Good morning on bloomberg radio. Good morning on bloomberg television. It is extraordinary to be the beginning on global wall street of the holiday season, and i can never i can never think, even the tragedy of 9 11, i cant imagine how much of a tragedy this holiday will be with the pandemic. Jonathan the numbers are terrible. We talked about it an hour ago. We started this month with daily infections in and around 80,000. That has doubled in 11 days. If Health Care Capacity gets tested, they will start to introduce more restrictions. Heres the critical issue. Who is going to step in . Where the fiscal policy maker . Bridgewaterf says we have a mismatch between the length of the pandemic and the willingness of fiscal policy makers to do something in equal length. Tom it has widened out, without question. What is so important here is to gauge the pandemic, and we are all doing that on a local basis. You and i, we hear more sirenss again in new york city, and we are all dealing with the
Dow 30,000. 2009,were you march 10 of while you were up 16 per year on the dow . Spx i believe better as well. There have been reasons along the way to go to cash, and yet here we are with solid doubledigit returns across 13 years. Jonathan and some houses got it right. One of those houses, Morgan Stanley. It was really uncomfortable to make the call coming out of march 2 remain committed to the recovery in the u. S. Economy. It took some real confidence, and one thing that has frustrated me over the last couple of months is every time someone says the easy money has been made. There was nothing easy about going long in early april during lockdown. Lets be clear about that. We are going to keep this short with mr. Wilkinson keep wilsonort to get mr. Of Morgan Stanley, but we are not even seeing the version of those trends, are we . Jonathan not yet. Bank of america proposes holding the bonus pool flat for traders, this on a year where in the first of nine months, revenues or bank of am
Watching for wild swings right here 10 year yields 0. 7 and thats pretty stable compared to where we were two days ago i checked that, whats the problem with the markets but theres a lot going on breaking overnight, this should have been somewhat helpful you would think. Bank of england announced emergency cut. Lowering the bank rate by 50 basis points to. 25 englands central bank also announced a new funding plan to support small and Medium Sized Companies as well as new steps to help commercial banks lend more well get a live report from london in just a couple of moments. Now an update onthe coronavirus. In the u. S. , confirmed cases have now topped 1,000. Want to get to meg now who joins us with the latest meg. Good morning, andrew, case counts drived to 119,000 overnight with almost 4,300 deaths among the hardest hit countries, italy, iran, and south korea and they tell dramatically different stories. Italy reported highest daily jump in deaths yesterday to more than 600 of more
Washington passed, cannabis support has gone up and up, two thirds of country support recreational weetd weed, that is 53 of republican, but sib00 thousan600,000people are lockedr for cannabis possession, substance, researchers cannot conduct ran randomize control ts marijuana is a schedule 1 drug, category with heroin and ecstasy. Having no accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse, twothirds of the country knows that is bull crap. They have conducted legitimate trials that study affects and benefits and get federal government the hell out of the way tostates can decide themselves whether or not to legalize, that is the panel. With me, pro Marijuana Panel with different perspectives on this budding issue. We hav dr. Brook west worcesterd chris crane and former baltimore ravens, green thumb industry partner, Eugene Monroe welcome. Great to have you all. Great to be here. Kennedy all your expertise in cob placeone place, brook. Is it true they denied any dozens application tha