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
On the day could be the reemerging trade war between the u. S. And china, china saying it will slaps sanctions on defense contractors. On this we have greens and other commodities lower, along with stocks. The chip index is a poster boy for the u. S. China trade war that is underperforming, down 2. 5 . That is another nuance developing, as if we needed more. Guy talk to us about david talk to us about the bonds. Last week we were talking about the reflation trade. We saw the 10 year goa above 85 basis points. Now i see it below 80. What happened to that trade . Abigail that is the bid for bonds. That tells you some traders are nervous. They are hedging around not just today but last week. That is why we had bond selloff last week. The yield curve steepen spirit we had stocks down. The nasdaq 100 down for the first time in five weeks. Todays trading action is a continuation of what we did have last week, and it is interesting. Another piece you and i were talking about last friday was t