Been interesting. Not just value but also small caps. Also industrials, also cyclicals. They wound up beating estimates, coming in at over 600,000. The earnings went up slightly as well. If you have a miss, you get punished. For global exchange. We will bring you todays market news from around the world, from hong kong to brussels to london. First, we start off in asia where china is firing back at the u. S. Mike pences criticism of his actions against protesters in hong kong. He said chinas actions in hong kong curtail liberty rights. The Foreign Ministry blasted the remotes remarks and said we hope they can get their own house in order. I was quite surprised by their response today. Their response yesterday was much more consolatory consolatory from chinese news outlets. They accused Vice President pence of line. They accused him of arrogance. Y said his speech was and the like. As you mentioned, they said the u. S. Has to look itself in the mirror. To your point about consolatory to
Look at how we are doing on the sector picture. It looks fairly split. To theng of a bias downside. Materials and the Energy Business look in the red. We will look at the bp share price in a moment. Financials, industrials and health care mixed. No clear picture coming through. Many of these sectors look fairly mixed. Matt we see more stocks losing than winning. Down, 250 gaining right now. If you look at the moves to the upside, you see Louis Vuitton rising, only 0. 5 . Bp up 0. 4 after putting out earnings. You see a lot of metals and minors stocks to the upside. Hsbc down 0. 75 . , a lot ofvartis drugmakers and consumer staples, Household Goods coming down. Diageo also declining. Down about 0. 4 . Lets focus on the fed ahead of tomorrows fmoc meeting. A Third Straight rate cut is expected, but the focus will be guidance aspowells far as policy to come. Powell has said the economy is in good shape, but gdp growth is expected to slow further in the Third Quarter. Peterg us now is, Pet
We went to a bull steepener from a bear steepener. Time never global exchange. We bring you todays market moving news from all around the world. Joining us from hong kongs frombergs karen leigh, mumbai are bloomberg executive producer, and Michael Mckee is in washington. We want to kick it off in hong kong, where chief executive carrie lam invoked Emergency Powers and banned facemasks as protests continue. Not an easyis decision to legislate to ban the masks, but given the Current Situation in hong kong, this is a necessary decision. Alix karen leigh has more. Whats been the response . Not a great response from protesters. People are gathering in the city center as we speak. They started gathering while carrie lam was still speaking. People worried this would give police power to go and arrest people, search without a warrant , and in an extreme situation, shut down the internet. It has a huge potential to impact life here. It is something people are upset about. It could fuel proteste
We are getting data out of the euro area. Services pmi is 51. 6. Anything above 50 means expansion, but it is a touch below estimates. At the stoxxok 600, for germany is close, so maybe a little less money out there to trade. Brexitf folks will be on and Boris Johnson will Tell Parliament today. Watch out for any reaction in the pound. , itou look at that paring has much to do with the dollar more to do with the dollar than Economic Data out of the eurozone. Is big worry weve seen exactly what kind of economy we are looking at. Coming up, more from the chicago fed president , but first, lets get straight to bloomberg news. Donald trump is seizing on revelations the u. S. House Intelligence Committee chairman adam schiff met with the whistleblower, the person of the heart of the impeachment investigation. This invalidates the complaint about his controversial behavior. He alleges the Democrat Health right original plaintiff but did not divide any evidence. He should resign from office i
Treasuries are up in the pound is strengthening. Eurodollar, you can see 1. 10 52. As the focus shifts to Central Banks, a lot is coming up with news this week. We also have to look at renminbi. At seven. 08 7. 08. Some breaking news, a new chief executive at the royal bank of scotland. Alison rose will start at the position from november 1. And makes her the first woman to become one of the big for the over to hong kong, thats where Amnesty International is alleging the police beat be prodemocracy protesters. They also accuse the police of committing acts that amount to torture they would not comment, but say they respect the rights of people in custody. This weekend, demonstrations are expected to continue. And allout war in the case of iran in the country, thats according to the foreign minister speaking to cnn. She denies irans involvement and says he hopes to avoid a conflict and adds iran is serious about defending itself. Benjamin netanyahus days as Prime Minister may be numbere