Disclosed his firm, what that thens for the stock, and a rough week for banks. Reports of suspicious transactions and backlash against wells fargo ceo, but there could be some positive factors ahead. My colleagues, ben levisohn, carlton english. Ben, im going to start with you. Weve been chatting this week about the market, and you kept on saying stocks are behaving in a weird way. Whats so unusual in. The week started pretty badly, fears about covid resurgence in europe that really knocked the market down. It built with the questions about economic stimulus and the likelihood that we wont get any, fears about the economy, about the election. And the market kept dropping, and it really looked like good news wasnt going to matter much. Nikes earnings were great, it didnt help the overall market. Darden, which owns the olive garden, it reinstated its dividend, this is a restaurant stock. But, again, that didnt have any big effect on the market. And even when california announced that it
Activist investor nelson pelts disclosed his firm, what that thens for the stock, and a rough week for banks. Reports of suspicious transactions and backlash against wells fargo ceo, but there could be some positive factors ahead. My colleagues, ben levisohn, carlton english. Ben, im going to start with you. Weve been chatting this week about the market, and you kept on saying stocks are behaving in a weird way. Whats so unusual in. The week started pretty badly, fears about covid resurgence in europe that really knocked the market down. It built with the questions about economic stimulus and the likelihood that we wont get any, fears about the economy, about the election. And the market kept dropping, and it really looked like good news wasnt going to matter much. Nikes earnings were great, it didnt help the overall market. Darden, which owns the olive garden, it reinstated its dividend, this is a restaurant stock. But, again, that didnt have any big effect on the market. And even whe
Lets get straight to steve liesman. Jay powell testimony before the House Services committee will note improvement in the economy saying Household Spending has recovered three quarters of the decline and say this is in part response to federal spending and higher Unemployment Benefits which is running down he said housing has rebounded and Business Investment showing signs of improvement but overall employment and Business Activity with well below the prepandemic levels an the out light is uncertain. He makes special mention of the feds main Street Lending program, a 600 billion program with a backstop from the troo z treasury hell be speaking tomorrow before the house financial Services Committee with treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin and this is required testimony about the cares act where they have to quarterly appear before congress and discuss progress with the lending programs. The terminology, highly uncertain, is that different from what the clair has used in the past. This is t
211,000 cases and 5400 deaths. It is Prime Minister Boris Johnson is facing a battle in the house of lords over his controversial plan to break International Law over brexit. Prime minister johnson has agreed to give the house of commons a veto over whether the government can exercise its proposed powers to override parts of the brexit agreement. He made a after meeting conservative mps who were threatening to rebel against him. The house of lords is expected to reject a bill by a large margin. Global news 24 hours a day, onair, and on quicktake by bloomberg, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. Im Mark Crumpton. This is bloomberg. Vonnie it is 1 00 p. M. In new york, 6 00 p. M. In london, and 1 00 a. M. In hong kong. Im vonnie quinn. Welcome to bloomberg markets. Here are the top stories from around the world we are following. Investors reacting to the feds signal it will leave rates near zero through at least 2023. Chairman powell striking a cauti
Cash trade. Here are your top headlines from the bloomberg terminal. Trumpa on the defensive. The president stands by his handling of the coronavirus on day one of the Republican National convention. Says democrats are still blaming America First Nikki Haley Says democrats are still blaming America First. The chinese arrives in europe today. Demandsla merkel answers from russia after it was putin critict the was likely poisoned. We have figures crossing the wire right now. The German Economy shrank 9. 7 in the second quarter. The initial estimate was for a drop of 10 point 1 . This is a second look here, and so it looks like it is a little better than expected. Still, of course, a massive drop , the quarter over quarter figure. The yearoveryear figure is a drop of 11. 3 , so a big drop in the german gdp. That the bloomberg economists expect a rebound in the second half, and of fullyear drop of about 6 for 2020. Lets take a look at what futures are telling us after the new record highs