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Washingtons partisan battle. Joining us now is bloombergs chief content officer marty schenker. Many people thought this was an inspired choice. It ticks so many boxes. Just your sense of what this means for how washington is now going to operate. Martin i wouldnt describe it as necessarily inspired. It is an inspiring lee safe inspiringly safe choice because she is so wellknown on both sides of the aisle. I think she will have a relatively easy time getting confirmed. She is a traditionalist in...

Furman, who was across from chair yellen years ago at the councils of economic advisors. It will be fascinating to see what she does in a very different job. The headline is she has to do with congress and the senate. Jonathan and she is conditioned by the experience of the previous cycle, and i think that is really important. This is about avoiding a premature declaration of victory. Chair yellen has lived that, and im sure she wont want to make the same mistake twice. Tom i am really focused o...

Classes. Pricee the new york crude under pressure. We have this key meeting taking place of opec plus today and tomorrow. The gold price at the moment is showing weakness. Buy yourself finance. Bitcoin is erasing some of the 9 . Es by going up nearly lets look at the other first word news headlines. Lets join karina mitchell. Karina bloomberg has learned readingna the latest on chinas economy shows recovery is getting momentum. Manufacturing and services, pmi data both beat estimations. In aty p...

Los angeles orders residents to stayathome. The clock ticks. France warns it could veto a trade deal between the u. K. And the eu if it doesnt like the terms. It comes as officials on both sides of the deal could be done in the next few days. Increased scrutiny. The house of representatives clears a china delisting bill, sending it to president trump. The measure could lead to companies being kicked off of the american exchanges. 6 00 in london. 7 00 in paris. 10 00 in downtime see iop. We have ...

Indicating it. We are a few days in december, and clearly we get no respite for the holidays. There is no question about that. An extraordinary 46 minute video from the president last night, hugely commented on in washington. Attorney general barr, you wonder how he gets through the weekend with the president. I agree with you, this french issue is not a small matter. Memory of if in the that macron decided to rip a page out of the textbook from 30 years ago. Francine we will have a lot more on ...

We are watching the hang seng index. Australias market is only higher by 0. 3 . But we had this news that china will allow australias cargo to come ashore. Lets have a look at stocks. Clearing exchanges in focus. The u. S. Approved legislation that could lead to chinese firms getting kicked off american exchanges. Also getting a call from sidney. Tak is down 1. 4 . ,his big surging iron or holding at a record. In recent weeks, weve seen pickup of state owned enterprise default in china that have...

Good morning, everyone. Welcome to bloomberg surveillance. I am Francine Lacqua here in london. This is what the gap. There is a big movement on europound. That is what i would be watching. Also data coming in better than expected but really still under 50 at 41. 7. If you look at the data, the story on the markets is exactly what is happening with euro pound. Now, the fact that france is now floating a veto threat over the brexit deal makes a lot of Market Participants very nervous. I am lookin...

1 10 of 1 . Minor gains for the australian and china markets for the shanghai composite. Situation with regards to the equity markets, what about some of the other Asset Classes and play . We can have a look at those. Take a look at the oil prices, retreating at the moment. You need currently, what, 41 essentially for a barrel of wti, 41. 09, moving to the downside. Stockpile to the upside. Gold not much of a haven, dollar index moving to the upside, the dollaryen currently stronger. It has been...

The influencer jon ferro for you on Bloomberg Radio, bloomberg television. Got all of this going on this morning. I want to do the markets to start our simulcast in this hour. We will do the data check as we talk here. Spx up 0. 7 , and once again, the nasdaq less. Is the trend in place . Jonathan the trend is in place, and the small caps outperform. Many people, and the words of jonathan callup, willing to look of Jonathan Golub, willing to look at the forward outlook. Tom we are getting into a...

The last 24 hours. Tom what is interesting is the microanalysis of france or germany. Interesting conclusions. Heres what matters. Hospitalization capacity and the number of deaths is front and center for the pros. Jonathan and for market participants, desensitized by the numbers, conditions by the experience of earlier in spring. Markets that if that markets go up, and if they policymakers step in. Tom it is real simple here. Yes, all of that is true, but. Lso noted, a society adapting stimulus...