That is the shoes, right . The shoe extension . Francine i dont know if you can hear it, but it is a neighbors. It wont last very long. Hammeringtle bit of there. We welcome all of you here, to the realities of the pandemic. The pandemic is front and center, but there is a lot of other news. I would note pacific rim currencies continue strong. Francine they certainly do, and there is quite a lot going on also in pound talks, so lets not forget brexit and the u. K. E. U. Relationship. Les get to first word news with ritika gupta. Ritika the Trump Campaign is abandoning demands that almost 700,000 is withdrawing a key part of its lawsuit against the Election Results in pennsylvania. It is abandoning demands that almost 700,000 mailin ballots be thrown out because observers were kept too far away from the count. The challenge is now against a far smaller number of ballots, almost certainly just a fraction of bidens lead in the state. Joe biden is Meeting National security experts, but his
We have a number of exclusive interviews for you. As always lets check on your markets. One of the things we watched the most. Rising, european stocks were up, they are turning a little bit lower. The risk on kicked off the week is starting to show signs of easing. Yields under recovery. Also looking at Sterling Sterling rallying. Well have plenty more in your markets. Lets get straight to the bloomberg news. Trump is escalating his threats against the World Health Organization, he is unhappy over its handling on the coronavirus pandemic and may personally just permit the cut u. S. Funding of it doesnt make sweeping reform bring saying the agency is to close to china. President xi gave the who his full backing. The u. S. Is going to have to suffer through a spike in virus cases as the economy reopens according to lowell lloyd banks Lloyd Blankfein break saying they can afford to wait afford to wait for vaccine before reopening. Most historical credits would have to acknowledge. Can i c
A doctor returns to the hospital. Good morning, everyone. Tom keene in new york, guy johnson in for Francine Lacqua and london. We say good morning to all of you. It has been an extraordinary come historic we can. The queens speech, the Prime Minister hospitalized as well. Tell us about london. Tell us about the mood monday morning in london. Guy lets talk first of all about what is happening with the Prime Minister. Under u. K. Rules, there is no Vice President , there is no vice Prime Minister. So what is happening here is heominic raab has been will chair todays cobra meeting, the emergency cobra meeting, and he is effectively in charge of the government. Boris johnson is still in charge of the government, but with him hospitalized, there are growing calls that the Prime Minister needs to take a step back. The understanding is that he has been put into hospital for precautionary reasons, but we will wait to see the exact details. There is no new information be on the news that he ha
Good thursday morning. Welcome to squawk alley. Im Carl Quintanilla with jon fortt at post nine of the new york stock exchange. Morgan brennan with us from hq were going to continue to bring you nonstop market coverage from separate locations for a while as we reduce travel for employees as a precaution due to the spread of the virus. For the markets volatile this morning where we will start. Major averages deep in the red, had a circuit breaker. The president did institute the 30day travel ban for europe excluding the uk in an effort to curb the spread of the virus ali and brian both here on set thank you for coming in. Good to see you. Brian, what do we say . We know youve liked opportunities in this market do you still think theyre here . Its an honor to be here today on days like this, and when youre a strategist and portfolio manager, because we do both, we are defaulting to terms of i call it the three ps of investment management, perspective, poise and process okay the perspecti
Were at post nine morgan and john have the morning off. Interesting setup here were approaching nasdaq 9 k very quickly tech, the best performing sector for the year hitting a fresh record high this morning joining us to day with his top picks in the sector for 2020 is our lead internet analyst. Mark, happy holidays good to see you. Good to see you, too. I want to get right to the large cap longs for next year. Uber is number one then you have two, three, four talk about it. Yeah. Im going to pitch it. Uber is the facebook its our facebook for 2020 it turned out of all the stocks, facebook is the best performer in 2019 because it whats so dislocated at the end of 2018. A lot of controversy around it i think thats exactly the setup or similar to the setup on uber now. We like it we think well see a clear path to profitability i think well see sustained growth in the ride sharing business and if they can fix that eats business, thats going to surge the outperformance and cause the outper