Nikkei, last 30 minutes of trade. Final stretch of the morning session paid south korea is being dragged down. Currency markets. Sterling, cable, eurodollar, aussie, the sing dollar. 136 following this weeks mas decision and policy response. Fairly flat. We could see more action later tonight and into next week, when you have the likes of chinese gdp numbers coming out. Gyrations on the political scene, i would imagine. Lets go to your first word news and get you updated on the virus situation in europe with the u. K. And france facing tough virus restrictions as global infections are heading towards 40 million. Households indoors going under overnight curfew as they have a new wave of covid19. Daily infections hitting record in germany, italy, ireland, and spain. Reporting the most new cases since april. President trump is ramping up rift with Senior Republicans, saying he supports a bigger stimulus package. He is blaming democrats for delaying an agreement, but says he goes further t
Down almost 3 at one point. Jack ma said to surge up the wealth table after a mega dual ipo. Expecting to raise almost 35 billion in hong kong and shanghai viewed Sheldon Adelson rolls the dice in las vegas. He is said to be extorting the sale of his flagship casino which cost more than 6 billion. Shery lets get started with a quick check of the markets right now. We are seeing u. S. Futures opening pretty flat after we saw u. S. Stocks falling the most in the month and the regular session. The s p 500 down 1. 9 . It was the biggest drop since early september. We have the ongoing fiscal stimulus impasse, now on its third month. We also have surging coronavirus cases. Boeing falling on chinas plans to sanction the company over sales to taiwan. We have the u. S. Approving another potential 2. 4 billion of antiship missile fuel to taiwan. The vix closing above 30 for the first time in almost two months. We saw strength in the u. S. Dollar. Take a look at oil prices. Wti rebounding a littl
Wall street expects some kind of stimulus. We have another monday morning rally with plenty of green and the dow jones is closing about a gain of 150, but nasdaq up over 100 points. Big tech up this morning i think pretty much across the board, yes. Its all green. Even though three top executives will be hauled before Congress Next week, both sides of the aisle angry over big tex wealth, power, influence and serious discontent about censoring conservative opinions as some senators subpoenaed jack dorsey concerning twitters suppression of conservative voice service. On the campaign trail absolutely no change. The president continues his rallies hammering his message home in the battleground states and joe biden will hunker down. He appears to have put a lid on the week staying home preparing for thursdays debate. That debate is controversial with the moderator who is supposed to be neutral anything but. Her family has donated tens of thousands of dollars to democratic campaigns and in t
We start off with the stimulus slide, stocks sliding off Speaker Pelosi held a phone call with steven mnuchin. Lets get the latest from ylan mui. Whats going on here they have agreed to talk again reporter thats right, melissa. We know the phone call at 3 00 p. M. Lasted for just under an hour pelosis office sounded fairly positive on twitter, her spokesman said they continue to narrow the difference differences. Now, pelosi and the treasury secretary will speak again tomorrow, and by the end of the day, that 48hour deadline that pelosi imposed, they should have clarity on whether a deal is really possible before the election however, over in the senate, republicans are moving on. Theres not a lot of appetite in the chamber for the nearly 1. 9 trillion offers that the white house has been made to democrats. So one measure will be to extend the payroll protection program, and another one on targeted relief neither is expected to go anywhere, either, because democrats remain opposed on t
Joe biden got through all 90 minutes without a gaffe or no senior moment and enough energy to say to the president overshot up man. He called him a racist, a liar and the worst american president ever. Mr. Trump came on strong, perhaps too strong, he may have brought sympathy after he attacked his sons drug use. Key issues were lost in the fight, biden were not answer questions about packing the Supreme Court, he was wrong about the economy under President Trump, he tried to walk away from the green new deal, i wouldve liked to heard more about that, the president would not condemn white supremacist and did not fully answer questions about healthcare. My opinion, nobody one, voters who wanted a fight lost. Right after the debate stocks sold off, features showed a 300point loss for the dow but it has come back, perhaps because a lot more talk about a new stimulus plan and a good jobs report from adp, we are looking at a 50point loss for the dow, Minor Leagues loss for the s p and the na