Short two to three week circuit breaker. The northwest of england, the northwest, the northeast. The list is growing longer. Tom it is going to be interesting. To say the least, the lockdown in america is not a lot done but is very regional, as mentioned in the debate last night. The upper middle west really hit hard right now. In new york city with our news, ritika gupta. Ritika President Trump and joe biden covered a wide range of issues in last nights second debate. Amongst them, racism, corruption, and the manner in which the president handled the coronavirus. Trump no choice. We cannot lock ourselves up in a basement like joe does. He says we are learning to live with it. People are learning to die with it. He also said the vaccine would be coming in weeks. In that of a guarantee is that a guarantee . Pres. Trump it is not a guarantee, but by the end of the year. Mr. Biden anyone responsible for that many deaths should not remain as president of the United States of america. Ritik
Europe, up by 2. 5 . Todays number from barclays, very strong. We are going to hear from jes staley a little later in the program, our interview from early round. The pound bouncing around all over the place. We were into 1. 31. I think this is broad Dollar Strength rather than anything else. Take a look at the bloomberg dollar index. Alix rising covid cases impacting the economic data. Composite pmi for the euro area dropping below the 50 mark, which shows contraction. Meeting. O ecbs next joining us is john hardy, Saxo Bank Head of fx strategy. Does 1. 18 make sense for when you consider the rising uncertainty . John of course, the pressure should be on the downside given the covid resurgence. I think the general take on the could be that if we are seeing this democrat sweep scenario, we are positioning for a weaker dollar for some time in the future. Anything looks fair between 1. 17, and to me, this is the upper area of where we should be. We shouldnt be doing anything and eurodoll
States come and the jobs report two days away on thursday. To me, all of it is superseded by a global virus update. There is a little bit of good news, but it is overwhelmed by the bad news, and this news out of hong kong, i thought steve engle and anna edwards conversation with lord paren that lord patton was extorted very. Response that we could see from washington will do well worth watching. Lam just carrie finished a speech where she said freedom of the hong kong population it is unclear how china will interpret the new law that has been passed. Coming up in the next hour, our exclusive conversation with barclays executive jes staley. We will talk with him about loans and markets. Lets get to first word news with three. Ritika good morning, tom. The stage has been set for another confrontation between the u. S. And china, chinese lawmakers approving a National Security law for hong kong, punishing acts of terrorism and seclusion with Foreign Forces. The law will shape future of ho
Manus europe rallied. You are welcome. It is surveillance and i am manus cranny. Rallied. Ment, europe where up on the stoxx 600. It was text and telecoms that to the heavy lifting, nothing compared to your performance in asia. Record highs in asia. You are looking at levels that you havent seen since the 1990s in japan. Technology up 50 in asia. Europe, you are seeing this growth story. It is absolutely intact. The next question are you, European Equity markets, can you sustain the growth gains that we have had the euro at around 120 . Could the euro valuation unseat the story we see here . Week,llar index, what a what a year. This is the first yearly loss since 2012 for the dollar. You are seeing another push low. You get a 3 growth rate, you get a tax reform deal, you get three hikes from the Federal Reserve and still the dollar is lower. 2 lower from here at end of 2018. The most bearish view is the dollar will be down by another 5. 5 , not everybody is so pessimistic. On the upsid
Keene in london. Tom not the chaos of yesterday. Still overnight the news flows. Historic. Stephanie baker will join us. Weve got a lot of good, thoughtful op eds, including one by Mike Bloomberg that will give some color to the emotion going on in the states. Markets are quite. Quiet. Governor carney has very stable markets. Guy he does. There are rumors doing the rounds that maybe we have got not one but two people voting for a rate hike. Tom dissenters. Guy well talk about that. Lets look at the volatility numbers. This is what were looking at. 79, alook at brent, 50. Lift in oil. Euro, little bit weaker dollar strength. Guy weve got some numbers coming out from the e. U. Inflation forecast. 2018, the headline rate. The ecbs target is at or near 2 . Its raising is 2017 euro area gdp forecast saying risks are more balance. Mirroring what we are getting from mariota draghi. He was riled in the netherlands. Next meetingin the to get to a much more neutral set of language. Tom certainly