New york orders fresh measures to stem the spread. Cases in texas exceed one million. Risks. Ing the Christine Lagarde says all options are on the table to fight the crisis. She will be joined by the boe governor and fed chair. It is the ecb for. Warm welcome to the show. We are waiting for numbers to cross the tape. It is europes single biggest engineering company. I think youve got a little bit of merck. How are the merck numbers looking . Good morning. Annmarie pretty strong. Third quarter net sales coming in ahead of estimates at 4. 45. The estimate was 4. 3 8 billion. Net sales higher. That was a beat on merck. We will speak to the cfo. , inthing to look out for august, he thought it would be another 15 months to a vaccine. Im wondering if that timetable has changed, given the pfizer and biotech news. Biggestt is the Single Company in the world. They did better than some of the others in terms of their stoicism through this. Profit rises into 2021. Thats the key take away from thi
Italy lays out fresh plans to halt the spread. Angela merkel urges people to follow the rules. Benefits from volatility, joining european peers posting lowerthanexpected bad loan provisions. A bullish tone with the numbers. Bottomshould look at the line. It stands at 2 versus a year ago. Look at nine months. It basically is ahead of the target we gave for the full year 2020. Headline. The red the savior, guess what it is . Ficc. Fixed income commodity and currency. 36 . Ng rises by it has beaten the estimates out there. Looks like ann marie, lets provision, very much less provisions. 1. 2 billion euros over what we had anticipated. What else have we got . You have the net numbers. That thirdquarter revenue surpassing the one billion euro estimate. Quite a beat. They are bouncing back more quickly than a lot of french peers on equity derivatives. The equity trading revenue rose more than 21 . That beach the highest estimate. Some good numbers coming through. The other big story, we have
To challenge records. Eu finance are set to meet today. Italy lays out fresh restrictions. Chancellor merkel urges germans to follow the rules. Bmp bounces back, the french Bank Benefits from volatility. A bullish tone on the numbers. If you look at the bottom year ago, andus a nine months, it is ahead of the target we gave for the outlook for the full year of 2020. We are under one hour until the start of cash equity trading. Good morning. Lets look at futures. Some real strength coming through futures markets sees the european picture up 0. 8 . If we look at the u. S. , we get a similarly positive picture. He saw strength yesterday. We have not erased losses from last week. The coronavirus is still very much with us. Yesterday the u. S. Equity markets recovered to some extent, and in europe, the cac 0. 2 . X up by today we see more of that positive trend. We can see positivity coming through in the asian session. Japan is closed, but we have the asian equity session fairly positive.
Milestone, u. S. Deaths topped a new milestone as new york city closes schools again. Germanys finance minister tells bloomberg taming the virus is critical. E. U. Leaders will attend make a veto that threatens from hungary and poland. France says nations could be cut out of the rescue plan all together. Chinasy pledge, president xi jinping says the nation wont engage in decoupling, saying its policy of opening up wont waver. It comes after the u. S. And the u. K. Called for beijing to honor its commitments on hong kong, citing serious concern. Its just gone 6 00 a. M. In london, 7 00 a. M. In germany. Bad news coming, 11,000 jobs to be cut from the business. Of justlow the estimate over 30 billion. No room for a dividend this year. The banks dividend has been restrained. You think about it, this is a disastrous year for steel. The future is unclear. We are grappling with rolling lockdowns and interruptions around the world. Recovering, but the reality of europe and the United States i
Spreading the next few months could be challenging. Approach with caution. Jay powell warning over economic challenges, despite the prospect of coronavirus vaccine. Treasury yields fall amid growing concerns around the pandemic. California joins texas reaching one million infections. U. S. Election Officials Say the vote was the most secure in u. S. History. Bandss President Trump investment in firms controlled by chinas military. What a week. Clarity in the u. S. Election. A hope old date on a vaccine. We are ending the week with a surge in covid cases. A push poll between the euphoria of a vaccine versus the pandemic. We wake up to french hospitalizations breaking a record. California joining texas surpassing one million infections. Chicago, the latest u. S. To issue a stayathome advisory. The mayor saying, this is literally a matter of life or death. Lets take a look at how this is playing out into markets. A stunning week. We have covid weighing on equities. Into session feeding fe