we are saying that could be the revenge of 60/40 at john hancock.ar. melda, i will give you the last word. clients want to know what your thoughts are. what is the main thing you tell them? melda: we tell them to be patient. there will be so much headline risk this year with election and unexpected virus spread, but we can pick the stocks at the stock level, and create portfolios that can deliver their outcomes and meet their goals. stay patient. romaine: melda mergen, thank you so much for joining us, and matt miskin of john hancock investment management. sonali: coming up, tesla is on a tear. shares extending their rally, setting it up for a second record-setting day. more on that in today's bottom line. remember, bloomberg users interact with charts shown using gtv . browse charts to catch up on key analysis and save charts for future reference. this is bloomberg. ♪ viviana: this is "bloomberg daybreak." i'm viviana hurtado with your bloomberg business flash. we begin with visa. the company planning big changes to the rates u.s. merchants pla

joining sus john hancock's investment analyst >> proper in. >> what a night to come in, emily.oming off the news that i wish was better. if you had at john hancock to say the most important thing for viewer's money in the markets is coronavirus, the fed, earnings what would you pick. >> you obviously read my notes the three top things that we're focused on right now i think if i had to choose one i think it would really be the fed or central banks globally. you think about all of the geopolitical risk that markets have been presented with in year, whether iran, the coronavirus, never be ever fight the fed. never ever fight central banks >> even in the face of a potential global pandemic. >> you have seen chinese policy makers respond with epic amounts of stimulus over $300 billion in the past week. markets reacted to that. the challenge now is that we see portions of the yield curve reinverting. i don't know if that's a word. they are inverted again. that's putting the fed in a tough position can you believe they added all the stimulus and now the yield curve is inverted again?

check out the guy's face after he got carmelo's john hancock, probably on ebay tonight. it's an absolute bore unless stuff like this happens. mitchell wilcox got a full pigskin to the face. listen. oh, looked like that hurt. >> great defense, ethan. >> oh, wow, dylan smith. >> dylan smith tripped him. >> usc's okonwu dialed up the long ball three quarter court shot. he was fouled, by the way, and the trojans beat arizona. >> impressive. >>> word on the street is that steph may come back sunday night. >> okay. >> if he does, gameday on location from chase center sunday night. >> with the dogs? >> with the dogs in the starting line-up, in fact. >> that looked like taco to me. >> yeah, he did. taco's no longer with us. on that note. >> was he catholic? i didn't know that. >> we'll be right back. when i came home from prison my sons were in their teens. so i got involved in juvenile justice, i didn't want them to go through the same thing i went through. michael bloomberg created the young men's initiative. in helping keep other young men and young women from entering into t

john hancock was reputed to be a major smuggler. i've not done that research myself. or the back to get a complete answer to that question. certainly hancock was an important leader of the boston radicals, and he was well known -- even though he was very powerful and wealthy, very prosperous guy can he was an ally of sal all -- samuel adams and give a famous oration in boston on the anniversary of the boston massacre. it was one that john adams said left everyone in the audience weeping so pathetic but the terrible things that happened to boston during the boston massacre. so, hancock was definitely an ally of samuel adams and the committee of correspondents. also a smuggler, but how much of that smuggling was tea, i don't know. he was well-known for smuggling madeira. he was a well-known wine smuggler but whether he was a tea smuggler or not, i'm not sure. other questions. >> balcony. >> i cannot see you at all. i'm. >> i'm over here. >> i still can't see you. >> how did the other colonies react to the buildup of british troops in royal navy in boston after june of '7

against carmelo anthony john hancock. that is pretty good. he could the nfl combine, it's underway.s stuff like that happens. wilcock caught a face full of pigskin. number one. >> a great defense. >> oh, wow. devon smith. >> oh! >> dylan smith tripped him. >> dels up the long ball. three-quarter court shot. he was foul. the trojans beat arizona. that is the latest in sports. i am dennis o'donnell. have a great weekend. >>> our coverage over the deadly coronavirus continues next. >>> still ahead in our next half ever on kpix 5 and streaming on cbsn bay area, how amazon is protecting customers who are shopping for products to keep them healthy during the outbreak. >>> plus, where learning more about the patient in solano county was being treated for the coronavirus. the medical team in uc davis tries to retrace her steps. >>> we are streaming now on cbsn bay area. you can find woman: the deadly corona virus officially hitting the us. man: the markets are plunging for a second straight day. vo: health experts warn the us is underprepared. managing a crisis is what mike bloomberg does.

