Even pharma is down. One thing you have pointed out is the volume and how it has picked up as we sold off today and extended yesterdays weakness as well. Yesterday volume had dried out and people were sitting and waiting. You are seeing a pickup in activities this week. What do you think that signals . Brent i will go back to my opening comments from the standpoint of people who are shortterm market participants, thinking of the next couple of weeks what is volatile given the reopening has started and we will get realtime feedback of how that goes. There will be spots where it will not go as well. If you have those setbacks in those areas, that would be a nearterm market detractor. We will find ways to deal with this. Treatment,ccine or these have become political statements, but i do think america will find a way. That is what capitalism and democracy does. It adapts to problems historically. We have this big blanket of the economy which was a thing we needed to do and now we are find
And thats when the Trading Halted it slowed some of the panic selling, the machine selling and at the end of the day, still down more than that for the dow futures for the dow a decline of more than 2,000 points. Youre looking at a big bounceback but only half of the declines from yesterday. Up by 1100 . It found some support and then it was down 5 and then it closed about where it was indicated to open. Right. But we kept saying what if the garden variety correction is 12 we got a pandemic whats a decent where do we got an additional 18 or 19 yesterday. Well, in total. Down down 18 or 19. Yeah. If it goes from here up 1,000 today youll once again be the call of the bottom you will be ill take it. I hope im the call of the bottom. I hope you are too. But its just consensus. Just the feeling that everyone has at the same time that you express. Thats all it is thats many times that is the indicator. Do you think do you think we have more to go . Well, i understand the focus on the equity
Notice, blaming the stand off over the debt ceiling which was ultimately lifted any last minute bipartisan deal. The feud was cited by fitch is one of the reasons for the downgrade. Make no mistake, this is a major black eye for america. The us treasury, essentially government ious are seen as the bedrock of the Global Financial system. Fitch is essentially pointing out there is an erosion of trust in american leadership. Given the death and perceived safety of us treasuries, this downgrade is not likely to change its role in the financial system. Likely to change its role in the financialsystem. It likely to change its role in the financial system. It could, likely to change its role in the financialsystem. It could, however, make it potentially harder and more expensive for the government to borrow in the future. Right now the Us Government owes 30 trillion in debt. Fitch is highlighting that the Us Government has too much debt doesnt have a way to bring it down. And at washington at
Lands to keep you cave rules aligned with the eu. In early is down trade. Is there more to come . We will talk about that with the mliv team. Wrangling over that u. S. To limit will continue today. The next big risk from the u. S. We are less than half an hour away from the start of european trading. Lets take a look at futures. They are deep in the red. You can see here the percent missed price for dax Index Futures is down more than 1 . Indications that we have a weak open in frankfurt not quite as half percent. You can see the middle range if 50. Look at the euro stoxx investors continue to buy treasuries in the u. S. Pushing the yield down, falling five or six basis points in the last couple of days. Were looking at 2. 33 . Now down seven basis points over the last three days. Guy 28 minutes to go until the start of european trading. Lets take a look at what asian trading delivered overnight. Japan down and korea continuing to be hit and hit hard, down 1. 42 . So my conductor stock
Happening now, donald trump is casting his vote. He is voting at Public School 59 in manhattan on the east side of manhattan. , he is casting his vote, he said he would be voting for donald trump. [applause] [laughter]. Mark 30 minutes away from the close, this is gmm go, global macro movers. Yesterday, we rose for the first day, these are the currency fees rising and falling against the dollar with the pound slightly up. Bond yields and commodities today, a caution ahead of the outcome of the election and a busy day for earnings. It announced plan to shut down 30 Clothing Stores in the u. K. And changing to food only outlets, their ceo wind in the Expansion Efforts of his predecessors desperate assessor, the retailer will shut 53 stores outside the u. K. And begin consultations with over 2000 workers, it retreats from 10 countries including china and belgium. It is cutting is margin outlook for the year underlying pretax profit fell a less than estimated 19 with shares getting hammere