Begin with some working news. Lisa Moderna Vaccine information has come out. Rate is what we saw, i higher efficacy rate then pfizer. Last week, people were talking about pfizer and how it had to be kept at ultracold to birchers until a couple of days before it was distributed ultracold temperatures until a couple of days before it was distributed. This one has a 30 day shelf life at standard refrigeration. This is very promising, and we are seeing a reaction in markets. Jonathan they are the headlines. Lets plug them into the financial markets. There is the pop on what irna. Equity futures in the United States, on the s p 500 come on the nasdaq, and on the russell as well. Futures, up russell by a little more than 2 . A record high at the close on friday in the russell, and we advance once again. I want to check in on the bond market. Yields higher, curve steeper. Switch of the board. Bonds lower, yields higher, up three basis points on tens. On 30s, we advance three basis points. In
To,h mcconnell doesnt want nancy pelosi and Steve Mnuchin do. They dont see much closer. I think theres a political question underpinning the market, are people secondguessing their dismissal of a contested election. Interferencee raised yesterday, possibly increasing the chances of a messy elections these in election season. Jonathan may become im just not going to get excited on an 11 point move on the s p 500. Lisa we could try. Jonathan heres what we look like on my heels coming down a basis point. 118, we have replaced this weakness with Dollar Strength in much of g10. Johnhe news overnight, ratcliffe saying that iran and russia are meddling in the United States election. Heres the u. S. Director of national intelligence. That some confirmed Voter Registration information has been obtained by iran, and separately by russia. This data could be used by foreign actors to attempt to communicate false information to register voters. Jonathan John Ratcliffe on attempts on iran and russi
Forward today. I think lisa is going to talk about it. The last moment i saw as we wait for washington to awake this morning with the president nudging away from the republican reticence more towards the place of Speaker Pelosi. I have no idea what that means. After what we went through yesterday, we are littered literally we are literally monitoring when does the president wake up and advance his campaign through any actions throughout the day. Jonathan we understand there will be an interview at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on fox news. 1 3negotiations for me, the of the negotiations that really matters and has hardly moved, Senate Republicans and leader mcconnell. Where are they in this . Weve heard from mnuchin, from the president , from Speaker Pelosi. Mcconnell is on the sidelines. Hes the guy that finalizes that deal. Tom this is really important, and it goes to what axios said about the republicans really fighting for their lives, having to do with attorney general barr and all of that.
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About financial repression. This has been widely predicted by a lot of people, deals have to be made. Revenue isnt there, so youve got to go out and buy it. You got to get better. Bigger. Athave not confirmed it here bloomberg, bob but that is a story tom nine tom whats john, lisa and i do is we go to bloomberg experts on this. John farrell, jonathan tice said exactly the same thing. Yeah right, but there are all sorts of reasons why that combination could be the giant bank of the continent of europe. Ritika a lot Jonathan Jonathan a lot to get through including lisa getting excited about tiktok. [laughter] we know lisa does tiktok often with the kids. Youve got a decent excuse. Lisa it is a verb. Do you tiktok or not tiktok . Politics front and center today. Including tiktok and oracle being the likely bidder. We now are talking about brexit. Boris johnson putting his controversial brexit vote to a vote. We will hear about whether or not he will get immunity if you go against the agre