coming up, we will have the latest on the markets with doug ramsey.ll get his take and, for what it's worth, taking a look at virus cases across the globe -- only 19 regions of the 186 tracked by bloomberg reported record covid cases last week. but, of the record cases, all were in emerging markets except for canada. which reported 62,000 new cases. amber: this is not the kind of accolades canada is looking for. but even amidst all this, there's been so much flip-flopping on policy over the weekend and they announced a lockdown of playgrounds and within 24 hours, that was abruptly reversed. matt: that has not worked out well in terms of the strategy. maybe they should take note from all the bad strategies they saw in the u.s. and u.k. in any case, we hope you get your vaccine soon. this is bloomberg. ♪ matt: this is bloomberg markets. u.s. stocks are pulling back from their record highs as investors put a slew of corporate earnings out this week and rates are doing a whole lot of nothing, hovering around 160. doug ramsey joins us with his outlook on t