Four days of losses is about to become five. Are down 7. 5 over the previous four days. Cross assets, we look like this. A bid into the bond market briefly in treasuries. It did not stick. It was a treasury market selloff. This morning, it is about yen strength. Dollaryen coming down on 0. 3 . Again. Rude is down 0. 9 mark wheret is that you have these massive producing countries like russia and saudi starting to worry. These are very hard prices to deal with when you try to balance your books. It all comes back to demand. Everything is about demand right now. When you have france and germany going into lockdown, that does not bode well. Euroyen is striking me this morning. I feel that for the first time it is acting like a haven. It is her membrane what it is supposed to do. Jonathan a bit of yen strength. Chancellor merkel giving a wakeup call to her fellow eu leaders. They failed to act quickly stop the pandemic. For more, our western europe managing editor joins us. Walk us through
Ive got to go to the pandemic and the fold in to our foundations of this coming quarter, our foundations to 2021. Youve got to comment on what the eu saidd yesterday. Jonathan a call for more fiscal stimulus across the continent as well. Christine lagarde pretty clear about what she wants to do in december. The colder it gets, the harder it gets in europe. Cases are going up. More restrictions are coming on. Big question for the United States, whats next the deeper we get into winter . Tom weve gone back and forth this morning with differences of opinion. It is a movable feast. I would say that the one item this item as the president adjusts his plans for what he will do Election Night because of the pandemic. He had plans to go to his hotel. He will not. The rumor is he will stay at the white house. Jonathan according to open what the new york times. According to the new york times. Lisa we will get some earnings from exxon mobil, the thirdquarter earnings. The reason i am interested
But is promising to keep up the fight. In washington. All eyes are going to be on the Republican Party leadership in the coming days, because really were seeing increased pressure on them to buck the president. On this we saw the big wigs of National Security officials from former republican administrations. Theyve all come out and said this is bad for democracy. Its many of them, not all of them. Obviously, its bad for democracy. Its bad for National Security and probably more important. Were seeing dozens, upon dozens of the country c. E. O. s, the most influential republican donors come out in a letter saying this has to. And Republican Leadership needs to let the president know that its over. You know, bidens newly unveiled National Security team, an expected cabinet nominees are diverse in race and gender. It will include americas 1st female heads of intelligence and treasury and the 1st latina chief of Homeland Security is also making several obama era officials. Now the headline
Beijings economy. He says the world has entered a transformation period but warns against the closed domestic cycle. Watching wall street, Goldman Sachs, bank of america and wells fargo report later today. This after j. P. Morgan and city shares fall despite surprising to the upside. Very warm welcome to our viewers just waking up. Manus is off this week. A much do holiday and very welldeserved. The pandemic really was maines front and center. We have the latest projections from the imf, warnings from the u. K. Scientific advisor. The netherlands entering a partial lockdown. The pause from eli lilly and Johnson Johnson on their latest medical trials serve as a stark reminder that the pandemic is a perennial Market Driver even amongst the uncertainty of brexit, the tugofwar over u. S. Stimulus, and the noise surrounding the u. S. President ial election which today is now 20 days away. Against that backdrop, the markets this morning a little softer in asia. Xi jinping speaking in shenzhe
Not good enough, eu leaders are set to say no breakthrough in brexit talks. Boris johnsons thursday deadline for walking away approaches. Bank earnings turned sour, jp morgan and citigroup slide despite posting betterthanexpected trading revenues. Bank of america and Goldman Sachs are among firms reporting today. Clinical complications, eli lilly becomes the latest company to pause its covid19 drug trial. We will bring you our interview with rival Johnson Johnson. One hour until the start of cash equity trading across europe. Thats look at what is going on in terms of futures. We are seeing gains and European Equity Index Futures even after live trade. An you can see ftse futures up 0. 3 , and euro stocks and dax futures little changed. In terms of u. S. Futures, you can see on s p and Dow Jones Futures slight gains, a little more on s p. Nasdaq futures up 0. 3 . Anna, you have earnings out. Anna lets get the closing details, the business talking about the year but remaining cautious o