Priority. Pandemic under control is his top priority. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to bloomberg surveillance. I am Francine Lacqua here in london. A lot of the focus is on the number of infected with covid19. At bond growth, a lot going on, treasuries, for example, rising. Overheated equity markets, the deteriorating coronavirus situation in many countries. Oil demandtting its outlook, saying they will not rescue the market, and then i got a look, not very often, but coming out with figures that were not great but were better than expected, leading to burberry gaining one point half percent. 1. 5 . Now lets get to the bloomberg first word news in london with laura wright. Hey, laura. Laura good morning, francine. The recovery is being derailed by a rise in virus cases and a. Ew lockdown president elect joe biden is naming longtime aide dr. Vinjamuri ron claim as his chief of staff. His leading role during the Health Crisis of the Obama Administration leaving the white house in the 2
Surveillance. I am Francine Lacqua here in london. This is what the markets are doing, focused on the lack of stimulus coming from the u. S. They are also focused on the earnings. I see a bit of zigzagging. The other thing i am watching for is the pound. A lot going on, you know, in the next 12 hours, when Boris Johnson needs to decide whether to abandon talks with it eu, giving the clear signal of what he wants in order to remain at the table. We have a pack show today. Talk top at 9 30, we the irish finance minister that wedonohoe, and speak with ignazio visco, the Banca Ditalia governor. Now lets get to the bloomberg first word news in london with leighann gerrans. Hi, leighann. Leighann good morning, francine. The boeing 787 has been deemed safe to fly. The news comes besides a software upgrade, not being done it for up to two years. The max was founded in 2019 grounded in 2019 after two fatal crashes. President trump and joe biden held separate town halls last night, 1000 miles ap
Instructed the u. S. Navy to shoot down and destroy iranian gun boats if they harass or ships at sea obviously thats a policy, thats going to make it so that anyone who is short oil theres so many people short oil, might say its worth covering here. I had a big win. Its geopolitical, the fact theres a failed instrument out there called the uso, i say its failed because its not been able to handle the selling yeah. Executing a 1 for 8 reverse. Are they really we talked about the usa more th than we ever have. Some things should have never been created, the uso was blessed when the s. E. C. Not around, people lose money, but theres no constituency that says you cant lose money. What do you make of the general notion that the president s tweet aside that some of the results last night were better than feared. You have a list of companies now that have been able to either sell a stake privately or through secondaries and well get to that in a moment. Plus the Senate Package making progress
Tom wti is leading down, no question, francine, but i would look at the remarkable decline of floating oil, global oil, brent crude, well under 20 a barrel now. For it to sustain under 20, a splint to me how some of these nations move forward. You were talking in the last hour with the tourist rector of greece. I dont know if oil is good or bad for the tourist director of greece, but 20 brent crude does not get it done for a lot of other people. Francine i mean, i think the price of oil is secondary. If you are the greek minister for tourism, he was very careful because he wanted to speak to other nations to see if it was ok. But do you issue a Health Passport . How do you do with people congregating in lobbies . A thirdce, it employs of their population. Now to bloomberg first word news with viviana hurtado. Viviana a new strategy to expand coronavirus testing from the white house, that is our beginning on first word. States receiving new guidance on how to build testing capacity, les
Velocity to the dollar and cash, it only have i never seen it, would say biblical times but i was not around for that. Francine i will have plenty more on that. Lets get to bloomberg first word news. Viviana we begin in china for the First Time Since january the nation reporting new cases of the coronavirus in the single digits. A month ago china reported almost 15,000 cases in one day. It is a sign of viral outbreak may be coming under control. Still the disease is spreading in the u. S. And europe. Italy has more than 15,000 cases and over 1000 deaths. The u. S. Is now up to 1500 infected. A state of emergency declared in new york city last night. To capitol hill and how House Speaker nancy pelosi saying she is near an agreement with the Trump Administration on a coronavirus bill. For paid sicking leave and more aid for those who will lose their jobs. Policy hopes to have a deal today. Investors looking to the Federal Reserve. The fed unleashing a trillion dollars but failed to help