Euroyen shows you the dynamic away from the dollar, translated. It is all about the weaker dollar across the board when i look in yields, i really look at the inflationadjusted yield as a 0. 92. 2012. Reaches the jonathan 2 trillion and 99 days. A 2 trillion spread between democrats and republicans, and 99 days until the election. You have to believe the president steps forward and says it needs to be bigger. Tom no question about it. The president just reads the riot act to his republicans about losing the house, losing the senate, losing the presidency, and getting out. I dont think it is 1. 5 trillion where we are heading with mr. Trump. What i would focus on in a week of Technology Earnings is that equities are so resilient here compared to what else you and i see on the bloomberg terminal. Jonathan a massive week ahead. Lets get to the morning brief. A fed decision coming up later this week. Tech earnings in the mix. Latere get u. S. Gdp data in the week. Heres the price action to kick things off. 15,ty futures up positive by 0. 5 percent. Ive got to say, eurodollar. Board at 1. 16 eurodollar quickly at oney 1. 16. 16s at at 1. 1724. Tom tom just to get started this week, the single thing i focus on is the resiliency of the corporate economy given the political overlay. I can honestly say i was thunderstruck last night at the republican battle that mr. Meadows, mr. Mnuchin, and senator mcconnell are doing. Jonathan i couldnt agree more. The conversation begins this morning with eric stein, eaton vance codirector of global income. Equities just shifting higher even though the world around us is becoming increasingly uncertain. Why . Eric first off, thanks for having me on, and good morning. I think it is something tom keene just mentioned. Is 92eld in the u. S. Basis points. You have a weaker dollar. Gold going up. Global liquidity is coming back, even though there are massive problems in the real economy. That helps the corporate sector broadly. Obviously you have the tech part of the architect, which is almost like its own sector. Tom the weekend fear is it is like november of 2000, we are setting ourselves up for march of 2001. Do we slide through this odd bond market do equities adjust and adapt in a measured way . All right you worry or are you worried about a jump to something ugly . Eric great question. Tom you better like it. Its my only good when this week. Eric thats a good way to start monday morning. Me and my colleagues are typically more focused on microcredit markets or micro fixed income markets than broad prognostications, but i would say that this disconnect between wall street and main street can continue for some time, given the liquidity out there and given what the fed is doing. I think when people point to the fixed income market and say treasury yields are low, that must mean equities cant go up, that is part of it. But if the fed is providing , you can keep markets for higher than longer than many would expect. Tom it is fascinating. For a reappearance of the real yield with jonathan ferro, look for that. Jonathan i think the fed decision later this week is really important. The fed has already told us that we would move from stabilization to accommodation. I dont even know what that means at this point, given the amount of stimulus we have seen over the last couple of months. Tom i am tearing up. The team gets the twostens spread up there like it is nothing. You can see the deterioration. On radio, all you need to know is the curve is flatter. Helpthere at stein out eric stein out. Jonathan its nothing to do with the twoyear. It is all about tens in the longer end of the curve. Are you fighting the fed if you are looking for a steeper curve . Eric i dont think the fed necessarily once a lot flatter curve. I dont think they want a super steep curve. But i agree with the previous comment you mentioned alluding to jamie dimon. The steepness of the curve does affect the banking sector, so i do think at the curve flattens, the fed actually gets concerned about that. That is a big debate ive had with my colleagues at eaton vance. Clearly, we are in markets that are heavily manipulated by the fed, but on a daytoday basis, i think the steepness of the yield curve means something. Jonathan jump to wednesday. What is it mean for chairman powell . Eric i think he is going to allude to this transition. You just mentioned this on governor brainards comments. Who knows what that means with negative real yields . But i do think the fed will have more openended qe, more thresholds before they raise rates. Yieldeems to poohpooh curve control, but who knows . The markets dont need the feds help anymore. Tom what are you seeing in flows at eaton vance . Eaton vance is a venerable house. In text excellence managed funds. What are people actually doing with their money . Eric thanks for the plug, tom. On the fixed income side, i think of us as experts in credit markets. I think investors are looking for yield, whether they are finding that in highyield bonds, floating rate loans, emergingmarket debt, things like that. People are looking for yield. If you get negative yield on real yields and treasuries and very low nominal treasuries, i think investors need to find yield elsewhere. Tom what does a weak u. S. Dollar due to that em debt . Eric it actually helps it. If it is denominated in emergingmarket local currencies, it is actually positive right off the bat that you get strength in those currencies. As a dollardenominated investor, you are making money right there. If you are denominated in u. S. Dollars, there is no effect on day one, but it makes it easier for some of these countries, given what is going on with covid, it makes it cheaper for them to pay back that dollar debt. So it doesnt help you day one, but it probably makes those countries more creditworthy with a weak dollar. A weak dollar is good for emergingmarket investing for sure. Jonathan do using the world needs a weaker dollar . Eric you can go back to the 2016hai accord in early after the dollar was strengthening, and there was this talk of trying to get a weaker dollar. I do think a weaker dollar help pick a weaker dollar helps. Easier for corporations around the world that have weaker dollar debt. It is good for easier conditions, so i think Global Policy would much rather a weaker dollar than a stronger dollar. Jonathan if you had over to the ecb, i imagine the rate of change on eurodollar isnt going to be a good thing for them anytime soon. 1. 