Virus. We are also getting headlines out of europe which are undermining confidence as well. The stoxx 600 is down by 0. 7 . The s p now down by 0. 4 . Eurodollar actually picking back up again. The 1. 16 level held, and what i am hearing is the real money accounts are back in the market. 1. 17,back now above 1. 1729 where we are right now. We have the ecb watchers event tomorrow, Christine Lagarde speaking in the morning, and then at 10 00 him him 10 00 a. M. Eastern, we will have speaking. E , the chief economist speaking, the chief economist. Alix the s p now down by 0. 4 . New york citys daily positive rate daily Positivity Rate is now over 3 for the first time in a month. Now offeringo is new enforcement for schools, saying if any of them do not over the rules, they will be closed. Governor cuomo will be speaking at 00 speaking at mike huckabee, speaking at 1 00 p. M. There are some granados stones globally. The deaths passing one the deathsly passing one million globally. Joining
Election story, and whether the market is saying we want to seek some safety and the dollar is the place to do that. The yen was trading lower against the dollar a little bit earlier on, but eurodollar now trading with a 1. 17 handle. What youre seeing in germany, u. K. , canada, and the United States is quite a sharp curve flattening, pivoting around the tens. The 30s are down quite hard in terms of the yield, so a big bid at the back end of the bond market. Alix all part of that is the virus story you were discussing, so lets get to that. U. K. Chief scientific advisor warning of 50,000 new cases a day by midoctober if urgent measures are not taken. Cases are increasing. Hospitalizations are falling. Deaths unfortunately will follow that, and there is the potential for this to move very fast. At the moment, we think that the roughly is doubling every seven days. If we dont do enough, the virus will take off. If we do not change course, we are going to find ourselves in a very difficu
Abramowicz and tom keene in new york. Good morning on Bloomberg Radio across the nation. Good morning on Bloomberg Television worldwide as well. Theferro, without question most mysterious jobs report ive ever witnessed. Jonathan we talked about the wide range all morning. Lets talk about it again. At the top, 2. 4 million. Thats the high estimate. Below, 100,000. The pace of the recovery is slowing. I wonder if we have seen more evident if we are seeing more evidence of that a little later this morning. Tom i thought of one of your good questions earlier, the idea of this shift to the new unemployed. Forget about furloughed. Forget about all of the other language. It is people terminated. Lisa people are becoming permanently laid off. Initially it was temporary. My question today is going to be is bad news good news, and is good news bad news . The idea that if we get a worse than expected report, we will get into this for some as we will get impetus for some kind of fiscal support we
Rally. The bond market yesterday saying a bit of buying come back, but not much for printing. 71 basis on the 10 year right now. Action pivots over what is happening in the United States. We get to the Michigan Consumer center. A little stronger than economists seemed to have protected. 74. 1, up from 72. 8 last time around. 72. 8 was what the economists were predicting as well. Current conditions, 82. 9. That is slightly ahead of expectation which are at 60. 5. The expectations number is actually where we are seeing the strain. Lets turn to our big story of the day, we have seen that apart from the japanese Prime Minister shinzo abe, the countrys longest serving premier will be undergoing treatment for chronic illness. He spoke earlier today. Respond to ready to the mandate by the public. I made a judgment i should not continue my job as Prime Minister. To step down as Prime Minister. Indicated that he will stay on until Leaders Within his party choose the successor. That could happen
For shinzo abe. The pound is big today. We are up by 1 . Governor of the bank of england indicating we are going to see the possibility of negative rates. We are, as you can see, seeing a big bid for the yen as well. Dollar is down. Stoxx 600 is low. S p absolutely flat. Kailey i want to bring you news. Mgm resorts, the casino operator, is cutting 18,000 jobs. That cut impacts over one quarter of its u. S. Workforce. It has been a hard time for casinos during this pandemic. Mgm operates not just in the u. S. , the las vegas strip, but also in macau. All macau travel was shut down, they have yet to catch up. Las vegas market makes up half its revenue. Mgm cutting 18,000 jobs. At the moment, the stock is higher by about 4 . Guy back to that story relating to the bank of england. Governor Andy Beshear Lee says there is plenty of room for more monetary stimulus. He spoke at the feds virtual jackson hole event earlier. He talked about what is in the box. We are not out of firepower by any m