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211,000 cases and 5400 deaths. It is Prime Minister Boris Johnson is facing a battle in the house of lords over his controversial plan to break International Law over brexit. Prime minister johnson has agreed to give the house of commons a veto over whether the government can exercise its proposed powers to override parts of the brexit agreement. He made a after meeting conservative mps who were threatening to rebel against him. The house of lords is expected to reject a bill by a large margin. Global news 24 hours a day, onair, and on quicktake by bloomberg, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. Im Mark Crumpton. This is bloomberg. Vonnie it is 1 00 p. M. In new york, 6 00 p. M. In london, and 1 00 a. M. In hong kong. Im vonnie quinn. Welcome to bloomberg markets. Here are the top stories from around the world we are following. Investors reacting to the feds signal it will leave rates near zero through at least 2023. Chairman powell striking a cauti
And taiwan. You have elections coming up. Keep your eye on that. We are either flat or slightly higher. Safe havens, looking at dollaryen above the below the 200 day moving average. You are looking at oil pushing towards session highs, new york 1. 6 to the upside. In case you missed it, breaking news out of iraq, the top iranian commander was killed in a u. S. Airstrike with reports in the last 30 minutes or so. Thena lets get more on markets. David was just mentioning this news about the commander being killed in baghdad. What does it mean . What are you watching her . I think it means we will have geopolitical tensions coming back in the new year. The s p 500 in reversing earlier gains, and the yen is being beat up. But i dont think this is going to last. I think after the dust has settled and the markets continue to focus on the fundamental improvement, this liquidity part can still continue after china with liquiditya banks. An era for the emerging markets. Same macro theme. It wil
Numbers. The Investment Committee is ready to go. The Halftime Report starts right now. Welcome, good to have you with us on this friday steve weiss, John Najarian, jenny harrington, and rob s seichen. Our heads are spinning, our portfolios gyrating. Was this week a sign, steve, of whats to come absolutely. This is very indicative of what weve seen, and indicative of whats to come there are these camps that there is a recession, there isnt a recession. I dont think it really matters. Markets can go down without a recession, and they do it all comes down to trade at the end of the day, you have to come through that and you have to have some calmness on the trade front. No more tweets if you have that, youll continue to move up. Today was virtually i wouldnt call it a meltup, but every major market is up more than 1 . Relief on the yield front exactly maybe it all, jenny, comes down to yields if yields can rise a little bit, it takes some of the pressure off the stock market do you agree
Youre always here to correct my ademocratic showdown. Candidates take aim at big business, spar over health care in their first 2020 president ial debate and boeing shares under pressure this morning, amid growing u growi growing uncertainty about when the 737 max is going to return to service lets talk markets this morning. Trade continues to be the focus, as it has been for so long it does appear at least according to reporting from the wall street journal that weve gotten a series of potential points from xi as to what his expectations may be. The key one amongst them, certainly tying trade specifically to the treatment of washington w huawei, which has been such an important component overall. We want to get to kayla, who i think joins us now shes with President Trump, whos arriving in japan for the g20 summit amidst all of these questions about trade and the ask and what will be received, kayla. Were just a few miles away from President Trump, who has turned in for the evening. Ap