Investors see less chance of new regulations, equity futures writing rising in tokyo and hong kong. In china tries to reassure the Business World that it is open to trade. Concern of the moran sealer approach. Shery breaking out of south korea. We are getting the currentaccount surplus in south korea for the month of september, widening to 10. 21 billion. We had seen a previous surplus at around 6. 5 billion. This has widened to over 10 billion. The goods surplus coming in at above 12 billion. We have seen continued surplus for the current account in south korea. Consecutivee a five months surplus, not to mention exports in october contracted a little, but in september they rose for the first time in seven months. South koreag pmi in so weoday twoyear high, are getting a widening of the surplus. Haidi pcb numbers crossing the bloomberg, betterthanexpected, eating the analyst estimates on the bloomberg, Third Quarter 1ome coming it at just billion, better expectations than 850 million.
Paying more than 1 billion australian to settle a Money Laundering allegation, the largest corporate find never levied in australia. Tiktok drama turns another page, owner bytedance asking a judge to halt the ban in america, Chinese State media slamming u. S. Dirty trip u. S. 30 tricks. We heard from larry kudlow in the last few minutes, downplaying expectations we will be getting any more fiscal stimulus through the pipeline, larry kudlow saying he doesnt think the u. S. Needs another stimulus package and that they will be doing targeted measures only and need to be smart about this measures. This comes after course of fed officials, including chair powell, saying there is a long way to go for the economic rebound, we heard from several others, all saying there is further need of more fiscal stimulus to do that heavy lifting. And that comes after congress ended its pursuit of a bipartisan spending bill and are now focused on replacing Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the supreme expected thisin
Delays. Pres. Trump know, we did not do that at all. I want the post office to run properly. They are going to need more money if they are going to take intensive billets of ellis tens of millions of ballots out of nowhere. It is a part of the bill that the democrats dont want to make, because they want a trillion dollars to go to states that are run by governors who happen to be democrats, who have not done a good job for many years. Those are states that oa lot of money and need a lot of money, and they are talking about 1 trillion. The post office and the 3. 5 billion for the boats themselves. The votes themselves. Think about that, 3. 5 billion for mailin ballots. Shery President Trump right now giving a press conference at the white house. He is addressing questions about usps funding. Together thoseut two issues of mailin ballots and giving that funding for the u. S. Postal services. A proposed 25 billion financial lifeline. But china, saying the u. S. Would call with china about
Germany sees the economy shrinking at least 5 . This, as fears of a virus followup could last for years. We hit our we will hear from ceo bill winters this hour. Haidi lets look at trading when it comes to australia. Asia looking softer, potentially modest bump up after u. S. Stocks saw the first gain in three days of losses. In new zealand, trading is dataway, retail sales is a point we will be looking at later to give us an indication, not super forwardlooking, but at least how things stand in terms of the fed rate period, asia excluding japan looks like it has had a flat week so far. That is u. S. Future. Waitinghe bond market, for the ava bond purchase, the aussie yield curve steepening ahead of the government announcing option plans for the coming week. We could see a bump up in primary activity, looking at the threeyear yield to and the week below target after the central bank boosted liquidity and calmed down money markets. We are watching banking stocks after they cut fees, one
Now. Maria we want to check Global Markets this morning, european indices all over the place this morning following the u. S. Central Bank Stimulus package. London shut down, some of the mass transit lines in an effort to contain virus. Ftse 100 is down 12 points right now. Dax index in germany right now up 21. In asia overnight it was red across the board. Take a look. Korea getting hard hit down better than 8 overnight in korea hitting levels not seen since 2009 even as coronavirus cases are dropping in korea. As you see the other majors are also weaker. Lets check the oil markets now. Seeing a rebound this morning after 18year low. As you see oil prices bouncing 250 a barrel at 22. 87 a barrel. Yield on the 10year treasury hovering above 1 . Yields are bouncing once again 1. 92 on 10year. Investors certainly gearing up for another wild day this morning in terms of volatility. Lets check futures. We are expecting another tripledigit decline. The nasdaq is down 35 and s p 500 weaker b