Tom its simulcast on television and radio and we welcome all of you around the world and across the nation. If youre in that odd east coast october, its the density of fog, for those of you on radio across washington to boston, drive careful. The fog is never its like a london fog, jon, its so bad. Tell me london is gorgeous. Jon its got a london feel. London is always gorgeous, beautiful. What else do you want me to say. Tom thank you. N radio its a tapestry of gorgeosity. Jon the beautiful sky. Tom thats a postcard jon just put up. I really want to focus away from the market and data, futures negative, dow down, and we forget the claims are in this hour, this nation on a labor basis, theres no other definition, its not an opinion, its flat on its back and you bring that over to a debate tonight, do you think it will come up . Jon i think it will come up repeatedly, tom. At the opening of the hour, the professor said it perfectly. For people at the bottom who are really, really strugg
Slowest increase since going back to march. Breaking down all the action is our markets correspondent abigail doolittle. It really seems like a lot of the travel and leisure stocks are outperforming yet, the s p, not quite at 3000. At 25,000. Quite it was an interesting day all day long. A lot of people scratching their heads as to whether we had this rally without any major headlines. Up to percent, probably something to do with the weak dollar and reopening optimism. You are pointing out those travel and leisure stocks doing quite well. We also had the dow transportation average doing quite well. A huge bullish divergence. The transportation stocks are supporting the idea that traders and investors are thinking the economy will be reopening. Some of the stayathome tech stocks leading the way. On nasdaq closing down biotech weakness. Right now, this very interesting tension on the year between another pocket of those stayathome stocks, the faang index. The transportation index down qu
Some of the optimism when it trade, s pe tone on futures back down after the cash trade yesterday. Markets are optimistic about the situation in italy, you can see bid, nowian btps are down to 1. 21, less than 200 basis points above boones. The dollarer against as the greenback falls. Italy thatews out of the Fivestar Party has halted Coalition Talks unless the democrats agreed to keep Giuseppe Conte on as Prime Minister. They previously pushed back against that, especially the leader of the Democratic Party, for hisis supporters Parliamentary Group had any say, they will have to concede, because they will want to say. We will continue to cover the story in italy. Coming up, we will speak to nigel wilson, the ceo. You can catch that interview at 11 30 a. M. London time. Lets get to the bloomberg first word news with Viviana Hurtado standing by in new york. Talking, but only if the u. S. Lift sanctions first. Thats according to hassan rouhani, following President Trump signaling he woul
Weekend. Thank you so much. That great coverage last night if, larry. We appreciate you. Weve got news coming in, lets get right to House Foreign Affairs congresswoman nicole malliotakis. Its great to have you on again. Weve got new developments. The media has been calling out the president s state of the Union Address as abnormal. The angriest, most divisive, most politicized speech ever. News now cocrossing, it looks like President Biden ladies and gentlemen are rised and copied large chunks of his own 2022 state of the Union Addresses. There are 20 lines and more that he kept repeating from prior speeches. You were at the state of the union. Isnt this a sign that this is an age issue . Well, look, i definitely think it is showing not just a cognitive issue, but theres a laziness there. He continues to gaslight the American People and tell them that the state of the union is strong. Twothirds of americans believe that the countrys headed in the wrong direction. They are struggling ri
Section. I said, im going to come back to this and this is a section of the neutrality proclamation. I wish i had paid closer attention to years ago. And this is the sentence wilson pleading with the nation, pleading neutrality in thought word and deeds said the spirit of the nation in this critical matter will be determined largely by what and society and those in Public Meetings do and upon what newspaper and magazines contain, upon what ministers utter in their pulpits and men proclaim as their opinions on the street. So that key phrase there, were going to zero in on what ministers utter in their pulpits pulpits. What striking about this original neutrality is that here, unlike whats going to happen after, us intervention in 1917 and on through the war itself on through the Peace Process at point wilson is appealing for caution restraint what not to say the passions not to stir up in the churches from the pulpit, not divide america ethnically religiously. Since americans have confl