All of the effort back and forth over the weekend. I would really focus on the immediacy of the calendar forward. Weve got the Vice President ial debate on wednesday. 10 days out to a president ial debate, i believe still scheduled. Jonathan so far. Tom and in 29 days, the election. I think those are the numbers that get everyones attention this morning. The National Polling not looking good for the president of the United States. On twitter right now, that is the campaign for the president right now, knowing what these polls look like at the moment. Tom around 10 00 make it around 10, weve got a new tweet. 91 approval rating. Vote these are short bursts of tweets , i guess showing the action that he wants to come out of walter reed this morning. Jonathan and hit became pin trail, virtually speaking hit the campaign trail, virtually speaking. Lisa to me, really interesting to see the momentum, how much it is slowing. We saw signs of than the jobs report. U. S. We will get a read on sep
History in the United Kingdom as they extend the pandemic watch out to march of 2021. Jon ferro, theres no other headline for me this morning. All of us dealing with this pandemic, and Boris Johnson sets us a new timeline. Jonathan jonathan new restrictions on the u. K. Economy being announced today. We will hear from the Prime Minister addressing the nation at 8 00 p. M. Local time. Those restrictions could last a solid six months. Lets get straight to the price action to give people a feel of how things have turned around in the last 30 minutes or so. Equity futures were positive, now slightly negative. In the fx market, the pound was positive. It is now slightly negative. In the bond market, yields were up by almost a basis point. 0. 67 . Y are unchanged at it is a subtle shift, but a reminder of the difficult moment we have ahead of us as we go deeper into the end of the year. Tom so much going on here. We welcome all of you on Bloomberg Television and Bloomberg Radio across americ
Speaker pelosi under huge pressure to jumpstart the stimulus talks. A lot of people saying that. Francine that will filter onto the markets. Lets get straight to bloomberg first word news. Ritika good morning. Republicans are pushing back against Donald Trumps refusal to commit to a peaceful transfer of power. Mitch mcconnell tweeted the process will be orderly, just as it has been every four. Years since 1792 also every four years since 1792. The senate also committed to a peaceful transfer of power. Democrats have started drafting a new stimulus proposal that could get past the house next week. Smaller than the package the house passed in may, it is still larger than Senate Republicans say they can expect. President trump said he will go as high as 1. 5 trillion. In the u. K. , rebel members of the conservative party are threatening to seize the parliament to block new coronavirus rules. At least 40 tories have put their name to an amendment wiping out the government majority on the
And lisa abramowicz, im jonathan ferro. Is one of the worst charts in the world. With the Stoxx Bank Index hitting a record low, you wonder where that folds into the system. Jonathan theres a line i remember from the former ecb president mario draghi, when he turned around and said rates have to be lower and out to be higher in the future. It was 2014. They just went negative. They are still there. Will we generate an economic recovery on the continent that leads to higher Interest Rates . The answer right now is not any soon. Tom bring up that chart. It is really an elegant chart. This is the thing that we were talking about. It is the xaxis of all of this. Whether it is the european back malaise pushing back 12 years, even 14 years, it is the duration of these agonies we have to focus on. Jonathan weve just never recovered. This week, the equity benchmark , the daxurt, germany since then, we are down, we are down almost 6 . Tom how do you measure the mystery of what is going on and w
Heard from the bank of england yesterday and whether that will filter through longer term in terms of negative rates. Now overall, the markets are focusing on that. They are focusing on some of the things that we saw this week, which is m a. In. Ks general in europe edging lower it seems to be that a lot of markets are in a holding pattern. Lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news. Here in london is also leighann gerrans. And oracle seem to be edging closer to eight tiktok deal. They have tentatively agreed to terms with the treasury department. Bytedance is also increasingly confident that plans will win the approval of regulators in beijing. Assuming it happens, a new firm would aim to hold an ipo in about a year. The eus climate chief says rising demand for green bonds creates an opportunity for the bloc. It plans to start selling as much as 225 billion euros of its debt. That amount is almost the same as all of the Green Securities sold globally last year, likely making t