Budget copper mise. This is going budget compromise. Eu budget compromise. That is going to be one of the stories we are focusing on next week. Brexit talks are a difficult place, according to one u. K. Official. We will watch carefully that story over the weekend. We will see what happens monday morning. Aroundare higher, up by 0. 4 . The payrolls seem to have provided a reason to believe that stimulus is coming. It is interesting to see what is happening there. Bonds on the other side of the atlantic to where i am now, we are up to yield highs, march highs. An aggressive move we are seeing stateside. The pound is 1. 3475. Brent crude catching a bid, just sub 50. 49. 08 is where we sit now. Alix lets get to the latest on the coronavirus pandemic. We learned yesterday pfizer scaledback vaccine targets for 2020 because they ran into difficulties getting all the materials it needs. They say they have fixed that problem now. Joining us now is sam fazeli, Bloomberg Intelligence senior phar
Is come down really sharply on the brexit news. Walk johnson prepared to away. The pound is plummeting on the back of that. We recovered a little bit, but still down. 9 . 1. 12. E sterling is at in europe, the equities are rolling over, the euro stoxx the euro stoxx down. We have money moving back into of bonds, in the same in the United States. Lets talk about brexit. Prime minister Boris Johnson and the European Commission prime minister, set to start a crucial phone call starting about now. Could it be make or break . Pound falling sharply . The counseling sharply. Walk away. Pared to the real deadline appears to be eu summitahead of the on thursday. Joining us now, we have our bloomberg governments and brexit reporter. What are we expecting from the phone call with Boris Johnson . Reporter one of two things, either we get them saying we will keep talking. Think we could get an agreement here or this is the moment where they say, we should notkeep talking, so why into this now . We
Christine lagarde, president of the ecb, moderated by Francine Lacqua. Francine what a great pleasure to be here with Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central bank, and welcome to the forum here at bloomberg. Everyone is talking about the vaccine. How will that actually change your forecast and the economy if we do get a vaccine early next year . Ms. Lagarde it is lovely to see you and to participate. To your question, i am not sure it is going to be a major game changer for our forecast, simply because what we had anticipated in our baseline was that some stage in the first half of 2021, there would be a vaccine, and that it would be rolled out in the course of 2021. So it might be a little back celebrated a little bit accelerated given the news we are receiving from the various horizons, germany, the u. S. , but i dont think it is going to be a game changer, so to speak. I think that our forecast is being revisited all those times we speak, and we will be releasing on dec
But after the huge moves we have seen related to some of the vaccine news of late, this is a relatively quiet session. If you look at the headlines as well, the mnuchin and powell spat doesnt seem to have caused much aggravation during the market session thus far. Seeing weakness in the turkish lira today, but after that big move we saw yesterday by the work of central bank and the shift higher in the lira, people may be fading that move a little bit on some expectation that maybe erdogan will not stick with his recent decision to maybe go to more mainstream economics. Alix lets get to our top story, governments rushing to issue vaccine approval. The modernas that and Pfizer Biontech vaccines could be approved by december. If all proceeds with no problems, the conditional marketing authorization for biontech and mentor in a could happen as early as the second half of december 2020. Alix joining us now is sam fazeli. I love how she kind of couched it and said if. What are the options in
Plenty of things to be thinking about. The election dominating the narrative. Alix polls are just opening in alaska. In the lower 48 states, voters have been filing into bowling into Bowling Centers across the United States. Joining us into pulling Centers Across the United States. Joining usis bloombergs nick wadhams joining us is bloombergs nick wadhams. We saw a record early turnout of about 100 million voters, i reflation that a lot of democrats in particular were worried about the coronavirus and possible exposure, and want to get their votes in early. Republicans tend in this election to vote much more on election day. The big number we are looking at is 9 00 p. M. That is when we expect to know what is happening in florida. Once we know florida, people have a very good sense of what this race is going to look like. If joe biden wins florida, President Trump has very few paths to get to the white house. If it is a nailbiter, that could give us a sense of the shape of things to co