The coming days will be pivotal in reaching a trade deal. Two of the most senior officials from the Brexit Campaign left Boris Johnsons inner circle last week. The chief negotiator says he will not be changing his position. Hurricane iota will be slamming into Central America today as the strongest hurricane of the year. Now a category five storm, it will bring torrential rain and catastrophic wind to an area still reeling from a storm two weeks ago. Global news 24 hours a day, onair, and on quicktake by bloomberg, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. Im Mark Crumpton. This is bloomberg. Vonnie it is 1 00 p. M. In new york, 6 00 p. M. In london, and 2 00 a. M. In hong kong. Im vonnie quinn. Welcome to bloomberg markets. Here are the top stories we are following on the bloomberg and from around the world. U. S. Equities in the green after that positive news on a covid19 vaccine, sending shares tied to an economic reopening higher. Stayathome stocks l
Down today. We will speak with an analyst on this later on. What else . We have claims data today. Pretty stable, which is concerning coming to be brutally honest, so we will talk about that later on. We will discuss what is happening with eugene scalia, u. S. Labor secretary. And we will talk about the people being affected by all this. Alix we cannot get into that without setting the stage for where our markets are. David kelly is joining us. David, you say there is another likelihood of a sizable correction, so when we get the headlines today like the florida covid19 cases are rising at 4. 6 , but new york is going into phase three, and texas is a stopping elective surgeries. How do we look at that . David what is clear is we have seen the northeast really dealt with the program very painfully, but they have pushed the cases down. And provided they maintain their behavior, which when you go around new york people are wearing their masks and people are being careful if you maintain t
But the bond proxies are back and they are big, the car sector an similar stories like that are selling off. German tenyear yields catching more of a bid. Something i want to highlight this afternoon is we are seeing emergingmarket currencies being sold off, including the russian ruble and the south korean south american rant. South african rand. For a bloomberg scoop, sources saying Chinese Stateowned entities are in talks to invest 5 billion to 10 billion in aramcos ipo. This comes as saudi arabia seeks commitment from friendlier governments to shore up the sale. We are joined now by our bloomberg reporter. How much is this impacting u. S. Markets and analyst today who might be interested in the ongoing deal . We knew this was going to get attention from a lot of the big sovereign wealth funds, they were going to be the folks to put their money behind it. This is a huge deal for china. Most people want to wait to see what kind of dividends saudi aramco is going to have. They have com
supply to finland the latest escalation of an energy payments row with the west. russia s gas giant gazprom confirmed it had completely halted exports to finland at 0a:00 gmt on saturday. finland says there will be no disruption to customers. today the 28th world gas conference starts in daegu, with 12,000 participants from 90 countries descending on the energy city of south korea. topics on the table for discussion will no doubt focus on russia and europe s energy supply or lack of it. meanwhile, the uk is apparently experiencing a gas glut, with surplus supplies of natural gas pouring into britain s re gasification terminals. the glut has squashed gas prices on the spot market in britain, but will this lead to prices dropping for consumers? joining me now is michael stoppard, global gas strategy lead, s&p global. read gasification terminals, where they store the gas until it is needed, if those are full, there is a glutton the supply of gas, will people watching at home
Christian all brick ulbrich joins in just a bit. I am Katie Garfield in new york. Welcome to bloomberg markets. We have a green start to the week with the s p 500 up about. 6 . If you take a look at the nasdaq 100, we are talking about. 6 . We have another big week of earnings coming up, so we will continue to watch these lines. Meanwhile, on the bond market it is a quite start to the week, the 10 year yield unchanged following a big rally. We are sitting at about 4. 5 percent. One stock we are keeping an eye on is apple after Warren Buffett praised the tech giant over the weekend. He said apple is better than American Express and cocacola. Despite that praise, buffett revealed he cut his stake in the tech giant. He said a lot of things about several different companies. Sonali he did. When we come to apple, that was one of the biggest headlines because he did praise apple despite trimming his stake. He hinted at tax implications. If you are facing a 21 tax rate, he says your tax rate