We welcome all of you to an onraordinary friday morning Bloomberg Radio and Bloomberg Television. It is jobs day. We will look at the state of this pandemic economy at 8 30. But we will also begin to see substantial count and returns from these key states of georgia and pennsylvania. Jonathan really tight races in places like georgia and nevada, tightening in arizona and pennsylvania. That is the focus for market participants. I would go one step further. Also a focus on the senate. A reporter a little while ago said it wouldnt be a blue wave, it would be a blue mist if we got a 5050 in the senate with a Biden White House. That would really change the story. Then youve got to reshape the narrative of the past couple of days that have been driving this market. Tom we will get to the data here as we move along. Futures, 38. The dollar a little bit weaker. Gold up 50 over the last number of days. Michael holland scheduled to be with us on the market. I am still trying to find an entry poi
We will begin, though, this morning with of course stocks, futures indicate an additional testing of that 3220 level on the s p. Were also talking about the possibility, however remote it might seem, of a relief package coming out of congress,given some conversation, jim, between secretary mnuchin and Speaker Pelosi do you think there is a chance i know that they both care passionately about Small Business if you look at the testimony yesterday by secretary mnuchin, he mentioned restaurants a couple of times. Thats where the yelp numbers that we get, yelp yikes is our vc, where the real damage s youre starting to talk about 50 of the bars and nightlife being closed in this country, thats way too big and i think that the secretary is really alluding to that david, do i think there will be a deal i think there is a sense that both sides feel a deal is bad for them, in other words, if they give if theres a stalemate, they will somehow do better at the election i dont think thats true, but
Pound is down today, and the ruble is under pressure. Angela merkel, the german chancellor, appears to be leaking nord stream 2 with the poisoning of alexey navalny. Some suggesting that maybe we could see that project halted or not used, but currently the link between the two providing some consternation in moscow. The u. K. Is preparing for brexit talks to fail and planning new legislation to potentially override parts of the Withdrawal Agreement, as the u. K. Foreign secretary dominic raab calls for a moment of reckoning. It is a week up call for the eu side. Weve got to a position where there are only two points really holding us back, but we cant accept that the eu will control our laws. That is the reason we are leaving. No other country goes into trade organizations into trade negotiations on that basis. Guy is Boris Johnson now basically signaling that he is prepared to accept a no deal brexit . Hes basically sent out on emailed today saying there needs to be in agreement our e
Tom cotton on his calls to hold china accountable as well as his controversial New York Times op ed calling for a military response to the protests. Tim scott and trey gowdy on how to put society back together again, all this as senator Lindsey Graham interviews his first witness this past week on the origins of the investigation into a sitting president. Hell have breaking news on who his committee will subpoena next. All this right now as we look ahead to sunday morning futures. Maria the u. S. Economy looks to be on the rebound after a better than expected may jobs report on friday. The dow industrials jumping some 800 points on friday, joining me right now to assess where we are is the white house trade advisor, peter navarro. Always a pleasure to see you. Thank you for being here. Good morning. Beautiful day here in washington. Maria we were all expecting another decline in jobs, loss in jobs in the month of may. We had two andahalf million jobs created. Has the recovery begun, pe
The last halfhour or so. The morning started out on a grim note with initial jobless claims very close to 3 million once again. Of smallerixth week jobless claims, but nevertheless , at those rates, it is still pretty dire. The dollar index is stronger today. Weaker euro and weaker sterling, too. We continue to see gains in the oil patch. 37, and brent crude trading above 30 a barrel. Governor Andrew Bailey also seeing the bank of england is not currently considering lowering Interest Rates below zero. His comments coming a day after fed chair Jerome Powell pushed back against the idea. Lets get to our guest, patrick chiefong, Plurimi Wealth investment officer. Expected. Ire as we maybe u. K. Data wasnt quite as bad as we were looking for, but still a contraction of nearly 1. 6 . Of 5. 6 . Do the Central Banks need to start considering negative rates . Patrick i think it is a bit of a mixed bag. I dont think the benefits of negative rates are that compelling at this point. If we see it