That is the shoes, right . The shoe extension . Francine i dont know if you can hear it, but it is a neighbors. It wont last very long. Hammeringtle bit of there. We welcome all of you here, to the realities of the pandemic. The pandemic is front and center, but there is a lot of other news. I would note pacific rim currencies continue strong. Francine they certainly do, and there is quite a lot going on also in pound talks, so lets not forget brexit and the u. K. E. U. Relationship. Les get to first word news with ritika gupta. Ritika the Trump Campaign is abandoning demands that almost 700,000 is withdrawing a key part of its lawsuit against the Election Results in pennsylvania. It is abandoning demands that almost 700,000 mailin ballots be thrown out because observers were kept too far away from the count. The challenge is now against a far smaller number of ballots, almost certainly just a fraction of bidens lead in the state. Joe biden is Meeting National security experts, but his
Nation, and Bloomberg Television as well. I love how we end our opening withistopher Christopher Verrone of strategas. A lot of people rationalizing where we are and beginning to rationalize outcome a way utes come on down 30,000 where we are and beginning to rationalize out, wait a minute 30,000. Jonathan lets be clear about something, they have been bullish and right through most of the last eight months. Most hatedlked about bull market, but this recovery has been underappreciated. I have sat here many times waiting for it to fade. It hasnt. But i think now things have changed. Restrictions are back. It is our closing indoor dining. The letdowns wont be the same as early spring, but the restrictions are there for all to see. The question is how much of this do you tolerate. ,om what is just as important moments ago at Deutsche Bank on the fact of a weaker dollar. How weak is weak . What do you see was in the literature . Jonathan if you are ecb president Christine Lagarde, too weak
Exchanges. Regulators criticize the lack of access. Goldman sachs is set to be preparing a second round of job cuts in three months as a moratorium on firing amid covid19 comes to an end. Howi lets take a look at we are setting up in the first couple minutes of sydni trading. We have had a pretty cautious trading session this week ever since we had a Technical Glitch that essentially put the asx out of action for monday. We are seeing a little bit of a flight back to the opening session as we get more clarity in terms of the ongoing trade tensions between camera and beijing. Still on the back foot trading at the moment. We are seeing outside of half a percent trading in new zealand stocks. Shery we continue to see pressure in the futures markets. U. S. Futures down. 1 after stocks pulled back from record highs. We are seeing nikkei futures down 0. 4 , coming down from the highest level since 1991. The japanese yen unchanged, although one of the biggest gainers. Virus concerns. And wti
Last 10 years. That doesnt get it done. Guess what . Job cuts. Lisa how much more can Central Banks do to juice job growth at a time of zero Interest Rates . I find it fascinating that coke is offering voluntary separation programs with its employees, read, job cuts. More interestingly, yesterday salesforce. Com, one of the winners of this, and also job cuts. Tom cocacola managing the message as they always do. I dont know what their cute phrases for firings. Lisa separations. Tom exactly. That is just as phony as all of the rest of the. What is so important in that set of announcements across the bloomberg, as they make clear this is an International Strategy to right size on 86,000 employees right now, what we really need is a morning brief. Where you start . Lisa at 8 30, ancient history, which is u. S. July income and spending data for individuals. This is very backward looking based on how quickly the jobless benefits are running out and the changing scenario. We are also going to
Extraordinary august. We had such important conversations. Lets get to the data quickly. And3, dow futures up 132, we are all casual. Chairman powell was casual yesterday. Im sure mr. Kaplan will be casual for Michael Mckee in a moment. Thein the time of within tumult, everyone is being casual. Lisa are we going to keep the bowtie . This is going to be the question as the fed shifts their inflation their inflation policy. Lisa this is an important conversation, as he spoke to James Bullard yesterday, as we spoke to William Dudley moments ago. Michael mckee advances the discussion with mr. Kaplan of dallas. Michael thank you, tom. Good morning. Thank you very much for joining us today on Bloomberg Radio and television worldwide, and thank you for not wearing a tie and not making, adhere. [laughter] not making tom look bad here. Robert i try. Michael there are those who safety framework review changes all well and good, but what makes you think you can even get to 2 inflation, let alone