It is a little unusual for the secretary of state to be involved in politics of any shape or form, but it sure does sound like good theater and im anxious to see if youd see it. David ok, many thanks. You will be back with us tomorrow night. We will have live coverage again of the second night of the Republican National Convention Starting at 10 00 p. M. Eastern time. As we said, secretary of state mike pompeo will be appearing from jerusalem as well as First Lady Melania Trump headlining the night. This is coverage of the Republican National convention on Bloomberg Television and radio. Welcome to Bloomberg Markets asia. Asia looking set for gains after wall street extended its record run, investors increasingly optimistic for a virus vaccine and that the Global Pandemic will not drag on the recovery. One progress,e the u. S. And china held trade talks and say they have made advances and both sides insist they are committed to the deal being a success. Rishaad and the Republican Conve
Continues to rise significantly in terms of the virus and we talked a lot and well hear from meg again and meg has been following it so closely for us and the market only seems to go up as the cases go up. That is leaving some people scratching their heads and others view it as were going to get to the other side and a view of what the economy will look like and then you come back to the fed, carl, which seems to be the fuel that everybody sort of points to as the key fuel, i should say, for this market. Yeah. Morgan, lots of notes over the long weekend and we hope everybody did have a great, long weekend. More debt and liquidity and asset reflation. That was literally the title of the jpmorgan note on friday. Yeah, for all those folks that were basically still stuck at home or not traveling and getting on airplanes, lots to digest in terms of market commentary over the weekend. I would add to the fed, i would add the expectations that do seem to be baked in around what phase four fisc
Watching here, losses to end the week, stoxx 600 down 1. 25 . Of the major european indexes, the ftse is the biggest loser right now, down 2 . Thats because some of the heaviest stocks affected are british trading in london. Hsbc, london shares of royal dutch shell, British American tobacco, bp, all big losers, and they are very heavy, so they weigh on the ftse. It has been a banner week for equities. If you were long this week, you did quite well because we were up the past four trading. Essions it is not taking away the gains you made for the week. You can see the pound rising. This also amplifies losses on the foot. There tends to be inverse correlation between the pound and the ftse 100. And then rollsroyce. This is not the carmaker. That brand owned by bmw. ,ut the jet engine maker already troubled. It was cutting 9000 jobs it announced earlier this week, but now s p has cut rollsroyces longterm Credit Outlook two junk, and the outlook is negative, so rough for rollsroyce. Vonnie
Spending and chicago pmi fed chair with alan blinder in a few moments. Steve liesman will give us a curtain razor on that. Hey, steve. Good morning, carl. Yeah, were wondering whether powell continues a cautious tone, much more cautious tone than the market seems to embrace and in a way his cautious tone seems to give the market a green light because it means more stimulus or the fed being around for a long time here among powells concerns hes expressed in the past that the employment and growth rebound could take longer than it anticipated, some businesses wont survive the downturn, a possible second wave of the virus and the stimulus will run out and think about more stimulus on the other side you can see the effects of the stimulus carl alluded to in the income and spending numbers this morning. Quite astonishing. Every one of the numbers youre about to see are historic, never been there before. 11 month to month rise in income well tell you why that happened in a second. 13 month t
Board. We are off the lowest levels of the day. The dow is at 25,290 there is the nasdaq. Concerns about the virus and new hot spots around the country are part of the conversation as i look at moves, i see a lot of buys that suggest youre optimistic about the reopening of this country. Yeah, thanks scott. When i look at my portfolio as a whole, i have a heavy bias to the nasdaq 100 the qqqs which have done so well i think that as we are reopening that if you look at technically, a lofts tt of stocks like south six flags, they all look similar. They are starting to make higher lows and higher highs. I think as the reopening happens, this is where theres still risk but we think its compensated risk longer term to own some of these epicenter names that we think as the summer happen, as the reopening is happening, i dont feel comfortable just owning the nasdaq 100 and sitting in apple and microsoft and amazon i want to diversify that this is buying low feels like. Theres a million reasons