Acceleration in investment since june as industrial output eats estimates beats estimates. Could a firmer recovery be underway . Treyew brexit e. U. Chief pulls no punches on his First Washington trip, cautioning President Trump about protectionism and shortterm thinking. We spoke about him exclusively on resetting relations. The objective of the visit is to try to reset the relationship,t ry to understand each other in relation at the moment and find Common Ground with the United States. We started on a positive note. Matt barclays is cutting around 100 senior jobs across corporate and Investment Bank as the lender looks to rein in costs. Morgan stanley plans to 80 dozens of staff at its wealth business in asia. Lets look first at futures. Even after the new record we hit yesterday, were looking at gains in futures, and fairly substantial gains at that. Dax futures up 0. 5 . U. S. Futures, not the same size but the same direction, green a rrows on the nasdaq, s p and dow jones futures
600 gaining. A lot of the focus is on earnings and the economic backdrop. 1134. Ollar 1 it has fluctuated but is very arrangedbound. Rangebound. Coming up, the World Economic forum in davos. We bring you all the biggest names in banking. Lets get straight to first word news in new york city. We begin with the new york senate approving Donald Trumps new freetrade agreement with mexico and canada. It handles the president and a major win ahead of impeachment. The overhaul of the agreement was a priority for mr. Trump. Mitch mcconnell called vote a rare moment of bipartisan cooperation. The white house broke the law in withholding aid the ukraine. Accordingting to an independent watchdog, saying the president should not have delayed money. This is a key part of the impeachment case against President Trump. , quoteg with them obsessed with the u. S. Trade deficit. This is according to bill hogan, saying americafirst policies are bringing about a priceless moment for global trade. This came
Time for Global Exchange and bring you todays market moving news from around the world from hong kong to frankfurt to london to new york and washington. Our bloomberg voices are on the ground with this mornings top stories. Were going to start with the latest in asia. Trade uncertainty appeared to take its toll on china. The countrys economy losing more steam in october, factory input and fixed asset sales missing estimates and joining me from hong kong is bloombergs chief asian economics correspondent. Give me the rundown of the data weve got. It was a mix across the board with a slump in investment and industrial output miss expectations and on the retail spending part of things we saw the weakness go from auto and turnt and cuggetting the consumer is starting to book now none the pressure of trade war and slowing economy. There were two big takeaways from economists and onen one hand the numbers suggest were probably looking at 6 growth in this Current Quarter and probably shows the
Bright spots. Exports declined less than domestic but weak demand continues to bite. Joining us from hong kong is in karenrrent is in the is enda curran. Is pickingps demand up, and might put a floor on the economy into year end. There was a weaker import, and that underlines that the domestic demand is still weak. We know that new orders of the official manufacturing pmi remain weak as well come us adjusting that bottoming out still has a little bit to go before we can fully call it stabilization in chinas economy. The trade numbers were ok. There were certainly some optimism, but the big picture remains whether the government can push ahead and reach this phase i agreement theyve been talking about. Alix speaking of, the conversation has been to digitally that the phase i deal will happen in a rollback. The ministry of commerce spokesman in china saying that there have been serious discussions, and agreed to remove the tariffs in phases as progress is made on the agreement. What is t
Cigna came in with great earnings and a revised higher fullyear forecast. The stock taking a bit of a dive down 2. 5 . 5 coming up, we will hear from the ceo David Cordani after that result. Guy lets talk about what is happening in europe. The oil sector is lower because of shell. The Mining Sector is down. Chinese pmi data was super weak overnight. That is what we are focusing on, particularly the manufacturing side. Weve got this sorry surrounding what is going on with the trade narrative. The lighthizer deal, basically the chinese arent convinced. Volume is reasonably good today. We are seeing a big moving yields, as you can see. Bonds are bid, yields moving lower. We are 41 on the german tenyear. Chinese data is feeding into that story. Treasury yields moving exactly the opposite direction you would have thought if the fed is going to stand pat from here. Keep an eye on the 97 level on the dxy. Eurodollar, 1. 11. We are absolutely flat on the session. Vonnie the fed cuts for a Thir