Percolating issues, whether it is trade tensions or brexit, which goes to the heart of the uncertainty in 2021. Francine there is a lot going on, and i guess this is the concern, you have a million angles of things that turn out sour. Bloomberg first word news in new york city with ritika gupta. Senatorone republican dix President Trump will get on board with a bipartisan 908 billion senator bill cassidy told foxnews Senate Majority leader mcconnell will back it, too. Cassidy is a member of the Group Pushing the measure. President trumps lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, has tested positive for the coronavirus. According to reports, he has been hospitalized in washington. Giulianis son says he is getting great care and feeling well. Giuliani has been leading the effort to overturn the results of the election. In china, exports jumped in november by the most since 2018, pushing its trade status to a monthly record high, and thermined underlined how pandemic and global related goods is helping the
Washingtons partisan battle. Joining us now is bloombergs chief content officer marty schenker. Many people thought this was an inspired choice. It ticks so many boxes. Just your sense of what this means for how washington is now going to operate. Martin i wouldnt describe it as necessarily inspired. It is an inspiring lee safe inspiringly safe choice because she is so wellknown on both sides of the aisle. I think she will have a relatively easy time getting confirmed. She is a traditionalist in many ways. She has been at the fed. Shes been at the white house. Shes a great believer in consensus. I think that is what you are going to need with the incoming treasury secretary. Alix nonetheless, it is the first woman treasury secretary, the first woman to lead the fed. This is definitely in that respect a boulder choice. However, how do the progressives feel about her . Marty i think they are very supportive. There is reporting out there that Elizabeth Warren was the person who recommende
Street audience. It is really important to look at the levels here and not the abrupt changes day after day. Moments ago, s p futures 3500. Dow level, 29,000 plus. Nasdaq 100 level, 12,000. That is a market that is adjusting. Jonathan the nasdaq up 9 since election day. Three days, nasdaq futures up 9 . Can you make sense of some of this price action . Tom absolutely not. Jonathan seeing the equity market up this much is pretty impressive. Tom we can pontificate about it. Lisa will have all of the answers about why we are moving up. Just in the last hour, yields come in. Of all of the political debate this morning, the one little tea leaf was in georgia. Mr. Biden narrows the gap with 96 counted. Tom you mentioned jonathan you mentioned the bond market. The company continues. Lisa if you want a neat narrative, you can but fun of me and tell me it is wrong, and it probably is, but i think the narrative of the day is that the fed its going to have to provide more support to the economy b
With a pan come up with a plan. Does actually get through congress . , i dont think it does. I think it is very little chance of getting through the senate. That is one of the many reasons why i remain with my 10 likely to have a stimulus deal before the election. This is just not going to happen. The parties are in four different places dependent on which faction you are talking about, all the way from zero to 3. 5 trillion. Theres no time to come around to something before the election. Guy who does this work for . . It clear he doesnt work for the American People if we dont get a deal. If nancy pelosi can figure out a way to get a deal with the white house and have it blown up for mitch mcconnell, is that something that works for her politically . Terry i think it doesnt work for her politically. You have to understand why she is where she is. Once upon a time, it was magically 3. 5 trillion or forget about it. Then all of she came down over 1 trillion under pressure from her politi
Will talk about this later on, but seems like europe is edging one step closer to that 1. 8 trillion euro recovery fund, which would be huge, particularly as the u. S. Cant get it on stimulus. So huge that the euro barely budgets. [laughter] alix it could be worse. Guy it is big news, but i think there was belief in the market that this is a done deal, and europe will ultimately come to the right conclusion and make the stimulus happen, 1. 8 trillion euros. So i think the market had already priced this one. As you can see, unchanged on eurodollar on the back of that. We are getting the jobs data coming through. 6. 43 islittle light, the number. 6. 5 was the expectation. Actually, the prior number devised down a little bit as well. So maybe a little bit of softer data coming through, but the market doesnt care. The market is looking through the virus. All of the bad virus news, you can put that in the rearview mirror. That certainly seems to be the sentiment right now. Lets dig around w