The coming days will be pivotal in reaching a trade deal. Two of the most senior officials from the Brexit Campaign left Boris Johnsons inner circle last week. The chief negotiator says he will not be changing his position. Hurricane iota will be slamming into Central America today as the strongest hurricane of the year. Now a category five storm, it will bring torrential rain and catastrophic wind to an area still reeling from a storm two weeks ago. 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 2 00 a. M. In hong kong. Im vonnie quinn. Welcome to bloomberg markets. Here are the top stories we are following on the bloomberg and from around the world. U. S. Equities in the green after that positive news on a covid19 vaccine, sending shares tied to an economic reopening higher. Stayathome stocks l
Treatment for covid19. He removed his mask before giving a thumbs up to the cameras. Global stocks see modest gains. His return comes as the cdc says coronavirus can spread indoors, in the air, beyond six feet. 34 u. S. States see more virus cases than a month ago. And the chicago feds Charlie Evans tells bloomberg he would welcome 2. 5 inflation. Jay powell and Christine Lagarde speak today. Annmarie good morning. Just gone 6 00 a. M. In the city of london. There is a lot to really digest with what happened overnight in d. C. The president of the United States spent 72 hours at walter reed hospital. He returned to the white house, a quite dramatic return. He walked up to the balcony of the white house, removed his mask, flashed a thumbs up, and saluting to the cameras. It showed a defiance of the virus, to Public Health measures. He is eager, you sell what he said at the top of the hour, to project strength in the face of the virus, but it has killed more than 200,000 americans. Be th
Their q1 a couple of political stories out there on the market and this is what we are looking at for european stocks. At the banks or some of the industries sustaining the surging afterwards shareholder raises its stake. The other thing im looking at sentiment bolstered by enemy. It expects business to improve as far as restaurants as bars and restaurants reopen after lockdown. According to the new york just, President Trump paid 750 in income tax in the 2016 and 2017. That is due to reporting losses of millions of dollars from his golf courses. According to his returns, he paid no income tax intent of the past 15 years. The paper says he has hundreds of millions of debt in the next few years. The president says the report is fake news. President trump has nominated judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. She will be his third appointment to the bench, cementing its shift to the right for a generation. She is known to be a devout catholic and has defined abortion is always immor
1. 1859. Bond markets also turned around. Higher in moving terms of the yield lower in terms of price. That is reflecting what is happening on the bond market as well and by the equity market. Alix, things are turning around a little bit here. Slightlyut to be a more bumpy end of the week than anticipated. Alix watching quadruple witching as me head to the close here in the u. S. The London Stock Exchange is in talks to sell boris teliana to euronext and two institutions. Joining us now from paris is the ceo of euronext, stephane boujnah. We have learned and there were other bids higher than yours but won. Can you give me insight about how that deal came about, and why . I dont know the levels of the bids, and i dont have information on the computing bids. What i know is that the board of directions decided to enter two different positions with us following the process which was run efficiently. Finalizew trying to the signing of this transaction as soon as practical. An options proces
Happened. The bears breathe a sigh of relief. But is it all over as soon as it started . The cash trade is just an hour away so lets see if this has legs. Here are your top headlines. With thes a big blow nasdaq down almost 5 . The s p severs it steepest drop since june. And suffers its deepest drop since june. Bill ackman tells market jitters the National Bank to challenge santander. So, a lot going on today, as well as german factory orders. They are now out. Ofth over month, the gain 2. 8 not nearly as much as a survey, which was 5 . Over the prior number, which was 27. 9 . Yearoveryear, its a drop of 7. 3 , which is worse than the survey drop of 6. 0 . And a slight improvement from 11. 3 on the prior numbers. So during factory orders german factory orders not shining light on this. Just under an hour away from the start of cash equity trading. Futures are down in europe. And remember, yesterday we were looking at gains on the dax of more than 1 . Then we closed losses of more than