Because the s p 500 is down a little bit more than it had been , down poured 4 . Earlier it had been down. 1 . Perhaps a reason for caution overall to think maybe the difficulties around the nearterm may continue to move ahead. If we look at havens on the week, we have the yen climate against the dollar and bonds higher. Some reason for caution, but small moves. David one piece of news overnight. Late yesterday we heard Steven Mnuchin had sent a letter to his friend jay powell saying please give us back the money we gave you for the emergency Lending Programs. He probably did not like jay powell do not like that much. Did the markets like that . Abigail we have not seen much of reaction. Bonds are lower which means yields are higher. What is interesting is we do have a reaction for the financials. The financials typically would climb on yields going higher, but they are not. There i be uncertainty around this bat and what it means. The lifeblood of this rally coming out of the march lo
Constitutionally. Barrett is expected to cast herself as a judge committed to keeping her personal views out of rulings. Shecrats are concerned that will rule against abortion rights if she is confirmed as expected. Pope francis met with a cardinal accused of child sex abuse in australia. He became the most senior catholic official to be convicted of child sex abuse. In prison13 months before australians high court acquitted him in april 2020 of charges involving two choirboys in the late 1990s. Global news 24 hours a day on air and on bloomberg quicktake, 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. Im vonnie quinn. Welcome to bloomberg markets. Here are the top stories we are following. U. S. Equities start the week in rally mode. The s p up nearly 2 now. Hooper with christina about all of this optimism. Thats study showing proportions of americans dying from coronavirus is the high
Good morning to you wherever you are. Im Frank Holland in for Brian Sullivan lets get right to the markets and take a look at the stock futures this morning its been a wild week on wal ve street today it looks like the dow could open down as much as 150 points amid new concerns over covid19 but the nasdaq, its run keeps on going. Leading to another new record high its 26 for the year on pace for the third weekly gain in three weeks. Now to the global markets. Karen tso. Shes in our london newsroom with more on that. Good morning. It has been a weak finish for those asian markets today. Negative news coming out of hong kong with fresh coronavirus cases. 38 new cases local transmission and decided to close schools again from next week that throws cold water on these markets. And the rest of the markets to be very much focused on the bull run for the Chinese Market take a look at this. A lot of investors piling into chinese stocks this week and that has taken them to the highest level in
Here believe it or not, maybe your stat of the day, 164 of the s p 500 are actually higher now year over year for all the market damage over the past year. A good chunk of the market still remains higher we have a great Investment Committee lined up for you again today. That would be guy adami, and karen finerman, who will join us in a bit let us begin the show by focusing on four big mac row calls today from well known firms, all kind of saying the same thing are you ready, folks lets walk you through it, number one, goldman sachss, the market urn likely to make new lows morgan stanley, pull backs should be bought jpmorgan chase, were going to hit all time highs in the market next year. Piper stanley being more direct. The bear market has concluded. There you go guy adami, you heard that, you have four calls all saying the same thing, its not taken away from main street and the human toll we understand we are focused on the markets. Do you agree with those pretty optimistic views no,
Brent at a threemonth high, gold at 15. 12. The year end rally, the s p biggest yearly return in seven and nearing its best gains in more than 20 years. Plus ecommerce sales hitting a record, amazon saying billions of items ordered world wide. Boeing still on watch, new documents revealing whats being called quote very disturbing revelations. As 2019 heads into the home stretch, all three major indies says are on track for a fourth straight month of gains. They have surged as last months selloff we remember december 26 when everything rallied 5 . We were bottoming that horrible Christmas Eve when we had first concerns about a tariff war increasing. Then we had the Federal Reserve raising rates on the 19th. That created a cascade, four down days in a row culminating in the down day on the 27th, on the 24th and turn around today. Meanwhile, the year, if you look at the percentage of up days, almost 54 , which is i think only the folks said only five years since 1928 have you had a more c