Smashing it. Mike mckee is here to break it down. Brian it may be michael it may be too late to influence the president ial election, but certainly influencing the way the markets are going to trade because this is a big number. In october. We thought it would be 56, but this blows that away. New orders, 67 point nine from 60. 2. Production, 63 from 61. For the First Time Since july 2019, we are seeing employment well for with augurs this fridays numbers. Maybe we get some positive manufacturing. Prices paid still rising. Hard to know exactly what that means in terms of long red inflation since we do have the confusions of the covid case. Is it a shortage of materials, a pipeline problem, or are we actually see in prices going up . Likets for the year, looks the new export orders goes up to 55. 7 from 54. 3. That will take a hit from the lockdowns in europe. Overall, this is a very good number for the economy going forward. Alix how much is it like we have seen in europe, where manufac
Might have ohio in play. President trump arent storming across the country, North Carolina, a key senate race. Also going to be making stops in florida, in pennsylvania, iowa, where he is trying to give a lift to senator joni ernst in the senate. All of this comes at a time in which there are now a new report about how both of the candidates to be spending their Election Night. I spoke with a source close to the president s Reelection Campaign early this morning who told me the president will be having a close circle of prominent notable names surrounding him on Election Night at the white house, where he likely could give some type of national address, whether or not he declares victory, whether or not joe biden declares victory, we dont know. The president suggesting he is preparing his team for there to be not just a long night ahead of them, but along several days after the election. Guy we are talking david we are talking about election week. Looking forward to spending that week
Services. Westpacs full year profits plunge after fines for Money Laundering. Cash earnings falls. One of those stocks where watching going into the sydney open. Lets look at the market open. Sophie . Expecting some moves this monday. The biggest weekly drop since september 25 as investors adjust the some of the risk ahead. We did have the worst week for aussie stocks since april. Adding 0. 1 . We have amp shares gaining trillionter the this wealth manager said that a preliminary takeover approach of every management values the company at 4. 5 billion. Westpac has results out this morning. Later this week we get results upm alibaba which ticked single day sales early on sunday. The ipo is a big event we are watching this week. We are expecting a big pop here on thursday given the massive appetite we have seen for the offering. Friday had the biggest drop since june. Of a private survey of chinese manufacturing data. To focus more on the u. N. , lets pull up on the chart on the terminal
Fall on year and below analyst expectations. They confirmed plans to exit thermal. U. S. China relations sour even further. Jing says the tax lets take a look at how we are shaping up for this asian trading day. U. S. Futures within shouting distance when it comes to the regular session of that february record but then retreating by the close. We are seeing not much happening when it comes to active futures contracts. The nikkei 225 looking weaker going into the open. Chicago futures trading there. The topix in the meantime remains the bestperforming market in august. We will see if it continues those gains today. Ftse futures looking like we will open up higher by. 4 . The data calendar for the day, we get the rba august meeting minutes, looking into the details of their bond buying as well as the renewed assessment of how that new victorian lockdown will barter economy in those Monetary Policy settings. Also watching crude, we are seeing weakness, just holding over 42 a barrel althou
Orecast indonesia decides later thursday while the boj starts a meeting. A straily markets have just open. Sophie, what are you seeing . Markets have just opened. Saw steepening for u. S. Bonds, pushing the u. S. 10year yield to a fiveweek high, and the kiwi dollar off about. 1 , reversing the earlier spike we saw on the back of new zealand hosting a faster than forecast gdp report on a quarterly basis, which may provide relief to the rbc. Nikkei Futures Holding steady. Were expecting a mixed session in asia as we have plenty of Rate Decisions on tap from indonesia, taiwan, hong kong, along with the boj meeting under japanese as we see stocks perhaps getting a little more love from investors, but not to be loved just yet. Investor view on japan is improving slightly with net 6 of global investors. Paul thanks for that. Lets check in on the first word news now with ritika gupta. Proposed budget for the next fiscal year will approach the equivalent of 1 trillion for a second straight yea