Worldwide, a number of stories, including 21 days to the election. Both campaigns gearing up and finetuning. We are distracted by Bank Earnings. Jon ferro, jp morgan doing better than good. Citigroupi am getting , on first blush giving us the same enthusiasm we heard from jp morgan. Jonathan jamie dimons jp morgan delivering the beat, and it looks like city group is repeating the action. Figurepoint out, the eps third quarter, 1. 40. A little bit of an upside surprise here. I believe we have sonali basak with us. What are we seeing. Sonali we are seeing a beat on revenue, on fixed income. We are seeing loanloss provisioning higher than what jp morgan put in, but lower than what analysts expected. Perhaps wall street has just gotten it wrong compared with the banks are expecting in terms of loan losses. They are higher than jp morgan, so we are going to want to understand why the divergence, but overall, pretty clean numbers here. Tom as we see the numbers come out, we are getting this
Reaffirmation on the American Labor economy in this hour, claims, and all of the various numbers that come out with it. Forget about the markets. Forget about the chancellor of the exchequer actually dealing with the United Kingdom labor market. It is a question of millions out of jobs. Jonathan permanent job losses as well, and permanent shifts in the economy. Thats got to be my big take away, government confronting the idea that perhaps we are seeing permanent shifts in the economy, and they need to allow that creative destruction, the powerful transformation of capitalism to take hold and maybe step back a little bit more. Ive got to say, some people will push back aggressively against that and say this is a pandemic, it will pass, and perhaps we will get some return to normality. That will be a debate for the several weeks, months, and hopefully not the next several years. Tom david kostintom will join us from Goldman Sachs with an important discussion on the equity markets. Future
Right now, ambassador lighthizer is on his way which is why it is so curious to see the story being put out by the chinese, the wall street journal, you cant reach him at this very moment but, yes and this is important because both Speaker Pelosi came on mad money, this is a done deal, once you finish the articles of impeachment and the president wants this deal, talk about david during the break, but it is the one thing people seem to agree on in washington this is a good deal. And yet the a lot of the people i follow who are you get a democrat in the white house and companies are allowed to move back south again it not that adventurous to do so because of the big increase in wages. Those of us who do business in mexico can tell you the differential is not just cash. But it is also healthcare, where they have universal healthcare and this is a story about pollution control. Where both sides are now saying both democrat and republican, there may be some enforcement, plus control rules.
Yesterday thanks to walmart and the good numbers we saw there. S p futures are indicated up by 28 points. The nasdaq up by 96 points again we are on the worst week for the stock market since may well see what happens today with the gains, or if they can hold on to them through the opening and the close later on today. The treasury market was different story. A lot of concern about whats happening with yields. The 30year fell below 2 for the first time in history. This morning its yielding 2. 026 the tenyear fell to the left level in three years this morning that yield is slightly higher, 1. 564 . Tenyear twoyear no longer inverted overnight in asia, we saw some green arrows some gains there the nikkei up barely the hang seng was up a percent the shanghai was up by a third of a percent in europe, londons ftse ohm ed higher after a nearly twohour delay because of a Technical Glitch elsewhere in europe, you can see the green arrows are there across the board the smallest advancer is the f
Right now. Welcome to power lunch. Im melissa lee. Stocks are trading in a very narrow range ahead of the fed. At the top of the next hour, the dow managing to hit another record intraday high. The nasdaq trying for its 11th gain in 12 sessions. Apple on pace for its Third Straight day of gains. It is up in the past weekment a number of big retailers also on the move walmart hitting another 52week high it is up more than 8 . Target, dollar general, the biggest winners in the s p right now. We begin this hour at the white house. Justin trudeau will arrive shortly for a meeting with President Trump. Trade, the topic eam eamon javers live. Reporter not a lot of the pomp and circumstance that you see with head of state meetings. We are waiting for Justin Trudeau to arrive any time now there has been a lot swirling around the bhit houwhite house s morning. The president woke up to an article in which thomas barrack, the real estate investor, criticized him saying the president is better tha