And tom keene on Bloomberg Television, Bloomberg Radio across this nation, one day to the election, and to all of you worldwide, good morning. An incredibly busy newsweek. After the election, weve got the fed, weve got jobless claims, and a jobs report on friday. We are really focused on the election. How do you from london see it. Jonathan elevated volatility going into it, and a breakdown in correlations. For markets, i think it is really tricky right now. Typically you would expect some inverse correlation between stocks and bonds. At are not getting at the moment. Difficult is really to assess what the politics actually mean, and to put together a portfolio around it. Tom we are going to talk to an esteemed guest about that. I got to ask you about the lockdown. We heard earlier this morning the exceptionally difficult weekend Prime Minister johnson had. It is government threatened . Jonathan his government is failing on this front, and plan has failed as well. His party, that is wh
Across this nation and worldwide. In morning on bloomberg television. Coming up, an important conversation with the vice chairman of the Federal Reserve system, Richard Clarida of columbia university. Jon, were way out front on the collapse of the United Kingdom suffered on the pandemic. But the bombshell you and i didnt see was the Prime Minister taking this Natural Disaster out to march of next year. Jonathan and maybe beyond. We certainly didnt see that in march 2020. We had three months of happy talk around europe versus the u. S. Many people have come on the program and talked about it. The data is not great either this morning. The service data softer than people expected. Manufacturing data ok. Do we start to hit some road bumps not just on the policy around covid, but also on the economy and this recovery . Tom what is your measurement of the American Economy now, in the many conversations you have on this . I am getting the sense of down big, up big, but i dont understand wher
The idea that they can delay decisions into september, i just dont get that when i observe what i observe on the streets of new york. Jonathan lets observe the price action. We know why theres no urgency. Compare and contrast to where we were back in march. D. C. Is on the road to nowhere. They have been for the last several weeks. Tom there are two americas out there. Good morning, john edwards of louisiana. What we see is the complacency of the politicians that they have time. I dont understand where that complacency came from. Jonathan lets get to the economic data. Cpi coming out later this week. Retail sales, that is how we conclude the week on friday morning. In the price action this monday morning, equities, the calm in the equity market. We are up five points on the s p 500. We advance a little more than your. 1 more than 0. 1 . Treasuries under the hypnosis of fed chair jay powell. Tenure goes nowhere. Wedbush out this morning, upgrading his price target on apple to 515. We ar
Number for the company. Quarterly sales were down 43 year on year. The stock is pretty much flat, though. The bad news now, just how bad would let actually be . Sales roseommerce about 74 . They still need people to come into the store to really make a lot of money. Their comp sales were up by over 10 , if you backout fuel. Clearly a lot of stocking up. Clearly good for walmart. Kohls suspended its Share Buyback program. That stock now off by about 1 in the premarket. Overall, no doubt we are obviously going to take a bit of a pause as we digest earnings and that monster rally. The question is whether the new was that or a bear market rally. Is that really being reflected in equities . We need the Economic Data to really match. Lets get to the news from overseas, as well as here in the u. S. We want to start with the walmart numbers and look ahead to fit your jay powell. Michael mckee has more. Just in case we werent sure that people were hoarding toilet paper, we get walmart. Michael
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