Poisoning. Lets get to the first word news with leighann gerrans. Shows joe a new poll biden has a doubledigit lead over President Trump. Ae democratic nominee has 5242 advantage. Meanwhile, the survey also says in theden has a 6 lead battleground state wisconsin. In germany, chancellor Angela Merkel is now ready to link the nord stream 2 gas pipeline the poisoning of a russian dissident. Merkel, whoift for said that the russian backed pipeline should be completed and remains a separate issue. The kremlin has said it sees no issue that germany will block nordstrom. Moscow has denied any involvement in the poisoning. Now in hong kong, protests have resumed after weeks of calm. Police arrested hundreds of people. Among other things, demonstrators were protesting the decision to delay Legislative Council relaxants for a year Council Elections for a year because of coronavirus. India has surpassed brazil as the second worst hit country. India reported more than 19,000 cases more than 90,00
Here its a similar story in the u. S. , our high after going to the past 10 00, but within the s p, you still have the down names doing the best. Is the second best, it remains to be seen if there is any sort of substantial rally or just a rally within a bear market. You can see that reflected in other asset classes, 25 billion worth of supply coming online in just about two hours. Of the threeyear, it is doing continues to roll over today after yesterday. At the bestlding on performing within the s p as well. We will see as we head into the next few hours if we are able to hold on. Guy absolutely. The correlation between what were seeing around the market performance, people are certainly nervous about that relationship. U. K. , Boris Johnsons government is facing a serious challenge at the worst possible time in the virus outbreak. The Prime Minister hospitalized and the foreign minister under pressure to Solta Medical equipment shortages which are making headlines on a daily basis.
Footing. If we do get some kind of opecplus deal, that will provide some support in the markets. Guy we are seeing equity markets bid, and it is stuff the market has really fallen out of love with that is catching the biggest bid. The travel and leisure sector, airlines, some of the catering companies, the hotel groups really bid today. Bid, up by 1 . We are anticipating any second now the start of a Video Conference call between eurozone finance ministers. We will get the results of that maybe a little later on. We continue to watch what is happening over at st. Thomas hospital, where the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom is in intensive care. Withrms of what happening yields, going a little higher today. Trading at 37 basis points on the u. K. 10 year. Alix we will say higher maybe in quotes. For more on the impact of the virus, we are joined by kemal shree kumar by cobol shree kumar by hobo three rikumar. S are we seeing some sustained buying ability . Are greatse questions. I th
A move that would mark a stark change for the owner of craft and burger king. Nejra welcome to daybreak europe. We are coming to the tail end of earnings season. We have numbers breaking from abm amro. The thirdquarter operating income comes in at 2. 1 billion euros. The estimate was 2. 13. Buts a little soft thirdquarter operating income pretty much in line. The thirdquarter profit income ratio, 59. 4 . Comments coming through here is that the timing of the completion of the dutch probe is uncertain. A few things to digest. We will speak to their cfo, coming up. To the markets. We are seeing a down day in asia. We heard a lot from President Trump yesterday, speaking about trade and the fed, comments we could see a trade deal. If we dont have a tariff hike. We are seeing risk off in equity markets. The hang seng leading declines with a Third Straight day of protest in hong kong. Volatility rising in that index as well. The kiwi is jumping the most in nine months. Switch over the board
The highs now. You might imagine, schwab and Td Ameritrade looking to get together. That has both stocks higher and has e trade way down, almost 10 now. Guy lets talk about where we are hearing europe. European markets, we are seeing the pound a little bit stronger today, the we have seen a little but of a selling story coming through in the last halfhour. We are also looking at a stoxx 600 which is down by around their. 5 around 0. 5 . Bonds are selling off as well. Yields just a touch higher, but not by much. Earlier on, we were maybe two basis points to the upside, but as you can see, that has now narrowed to around one basis point. Trade is a big theme, so lets talk a little more about it. The u. S. China trade war weighing heavily on the minds of World Leaders and business leaders. Theyve been at the Bloomberg New Economy Forum taking place in beijing. Foothillsstill in the of a cold war. We should pursue common, comprehensive, and sustainable security, and reject zerosum game and