17 on eurodollar, and it is not just eurodollar. Euro china is breaking out as well. Is the euro moving too quickly . Eric i do think that ecb doesnt just look at the dollar, but the euro broadly. Yuanthe on with the underperformance, i dont think the ecb wants to see a strong euro versus everything else, but you could argue, given that europe is doing better given the virus, and given the eu recovery fund, from a european perspective, certainly theres been more coordination and cohesion then we have seen previously. To the extent that there was risk premia in the euro on a potential breakup, that is obviously significantly lessened now. , think the ecb will take that and Inflation Expectations come down, they wouldnt want to see that. Jonathan great to catch up with you, sir. Lets see on the fx market. 1. 05 on dollaryen. These Type Training rages these tight trading ranges weve been sat in the last couple of months. The same thing on the 10 year, sticking in and around 60 basis points. Move to the downside on friday continues this morning, down by two basis points 0. 57 . Tom dxy, the blended Major Trading index, down right now well owned or well under 94. I totally take your point on the constraint of stronger euro. Anytime you get a big move like this, theres got to be a set of mystery constraints. Front and center to me is the constraint of the euro. The rate of change come the speed of getting out to 1. 20 has got to have the attention of madame lagarde and the rest. Jonathan for everyone down in washington, d. C. , one on earth are we doing . When do we have an agreement between democrats and republicans . Tom it was a relief for eric stein to avoid it for 20 minutes, but lets be clear across this nation, there is no other story this morning. I was thunderstruck at senator mcconnells comment of in the next few weeks. I have no idea how they get out to the next few weeks. Jonathan i think they tightened up the message last night. I think we have a very different equity market. We will catch up with Kevin Cirilli very shortly, and later, a conversation you wont want to miss with Henrietta Treyz of Veda Partners. Lisa abramowicz will be back with us tomorrow. Alongside tom, im jonathan ferro. This is bloomberg. Ritika with the first word news, im ritika gupta. Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell unveiled the latest republican Coronavirus Relief package. The white house plans to cut the weekly 600 unemployment boost to about 70 of prepandemic wages. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has that proposal. Democrats passed their plan a couple months ago. Health officials around the world are getting a reminder of how tough it is to permanently stamp out the coronavirus. They are grappling with second waves on the pandemic. China reported the most cases since mid arch, and spain is scribbling to stay ahead of new outbreaks that lead the u. K. To impose quarantine on travelers. This week, Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell is expected to reassert that odyssey rates will remain near zero for a long while that policy rates will remain near zero for a long while. 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Equity futures higher 14 on the s p, 0. 4 . Eurodollar, 1. 17 handle. The dollar the weakest going back to 2017. 10 year yields weaker by a single basis point. On gold, there you have it. In the commodity market right now. The focus has got to be on washington, d. C. 4 30 local time, the big reveal. Tom over the weekend, the chaos involved all wrecked around the calendar. Kevin cirilli is the bloomberg chief washington calendar correspondent. Hes here to try to get us to august 1 or august 3, when the rent is due. In the New York Times on friday, a dissertation on 600 a week. Heres the summary. Below a certain income level, it is a free lunch. I get that. Above a certain income level, it is a huge salvation to the working lower and middle class in this country. Why do republicans want to bury the low middle class is a fair amount to be poor getting a free much. Kevin you heard this on the sunday shows over the weekend, but you also heard it over the past couple of months from members at the labor department. It started as quiet conversations, and now it is larger conversations being had, which is that some individuals are making more on unemployment, according to the republican argument, then they would be if they went back to work. That is why republicans are saying if they want to encourage companies to be able to welcome back their employees, because on the longerterm, republicans say that is going to make more economic sense. Tom why the reticence on state and local aid, which i believe some would go to republicans . Right now, the way the Unemployment Benefits have not been issued to individuals living without homes, individuals who are not registered in various other systems, millions of americans in the underserved communities havent received any financial assistance, so there is that issue as well. Democrats are saying