To challenge records. Eu finance are set to meet today. Italy lays out fresh restrictions. Chancellor merkel urges germans to follow the rules. Bmp bounces back, the french Bank Benefits from volatility. A bullish tone on the numbers. If you look at the bottom year ago, andus a nine months, it is ahead of the target we gave for the outlook for the full year of 2020. We are under one hour until the start of cash equity trading. Good morning. Lets look at futures. Some real strength coming through futures markets sees the european picture up 0. 8 . If we look at the u. S. , we get a similarly positive picture. He saw strength yesterday. We have not erased losses from last week. The coronavirus is still very much with us. Yesterday the u. S. Equity markets recovered to some extent, and in europe, the cac 0. 2 . X up by today we see more of that positive trend. We can see positivity coming through in the asian session. Japan is closed, but we have the asian equity session fairly positive.
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
Address in the next few months. One issue onver which i can be decisive today. And i think all members of the governing council will agree with me. We must explain much better to the general public what we are doing and why we are doing it. People thattalk to we do not normally reach. This imperative has to cascade the role elements of our review, our inflation name, our inflation measure, our tools, and their effectiveness, and how we take into account new challenges that people actually care about. The housing costs, but also Climate Change and inequality. Im fully committed to that. Monetary policy can only be credible, mind you, if we ensure that our goals are truly understood and shared by the people we serve. I think you very much for your attention. That was Christine Lagarde, the president of the European Central bank with an important speech of about 4045 minutes. The focus has been on inflation. There are a couple of things we need to look into and we have reaction from laura
Reacting fast enough. And israel tightens its 2nd nationwide knocked down further banning protests and ordering all nonessential businesses to close. With one of the biggest football stars in the world. For coronavirus. A senior republican politicians in the United States have been promising an orderly transition if donald trump loses novembers president ial election this after the president refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of power during wednesdays White House Briefing Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell tweeted that there will be a peaceful handover of power as there has been every 4 years since 792 leaving the white house a short while ago trying again questioned the fairness of postal voting. We want to make sure the election is honest and im not sure that it cant be i dont i dont know that it can be with this whole situation until is it valid there unsolicited a big sense to everybody who will say but if you remember Hillary Clinton just a week ago or so dove joe biden
Ask them, they know where they were that day. 9 11 is one of those rare moments, perhaps one of the only moments like it. Tom in washington, was a plane ascending with a plane ascending out of reagan, a flag unfurled along the west wall of the pentagon. Thee will be ceremonies at pentagon at the pentagon at 7 30 this morning. As you say, we moved to new york city. What a decidedly different 19th year of remembrance this is. With this pandemic, it will be a very different set of images this morning. Jonathan we will observe those moments of silence through the next several hours here on bloomberg tv and on bloomberg radio. Lisa, give us the day ahead. Consumer8 30, some price data. We are talking about a potential dynamite pillow, as we heard from albert gallo. Will we see the resurgence of inflation . At 2 00 p. M. , how big is the u. S. Deficit . We will get the august budget statement. Today, President Trump and former Vice President biden will be marking the 9 11 anniversary. I have