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Good morning, everyone. Welcome to bloomberg surveillance. I am Francine Lacqua here in london. A lot going on, because we have Christine Lagarde testifying in parliament. We will bring you anything that comes out of it. The markets focusing on infections rising around the world. They are focusing around the fact that we could see a stimulus. Lets get to the markets. I dont know if we have them. If we do, it could be great, and it would be a good time to look at them. Overall,ok at stocks they are falling along u. S. Futures, tougher restrictions, progress toward a vaccine. We have plenty more of course on that. Astrazeneca at rising amidst positive news on its coronavirus vaccine. We are hearing from Christine Lagarde. We had an exclusive conversation days ago. The focus is on the need for a stimulus. The focus i ....
Interesting to see the 2021 look forwards. All we have is good conversation and a look at the tea leaves. Lisa is going to talk about jobless claims and all the rest of it, but i want to look at the granularity. Is a pandemic ago stock, and there is the reality which i believe you mentioned yesterday. I cant remember which property you mentioned it on. You know what . Retail is really struggling. Jonathan this is the story. A stock like macys has done pretty well over the past week, but that is the difference between the ketchup trade the catchup trade and a durable trade. I think that is the story for hours. T couple of we got to get through the next couple of months. Tom i mean, it is a comedy. But this is not funny. In south australia, you can now not walk your dog because of pandemic fears. Talk ofes of the macro the Bloomberg NewEconomy Forum and the realities that lisa h ....
Look at the really disinflationary dampening you are seeing in the bond market. I dont want to make a big deal about it, but yield gives way to lower yield. Im looking at fiveyear, fiveyear breakevens, and there is a little bit of an ebb, an increase in the disinflationary tendency. That claimsort number at 8 30. Francine a really important one, and we have some great interviews coming up from the Bloomberg NewEconomy Forum focusing on health today. A conversation also with bill gates. Lets get to first word news in new york city with ritika gupta. Ritika joe biden warns that the delay in starting the president ial transition could set bet the effort to distribute the coronavirus vaccine. Could setback the effort to disturb the coronavirus fencing. Trump thent Trump Administration is being urged to begin working wit ....
Come whichrevious also been revised higher. There was some expedition that as prices come up because of the fact you can get cheap lending at the moment or cheap borrowing , you would expect that at some have, that would start to an impact on a month by month basis. Nevertheless, the market was looking for this month on month number two actually slow, and that hasnt happened, which is really interesting and the light of what we are starting to see in the employment market. We saw initial jobless claims out a little bit earlier on. Youre starting to see the negative data could begin from the employment side of the economy, starting to come in a little softer. Bloombergs mike mckee joining us now with the details of that. Michael at one point on the housing numbers, existing home sales or closings, so these contracts were signed a couple of months ago when things were a little better in the economy, and we got low mortgage rates, so the one thing the fed has been able to do is stimulate ....
In one of the Fastest Growing jobs categories, we created a certification program. You can earn one of these certificates and build a consortium of Companies Including walmart, bank of america, intel, hulu, and others, so that once you earn this, it is basically a light degree. For us, one of the very important things is each of us has a responsibly to address these issues in society. I think our view is that if we come together and work cross through and ideally private partnerships, we can magnify the impact we have. You will continue to see more of our efforts there. Ian you heard kristalina say we need to g20 to not just do no harm, but they need to coordinate. You are saying the same thing for the private sector. Are you finding that that challenge is more of a lift, both within your sector, companies that have historically been very tough competitors, as well as a ....