that 70 of the 600 is not enough cash. I think you are going to have this fight again come the fall, when the next round of stimulus is most likely needed. Alreadyt trump is suggesting this will not be the left front of stimulus before the election. Jonathan this is not just about size. It is about process and execution. In the u. K. , they also had a furlough scheme. Tois 80 of wages out october, but they dont have to roll out that policy across multiple state offices. If you go forward with the republican idea of 70 of wages, how do you execute that cleanly in the coming months . Kevin there are some of the process questions in terms of how to execute that. Even from a broader standpoint, it is the smaller businesses, many of these individuals in need of this Economic Relief in terms of the on Employment Benefits are employees of small businesses. We had this conversation, that based upon reporting here at bloomberg and elsewhere, small and Mediumsized Companies were not able to get the Economic Relief in realtime. So i think what i will be looking for once the proposal is , what isnveiled today the republican solution in order to make sure that smaller sized businesses get access to that capital just as quickly as big businesses . Jonathan Republican Leadership tightened up the message over the weekend. , halfr graham on fox news the republicans are going to vote no. Do we have an agreement, or do we not have an agreement . Tom is this the reaffirmation of the tea party, or is the president going to step in with a vengeance . Which is it . Kevin both. [laughter] tom you cant say that on surveillance. Kevin i am not trying to play both sides. Heres why. Come 2024, when weve got the deficit through the roof, what is going to happen is we public ands, some republicans are going to need to be able to say that they were against spending more money. What is happening on the right is the same thing happening on the left in terms of government assistance. Tom they are going to do this announcementtom you are going to have some guest on. All this comes down to is republicans lose the house, lose the senate, lose the white house. As President Trump at the strength and power now to sit the crew down and say, no, this is the way we are going to do it . Kevin i was struck by a comment President Trump made in which he said that phase i execution of the u. S. China trade deal was something that wasnt necessarily at the top of his radar. It really showed the coming shift in terms of how the president is listening to people like kellyanne conway, senior counselor to the president , who has been advising the president to change his tone as it relates to the pandemic, but also as it relates to the economy. I think the subtle shift in tone, whether on the u. S. China relations, or in terms of saying it is time for america to get back to work, is going to continue. Tom tom do you see how cirilli is different now that we are 99 days away . He changes. Jonathan just a final one for me. What does it speak to this moment, the fact that 1 trillion in washington is now considered too small . Kevin the same thing tom just pointed to, that theres going to be a deficit conversation between now and 2024. November 4, not november 3. Get ready because that fight is coming. Jonathan looking forward to coverage from you, sir. Tom keene 99 days out. I think many people we speak to on any given day refused to believe that the president is going to allow his party to go small on this 99 days out from the election. Tom i agree. I am to the point where i would say president ial power comes in here and there is an attitude adjustment getting the number up. Partial orf a ittybitty kind of program versus the democrats larger, all envisioned, that will be the key point. Doathan if you dont something large to offset the shocks to income, the high levels of unemployment will persist into yearend. This economy consumption has held up pretty well, but it is going to get hit. Tom i go back to gdp and the trillions of dollars we are putting out as percent of gdp, more than world war ii. Frankly, europe is going to have the same discussion. Jonathan we will head down to washington next and catch up with Henrietta Treyz of Veda Partners. Equity futures stretching its legs a little bit, up by around about 0. 4 . Eurodollar comfortably through 1. 17. Spot gold at a record high, 42, up 2 . Bloomberg surveillance this is this is bloomberg surveillance. Jonathan from new york city, this is bloomberg surveillance. We are live on bloomberg tv and radio. Lucy abramowitz will be back with us Lisa Abramowicz will be back with us tomorrow. Heres the price action in the equity market. A lift this monday morning, up 15 on the s p, 0. 5 . The dollar breaking down over the last couple of weeks. , 1. 1726. Reaking out 10 years of misery, and then every decade you get to say i told you so. This monday morning, for the gold bug, it is i told you so. Tom it is i told you so for dennis gartman. Major credit on this. Hes been absolutely brilliant. We are talking about all of the politics, but the reality is you have to go down to marble hall. They are in the marble halls and all of that come up and the bottom line is they have to commit policy. It would be nice to have somebody that actually understands those dynamics within the hallways of congress. Jonathan not just the agreement. Lets bring in Henrietta Treyz, Veda Partners director of economic policy. Republicans are coming to some kind of agreement about 70 of wages. Is this something state offices can actually execute if this is agreed down in washington . Henrietta it is not. Thank you for having me. We herded our conference from every office, democrat and republican, that not only does the federal to part one of labor