Anna edwards is in for jon ferro and lisa abramowicz. Ferro taking the entire month off. Lisa only taking half the month off. We are thrilled anna edwards could join us today as well. Remember when augusts were boring . August is no longer boring, is it . Anna i remember when all of europe went on holiday in august, but no longer. We got alltime highs on u. S. Stocks. Is that really out of kilter with the underlying u. S. Economy comes with the underlying global ok . Omic story, and is that tom the persistency across yields is amazing. Yields come up 4, 5, 6 days, and they roll over and come back down. We are not through to new lows in the last number of weeks on yield, but nevertheless, watching that very closely. We will get to that with an important guest any moment. David malpass with us later in the hour. I want to go to a story which we have been covering the last number of days. For me in america, it has gone radio silent. That is belarus. This is between poland and russia, with
Im back. Great to be back. Back in the stacks with the books. Yes, yeah the Library Stacks are nice i wanted to show everybody where things are headed on this monday morning. Is it always up . I guess maybe it opens it feels like that i was told not to invoke his name when i mentioned him the other week he says everything goes up and it all seemed so crazy dow about 160 points nasdaq looking to open about 69 points higher in the s p 500 looking to open about 16 points higher treasury yields right now, lets do it. Lets show you the ten year note as we speak youre looking right now at the ten year at. 636. Melissa has news happening overnight. News out of china overnight beijing announcing sanctions and a spokesperson and the move comes after a top member of chinas Ruling Communist Party and three other officials over human rights a b abuses. Bo well ask senator rubio about this when he joins us live at 8 00 a. M. Eastern time on squawk box. Separately the u. S. Asked its citizens to be
America, i find extraordinary. How closed down is london . ,rancine much like new york depends on whether its the metropolis, parts of the city, if you look at the city of london, which bloomberg is located in, its quiet. If you go to the center, its quiet, theres hardly any tourists because of the quarantine into the u. K. But if you look at residential places, thats when people come out. Waitinghen people are for Boris Johnson to announce an opening of pubs. It really depends on the communities and whether they feel comfortable. Many people might be elsewhere. And this harkens to your interview with that officer from ubs, and you wonder what the Service Sector is going to do on working from home or the office, what do you think . Greatne we had the conversation yesterday, she could see up to a third of the workforce never coming back to the office area if you think about it, it has huge and look asians for real estate, certainly commercial real estate for offices it has huge implicat
Really germane this morning. I love how the french call it a move to the confinement confinement. In america, yesterday afternoon, there was a real understanding of confinement at the white house. Dr. Fauci worrying about origin, and also the Vice President of the United States worried as well. That was sobering on mothers day. Francine it certainly was. Lets get straight to first word news in new york city with ritika gupta. Take a coPresident Trump ritika President Trump has a tough job this week, trying to convince americans it is safe to go back to work and socialize. At the same time, he is fighting a coronavirus scare that closed his own office. On friday, Vice President mike pences press secretary was diagnosed with the virus. Neel kashkari says americans should brace for more bad news on unemployment, and he says congress should provide more help. News emmaalled abc saying fiscal efforts will need to be put in place. And the plan for lifting the countrys lockdown. Expected to r
Online more Central Bank Action from japan helping fuel the bulls and despite all of that, oil plunging again, down more than 20 as we see one Energy Company file for brankruptcy. Ahead on todays show, were taking a deep dive on the path forward for retailers. That sector deals with the fallout from the lock down well speak with about the issues facing the industry and be joined by former macys ceo as Department Stores deal with their own challenges and bankruptcy concerns swirl around the sector were up 5 on the s p with 59 minutes left citigroup is up 8 still down 42 year to date. Lets focus on the big stories were watching today mike is is tracking the market moves. Meg has the latest mike, lets kick it off with you and the broader markets. After about two weeks of going sideways, the s p 500 gets a little bit of a boost today to basically the levels it saw at the post crash highs of ten days ago. Take a look at how it fits into the broader picture here 2874 is a number that we firs