Biden. Last ditch support efforts for both candidates moving at breakneck speeds. And digital gold. Cryptocurrency on demand with rising prices for bitcoin. You can crypto a lot of things, but dont call it currency yet. Rising aftertocks resuscitated hopes for a spending package. The nasdaq had a modest game game. Abigail doolittle is in new york. Abigail another choppy day. We have not had one day this week when we have not had stocks up and down throughout the day. There has not been when they were that has been the case. We have seen a lot of intraday whipsaw. Investors are pretty nervous. Some uncertainty. The s p 500 is up after spending most of the day down. Up about 0. 3 . Two down Sectors Energy and tech. Not surprisingly, tech being weighed on by intel. The stock one of the only indexes on the date of fall. Day to fall. Data center sales missing down 10 year over year. The guidance tepid as well. At the end of the day, it was a choppy week. Investors dealing with lots of uncer
Australian government is slowing down. It is flat in the session. The jci and jakarta composite index just started off its trading day. Dollar index moving to the upside. Sterling is flat at the moment after gains. Those gains coming about after we got brexit talks being extended to the end of october. That is adding some optimism that may be a deal could be done after one of the chief eu sides comingid see close together at the end of last week. Crude oil and gold moving to the downside as we have limbo in regards to the fiscal package or stimulus package out of capitol hill. Lets have a look at what is going on in terms of the first word news as we get over to new york and join Karina Mitchell. Karina global coronavirus numbers continue to make headlines with the u. S. Reporting record infections for the second day in a row. The white house saying the administration is not going to control the crisis. the news comes as Vice President mike pences chief of staff tests positive. Withe h
Overspeed. The communist party wants greater sustainability. The ecb hints that a more stimulus is coming as governments impose new lockdowns. Seize until the crisis dies down. Breaking news out of south korea, we are getting the september numbers for Industrial Production, a rebound of 5. 4 . This is a rebound from a can fraction in the previous period. We are seeing revisions upwards for the previous month of august. This is a huge beat of estimates. Growth, on year number, a jump of 8 , really rebounding after six months of contraction for Industrial Production. That werising given have seen export numbers rising for the first time in seven months. We have seen more positive sentiment on external demand. Now we have Industrial Production numbers in south korea beating estimates. Just had the markets open in australia. At amp, one of the first stocks trading, higher by more than 20 . This is after they confirmed they have received a conditional proposal from u. S. Based areas, not en
Twitter and facebook scheduled to testify before the Senate Commerce committee on wednesday. Examine whether that content liability shield section 230 is still relevant and needed. This is one of the days in the market, im not sure what is happening in the overall dow matters so much to the tech story. April sl about flat on some promising iphone 12 order lead times. Then if you look it at the nasdaq zoom is up amazon, etsy maybe thats some halloween eagerness. Yeah, a bit of a mixed bag today, jon you have the stay at home names you mentioned. Tech broadly lower weve got that doubleheader again this week. A hearing following by earnings from the Big Tech Companies. And its interesting, looking at facebook and alphabet this month, theyre actually outforemaniou outperforming the big tech names. Alphabet is up 8 . Facebook up 7 again, we see the theme. The pressure is on in terms of antitrust and regulatory scrutiny yet, the stock prices not really reacting those are the two names that h
Way out of recession. Factory performers stabilize while Consumer Spending shows that recovery remains on track. Year profits plummet. Cash earnings falling 52 . It includes provisions for customer compensation. Ahead. Omaui lets check in on the markets. A big week indeed. We do have asian stock futures gaining for october with friday a significant day. The start of another trading week, we do have a bunch of asian pmis do today alongside more data from china. And the offshore yuan will be below 670 after a fivemonth game. Focus with as a and alibaba. Waiting on a big milestone this week. The hong kong dollar on friday following the most since june after its close. Amid this frenzy q÷d it has been fraught with twists. None of it seems to have altered the course set month ago as joe biden continin handful of states. Pennsylvania is a huge one but everyone has been talking about ohio and the upper midwest. As well as georgia and North Carolina that have traditionally been republican. It