Tom keane taking one final day off. This market ripping through the month of november, adding weight to the rally this december. Lisa up 1 on what . Nothing it seems ahead of this testimony with chairman powell and secretary ma nuche chin. Lisa tom keen is so upset hes still in triple leverage all cash funds had he to take the time out to start his own Cooking Channel on twitter which is what he seems to be doing over the past few days. There is a question how much good news is baked in. We have gotten some news about vaccines looking for approval. Yet at this point, you have raised this again and again, john, how much scarring is there from record numbers of cases of covid, as well as hospitalizations. The numbers keep breaking all time highs. Jonathan the numbers arent going to be great the next couple months. Thats a given. I dont know how much we need to see thats really going to weigh on people considering how well anchored their outlook is for 2021. Vaccinations could begin in a
Lets check quickly on the markets. If you look at the markets, and a lot of them are looking at the concerning news or news brexit is going to weigh markets were hoping. The stocks european 600, down and the pound, looking to see if there is any swing on that. 1. 3243. Lets get to the first word news with leighann gerrans. A british official says brexit talks need to show progress by tonight if they are to continue. European unions chief negotiator is said to have denied any breakthrough on the issue of fishing license. Boris johnson is due to speak with the Commission President ursula von der leyen. Donald trump says his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani has tested positive for coronavirus. The New York Times says the 76yearold was admitted to hospital yesterday. The president wished him well. Giulianis son tweeted his well. Is feeling the u. S. Is said to be ready to sanction more chinese officials over the role of the recent disqualification of hong kong legislators. Familiar,to people
Will try to fill in his space as he expresses his culinary abilities. Francine we will get clarification on what he is working on. Lets get to the bloomberg first word news in new york city with ritika gupta. Ritika good morning. S p global is on the verge of a giant deal in the Financial Information industry. Bloomberg has learned that the company is in advanced talks to for 44s markets billion. An agreement could be announced as soon as today. It would be the second biggest deal of the year. President trumps coronavirus taskforces propping promising a rapid rollout of the vaccine to 2 million americans i the end of the year. The Surgeon General expects that most americans will have access by early in the second quarter. He says the government hopes to quickly ok requests from two drugmakers for emergency approval of their vaccines. A group of opecplus ministers could reach an agreement on whether to delay januarys oil a fullincrease, before meeting of the cartel and its allies today.
This is widely expected. This is the vaccine that was found to be 94. 5 effective in the primary analysis. There is discussion about possibly having some sort of meeting later in the month with the fda to make the approval. We heard from officials over the weekend that they are going to try to approve it in fast order. If you take a look at markets, not the response you would think, at least not much. Jonathan it has been the diminishing marginal rate of the additional vaccine news in this market that has diminished over the last several weeks. Equity futures down 0. 4 percent. Expectations are already so well anchored by the vaccine news weve had over the last several weeks. We are down 0. 4 on the s p 500. In the bond market, yields up by a basis point or two to 0. 85 on the 10 year. The news isnt this morning. It is the cumulative impact of the last several weeks and now it is shaped the forward outlook under a much better way compared to what we face right now in the here and now i
Nation, and Bloomberg Television as well. I love how we end our opening withistopher Christopher Verrone of strategas. A lot of people rationalizing where we are and beginning to rationalize outcome a way utes come on down 30,000 where we are and beginning to rationalize out, wait a minute 30,000. Jonathan lets be clear about something, they have been bullish and right through most of the last eight months. Most hatedlked about bull market, but this recovery has been underappreciated. I have sat here many times waiting for it to fade. It hasnt. But i think now things have changed. Restrictions are back. It is our closing indoor dining. The letdowns wont be the same as early spring, but the restrictions are there for all to see. The question is how much of this do you tolerate. ,om what is just as important moments ago at Deutsche Bank on the fact of a weaker dollar. How weak is weak . What do you see was in the literature . Jonathan if you are ecb president Christine Lagarde, too weak