Within the next few minutes, the former conservative Home Secretary, James Cleverly, will try to win over his fellow conservative mps as he launches campaign to become leader of the party. Mr cleverly is one of the front runners to replace Rishi Sunak following the Conservatives Defeat atjuly s election. He is among six candidates vying for the job, and those candidates will be whittled down to four by the time of the conservative conference at The End of the month. After that, mps will carry out further rounds of voting to select two final candidates for the conservative members to choose between, with the result announced on 2nd november. Lets speak to our deputy political editor, vicki young, who joins us from westminster. Hello. Any hint as to what we are likely to hear from James Cleverly. I think he will talk about some specific policies. We can really say this Leadership Election has been rumbling along in the background over the summer. We have had a bit from all of the candida
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 performance came 52. 1. The economy is gaining strength despite sporadic epics of covid19. Bloomberg has learned chinese regulatory officials have said that the chances of jack mas stockoup revising its are looking slim. They are still reviewing changes needed to appease regulators. An additional delay would be a setback for ma. Has big dollars the fight to overturn his election will not reach the supreme court. He told fox it is hard to send a case there and he probably wont succeed. He rehashed
The transition process starting to kick in. Tom not only the good news, but just as much as there was no bad news today, and that gives a lift to equities and other adjustments in the market. Jeffrey currie will join us from Goldman Sachs, which is wonderful. Futures up 27 and we will talk about the data in a moment, but yes, chair yellen front and center in this historic moment for our politics. Francine lets get to bloomberg first word news in new york city with ritika gupta. Ritika President Trump is finally calling on his agency to cooperate in the formal transition process with joe biden. That follows weeks of inaction. The General Services Administration Made its official made it official with its acknowledgment that biden was the winner of the election. Still, President Trump says he will contest the outcome of the vote. Formeren has turned to fed chair janet yellen to be his treasury secretary. She would become the first woman in the job if she is confirmed. She is likely to wi
3 . 5. 6 , but improvement from the previous ask. Haslinda it does look like china continues to Gain Momentum in terms of recovery. Lets look at where we are in terms of market reaction. Just. 1 . Underperformed after its biggest rally in more than 5. 5 years. Up. 2 . Pretty muted. Belowe been dragging this 6. 8, a strengthening that we saw onshore and offshore. Jp morgan is seeing gains. The 10 year yields. Take a look. Study right now. 313 after that fresh quiddity injection. Yvonne lets break down these numbers with the head of macro resource. Chinasensus about economic recovery and renminbi since april. What is your take on these numbers . I think the number basically confirms that the Economic Activities are normalizing, especially on the consumption front. We see from highfrequency data that retail sales, etc. That were hit during covid19 are slowly coming back. Upside for september data. Also, from the production side, recovery from earlier in the year. There are three things Go
Damaged two that had a key role in handling virus cases. Officials are pushing for a twoweek lockdown to control the pandemic. The french government is sending right police to the marseilles a rate to enforce mask requirements. Has seen scattered incidents of violence from people refusing to wear masks. Is weren 3000 new cave reported sunday, one of the biggest daily spikes since the country lifted its lockdown in may. The japanese Prime Minister shinzo abe visited a tokyo hospital for several hours today. They say it was for a routine avoidanceck but his and public appearances recently has sparked speculation about his health. He has not held a fulllength News Conference since june and has refused call for a new session of parliament to debate issues like the coronavirus outbreak. Global news 24 hours a day, onair, and on quicktake by bloomberg, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. Im Mark Crumpton. This is bloomberg. Vonnie it is 1 00 p. M. In new