Thrilled you are with us, the simulcast, Bloomberg Radio coasttocoast, and good morning on bloomberg television. The new york city Christmas Tree lighting tonight at rockefeller center. All of the worry we have talked about of this pandemic, death set a record level in the United States come breaking the april 29 level as well. Jon, the markets speak. Moments ago, euro out to new recent record strength. Jonathan a record high in the equity market, the unwelcome record of the pandemic. 1. 21 53 on eurodollar. Once again, it is broadbased dollar weakness. You just wonder how uncovered it will this will make the ecb and how comfortable the move in eurochina will actually keep them. I think that is key, what happens broadbased for euro against other currencies. The im looking at bloomberg terminal here. You can see that on Bloomberg Radio right now. Renminbi comes down as well, with an abrupt move. At all correlates together, and then theres this zombie, the gloom of the bond market. How d
Billionaires index. Raise 30 5ting to billion in hong kong and shanghai. Aviation in australia. Alice springs emerges as the ideal place to store passenger planes left idle by the coronavirus. Shery. Shery breaking news out of south korea. We are getting the preliminary thirdquarter gdp numbers and we are seeing the quarter on quarter the economy has grown 1. 9 , which is beating expectations of 1. 3 and this is also coming after its first recession since 2003. We saw a contraction of more than 3 in the previous Second Quarter. Youre on your, still a contraction of 1. 3 but its a much smaller contraction than was expected and it is also a contraction that has eased from the previous quarter. We have seen growth and strength when it comes to south koreas exports and manufacturing industries. Thirdquarter manufacturing actually growing 7. 6 quarter on quarter when you look at the details in the gdp numbers. We have seen the rebound in china. South koreas biggest trading partner helping i
Nix says the material could have an adverse effect. Government would like state leaders to do more. Check in on how markets are trading. U. S. Futures are coming online 0. 5 higher. We were bracing for some more turmoil this week after President Trump was hospitalized late friday. We havent had such big or huge losses. The president was headed to Walter Reed Hospital for treatment. Down a seeing it come little bit. 0. 3 . Gaining this after it dropped to its lowest level since june based not only on the uncertainty of the president s covid19 diagnosis but oil supply concerns. The dollar was sort of steady in this in the close. Fact that thehe u. S. Jobs report is pouring cold water on the outlook continuing the u. S. Economy adding fewer jobs than forecast in september. Are releasing this tension in the markets where you aresee how reluctant bulsls to give up their positions. This is where the nikkei 225 chicago futures are. Up just about 0. 5 at the moment. Across asia we are looking
Well. We are watching what is going on with individual indices. Hong kong coming back and a big way after that long holiday. Hang seng up more than 300 points. The nikkei 225 up more than 1. 3 . At this point, seeing positive signs of drug and his recovery, although there has been mixed messages about what treatment he is getting, the timeline of his diagnosis as well. We are looking at risk aversion trade that we saw on friday,. Hich were gaining not doing a whole lot here this morning. Moving on 70 basis points. Seeing the reversal from friday, ozzie gaining and the yen, which additionally i despite, it it kit. 1900 after that 4 brent crude just below 40 a barrel. Watching fx, watching the dollar, pretty steady this morning as well. The pound seems to be holding onto the gains as well, brexit set for a showdown at the eu summit. Aussie and your revenue be holding on the firstlets get world headlines. Republican leader Mitch Mcconnell says the fasttrack schedule of the Supreme Court t
For you and not a lot of time. This hour is going to fly by. Toms book is really a fantastic read and but i do think folks especially in the United States are going to find the book controversial, thats a great thing about about because if a book doesnt generate conversation, then it may not be worth reading. This is a Glass Half Full story of chinas economy and the management of the Financial System. Box offered at a time when u. S. China relations are declining and attacks from all different corners in the United States of chinas system are going. There is this argument that chinas economy, how it manages that economy is incompatible with the International System and as a result of the u. S. And others need to reduce their exposure to chinas unique risk. The book tries to answer the question, how did china managed to do it, how they managed to continue to grow without a major financial crisis. And can they keep it up . Im going to turn the floor over to tom in just a minute, he will