Milestone, u. S. Deaths topped a new milestone as new york city closes schools again. Germanys finance minister tells bloomberg taming the virus is critical. E. U. Leaders will attend make a veto that threatens from hungary and poland. France says nations could be cut out of the rescue plan all together. Chinasy pledge, president xi jinping says the nation wont engage in decoupling, saying its policy of opening up wont waver. It comes after the u. S. And the u. K. Called for beijing to honor its commitments on hong kong, citing serious concern. Its just gone 6 00 a. M. In london, 7 00 a. M. In germany. Bad news coming, 11,000 jobs to be cut from the business. Of justlow the estimate over 30 billion. No room for a dividend this year. The banks dividend has been restrained. You think about it, this is a disastrous year for steel. The future is unclear. We are grappling with rolling lockdowns and interruptions around the world. Recovering, but the reality of europe and the United States i
The top of joe bidens agenda. His relations with beijing may differ in tone from the president but perhaps not in substance. The best the dollar extends its decline. Over the future of the u. S. Administration. Rise inie and the kiwi early asia trading. We are seeing those commodities and currencies benefit. Asia is waking up and getting the for the first reaction to president elect joe biden. The nikkei 225 to the upside by 0. 3 . These watching some of clean energy as well as infrastructure related stocks here in australia and new zealand. Joe biden preparing to take office as the 46 president of the United States. He is moving forward as president elect launching his transition ever and preparing a plan to tackle the coronavirus however, President Trump still refusing to concede while weighing more legal challenges. Mr. Biden the people of this nation have spoken. They are delivered as a clear and convincing victory. We the people. I pledge to be a president who seeks not to divide
Recovery will be slower without additional stimulus, but more aid may require cooperation between democrats and republicans. Mindaltering drugs, is it time to invest in pot stocks . Ben levisohn, carlton english and reshma. Ben, voters are always half unhappy, half happy after an election, but investors were clearly gleeful, and the market was up 7. 5 , almost 7. 5 , its best postelection return since 1932. Break it down for us. Yeah. I mean, its a new narrative going around the market now. Before the election it was all about the blue wave and how you were going to get this massive stimulus thats going to drive the market. Now its about glued lock, that were not gridlock, were not going to get tax increases, massive spending, but without the tax increases, everythings going to be okay. Were basically going to have status quo with some small changes around the edges, and you could even get lucky e and see a little cooperation between biden and mcconnell who knew each other from years i
Street audience. It is really important to look at the levels here and not the abrupt changes day after day. Moments ago, s p futures 3500. Dow level, 29,000 plus. Nasdaq 100 level, 12,000. That is a market that is adjusting. Jonathan the nasdaq up 9 since election day. Three days, nasdaq futures up 9 . Can you make sense of some of this price action . Tom absolutely not. Jonathan seeing the equity market up this much is pretty impressive. Tom we can pontificate about it. Lisa will have all of the answers about why we are moving up. Just in the last hour, yields come in. Of all of the political debate this morning, the one little tea leaf was in georgia. Mr. Biden narrows the gap with 96 counted. Tom you mentioned jonathan you mentioned the bond market. The company continues. Lisa if you want a neat narrative, you can but fun of me and tell me it is wrong, and it probably is, but i think the narrative of the day is that the fed its going to have to provide more support to the economy b
Chairman Jerome Powell saws recovery will be slower without additional stimulus, but more aid may require cooperation between democrats and republicans. Mindaltering drugs, is it time to invest in pot stocks . Ben levisohn, carlton english and reshma. Ben, voters are always half unhappy, half happy after an election, but investors were clearly gleeful, and the market was up 7. 5 , almost 7. 5 , its best postelection return since 1932. Break it down for us. Yeah. I mean, its a new narrative going around the market now. Before the election it was all about the blue wave and how you were going to get this massive stimulus thats going to drive the market. Now its about glued lock, that were not gridlock, were not going to get tax increases, massive spending, but without the tax increases, everythings going to be okay. Were basically going to have status quo with some small changes around the edges, and you could even get lucky e and see a little cooperation between biden and mcconnell who