Which is crucial for canada. Lets check on the broader markets here in the u. S. For the s p 500, continue to reach above 3000, but just a bit of weakness before the rates decision. The u. S. Dollar index not really moving. We are at 97 92 cents, fairly healthy. Off. 0 year yield on general electric, investors reacting well to this numbers to these numbers. It looks like larry culp is actually delivering. Guy cash flow very solid. Flows off today. It is the banks really doing the damage, mainly Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse, santander, all down hard today. That is what is dragging the stoxx 600 away from the 400 line. Eurosterling a little negative right now. Tiering comes into place today for European Banks, plus the restart of that qe program. We are keeping a firm i on both of those stories. The others dry want to mention is the South African rand, absolutely pummeled. The dollar up by 2. 5 . The budget out in cape town today, having a few having a huge impact on the rand today. Vonn
Ever been involved with them, good things beget other good things, or vice versa. Doingy i see it, and im my best to report this to you without divulging too much, the mood music is good. The negotiations are going well. Thought. E let me give you one additional thought. The official statements from china, let me repeat this. Back, andt, going ive been here almost two years, doing this nonstop, many times we had a more optimistic view, but then we would get statements and commentaries from officials in the key chinese ministries that suggested not so much optimism. This time around, regarding phase one, please note how optimistic the comers ministry, the foreign ministry, the finance ministry, and their leaders, how optimistic, how positive and constructive they have been. I used that as a leading indicator, jonathan. I dont want to get ahead of this story. I dont want to predict. All im saying is the phase one talks, which are here before us and which represented a change in the entir
Technology. This will only happen if the world hangs together and ofperates to create a sort and in the wake of that, a growing trading system. So, we need whether you call it multilateral is him or not, we need cooperation to maintain that, cooperation on the big global issues of dealing with climate change, someday dealing with what happens with the adoption of new technology that could be disruptive. We need a kind of cooperation that is sustained. We will have to leave it there. David lipton, thank you very much. The First International director of the monetary fund. Getting morell be Imf World Bank interviews over the next two days from francine and tom. A massive old in Oil Inventory through the week of october 11 has wti falling, down half of 1 now per barrel. We have a 9. 3 million build. The market was anticipating a 2. 5 million build. Gasoline inventory saw a drawdown more than anticipated with refinery use down by 2. 6 , of the mediocre gains that we had been making this we
The stoxx 600, let me walk you through whats going on. Thats the reaction to the payroll this afternoon, a blip on an overall negative chart. It was the nonmanufacturing ism number that really spooked the markets. Wednesday was a really tough day for european markets. Since then, weve been bumping along the floor. The market down at the moment by about 3. 1 for the week. A look at the individual movers today. Stocks are higher, but it is a relatively small moose versus the losses we had ash relatively small move versus the losses relatively small move versus the losses weve had. Theres the pound, trading 1. 2285. Youve got 10 days of negotiation around Boris Johnsons latest attempt to get brexit through. The pound having a tough session. Vonnie. Vonnie lets get back to the jobs data. 136 thousand jobs were created in september, just shy of estimates. Augusts number was revised higher by 38,000. Average Hourly Earnings growth missed. The Unemployment Rate unexpectedly improved, dropping
Cant believe we didnt tell him it wasnt for sale. I cant believe this is even a conversation. David when this first came out, every one thought it was a joke. Hes just getting hes just kidding. And then maybe not so much of a joke. Alix do we know why he wants greenland . David because the arctic, particularly because of climate change, has become much more important. There are really Strategic Interests in greenland. In fact, president truman tried to buy it in 1948 for similar reasons. You invited meis to my house, im not coming unless you sell me something. Alix in the market, we had retail earnings coming out. We get a nice rally underway here. Eurodollar is flat. It is a mostly weaker dollar story in the g10 space. Selling in the bond market with the exception of italy. Inflation expectations continue to rollover. No one taking any big positions headed into jackson hole. The question is how you hedge this. David time now for the morning brief. At 10 00 this morning, we get u. S. E