A hectic month. There is a lot of uncertainty with regard to the world in general. Jonathan jim b juncker joining us now. What a week in this market. The equity market breaking down by a little more than one and a half percent on the s p 500 but it is the absence of the bid in the bond market hitting the attention of you and i and everyone else. We are selling off, not driving yields lower. Yields are higher by four basis points. What is the signal you take away from that . Jim a worrisome signal. You are right, the fed is doing qe, buying 120 billion dollars of bonds a month, the stock market flirting with a 10 correction. That has all the hallmarks of a classic risk off rally, that bond yields should be falling as treasuries catch a bid as everyone rushes into safety. None of that is happening. The take away the market is still worried about uncertainty over next weeks election, uncertainty about the rising coronavirus, and potential or more fiscal stimulus and or inflation. All of t
Club. I want to take a second might be going to please silentio cell phones. We will be recording audio and video so thats a great incentive to try phones, and also to ask questions with open the floor up, theres a standing mic here in the middle when we do that after the talk here following the talk and the questions there will be assigning. We have books available behind the register. After the talk if you want to get up and purchase book and come back david would be more than happy to sign the. Finally after everything is said and done if you could collapse futures pictures about them up against a surface, that would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Tonight i have the pleasure of hosting david unhra, plaintiff entered at New York Times. He previously was a reporter and editor at the wall street journal in new york and london. Before that he was journal of European Banking london and has won numerous journalism awards including the 2016 award for feature writing. He is the author o
There is a skinny microphone for when we do that. After david talks. Following the talk and questions there will be a signing there are books available behind the register purchase your book he will be more than happy to sign them and finally if you could pop the chairs up against a surface that would be greatly appreciated. We had the pleasure of posting david enrich who previously was a reporter and editor for the wall street journal new york and london and the journal reporter winning the 2016 award as a journalist in previous the author of spider network. And Deutsche Bank and the epic trail of destruction and the tragic case to illustrate the global face of the financial malfeasance please help me to welcome david enrich. [applause] hello. I have had the pleasure of doing a lot of book events over the past years and then see like this i am not kidding six people in the room. [laughter] so this is awesome i will take out my phone and just take a picture. [laughter] because my wife
More than 2 on the stoxx 600 great s p futures point to another day of decline in the u. S. On track for six days of declines and heading for lowest close since october and global stocks for the 10 year yield hitting a fresh record low. Yields are dropping across the u. S. Curve. The two year yield sitting around 112. To the euro missed the risk off memo . Three out of the past four days. 10947. It could be down to the broad dollar weakness. The yen has been big today along with gold. Saying we could get 1800 on gold. Wti extending its slide beyond a 13 month low. Lets get the bloomberg first word news. We begin with italian Opposition Leader Matteo Salvini who accuses the government of underestimating the threat of coronavirus. He is urging them to earmark at least 10 billion euros for emergency measures. I think it will be the composed of factions the dont like each other. Its already the weakest in terms of growth. After the virus, which will evidently slide us into a recession, a g
Streets of chile. We put together a holiday cover for you guys. Quite a cover talking about softbank. We think this is one of the biggest stories of the year. It started with we work, which the magazine covered early on. Coverage developed and went on and on, there was another story we started think about, which was softbank. Softbank, we did talk about it so much this year. What i love about the story, you go into the layers of softbank. Obviously the leader of the role, but there are other players. The guy who is the visionary at softbank, especially the vision fund. This outsized force in silicon billion that can do a lot of things because it has so much money. It can go into we work and basically bankroll we work, which is a Business Model that might not have been right for the long haul yet. You were aggressive. Go big or go home was the strategy behind softbank. Sometimes that worked. Other times it doesnt. This story reveals the culture within softbank and the vision fund where