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Point 46 overnight. Political posturing is taking place with taking place between london and brussels. Checking in with some of the other little asset of the other asset classes. Gold pulling back in tandem with ,. 10 lower. Tom lets get you the first word news and an update on the continued spread of covid19. Have surged past 40 million and show no signs of slowing. U. S. Infection rates rising in 48 states while europe is inosing tighter restrictions london, paris, and other cities under strict curves with ireland enacting some of the toughest restrictions yet seen. The World Health Organization says failure to control quarantine rules has led to the resurgence. I stocks hit a six month low amid fears continuing street protests will drive investors away and further hurt the weakening economy. The benchmark index closed at its lowest level since april 16 as demonstrators bow to keep up pressure for constitutional refor ....
Closing early is not good. It is extraordinary. The difference versus what we have got here is absolutely extraordinary. Francine on the lockdown, it basically gives you a kind of a benchmark, code red, code rain, code yellow, to get a sense of what you code green, code yellow, to get a sense of what you need to do. They are trying to make it simple, but we are not even 24 hours until forest johnson made that announcement. Tom Jacob Sharfstein of Johns Hopkins, we talk to him two times a week, the lead quote today in the Washington Post be inoat it is real simple the Washington Post. It is real simple. Were just waiting for a vaccine. Leighann President Trump says he feels so powerful after recovering from ....
Regionally, as we saw a setback moments ago from Johnson Johnson. They are pausing the study here on their vaccine after one of their patients fell ill. We did of course look at, when it comes to the china 10 year, we are expecting a big dollar bond sale as well, and details as soon as wednesday. Still Holding Around the 670 level at the moment. Lets look at the rest of the market as we count down to those numbers out of china. Ratentioned in indonesia decision later today, jakarta coming online just slightly higher. Because ofpressure vaccine setbacks, and india as well, we could see a lower open in mumbai. A big power outage yesterday impacted volumes. We also saw inflation surge in september. We are watching fx as well, the dollar pretty steady and the rest of asia affects fx lower after we saw weakness in the chinese currency as well, the pboc made it cheaper to short th ....
Absolutely extraordinary. I know lisa is going to touch on this. Can we all focus a moment on 800,000 in claims at 8 30 . What is still involved in our politics and our markets is a labor economy that is, to be polite, fragile. Jonathan secretary mnuchin throwing some cold water over that. We need to talk about the new restrictions across the continent in europe. The economic recovery in europe was already fragile, already stalling. These restrictions will make that worse. Tom ive so glad you bring this up. You and i have been going back and forth on this since you got up at 9 00 a. M. London time. What i really want to focus on is the federal solution and application in europe versus the statebystate solution in america. Is that accurate . Jonathan youve also got the local issues in the United Kingdom that have really brought london into the equation. The north of the country was facing much tougher restrictions , looking down to ....
President trump in florida, i noticed about an hour ago. He will leave in the early evening. I believe Vice President biden scheduled for ohio. What is so odd is the relative invisibility of the leader in the race, Vice President biden. This was a trump weekend they trump discourse. Jonathan the president has been in the spotlight for all of the wrong reasons the last couple of weeks. I think the former Vice President wants to leave him there. Not just orlando later this evening. I believe pennsylvania tomorrow, iowa wednesday, and thursday in north carolina. The numbers at a national level, and it some of these states, particularly iowa, where he crushed Hillary Clinton four years ago, much tighter this time around. Tom the polls are really showing the challenges ....