Anna absolutely. Trade commissioner phil hogan forced to resign because he attended a golf event which had normal times would not be that controversial, but these are not normal times. It is being investigated as to whether it broke the covid rules in ireland. As a result, he was under pressure and had to defend himself. Commissionropean needs to find a new person to fill that very busy trade brief. But this sets a very interesting precedent. Will we see other commissioners held to that . Tom lets do an unseemly data check. I will focus quickly to get to hurricane laura. Futures negative eight and we watch the real yield which is 1. 06. It is a huge deal as we go to the powell speech. Anna . Anna my data check has European Equity markets waiting for the powells beach powell speech. We heard from rollsroyce a little bit earlier on and they reported a huge loss. This is the maker of aircraft engines. In the stock is down 7. 8 in london right now. They get paid by the hour for flying thes
Plus financial secretary. Were standing by for Election Results in argentina. The president is under pressure there. We will have the latest. Paul lets take a look at how things are shaping up in the market today. The straily just up and one minute ago. In as are coming online order in australia. Not a lot of action. Futures were indicating pickup of about a third of 1 . Futures for the nikkei traded out of chicago. They are looking slack right now. U. S. Equity markets are also pointing higher. Sytock global stocks back to the highest levels seen this year. Lets check in on the first word news. Su we begin with the california fires. Workingters are to contain blazes across northern california. This has forced the evacuation of 200,000 people. Homes have burned to the ground. This is driven by a windstorm packing 90 mileperhour gusts. Gavin newsom has declared a state of emergency with nearly 3 Million People without power as of sunday. The result of argentinas election is expected in