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.
Only hear from the voters, we also have Ohio Republican senator rob portman coming up. This is a big show, stay with us throughout the entire hour. We start the with fox Business Team coverage. Blake burman at the white house. Well get to black in a moment. We begin this afternoon with Lauren Simonetti on the markets. Lauren. Lauren today, guys, wall street took a little bit of a breather with the first down day in four days. Three main concerns here, mainly stimulus, the whole question mark when well get more of it. But also a rise in coronavirus cases in new york which was once the epicenter of the virus, raising fears of another lockdown. Yes, two lesser extent, investors waiting to see whats going to happen. Who will emerge the winner if there is it one after the president ial showdown tonight. This is how we finished the session. You can see the dow, the s p 500 down half of 1 each. The nasdaq down a quarter of 1 . This is the second to last day of the terrible month of september.
Of the u. S. creditworthiness by Fitch Ratings agency, the markets are mixed. But all four major indices are well off the lows of the session. Dow is up 3 points. S p down 1 point. Nasdaq up 22. Youre looking right now at former President Donald Trump who is just disembarking in washington d. C. He will then get in his vehicle and head to his arraignment. Trump will appear in federal court to answer charges he con conspired and plotted to overturn his 2020 election loss. As you see, he is getting into an suv. Hes got security. We have cameras all over the Nations Capital to follow this. Ing fox business Grady Trimble is standing by at the courthouse where trump is set to appear in person at 4 p. M. Eastern. He may be asked to enter a plea, and a judge will set release conditions. Hes fully expected to plead not guilty, by the the i way. Were going to keep you posted minute by minute as events develop. And in the meantime, he is in that car at the moment. He will take to the road. Lets
Bible are in charge of the news center and most this is all the work. The news we saw it was breaking news tonight is where is extending is gland operations into gaza. According to an idea of official, the armed forces will protect National Security from all angles. What shows up in the last few hours we increased the strikes and garza, the air force, the striking, underground terrace facilities and terrace facilities and a very significant way, you know, following the series of strikes in the last few days, we have the Ground Forces are extending the ground operation. So now i can say to, is there any, are on the vile forces have wide into there are times on her mazda in the gauze as it had the head of the offensive operations is shutting down into that. And ultimately curious as to that, that it is also said to be common, experiencing power outages, both of policy and when costs and to the world have organizations say theyve says both on plants. So that seems in gaza. We completely l
228 points, s p climbing. 67 . Nasdaq gained. 68 house of pleasure. You have to wonder will we get a monster run to dow 30,000 . Is this a total s p 500 jail break . Is the sky the limit thats how i feel after watching hours and hours of tape and marveling that once again we have such broad leadership from the industrials, the airlines, the financials, even the tech stops. This move is eery. Whats driving it . Oh, you know, come out here every night, same as always. Stock shortage, its really been acuteness in the industrials 401 k money being thrown at the market animal spirits a stronger consumer. Tax reform deregulation and a general reevaluation higher for all stocks. Whos doing the leading . Once again, its boeing, its caterpillar, adobe, alphabet, its apple and its netflix. Oh, sure, periodically we have to change things up. Today was all aaang, which is what happens when facebook stumbles so badly it isnt worth the faanging a nic ing acronym. I swear if boeing keeps worrying, yo