Tom up mount marcy, down mount marcy, across saranac lake. Unbelievable. Jon ferro still on sabbatical. People say, why are you here . To be honest, its because i was moving. Theres a lot of that going on. While you were gone, we got some housing data. One of the things we got out there is a booming Housing Market with the haves. Lisa people who can buy houses will, although people who can be at work and avoid being tormented for being off for one week may do so. Maybe jon will prolong his vacation in order to not be lambasted for being on a sabbatical. What about you . Arent you going to do some portage . I heard you love that. Tom no, we are going to try to get the kids back to school and move forward. We welcome you back on bloomberg television, bloomberg radio. Everyone hearing about this challenge of virtual learning, back in the classroom. Simply getting people back to the office. The summary is it is not happening, is it . Lisa no. My youngest kid is beginning school today onlin
Explosion. Welcome to surveillance. Inm yousef gamal eldin dubai. Of, the riskon strategies it, but there is an interesting picture that is emerging here, the talk of a u. S. Capitol gains u. K. Jobsx, showing numbers as negative as they came through. That is being taken in stride. Up one point 72 on the stoxx 600. Real estate lagging. Now on a german data. Treasury drifting into a volume. 10year yield into a twoweek ,. 005. Commodity currencies have been advancing, but you are in a narrow range for your g20 peers, and gold at the moment, we are 1995 announce currently. Thes get now to some of other key stories we are following for you with bloomberg first word news. Leighann gerrans has it all. Leighann good morning, yousef. The number of britons out of work has dropped from april to june, and the figures highlight the economic shock facing the u. K. That is expected to escalate as the government gradually starts withdrawing wage support. Seriouslysays he is considering cutting Capita
Top 2 million for the top two weeks. Good morning, everyone. This is bloomberg surveillance. I am Francine Lacqua here in london. This is markets. When you look at the markets, they seem to be focused a lot on hong kong. At the same time, u. S. Stocks are dropping futures. If you look at washington and beijing, escalating after china announced the National Security law. Oil snapped a sixday winning streak. We will also have much more. Lets get to bloomberg first word news in new york city with ritika gupta. Ritika hi, francine. Imposing restrictions on Chinese Companies listed on u. S. Exchanges, but the parliament stop short of passing a vote. The senate had overwhelming support from both parties. Rising pushback against china on capitol hill. President trump has decided to withdraw from the open skies treaty. He wants to promote transparency between the u. S. And washer, and russia, citing until there is a deal, we will pull out. Secretary of state mike pompeo says there could be a d
The last halfhour or so. The morning started out on a grim note with initial jobless claims very close to 3 million once again. Of smallerixth week jobless claims, but nevertheless , at those rates, it is still pretty dire. The dollar index is stronger today. Weaker euro and weaker sterling, too. We continue to see gains in the oil patch. 37, and brent crude trading above 30 a barrel. Governor Andrew Bailey also seeing the bank of england is not currently considering lowering Interest Rates below zero. His comments coming a day after fed chair Jerome Powell pushed back against the idea. Lets get to our guest, patrick chiefong, Plurimi Wealth investment officer. Expected. Ire as we maybe u. K. Data wasnt quite as bad as we were looking for, but still a contraction of nearly 1. 6 . Of 5. 6 . Do the Central Banks need to start considering negative rates . Patrick i think it is a bit of a mixed bag. I dont think the benefits of negative rates are that compelling at this point. If we see it
Down the fort. Action, and as well in those money market funds. I was looking at the statistics. Money market funds pulled in 150 billion this week, while surpassing the peak of 2008. That is where we are seeing the stresses this week. Everyone just wanted cash. Francine whats amazing also is that the conversation started with small and Mediumsized Enterprises that may actually need support. Are we going to have governments take over in chunks some of the Big Companies to make sure they are safe . We will have plenty more on the markets and the economics of things, but lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news in new york city was Viviana Hurtado. Viviana the highest death toll from the coronavirus is in italy, surpassing chinas numbers. Italian fatalities topping 3400 is a nationwide lockdown continues. Europe remains at the epicenter of the disease. France reporting a 41 rise in deaths. Spain, an increase of get percent. Now to the state of california, and governor gavin new