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
Thrilled you are with us, the simulcast, Bloomberg Radio coasttocoast, and good morning on bloomberg television. The new york city Christmas Tree lighting tonight at rockefeller center. All of the worry we have talked about of this pandemic, death set a record level in the United States come breaking the april 29 level as well. Jon, the markets speak. Moments ago, euro out to new recent record strength. Jonathan a record high in the equity market, the unwelcome record of the pandemic. 1. 21 53 on eurodollar. Once again, it is broadbased dollar weakness. You just wonder how uncovered it will this will make the ecb and how comfortable the move in eurochina will actually keep them. I think that is key, what happens broadbased for euro against other currencies. The im looking at bloomberg terminal here. You can see that on Bloomberg Radio right now. Renminbi comes down as well, with an abrupt move. At all correlates together, and then theres this zombie, the gloom of the bond market. How d
Weve had confirmation of a monster deal. Ryanair, europes largest carrier, committing to the 737. Maxs. Oing to buy 75 737 this comes on the heels of that grounded,being un after the huge grounding following those two crashes. We will be talking to the two ceos of these companies at the top of the next hour. Alix this is your super bowl. I just want to point that out. Some data dropping right now as well. Ism men effect ring data for november ism manufacturing data for november. Mike mckee has that. Michael it is slightly less than we expected. It comes in lower than the prior month. The services pmi comes in at 55. 9 from 56. 6. Not much of a change. Still growing strongly, which is important because this is a Services Economy. New orders were down a touch, as is the business facility. 51. 5 from 50. 1. In the Manufacturing Survey earlier this week, we saw employment fall into contraction soritory for manufacturing, Rising Services employment is still good news for the auto for the ov
News at 6. One person is Wearing Masks said quote people Wearing Masks that helps even more. Now its 6 a major update from the cdc on mask guidance this time, giving americans yet another reason that why everyone should wear a Face Covering to try to prevent the spread of covid19 thank you for joining us at 6 oclock everybody. Im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis Infectious Disease experts from Stanford University and elsewhere. Our police that their counterparts at the cdc are finally getting behind the idea of universal maskwearing kron fours rob fladeboe reports on the newly revised mask recommendations and what universal use could be in for our economy and the need for lock doubts. The center for Disease Control and prevention now says masks benefit the wearer the announcement is in line with the data that has been available all along so Stanford University Infectious Disease expert doctor Robert Siegel and basically you know maskwearing makes sense from a logical standpoint it mak
Every year booktv asks members of congress about the books they are reading. Joining us now on booktv is representative tom cole, a republican from oklahoma. Congressman cole, weve asked you this question before. Youve always had a large reading list. Whats on your current reading list . Well, i have just finished the splendid and the vile by erik larson, wonderful account of churchill and his family, really in the worst year of the war, the year right after he becomes prime minister, may 10, 1940, literally the day of the german invasion of low countries in france. And then basically what it was like to stood alone against nazi germany until june the 41 the russians are in the war and then obviously by december the 41 the United States is in the war. Its an extraordinary book, so its a wonderful read about a guy that i consider literally the greatest person in the 20th century and the supreme ordeal of a long and brilliant career. And then i have also been reading, i just picked up a