For a september quarter. There are also concerns about the ant ipo fallout. And america awaits the outcome of the president ial election, seven states now holding the keys to the white house. Wisconsin heads to a recount and others face challenges in court. Foropen here in sydney friday trading in asian markets, we have seen an eerie calm and trading across equity markets, and globally, on expectations that policy gridlock will me know extreme measures when it comes to the tax front being taken and more status quote when it comes to the visible markets. We are up. 2 when it comes to sydney, the in aussie dollar and commoditieslinked currencies it particularly well. We have the u. S. Dollar fall to its lowest in two years. The nikkei 225, we expect weakness going into the open but we have japanese stocks trading in the green every day of the week. Also watching the yen, but interestingly, as an election respirometer, we continue to watch price action in china as well as volatility in ch
Bloomberg radio, bloomberg television. Earlier this morning, mr. Macron in his military, earlier london at whitehall, the british military, prince charles, i believe, in attendance there, and jon, you have to wonder who shows up with President Trump today on veterans day in america that is a mystery. Jonathan we mark veterans day in the United Kingdom as remembrance day, the 11th day on the 11th month. We will see the president today, and that is important. Whether we hear from the president , two different things, and we would like to hear from the president to see where he stands on the contested election. It has been building up, particularly over the last couple of days. Tom were going to go to market right now. , one, lisaexplain abramowicz is not with us today, an important day off for her come up in the catskills trying to find the proper word for the fourth thursday of november. Dow futures up. Look at the vix, under 24. Jonathan this market is balled up. Jp morgan calling it m
Eurodollar still trading around that 1. 16 level. We will get some analysis on that in just a moment. Crude just coming off its lows. The other thing worth mentioning is that we are seeing the curve flattening down a little bit today. Big moves in the 30 year on both sides of the olympic. Alix moments ago of the atlantic. Alix moments ago, Prime Minister Boris Johnson defended his plan for lockdown. Pm johnson we are not going back to the fullscale lockdown of march and april, and there are ways in which these measures are less strict. Alix he also promised a Mass Testing Program to begin in days with rapid tests. Joining us is Bloomberg Government reporter emily ashton. What is going to be the take away over the next four to six weeks . Emily this is the concern of conservative mps. The lawmakers here in parliament. We have this vote wednesday on whether this second lockdown will go ahead. I think we expect that vote to be approved, despite maybe about a dozen of Boris Johnsons own co
We stock with the rally on the eve of the vote tomorrow every seconder finishing in the green. The rally after the market hand in the worst week since march. So what does todays Market Action tell us about tomorrows big vote guy, what do you say hi, mel you like my election haircut. I see. Really took it down. Really tight, nice. High and tight. Interesting. Whats it tell you today, i think a lot of people squaring up ahead of the election the vix suggests theres still a lot of concern the six vix at one point traded up to 37. 5 obviously elevated last week saw huge move from 24 to 40. It absolutely mirrors of the move of june 8 to june 11 when it went from 20 to 40 and sms went from 32. To 50 in a Straight Line so the moves are identical, i think if theres a concession speech tomorrow morning this mix of 38 probably has 28 handle theres no concession speech i think the 38 vix remains thats the way im looking at the world right now. Lets be clear, concession speech by either candidate
Kolanovic, just named number one in two categories, equity linked strategy and added to institutional researchers hall of fame. Its a big billing marko, welcome thank you, scott. Lets talk about where we are now and where we were when you made a big and important call back on march 24th, you said the following many taking into account the unprecedented monetary and fiscal measures being implemented as well unprecedented ambassador et sse over thepath month, our equity target is achievable in 2021 we sit about 4 away on the s p. It was a great call. I know our viewers want to know where you think were going now, though thank you, scott. So we are still broadly positive on the equities. As you said, we came a long way from march our price target right now is 360 for the s p 500. Obviously there is an important cat list so there is a relation based on the outcomes but broadly still positive what is it based on what can people take from this price target, which the team over at jpmorgan, w