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
Enough clarity on the economy to justify restarting payouts yet. That decision is not yet final. Global news 24 hours a day on air and on quicktake by bloomberg, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. I am Mark Crumpton. This is bloomberg. It is 1 00 in new york and 1 00 a. M. In hong kong. Welcome to bloomberg markets. I will be speaking with bill ackman. We will discuss the debut of his new Blank Check Company which raised 4 billion in its initial offering. He will weigh in on what kinds of companies he wants to target with the money and other investments. First, lets look at the markets. We are higher. The nasdaq has erased all of its gains. 25 . P 500 is up mark forck at the 70 the you in the. With heating up today expulsion of the envoy from china. I want to point to the fact that we will be talking about in a moment and that is the Blank Check Company that is trading up an ipo today. The expectation was to raise 4 billion and we will be talking
In europe, also watching what has been happening there, you will also see just like yesterday europe is down across the board. The biggest declines coming from france and london. The cac off 1. 6 among the big market themes, momentum stocks outperform, some momentum factor er, etf up on pace for the best ever launch since 2016 we are going to have a technical analysts on. I was distracted i asked the analyst whether it works like this with the outliar. They insist, no matter what, they did bounce off the level. The ones they mention. It hit exactly and bounced off it we have bleakly here lets say this, we manage 6 billion of assets. We want that to go up. It is risk management. We need p emto worry. We have a lot of them around today. Including me burgon county, the first presumptive case of coronavirus. Energy is in a bare market off from its high in april industrials also in correction territory. Gold on pace for its best performance. Looking at prices this morning, youll see they ar
Transformation which will catch every part of our society and our economy. And we will do it because it is the right thing to do. Investors want their say. Carl icahn turns hostile in its bid for hp and dell shares dropping in after hours trade as they slash its full year revenue cost and blames a chip shortage from intel. I feel like a bit of a broken record saying this every day, but we have new wall street record highs yesterday for all the three majors yet again inching higher yesterday more optimism on the trade talks as well with the u. S. President saying that they are in the final throes of reaching a potential deal and that has given a boost to asian markets as well. The stoxx 600 reached a four year high. So very good dumomentum and you can see that there is a green board right behind me. All the majors are trading positive ftse 100 the outperformer up about 30 points. Good performance in the Mining Sector so that is the uk. Xetra dax up about a ten it th t as well. Pointing
Time for Global Exchange and bring you todays market moving news from around the world from hong kong to frankfurt to london to new york and washington. Our bloomberg voices are on the ground with this mornings top stories. Were going to start with the latest in asia. Trade uncertainty appeared to take its toll on china. The countrys economy losing more steam in october, factory input and fixed asset sales missing estimates and joining me from hong kong is bloombergs chief asian economics correspondent. Give me the rundown of the data weve got. It was a mix across the board with a slump in investment and industrial output miss expectations and on the retail spending part of things we saw the weakness go from auto and turnt and cuggetting the consumer is starting to book now none the pressure of trade war and slowing economy. There were two big takeaways from economists and onen one hand the numbers suggest were probably looking at 6 growth in this Current Quarter and probably shows the