Tech and bond trades play out. Lets dig a little deeper into the virus story in the u. S. U. S. Infectious disease official Anthony Fauci says it wont be a pandemic a lot longer because of vaccine progress. Joining us now with more is bloomberg Senior Editor drew armstrong. We all want to have the monday where we were very happy about the Pfizer Biontech results. What if the state of play in the u. S. . Drew the state of play in the u. S. Is brutal. We are sitting case records because of uncontrolled spread in huge amounts of the u. S. Hospitalizations are higher than they have been at any point during the pandemic. During thet pandemic. Depend on who you ask, 1500 sorry, 1506 to two deaths in the u. S. Yesterday, a number we havent seen since the early days of the pandemic. Numberout every single or way you look at this that you can is going in the wrong direction right now, and newman the hospitalizations and knowing that hospitalizations after that, it is going to be a grizzly pictu
Particularly for tech and tech advances. Desperatelys a calm looking for news flow on the pandemic, and lets not forget the lack of stimulus in washington is just stunning. It is almost hard to believe we are here in the middle of september. Comparehink we have to the selloff. The character was different. This wasnt about big tech. Industrials,als, materials, energy. Thats where the price action was over the last one he four hours. Tom we are focused on Prime Minister johnson. Comments soon, and then a speech tonight to you and the nation at 8 00 p. M. Ive got to go to the pub closing at 10 00 p. M. Can you expend the difference between a pub closing and someone getting the virus at 9 00 p. M. Versus the usual midnight . [laughter] jonathan no i cannot, and the Prime Minister will have to explain that. I am not sure he will even try. I think the big issue for many people is just capacity. If you have a problem with people going out and mixing too much, then address capacity. If that is
We get prices down and yields up across bond. I dont know how long it can last, given the fact that we still are getting signs that there are going to be layoffs, and thinking in particular of delta coming out overnight and saying they may have to lay off nearly 2000 pilots after the september period. Ive got to say, still a lot of headwinds out there. Tom i agree. The partition of america is extraordinary. We just spoke to the congressman from the court could from the fourth Congressional District of arkansas. He made clear the economy is really good and sets up the inequalities and differences you see between democrats and republicans. Of course, our convention coverage. One quick point before we get to the complete data check, futures up 15. You looked at the brief for the morning. Lisa Consumer Confidence for there hasof august, been greater resilience than in coronavirus cases. After that, we get a tale of two markets. Roadforce. Has given a into the Consumer Confidence. As you me
Weaker as you have no agreement over finance chiefs on what to do over the crisis. Russia doesnt think a 2 million barrel a day cut is enough to get anyone to the table. In the bond market, 17 billion worth of supply coming online at about 1 00 today. It is time for todays market moving news from our london and new york offices. European Union Finance ministers now failing to reach a deal on a unified strategy combat the economic damage of the coronavirus. Germanys finance minister olaf scholz did give a press conference shortly after talks ended. I think it is absolutely clear that the recovery of great will be a very activity. We have to organize together. As anyone knows, i think it is absolute possible to do this within the framework we already have. Alix bloombergs Michael Mckee joins us now. I couldnt believe it, but i could believe it this morning when i woke up and saw they could not agree, and it was north and south. Michael it seems that way to a lot of people. Talk is cheap.
10 year. Crude now below 30. And not emphasize enough how much pain that will be causing to producers. To get a sense of where we are in the market, if you switch of the board, you can see some of the heavy hitters within the market, like apple and microsoft, down 10 , 11 . Also seeing bank of america off by 16 . The index which tracks the s p is down by almost 10 . Again, a world of hurt within the next two and half hours. We have some breaking news. The boe is pledging further prompt action when needed. No specifics on that, but they are pledging action as needed. We will bring you anything, any information as they come out. They said the dollar move to combat is there. This is governor bailey. Time now for global exchange, where we bring you todays market moving news from all around the world. From new york to washington, brussels and beijing come our bloomberg voices are on the ground with all of this mornings top stories. The Federal Reserve swept into action yesterday, cutting it