He said simply, this doesnt matter, and december could be green. Could be grim. Jonathan the markets are looking at the data in the second half of 2021, not 2020. Tom jon will get to the data of a market lifting and all of that. This ecb announcement a bit ago is buried, and im sorry, it just sets up the theme of extend and pretend into 2021. They are going to extend bond buying forever and ever. It is Central Banks to the rescue. Jonathan the ecb wants you to focus on the duration of the Bond Buying Program and not the size of the package they might announce this week. That has been a big push on the communications side. I imagine that will be the focus for them when they communicate with us. For us, we are all getting used to the idea that Central Banks will be there for us. Weve been conditioned by that all year. The biggest challenge through 2020 was to somehow divorce how you feel about the world around you from your view on financial markets, on where we will be 12 months out. Th
France threatens to get out of the rescue plan altogether. 11,000 jobs slashed, the german giant fights for survival. Welcome to the program. Looking at the futures, reflecting the way the european and u. S. Equity markets closed yesterday. Futures down in europe, mixed in the u. S. , reflecting what we saw yesterday were the u. S. Wobbled into the close at the end of the session. New york schools closing seems to be the factor. Breaking news, some commentary from astrazeneca in connection phasehase two, not the three news we have been waiting for. That is expected to come within weeks. This is more detail on the phase two data. They are confirming the vaccines immune response in older adults, that is crucial considering who is most vulnerable to the virus. The lancet is publishing the findings. A lot of stuff we have heard already from phase three trials more advanced than this from other drug companies. It has not been peerreviewed or in journals. We are getting the phase two study,
Indicating it. We are a few days in december, and clearly we get no respite for the holidays. There is no question about that. An extraordinary 46 minute video from the president last night, hugely commented on in washington. Attorney general barr, you wonder how he gets through the weekend with the president. I agree with you, this french issue is not a small matter. Memory of if in the that macron decided to rip a page out of the textbook from 30 years ago. Francine we will have a lot more on the dynamics of europe and france, but lets get straight to bloomberg first written with with rickets with or take a group with ritika gupta. Nancy pelosi and Chuck Schumer are backing a bipartisan stimulus plan. They see the proposal from house and Senate Lawmakers with a new round of negotiations. The plan calls for 908 billion dollars in spending, less than what democrats want, increased from the number being floated by Senate Majority leader mitch mcconnell. The u. S. Has had its deadliest d
Businessweek is really taking everyone by storm. Tom they mentioned all the right schools as well. I think it is true probably in every urban area, but after real estate it is the focus of new york city, what to do with the cherubs in not only the private schools, but i would also mention the stateoftheart anything,ools are, if even more competitive. The schools with a heritage up in boston, boston latin. They are just as hard to get into as the other fancy schools. Do spend a lot of time thinking about education for our kids, and these fouryearolds actually have to do tutoring, but also applications and interviews to get into these kindergartens. I find that fascinating. We will talk about Central Banks much more. Thats get to bloomberg first word news with ritika gupta. Ritika President Trump has fired a Homeland Security official who contradicted his unfounded claims about election fraud. Christopher krebs is a former Microsoft Official who the president named to a top security job.
Talks continue into today. The s p global is in advanced talks to buy ihs mobile markets in what would be one of the biggest deals of the year. A very warm welcome to the program, everybody. Just under one hour away from the start of cash equity trading for European Equity markets. Good to be back in the studio. Thats have a look at the future is and what they tell us about where we are headed this monday morning. Futures dont look great. European features move to the downside. The Asian Session has been fairly negative. These have been record months for global stocks. Rebalancing at the end of the month perhaps is part of the story here. We will talk to the market live team about this shortly. Lets take a look at what is going on on the gmm. Some of the weakest in the weakness in the Asian Session, down one point 3 on the msci asia pacific. Indonesia under pressure. A host of emerging markets under pressure. China outperforming a little today. The Manufacturing Activity we referenced