Reported yesterday and a top Infectious Disease expert says its about to get worse. Power lunch starts right now and welcome to power lunch everybody, the election shifting towards joe biden today. He took the lead in the counts in georgia and pennsylvania. Lets go to eamon javers to break down where we stand right now. Were stel loill looking at e same list of uncalled races. Joe bidens lead is increasing weve had more vote now coming in today from pennsylvania, moe are vote out from nevada in pennsylvania bidens lead over trump has grown to more than 13,000 votes. Take a look at the state of pennsylvania we are about 96 complete. Too close to call there. The difference there 13,220. Thats the whole ball game if joe biden wins there, this race is over because thats 20 electoral votes. Biden only needs 17 at this point to go over the top in nevada, press conference just wrapped up in clark county, home to Las Vegas Biden expanded his lead there and is up to 20,000 overall in the state.
The and pennsylvania. No sign of qe for the boe. Officials boost stimulus to prevent a doubledip recession. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to bloomberg surveillance, but welcome to our Election Special. Votes are being counted. I am Francine Lacqua in london. Tom keene is a new york. Tom, we look at the senate, the legal challenges. I know you and i have not slept much in the last 24 hours as we were roaring through the votes, trying to figure out exactly how throughident poring the votes, trying to figure out exactly how the president can mount a challenge. The other big news is the bank of england, because they did more than the markets were expecting, but remember this is in the middle of a brexit negotiation. Lockdown in london starts today actually, the u. K. As a whole starts today. If you look at futures in the u. S. , european stocks, they are tom, twocompared, yesterday. Liking what they see at the moment, but whatever the outcome of the u. S. Election was, it was pretty much
Vice President Biden is just six electoral votes away from the white house. Bloomberg chief washington correspondent Kevin Cirilli joins us for more. What is the vote count . What do we get over the next couple of hours . Kevin joe biden is just six electoral votes away from reaching the magic number of 270 electoral votes, which would put him at the threshold for the presidency. Within the next 30 minutes, georgias secretary of state is going to give a News Conference, and which they are going to provide an update on what is going on in the battleground state of georgia. 15 electoral votes, that would put him over it he is able to beat trump in georgia. In the noon hour, we are going to get an update from clark county, nevada, where the over and willing the overwhelming majority of electoral votes are cast in that state. This evening, not a clock eastern time, arizona, Maricopa County is going to provide an update. In terms of the dataflow on the president ial election front, we will
Employees. Weve got those details. But first we start with some breaking news. The electoral vote count stands right now at 227 for mr. Biden and 213 for mr. Trump. And we still have eight uncalled races. In wisconsin, which is still too close to call, biden holds a narrow lead of just 20,000 votes. Well within the margin of error there. Well within the drift that lets the president call for a recount. The Campaign Says they will immediately do so, request a recount. Another place biden holds a narrow lead, thats michigan thats where we find Brian Sullivan in grand rapids any update on this very close race reporter yes, and no how do you like that im like an economist on the air. Im going to give it to you both ways heres where we stand right now. Heres the reason i answered that way number one, heres the count 94 of michigan has come in. Its that last 6 that is the issue. Now, youve got joe biden who is up by about 45,000 votes right now. To your point, there are far more outstanding
To suck it up and concede the election. Well get reaction. Well hear from captain america, steve rogers is in the house. On how freedom isnt free all that and more on making money. Another. Charles another intriguing session, with tension in the air, financial media. Certainly not maxed for the market, right . You think about the socalled fear gauge, the vix for instance. It is coming down but you dont sense that, do you . Heres the thing, Goldman Sachs, their chief equity analysts look out for the roaring 20s, 2020s. Famed Hedge Fund Manager bill ackman betting against the market. We have gary kaltbaum, phil blancato, we have joanne feeney. Barry, whose side are you on here, who has it right, Goldman Sachs or bill ackman . Im still trying to figure out todays action, let alone the 2020s. Let me say this, i will give us a little bit of a negative, i wonder in the next year or so finally what Central Banks are doing is up and the markets finally, you know, give it the little repercussio