Gdp to be negative this the First Quarter of 2021. It is friday before a holiday week 59 minutes left in the session down a quarter of a percent on the s p 500. No gobbledy gook coming up for the next two hours here either. Coming up on this show, instead we are going to dive into the latest on the coronavirus and pfizers push to get emergency use authorization for its vaccine with the fda commissioner and pfizer board member dr. Scott gottlieb. Plus, new york city shutting st. Louis down the head of the Teachers Union in new york will be here to weigh in. Lets check on futures mike santoli tracking the margaret as always meg tirrell with the latest on pfizers vaccine and bertha comes has the latest on what President Trump just announced. Mike santoli, lets start with you. Not disturbed so far by the news last night about the treasury pulling the funds from the fed. If you look at the pattern here, it is about a flat week as well. Trading just below the highs we hit on monday. Before t
Ago where i was on 101st street in new york and i counted seven ambulances, two of them working very quickly with very sick patients. Its not new york, washington, or boston. Its across the nation. I use this word very selectively. It is grim this morning in the sunbelt of america. Francine it certainly is when you look at the numbers. We will get to our number. We spent a lot of time looking at the number of people infected by one person. Lets get to the bloomberg first word news. Mentioned, some of the biggest states seeing a jump in Coronavirus Infections and that has thrown reopenings into disarray. Cases surging in texas, florida, and arizona. California broke a record for new cases. County, florida has become the latest jurisdiction to make Wearing Masks mandatory. Borders are open again the European Union may keep americans out. They are discussing lifting the ban on nonessential travel at the beginning of next week. Hispoint being looked at u. S. Citizens not being allowed into
And nasdaq. Strong market gains for the Bluechip Companies. Just using two of them as an example, we have apple up three dollars, microsoft up at 146. They have been higher than that earlier. Microsoft up earlier. Did they hit bottom this week . A lot of people have been buying them. Were asking that question. I hope a bottom for a lot of companies. Oil moving up to 25. Barrel. Its down 15 cents now. The government is buying oil but the petroleum written for the petroleum reserve. Whats he going to do about the russian and saudi attack on american drillers. We will ask that question to him. Gas prices tumbling. The National Averages 2. 17 a gallon falling about two cents a day. In oklahoma the averages a dollar 80. In california its 3. 25. According to gas buddy we will be down to a National Average of well under two dollars very soon. Lets get to the spreading virus. We will show you Street Scenes from around the world. Same story all over. Ghost towns, empty streets. Economists at a
December 15 for tariffs. A lot of focus is on the next 48 hours, we have an important poll for u. K. Elections that happen on thursday. Two days of campaigning left her leaders and two days of possible market movement. Conservatives have a clear majority over the labour party he read the japanese 10 year yield did touch 0 . Coming up on bloomberg surveillance, do not miss our exclusive information with Philipp Hildebrand from blackrock. Days ahead of the u. K. Election, Health Service funding , that brought an awkward encounter for Boris Johnson and a reporter. The Prime Minister confronted with a picture of a sick child forced to sleep on the floor of a hospital because of a bed shortage. Johnsons conservatives are 12 points ahead of the opposition labor party. The saudi arabia is embarking on three years of spending cuts as the Government Faces a widening deficit. A Fiscal Program marking a shift away from the stimulus helped power nonoil Economic Growth with opec output a drag on ex
Points, too. The nasdaq, 2. 7 from its high. It will open today again, on the upside maybe 30 points. New trade figures suggest chinas hurting badly from the trade fight and weekend disturbances in hong kong suggests xi jinping still has a problem in his backyard. All of that suggests President Trump has a strong hand to play in the china trade fight. Quick look at Interest Rates. Another positive for stocks, maybe. The yield on treasuries no longer inverted and rates have at least for now stopped their plunge. Look at that. The tenyear almost at 1. 60. Troubling developments for the vaping business. The cdc now reports five deaths related to vaping, and its recommending that people stop doing it while they investigate the safety. Heres the question. Regardless of what you put into a vaping device, does the act of putting any vapor into your lungs cause harm . Big deal for the vaping business. Weve got news on at t, news on apple, amazon is hiring big, and what would you do if you woke