Fastest pace in three months. I think probably the fed needs to be here, but the october number is the one you want to look forward to. Lets get the totals of what we learned today. It is kind of a good news, bad news day in terms of the economy for some we have had one good, one bad, and michigan is kind of neutral. Retail sales of 1. 9 in the month of september, much better than the forecast and much better than the. 6 gain the month before. Retail sales, ex autos also big. Car sales were strong during the month. And then we look at the control group, the part that goes directly into gdp, and that was percent inly up, 1. 4 august. In august it was down by. 3 . A significant boost for retail sales in the u. S. Economy in september. On the other hand, that news on the manufacturing side, Industrial Production falls. 6, a lot of that because airconditioners were switched off, utilities went down. When youre factoring production surprisingly went down by. 3 . That was the bad news for to
1000 miles apart. Donald trump and joe biden fight for air in competing town halls. Americans had to the polls and 18 days. Boris johnson said to decide whether to ditch brexit trade talks. And daimler gets in gear. The carmaker reports a 3 billion 3 billion euro profit as cost cuts filter through. Just under an hour away from the start of cash trading. Car sales european out. They gained 1. 1 for the first nine months. Sales, upropean car for the first three quarters of the year. 1. 1 . Lets take a look at what is going on. European car registration, clearly 20 20 has been a tough year. One a look at what is going we have ftseutures filler cheers futures up 0. 8 . Tax futures gaining about 0. 5 . Futures the picture is more mixed. Showing a lot less sized. Futures are. Ractionally down futures flat. We have been more negative. Asian equity markets look seen looking mixed. Are we in a consolidation phase for setting ourselves up for some selling . You have the election coming. That is
I do want to talk about the resiliency of american corporations to adapt and adjust , whether it was Johnson Johnson a bit ago, the seven could jillian dollars the seven gajillion dollars at blackrock. Thenow the story, executable excellence we are seeing in the statistics. It is going to be fascinating. Jonathan it might be too early to say the gloom of pandemic is behind us, but it might be time that we talk about the provision build of these banks. The number comes in at 611 million. I think that is the positive out of this Earnings Report this morning. Talkednali basak really about that being a key statistic, and it is better than good. I go back 10 minutes ago, the idea that they suspended share buybacks, and yet theyve got enormous Free Cash Flow available for Dividend Growth and maybe some share repurchase. Granted, youve got the mystery of what commercial real estate is going to do. Jonathan i imagine their Capital Return Program will change drastically in about 12 months time.
Closing early is not good. It is extraordinary. The difference versus what we have got here is absolutely extraordinary. Francine on the lockdown, it basically gives you a kind of a benchmark, code red, code rain, code yellow, to get a sense of what you code green, code yellow, to get a sense of what you need to do. They are trying to make it simple, but we are not even 24 hours until forest johnson made that announcement. Tom Jacob Sharfstein of Johns Hopkins, we talk to him two times a week, the lead quote today in the Washington Post be inoat it is real simple the Washington Post. It is real simple. Were just waiting for a vaccine. Leighann President Trump says he feels so powerful after recovering from coronavirus. He wants to walk into a crowd and kiss everybody. The president spoke at a rally in florida. His first stop since his return to the campaign trail. There was little social distancing at the event, although some spectators wore masks. Supreme Court Nominee amy coney onret
There is a tumble on the growing u. S. Industries. Decade, asore than a the pandemic rages on. It is also slashing its final dividends. Big tech is a warned that it may lose Legal Protection over user content. Lawmakers are accusing tech shery lets get you started with a quick check of the markets. We are saying u. S. Futures, online higher at the moment. This is after u. S. Stocks tumbled by the most since june. Check is leading all of the sectors. Tech is not really acting like a haven today. Lets see how things are shaping up for the asian markets. Heres Sophie Kamaruddin in hong kong. Sophie after that steep drop that we saw for u. S. And european shares, expect losses to continue. In asia. It is the busiest day of earnings for china. In australia, we have all of these futures falling to the lowest since october 5. This is after a report of a 40 a 42 slump in profit. S may be facing a tumble. Bullion fell. Is picking up steam. We may see some slight tweaks to its quarterly forecast