emily rowland of john hancock investment.erg. ♪ jonathan: from new york city for our audience worldwide. i'm jonathan ferro. "the countdown to the open" starts right now. ♪ jonathan: coming up on the program, equity markets climbing a wall of worry to record highs. hillowell's day on capitol , and senator sanders on top. democratic moderates squeezing each other out. with 30 minutes until the opening bal, good morning. here is your wednesday morning price action. equities advance .4% on the s&p 500. all-time highs after the record highs and we are expecting to add weight to that after the open. treasury yields a couple of basis points higher to 1.62. the euro a little bit weaker, sitting right on top of 1.09. senator sanders coming out on top in new hampshire. a tight finish, leaving the best of the rest to take him in nevada. beginningctory is the of the end for donald trump. >> we will be donald trump. >> we might be headed for another one of those long primary figh

just as we refer to a signature as your john hancock and we refer to gerrymandering named after albert jerry. i think mcconnell will mean rig a system to get the outcome you want because that's what happened here. one thing that happened yesterday which was a little subtle, but when closing the day and planning the week, one of the things mitch mcconnell did was to include in the motion to close the record. and that means no more evidence is going to come in. so even if john bolton were to give some blockbuster interview this weekend where he disclosed what's in his book, that can't be used in the record. mitch mcconnell knows how the process works and he engineers it to get the outcome that he desires, i think to the detriment to our country. i think that's how history books will remember this moment and mitch mcconnell. >> he was going to be remembered for stealing a supreme court seat and this might supersede it. to stay with you just a moment, barbara, one of the jurors in this trial, marco rubio, who had been humiliated by donald trump but is now a sycophant, he said even if every

yes i'm doctor hancock and john both issues and challenges but one thing i haven't heard much about whatare the solutions and the breast practice coming up, what would be a couple best practices that you could share that you are really proud of that would be helpful here but also that we can report on around the globe, many of these issues have been and different countries and they are the issues that we are discussing here this afternoon and thank you for being here. >> so at least with regards to the aging population because it seems like we started focusing there. one of the things that we are focusing on is making sure streets are accessible because some of our aging population have different needs. making sure that we have more public places that are gratuitous so that everyone can participate in them and at least in topeka with regards to solutions for the population. one of the things it is really exciting is the merger of the traditionalists and the bloomers working with young people to move the community forward. we have really created ways that everyone has a platform and peopl

hancocks live at the base in south korea with details. obviously this is of concern, paula. >> reporter: absolutely, john. army, they are in close quarters. there is great concern to find out exactly who this individual was in contact with and warn them. so we know it's a 23-year-old male, he was brought up here to camp humphries which is the headquarters here by ambulance. he's now in a negative -- negative isolation room, pressured, negative pressure isolation room to make sure he can recover as quickly as possible. the commander put more restrictions on the u.s. military here. he has said that only mission-essential personnel will be allowed on base tomorrow. the same to the east, southeast of the country where this individual was based on the u.s. military base camp carroll. the area of degu has become ground zero for the fiept against coronavirus here. and it's not issue for the south korean military -- it's an issue for the south korean military. they have 20 confirmed cases of the coronavirus and not just in one department. they have it in the navy, the marines, the air force and the army. they're

house chief of staff john kerry has recently described the summit and all other meetings as futile saying that america got played well mason ritchie is an associate professor at hancock university of foreign studies he joins us now via skype from seoul mason president trump has been preoccupied with issues like his impeachment and and now the coronavirus so has north korea been put firmly on the back burner now by the u.s. administration do you think. yes that seems to be the case when you talk to people in washington d.c. whether in the state department or the white house and even the defense department and extends north korea in terms of diplomacy right now is clearly on the backburner is likely to be the case for most of the rest of the $21.00. seemed to be so much promise off of the singapore summit and also made that historic step over the border into north korea but i mean even pyongyang now seems to have lost its appetite the talks yes that's absolutely correct they were clearly broadcasting not for most of 19 following the failure the last opportunity and some inspectors in no way. throughout the 2nd half and $21000.00 in particular they were very clear about