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Good morning on bloomberg radio. Good morning on bloomberg television. It is extraordinary to be the beginning on global wall street of the holiday season, and i can never i can never think, even the tragedy of 9 11, i cant imagine how much of a tragedy this holiday will be with the pandemic. Jonathan the numbers are terrible. We talked about it an hour ago. We started this month with daily infections in and around 80,000. That has doubled in 11 days. If Health Care Capacity gets tested, they will start to introduce more restrictions. Heres the critical issue. Who is going to step in . Where the fiscal policy maker . Bridgewaterf says we have a mismatch between the length of the pandemic and the willingness of fiscal policy makers to do something in equal length. Tom it has widened out, without question. What is so important here is to gauge the pandemic, and we are all doing that on a local basis. You and i, we hear more si ....
Andrew is out, so i have to find a way to annoy you what you asked for. Your birthday is tomorrow, right . Tomorrow, not today tomorrow. Its friday. Everybody deserves to be embarrassed. Well do it anyway this is the last day youll be 19 23. Exactly. Anyway, lets check out the futures this morning as joe mentioned, youll see the dow down slightly by about 26 points s p down by four s p off by eight getting ready to wrap up another week the dow up by 2. 5 over the last four days. S p is higher. On track for a Third Straight positive week. A little different story for the nasdaq tech has been on an incredible run. Many of those names have pulled back not by a lot nasdaq down by 1. 4 this week. If you are watching it, the index is up nearly 17 for the year thats about 58 above the march 23 low and above the march intradate high we hit on monday. We are continuing to watch that. The 10year is the one we watch so closely it looks like ....
And its been a busy few days for the likes of apple, emirates and blackrock. Well be taking stock with our business guru theo leggett. Today we want to know, why are millennials not playing golf . The popularity of the sport is falling all around the world. Is it to expensive or does it just take too long . Let us know. Just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. Hello and welcome to business live. The government running the worlds biggest economy is staring a shutdown in the eyes. Thats what will happen if the United States congress doesnt agree a budget deal by the end of friday. Late on thursday, the house of representatives passed a short term bill to fund the government until february 16th but getting it through the senate is proving much more difficult. One major Sticking Point is the fate of 800,000 so called dreamers people who came to the us illegally as children and face the pr ....
We have a lot of news for you. We need to look at the debate over the u. S. First things first. Lets quickly get onto your market check. This is what i am seeing overall. Losing somes momentum as investors try to digest recent gains spurred by the prospect of tax cuts in the u. S. , but also optimism for global growth. I am looking at oil over in texas. West texas crude sledding to 50 a barrel. Im also looking at gold. The dollar remains higher against most of its major counterparts. Im also look at what is happening in the topix in japan, the highest in two years. Nejra the white house has ruled out talks with north korea over the nuclear arsenal. Spokespeople told reporters that now is not the time to talk, adding that the u. S. Is interested only in discussions threeing freeing american citizens being held in the onion. Pyongyang. The the Justice Minister said the country would use all the tools at its disposal, including if ....