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Good afternoon we begin this hour of power lunch lunch with continuing breaking news President Trump, as you surely know by now, testing positive for the coronavirus confirming via tweet late last night, early this morning that he will begin quarantining with the first lady who also tested positive the market is lower right now but off the worst levels of the day and you can see dow futures immediately sunk early this morning after President Trump tweeted. We have paired back those losselosses q...

U. K. This is what we know and this is what we are waiting to find out from the Prime Minister. He has urged everyone to try to work from home if possible. You can see that playing out in the markets, although a lot of the selloff happened yesterday. Stocks, 0. 6 . European stocks actually rebounding from their temple on monday. A lot of the focus is on the tech stocks as well. Lets get to the bloomberg first word news. Heres leighann gerrans. Leighann good morning. Movingnt trump is towards nom...

Today. We start out of with the fed staying put. Jerome powell signaling the rates will stay near zero through 2023 stocks getting an initial pop, but reverse course as the fed share took questions from the press. Steve, what was it, do you think, that spooked the markets . You know, its always hard to know maybe one of those sell the news things there was a bit of history in the statement where the fed for the first time put in the statement that its new goal is to seek inflation above 2 that w...

For the drop. The nasdaq 100 extended its 2020 rally. More now with abigail doolittle, our Bloomberg Markets reporter. L ofe been following al the action. What do you make of stocks rallying at the close . Abigail what an exhausting week. A mixed close on the week between different indexes, making it just as exhausting. All of the volatility tells you what we were talking about yesterday. The uncertainty out there. Theres the nasdaq 100 on the week. You can see the huge ups and downs. This tells...

Little ahead of expectation. The employment number has picked up a little bit as well. But you need some real analysis on what is happening here. Theres one man to ask, mike mckee, bloombergs International Economics and policy correspondent. Michael read into it what you want. The numbers for ism do come in at a headline level lower than the last month. 56 last month, 55. 4 this month. It would suggest a be a little slowing, but that is the statistical anomaly probably. It isnt a major change. W...

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Proposal we could see volatility on the wu witching day options is tote expire 59 minutes left of the session were down 1. 2 on the s p 500 coming up on todays show, well discuss the massive week for the ipo market including debuts of snowflake and Unity Software with Stacey Cunningham. And Jeremy Siegel will weigh in on another volatile week third day in a row down for the s p 500. Six week lows here what he makes of the selloff lets get straight to the big stories were watching though in this ...

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Hard to digest the news. Well cut right at it, give you the details in a moment. Overall, the market lacks real direction. The dows going to be up maybe 15, s p up 10. Nice gain for the nasdaq though, all green at this point. Politics [laughter] can you say softballs . One after another, they were lobbed towards joe biden at the cnn town hall last night. Not very good preparation for the first president ial debate which is, by the way, 11 days away. The standout for me came when biden suggested ...

President trump refuses to commit to if he loses the election. He says he could try to accelerate the vaccine approval process ahead of november 3rd. Just 6 00 a. M. Here in the si of london. Ma us in is off today. Lets get a look at the markets. The nasdaq dropping below 3 . The benchmark in asia down more than 1. 5 . Futures, there you all in the red. Move over the board. Lets look at what happened across as set. The dollar still on course for the strongest week since april. Were up. 1 of a pe...