Battlegrounds to watch in washington, d. C. Is senate is set to vote on the confirmation of judge Amy Coney Barrett after clearing a key hurdle over the weekend. Time to make the donuts. A possible 9 billion deal topping this mornings news that is sure to get your coffee brewing. Its monday, october 26th, 2020. Youre watching Worldwide Exchange right here on cnbc good morning welcome to the show im dominic chu kicking off your monday morning with stock futures pointing towards losses right now. As you can see the implied open for the dow is roughly 308 points to the downside s p is implied lower by about 39 and the nasdaq down by 129 points if these futures holds into the opening bell for regular cash Equities Trading the major averages coming off their first down week in the last three the nasdaq taking it the hardest with more than 1 loss on that side of things on the flip side, youve got the russell 2,000 small caps continuing its run higher. Seeing third positive week in the last f
hit after nomura holdings said it was going to issue more shares after second sale tranche after it bought up asian and european operations. a lot of concerns about banks there dragging down the sector. the kospi is down marginally. the shanghai composite down 0.5%. the metal stocks getting hit and the hang seng is down 0.13% and the australian market is up 0.26%. nymex light sweet crude is up $66.29 and brent is up, as well, $65.31 a barrel. good to see you. hi, christine. good morning to you. let s take a look at how stocks are trading. thursday, stocks dropped lower. now it looks like the dow futures are pointing to a slightly higher open. nasdaq futures are slightly lower and the s&p futures are pretty much flat. so we ll see how the market moves today. we are going to get quite a bit of different economic news. in terms of treasuries, let s look at the bund yield. that is down to 3.28%. in terms of the ten-year note, it s a pretty robust auction of $29 billion in seven