We welcome you on the simulcast. Bloomberg radio and Bloomberg Television across this nation and worldwide. This due of news is just extraordinary. An important moment will be Lawrence Kudlow after the jobs report. But jon, i want to talk for a moment about the markets. Affected. Oeing come up 5 . Igit 13 on the s p 500 yeartodate, and the nasdaq 100, lisa has loaded the boat on the nasdaq, up 38 . This is a boom and great bull market. Jonathan record on the nasdaq, just off that on the s p 500. The market has ignored all of the bad stuff over the last month and held onto all of the good stuff. Does that change in 29 minutes . The payrolls report, the estimate for hunted 60,000 the estimate 460,000. Tom Kevin Cirilli talking about the enthusiasm to get something done. We will talk about that in the moment. I love what greg peters of pgim said in the opening credits, the idea that everybody is looking for every bit of yield. To me that has been undersold story this week about how other
We welcome all of you to an onraordinary friday morning Bloomberg Radio and Bloomberg Television. It is jobs day. We will look at the state of this pandemic economy at 8 30. But we will also begin to see substantial count and returns from these key states of georgia and pennsylvania. Jonathan really tight races in places like georgia and nevada, tightening in arizona and pennsylvania. That is the focus for market participants. I would go one step further. Also a focus on the senate. A reporter a little while ago said it wouldnt be a blue wave, it would be a blue mist if we got a 5050 in the senate with a Biden White House. That would really change the story. Then youve got to reshape the narrative of the past couple of days that have been driving this market. Tom we will get to the data here as we move along. Futures, 38. The dollar a little bit weaker. Gold up 50 over the last number of days. Michael holland scheduled to be with us on the market. I am still trying to find an entry poi
Abramowicz and tom keene in new york. Good morning on Bloomberg Radio across the nation. Good morning on Bloomberg Television worldwide as well. Theferro, without question most mysterious jobs report ive ever witnessed. Jonathan we talked about the wide range all morning. Lets talk about it again. At the top, 2. 4 million. Thats the high estimate. Below, 100,000. The pace of the recovery is slowing. I wonder if we have seen more evident if we are seeing more evidence of that a little later this morning. Tom i thought of one of your good questions earlier, the idea of this shift to the new unemployed. Forget about furloughed. Forget about all of the other language. It is people terminated. Lisa people are becoming permanently laid off. Initially it was temporary. My question today is going to be is bad news good news, and is good news bad news . The idea that if we get a worse than expected report, we will get into this for some as we will get impetus for some kind of fiscal support we
That this morning. There are people that have gloom, there are people in in the middle, and there is a sizable group saying forget about it, there is sizable momentum in the economy. We will have to see. Francine lets get straight to first word news in new york city with ritika gupta. Ritika President Donald Trump is moving to ban tiktok and we chat in the u. S. He signed executive order residents barring people from doing business with them. It does not amount to a broader ban of dealing with its owner, tencent. Tiktok says it is shocked by the order and will pursue all available remedies. The u. S. Is looking to tighten workinga president s group on Financial Markets is recommending the sec strengthen auditors, bout in hong kong, plans to offer free virus tests to all residents. The move reflects a boost in Testing Capacity with help from mainland china. There has been no headway between white house and democrats over new virus relief package. The main sticking point, both sides accu
Unemployment rate over 10 , and that is nothing like what we see this morning. The mystery of what we see with this is absolutely extraordinary. Weve got the voices lined up to talk about it. The market standpoint, economic standpoint. What is missing, maybe we will get that from mr. Kudlow later, what is the view of washington on the American Labor economy . Jonathan and will the view change with jobs numbers falling apart . I never thought i would sit here and say it could be positive one million, could be one million. Quite simply, no one knows million. Negative one quite simply, nobody knows. Tom Bernie Sanders of vermont talking about the inequalities out there. This jobs report will show the start discerns between the stark difference between the haves and havenots. Lisa that has really been the hallmark of the crisis that has ensued. Theres a question of looking at the granular month we data, and the belief that looking at some of the corporate reports and the earnings that thin