knowledge. First to charlotte with mike is with the clinton campaign. What is going on, mike . Dana, chris, good afternoon to you. Hillary clinton is on her way to charlotte hoping to fire up young voters on the college campus. She is spending the day in north carolina, recent polling suggesting a very close race and 15 electoral voefts up for grabs. And recent polls has clinton with a 2. 5 edge over donald trump. A competitive race and clinton this afternoon has been working, encouraging voters to go to the polls ahead of november 8th. And an africanamerican church in north carolina, trying to appeal to the africanamerican vote. He talked about systemic racism and hope in the election. North carolina, its one of the paths for donald trump to get to the electoral votes to Hillary Clinton is is going to bring out the big guns. Due to return on thursday with the first lady of the United States,
And cannibals. Does that sound like something you are behind or i havent i havent heard that. Is that supposed to be a bad thing or a good thing. The circus of it all, the meanness and lies and conspiracy theories. If i can help save the world from problems, im willing to do it. Donald trump hasnt grown into the job, because he cant. And the consequences of that failure are severe. Former president obama and President Trump both speaking yesterday. Good morning. And welcome to morning joe. It is thursday, august 20th, joe is off this morning. Along with willie and me we have White House Reporter for the Associated Press Jonathan Lemire. Msnbc contributor, shana thomas. Historian john meacham, whose biography of john lewis accomplishes next week. And host of politics nation and president of the National Action network reverend al sharpton is with us. We are covering a lot this morning, including developments in the postal story, with House Speaker nancy pelosi saying louis dejoy will no
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