And were awaiting comments on president elect jooe biden. And later, the biontech ceo will be here to discuss their groundbreaking results showing their vaccine with pfizer is more than 90 effective. Thanks, welcome once again to power lunch. I am john fort check out some of the tech heavyweights Apple Holding up after announcing its own line of chips for computers and names like amazon, facebook, microsoft all under pressure at this hour. And on the flip side, take a look at whats leading gains in the dow. Its walgreens up 8 , boeing up 5 for more on the divided market, lets go over to john pisani you hit it right. It is essentially out of growth and the rally in cyclicals value, not always the same thing but cyclicals and values are continuing. John mentioned walgreens theyre going to be an administrator of the covid shot. Walgreens and cvs moving thats a very specific story by bu si but cyclicals Like Aerospace boeing has been a huge mover in the last few days, 3m, oil stock is anot
A simulcast on bloomberg radio, bloomberg television. We welcome all of you in europe and the challenges there, and we will get to you in a moment, and all of you across this nation. It has been week after week at an 800,000 level, even up towards one million a month ago, and the news slow is simply extraordinary. Jon, you have been way out front on the distinction between the virus and pandemic on the continent of europe over to the united kingdom, and the difference with the United States. How urgent is it for mr. Macron, chancellor merkel, and Prime Minister johnson . Jonathan becoming more difficult, and the problem they are having is localizing the effort. Many people in parts of the country that are facing tougher restrictions are asking, what about everyone else . That is the story in the u. K. As london gets upgraded to a new tier and faces tougher restrictions. As we get deeper into the winter, it is not just about the caseload. I think they are much more keen to emphasize and
First, todays show is brought to you by the letter b thats because bond yields, bullion, big cap tech. Fed chair Jerome Powell gears up for a high stakes speech from jackson hole summit. With bullion up, big tech up, what is up with the market as we gear up for powell, guy . I like to hear you say bullion. I feel like im going to have soup or go back to doing what i used to do back in the day its wonderful you can do an entire show saying that word. Whats up . Risk assets are continuing to go higher based on we talked about this a couple days ago, the fact they said they will be a historic speech for the fed in the way they view inflation, the way they measure inflation and thats why the market took off and i think thats why you saw it probably move today into that speech the things you didnt mention and forget it but they didnt rhyme with b or start with b the russell was down today and the vix closed north of 23 those are two very interesting things to take into consideration along w
Each year. We are thrilled francine could join us on the simulcast because we actually got lucky with what has happened with the scheduling. In france, with some shockingly weak Economic Data. Francine this is pmi. What a delight to be spending four or five hours together. I think they are trying to see who breaks first. My money, i dont know if it is on me are you, actually. We will see after the second hour of the simulcast. France coming out with pmis that were pretty terrible, and that has taken the market by surprise in europe. There was that and germany. Both leaders saying they are hoping not to go into full lockdown again. I know you are also watching the u. S. Postmaster general testifying to the senate. It has really captured the. Magination of europeans tom weve got to postmaster general testifying today, and the huge backstory is do they fold the post Office System challenges into further stimulus. Jeanne zaino made it very clear it is to mr. Trumps benefit to have that dea
Surged as lead by amazon well have more on that in a minute jim cramer said it feels insane. Im wrong to say that at the moment u. S. Equity futures at this hour show you how it stands. Well have another day in the green. Dow up 230 points. S p 500 up we should show you treasury yields now at. 0617. All i do is think about my 10year mortgage i dont have a 10year you have a 30year, which you regret i wish i had a fiveyear arm. You could still have a fiveyear arm. You are giving it to the man you are. Giving it to the suits. We are seeing a bit for bonds and equity even higher a reach for safety even though we have a risk on. The eu has reached a breakthrough deal agreeing to 857 billion Recovery Fund it will raise money by selling bonds collectively disbursed to the maybe countries hit the hardest that do not have to be repaid many countries including germany had long opposed also agreed to eu budget of 1 trillion beginning next year brining the total spending agreement upwards of 2 tri