Lets break it down with mike mckee. Is a it is michael it little bit odd. On the headline, 100. 9 is lower than it was in the month of august or september, rather, when it was 101. 8. You would expect that maybe the present situation would be causing people concern because of the coming closures of some businesses as covid cases spike but the number comes in at 98. 9 at up from 104. 6, up from 98. 9. Turnabouting quite a in the way people are looking at the economy. The interesting thing here is this bemay see is reasonably good news for donald trump because if you are looking at the economy, stupid, as the old saying goes, you are looking at the economy as it is right now, and the economy as it is right now is better. The employment number is something Everyone Wants to look at in the set up to next week. Jobs number is an improvement, so those who think we are going to have a dismal jobs report next week might be in for a surprise, at least according to the underlying Consumer Sentim
Rose. Microsoft saw a better First Quarter revenue, helped by demand for Cloud Services as more people work remotely. Sales through september topping 37 billion. Melbourne, the merge from a melbourne emerges from a strict lockdown. Ours and restaurants are reopening, even home visits are allowed. Shery lets get you started with a check of the markets. U. S. Futures opening lower, down. 4 . This after stocks fell to a three week low in the regular session. We had cyclical stocks taking the brunt as virus cases continued to climb globally. We have the nasdaq composite pulling back of yesterdays losses on the deal around amd. Durable goods orders coming in better than expected. Lets see how things are shaping up for the asian markets. Here is Sophie Kamaruddin in hong kong. Sophie we are seeing losses continue here in asia. Chip stocks very much a focus after amds deal to buy. Earnings. We have results from sony, zte, as well as budweiser asia to name a few. And a straley or, we have had
And your comments a moment ago to andrew, just sort of crystallize, not just what a job shes done, but how companies are placing their bets on looking through cycles, even though were a week away from an election and in the middle of a pandemic. You have somebody the quality of lease why isa su, best ceo i country, nonpromotional, re competitive thought this was maxed out. Youre in the personal computer and data center, it is not good enough she saw what happened to intel i dont say that with any prejudice. Just that she left intel behind. She is in the data center, who is she who are her clients . Azure, google, and, of course, amazon but it is time she feels it is time to branch out into auto, time to branch out into defense into telco when you look at xilinx, what youre seeing is a mosaic where there is some overlap in data center, but the rest is an attempt to say, you know what, we need a bigger total Addressable Market we have to outgrow our markets right now. And i think it is a
The swing state of pennsylvania. How will voters react one week from the election . Its the final sprint to november 3, joe biden will leave his house to attend to events in georgia and when questioned about his relaxed schedule, he said every day is a 12 hour day. The president keeps up eight torrid pace heading to three states today pulling in huge crowds with tens of thousands attending the three events in pennsylvania yesterday and by the way, 62 million have already voted, 20 million in person and 40 million by mail. To the markets, way down yesterday, closing down 650 with the most modest of bounces this morning no bounce at all actually the dow jones will be down a couple points. Lots of corporate profit reports, they remain strong and we will bring in the highlighted a moment. The big earning report comes as afternoon. Microsoft reports and that may set the tone for the markets. As always, a big show for you with the president on the campaign. Rachel campos who wants her nine k
Investors see less chance of new regulations, equity futures writing rising in tokyo and hong kong. In china tries to reassure the Business World that it is open to trade. Concern of the moran sealer approach. Shery breaking out of south korea. We are getting the currentaccount surplus in south korea for the month of september, widening to 10. 21 billion. We had seen a previous surplus at around 6. 5 billion. This has widened to over 10 billion. The goods surplus coming in at above 12 billion. We have seen continued surplus for the current account in south korea. Consecutivee a five months surplus, not to mention exports in october contracted a little, but in september they rose for the first time in seven months. South koreag pmi in so weoday twoyear high, are getting a widening of the surplus. Haidi pcb numbers crossing the bloomberg, betterthanexpected, eating the analyst estimates on the bloomberg, Third Quarter 1ome coming it at just billion, better expectations than 850 million.