Story on the vaccine pause we were talking about with the cfo a little earlier on. We are waiting to see what news we get on the stimulus front as well. Brexit talks look like they are going nowhere. The s p is higher as we await news from apple. Day. Ve amazon prime the pound is lower, down by 0. 6 . The euro is softer as well. And there we go. We are watching the bdp trade the btp trade. This is we continue to see the redenomination trade factor into the btp market. Expectedue to see an further move from the ecb being factored into the btp market. How much further will it go . We will talk about that throughout the program. Alix as you were mentioning, countries across europe are widening curbs to get a grip on the fender mike thats on the pendant. In the on the pandemic. In the u. S. , there is still conversation about the election and pricing in a blue wave. Anwitiet more with dr. Bahuguna, Columbia Management head of multiasset strategy. Bahuguna thank you for having me on the sho
Though still awaits aprooul from the house of rep sentives. That vote expected tomorrow. Jobless claims surging above 3 million americans, far outpacing the record of 700,000 and also well above what economists were looking for around 1. 5 million unemployment claims and the virus itself remains front and center for wall street as italy reports more than 6,000 new cases, the most in five days, the worldwide total now shy of half a Million People wilfred. All of the sectors of the s p higher up 4. 7 . All higher, but one to keep an eye on is energy it has been the best performing. Its now towards the bottom. Still up by 4 oil prices slipped a lot this afternoon. Theyre down 7 , so well hope that doesnt drag the rest of the market lower weve got a huge lineup of gu guesting coming your way, ceo of General Mills, plus peter orszag whether he thinks the stimulus bill is enough to ease the pleading and well speak with the ceo of hertz about their program the give free rentals to new York Ci
Going to me on the phone is chuck grom, Gordon Haskett retail analyst. Joining me in new york is Lauren Goodwin, new york life multiasset per folio strategist, and Brooke Sutherland of bloomberg opinion. Give us a rundown of where walmart fell short. Brooke it was not great all the way around. The fourthquarter came in weaker than expected, and they called out unexpected softness in the weeks leading up to christmas, which is not what you want to hear from a major retailer. That is in line with what weve heard from a number of Different Companies that are not named amazon, which raises a lot of interesting questions about what the Competitive Landscape actually looks like. Also weighing on investors is the 2021 fiscal outlook, which was also weaker than expected on sales and profits. Alix the stock rating is heavy here in premarket. The bad news baked in. Is that is why is that why you have a buy rating here . Chuck weve had a buy rating for a while, not just here on the fourthquarter.
Meeting with, and of course better known as the new nafta. And the s and p and the nasdaq hitting new highs. Lets bring in our investment committee. Joe, stephanie and john, marg reet reed, union bank private bank, and rob of ubs private wealth management. So stocks, joe, pushing to new highs. Youve got the president who is probably going to tout a strong economy, high gdp, low unemployment is he going to give the market another leg up i think you and i used the phrase coiled spring here we are, we are springing higher, with very good reason. I think when youre looking at the steepening of the yield curve, the uninversion, if i could create a word, the uninversion of the yield curve, theres been a significant rebound in yields. And then earnings, and steph talks about earnings all the time eps gross was expected to be negative, 3 to 4 we came in down only 1 . So i think there is a lot to present a very fertile environment for the capital markets. Every asset class is higher. Where is t
Day. This is about Central Banks. We are learning about china and were talking about the pound. Tom it is an interesting economic day. Great series of smart guests to give us depth. I would notice are the headlines just out of microsoft. You have the hewlettpackard headlines yesterday of the split up of the split up if you will on hp q and now you have microsoft out with a 1 severance or layoff or job cuts. I like job cuts on the bloomberg banner. 1850 out the door. Shows the door of the real economy around the economic data. Let me guess, we will also talk about brexit . Francine surprise. [laughter] francine it is a month away. We may talk about it for the next three years. The imf has backed off and greece will get its next round of Financial Aid. It will allow the relief of more than 11 billion and they will take steps to ease the burden of the countries 58 billion in debt. They stood down after originally insisting that the program did not offer a path to fiscal sustainability. Th