The uncertainty is out there in the election and particularly on pandemic news worldwide. Jon ferro, we are touching 50 on futures. On radio and tv, we will do more data checks throughout the hour. Rro in withn let fe his famed cross asset that a check as well. Three big figures out on vicks. What is the data on the screen that matters to you right now . Jonathan i just think the news flow out of europe has hijacked the whole agenda morning. The data is looking at the banks and bank equities, particularly in europe. I think the banks this week are down 6 , 7 in europe. Thats where the story is, more restrictions. Macron a little bit later this evening. Reports out of france suggesting a onemonth lockdown. Chancellor merkel talking about proposing restaurants that proposing closing restaurants and bars for a month talking about proposing closing restaurants and bars for a month. It is winter now in europe. That the idea right now not only is the virus increasingly severe throughout euro
Treasuries. Over widening its lead china as being the top foreign holder of u. S. Treasuries. That is the main headline crossing the bloomberg terminal. We are talking about a total amount not quite sure what the total amount is. The headline is that japan continues to widen its lead as top foreign order of u. S. Treasuries. Scarlet chinas share dropped even more. Both of them decreased their stakes. Reporters toour check in with them to see what they are monitoring. Abigail i am watching the tech shares you all were talking about after yesterdays small pullback. The bigger public for the stocks perhaps on the signing of the phase i trade deal. Lots of dreams of green on the screen. We have macron trading strong. Inductors big in on these tech dreams. This is one of the scary charts to take a look at. 500 tech index going back a few years. The yellow line is the 200 Day Moving Average. Investors buying technology. There are periods of time where the s p 500 has been well above the movi
Reporters. Taylor i will take a look at a chart here i am showing which is looking at the s p 500 for the month of december. I know it is only the first day of trading in december. We are off about 0. 8 . This comes after a very good november in which we had our best month since june. If you think about historically where we have been, december 2017, nothing really happened. December of 2018, a big bottoming out. The index lost more than 9 , bottoming out there on Christmas Eve before a big run up which led to the 25 gain or self we have seen gain or so we have seen this year. Is relatively muted. Still early days. We will have to see how the rest of the month unfolds. Called the skew index, the panic index. Last summer, well ahead of the Fourth Quarter volatility, the skew index in white here, highly elevated as the vix index. Stocks took a big nosedive in blue. The vix then caught up. This year, volatility relatively suppressed as the s p 500 going for near alltime highs. Since octob
We bring that to you live. Welcome to bloomberg surveillance. The markets. N on the hs is closing shortly and hang seng index sores soars. Carrie lam is going to withdraw her controversial extradition bill. That is the bill that kicked off the last 15 weeks of protests. Some of them with more than an estimated 2 Million People which is an incredibly impressive figure. They got that, hong kong has a total of 7 million citizens. From babies to the elderly. That would be like if you had a protest in america and 100 Million People showed up. Reportthe stock moves on the chief executive carrie lam is going to formally withdraw the controversial extradition bill. We saw moves around europe as well and we even see futures moving higher. Is South China Morning Post reporting the news after months of protests in the city. You can see here, these luxury stocks are getting the biggest boost. Swatch is up, lvmh is up 4 . This is such an important hub for luxury sales, for the chinese, with tons of
Alix even President Trump took to twitter to congratulate the team, versus a couple days ago, when one of the women said we are not going to the white house, and he said why dont you win first. Now apparently very proud. David it was a great game. The u. S. Was really taking it to the netherland for the first half, but they kept it up in the second half. Alix go team usa. In the markets, you have powell coming out in the next couple of days. Drive up Market Reaction for this week. Eurodollar lower by 1 10 of 1 . The dollar getting a little bit of steam in the last 20 minutes of trading. Crude also quiet. It is a quiet market with idiosyncratic events turkey, like Deutsche Bank. David what a nice word to use. Alix right . David idiosyncratic. Time now for the morning brief. Today, British Conservative Party members mail in their votes for the next Prime Minister, widely expected to be Boris Johnson. On tuesday, the Allen Company conference gets underway in sudden valley. We also get chi