Radio and Bloomberg Television across this nation. It is not a usual august. It is highly unusual, different from 1998. Certainly some of these trends are draw dropping are jawdropping. Bonds participate. It is decidedly risk on. Lisa although you have to say, when you got a 10 year yield below 1 , to say it is a decidedly different tone with yields going up indicates just where we are in this cycle. I will say, also important to note that is yields rise, bond prices down, you are seeing real yields remain deeply negative. Tom deeply negative and plunging right now. 1. 00s the right word, at and now at 1. 03 on the u. S. Tenyear. That is a really extraordinary drop. Saw,own near the lows we but this will be a huge theme. What will you listen for from chairman powell on thursday . Lisa basically, how much they are going to keep yields low and how much they perceive themselves looking at the reality of the economy today. I really think it is important to note that even as yields move up,
Alongside lisa abramowicz, im jonathan ferro. Tom keene back on monday. The equity market unchanged right now on equity futures. It is the bond market tickets your attention. The worst week for 10 year treasuries going back to june. Lisa very low rates, but it seems like theres at least a little bit of a concern creeping in about the record bond issuance from the u. S. Government. The question is whether this is a momentary blip. Today, people seem to be treating it as a buying opportunity. Jonathan so far, so good this week in terms of expectations. Claimed yesterday, positive relative to expert patients. Cpi hotter, ppi hotter than expected as well. Perhaps fueling that moving treasuries and not just the supply story. Lisa weve had this conversation over and over again, the idea of lagging indicators. In a fastmoving pandemic where you get states reshutting down and people losing confidence, and people are looking to the july sales data shown the last retail sales gain before unemplo
Government actively avoided investigating russian interference in the brits and referendum. Irans Supreme Leader calls on the visiting iraqi Prime Minister to end the u. S. Presence in his country. So then u. S. President donald trump has warned that the corona Virus Outbreak is likely to get worse before it gets better it is a month apart sure from the optimistic picture hes projected so far even as cases continue to rise in many states well trump was speaking of his newly resumed daily Coronavirus Briefing the 1st since april the public to wear masks and promise to deliver a vaccine as soon as possible United States is the worst affected country in the world more than 141000 whatever 3800000 cases. To join a virus is a vicious and dangerous illness but weve learned a great deal about it and who it targets we are in the process of developing a strategy thats going to be very very powerful weve developed as we go along some areas of our country are doing very well others are doing less
Then another lock down it will not cut its schedule branding the decision regrettable. The low cost airline posts a smaller than expected loss for the First Quarter. Acquisition, sap shares jump after the German Software giant said it will float qualtrics just a few years after buying it for 8 billion republican lawmakers reach a deal in the next relief bill in a move that will handout payments as well as commit to 70 wage replacement helping to push u. S. Futures higher in early trade. A very warm welcome to street signs we closed out with the flash pmi for july which showed the recovery across europe and now we have the data coming through. The german business index. The german business morale rises in july. Thats the headline. The Business Climate index came in at 90. 5 that was ahead of forecasts. Economists were looking for 89. 3 thats 90. 5. The current condition index, that came in at 84. 5 in july that was a touch below expectation. The current index slightly below but the Busi
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