Good morning on Bloomberg Radio, good morning on bloomberg television. Too much to talk about. You hear it within those voices, that maybe it is the morning after, and the vaccine is really not out there. Now we get into a churn of the immediate news. Jonathan it is a tugofwar between the forward outlook looking better and the nearterm outlook looking worse. A real divergence between the two. How policymakers navigate the former will allow markets to keep the help about the latter. That is the hope for the market. First half of the week about cyclical appetite. 500 downhalf, the s p 0. 6 and nasdaq futures just about positive on the day. Tom we are going to roll the data check here through because it is a mess this morning. I just saw a 93 print on dollar. That speaks to the resiliency of dollar. Weve had a weaker dollar, but we just seem to come back when the uncertainty reigns. Lisa that seems to be the theme with all of the uncertainty on the dollar. When there is a risk off feel, p
Last 10 years. That doesnt get it done. Guess what . Job cuts. Lisa how much more can Central Banks do to juice job growth at a time of zero Interest Rates . I find it fascinating that coke is offering voluntary separation programs with its employees, read, job cuts. More interestingly, yesterday salesforce. Com, one of the winners of this, and also job cuts. Tom cocacola managing the message as they always do. I dont know what their cute phrases for firings. Lisa separations. Tom exactly. That is just as phony as all of the rest of the. What is so important in that set of announcements across the bloomberg, as they make clear this is an International Strategy to right size on 86,000 employees right now, what we really need is a morning brief. Where you start . Lisa at 8 30, ancient history, which is u. S. July income and spending data for individuals. This is very backward looking based on how quickly the jobless benefits are running out and the changing scenario. We are also going to
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,
So much for these phrases that we love. Lisa we learned something yesterday. We take that pile of cash and split it into quarters and then you have more money. That is what we learn from our end has left. Apple and tesla. Tom we are doing a lot of strategies,equity fixed income strategies. Futures up, another equity lift to the markets. Lets get right to the morning brief. Lisa we are going to get the manufacturing data for the month of august at 10 00 a. M. Youre getting, u. S. July construction spending. Housing, red hot. We are likely to see more edification of that trend. Look at lumber prices tripling. U. S. August to get wards total vehicle sales. There may be cooling there. What does this mean about how much money people have to spend . Also today, President Trump visiting kenosha, wisconsin against the wishes of some local officials to discuss recent events that have transpired there, the death of one of his supporters, the rioting come of the protests the rioting, the protests
September. What is interesting, with the this on the screen, unconventional transaction of tesla. Additional 5an billion of shares geared toward perhaps the nonmainstream, the nonwall street crowd. Tesla is interesting because people using bubble with stocks. 2 tesla. Tom a recent secondary, even with moonshot on the markets. This will not be publicly offered. It will be Equity Distribution and distributed by banks as tesla chooses. Somewhat akin to what we saw with lesser successes. Here,l be widely studied the why of this transaction as well as the need for 5 million they are looking for. Here andarkably up big still elevated from where they were. What else are you looking at . Ina the story today markets, aside from tesla, is the dollar and the question of whether people are going to say this is the end of dollar supremacy or if this is just an indication of the low yield, the negative real yield and this idea of global trade. It is the two sides of the story. Tom not only yields do