Moment. It is moving markets, but theres a lot of stuff percolating. The Dollar Strength really has my attention. I would go to the news released in the 5 00 hour of the reports that mr. Netanyahu met with the crown prince of saudi arabia. These really havent been vetted out by the israeli or saudi government yet, but i wonder if that helped a little bit as well. Jonathan i dont know about that, tom. News, dollaraccine weakness, can we touch about that a little bit more . The dollar taking out the lows on dxy. Es, we will see how bbdx do and the others. What i would note is the mexican peso. Comes through, hits 20 this morning. That is just one little snapshot of the complexity of e. M. Pairs doing well. Dm,than from e. M. To everything stronger against the u. S. Dollar. Yields up a couple of basis points. Lisa, good morning to you. Supply coming through the week. Lisa we will be getting 190 billion of debt, fiveyear notes. I dont know if you did this reading over the weekend about the
Little point in continuing to talk. Global news, 24 hours a day, on air and on quicktake by bloomberg, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. Im karina mitchell. This is bloomberg. Rishaad carrie lam with a lengthy policy address on wednesday. She laid out her vision for greater integration with the mainland. Benefiting from its proximity to the mainland and longstanding support, hong kongs Economic Development will be given new impetus. The key is to somehow open up the border with china, because we are part of china, and the homecoming hong kong economy was not just set for domestic consumption. It was really set for 1. 4 billion people across the border. In any case, most of the key Investment Decisions will be driven by how china is operating and the Big Companies in hong kong are all chinese oriented. So i dont really think a policy address will be of that much difference to investors as it might be elsewhere. Stephen engle has been covering
Employees. Weve got those details. But first we start with some breaking news. The electoral vote count stands right now at 227 for mr. Biden and 213 for mr. Trump. And we still have eight uncalled races. In wisconsin, which is still too close to call, biden holds a narrow lead of just 20,000 votes. Well within the margin of error there. Well within the drift that lets the president call for a recount. The Campaign Says they will immediately do so, request a recount. Another place biden holds a narrow lead, thats michigan thats where we find Brian Sullivan in grand rapids any update on this very close race reporter yes, and no how do you like that im like an economist on the air. Im going to give it to you both ways heres where we stand right now. Heres the reason i answered that way number one, heres the count 94 of michigan has come in. Its that last 6 that is the issue. Now, youve got joe biden who is up by about 45,000 votes right now. To your point, there are far more outstanding
10ly plans on spending billion euros a month. Biden uses his first call with Boris Johnson to reaffirm his support for the good friday agreements. A lot to talk about this morning. Under one hour until the start of the European Equity trading session, futures look flat. Ftse futures, dax futures, a bit of a mix. Yesterday europe was up strongly 1. 5 or more on the major markets by the close. We come into today with a continuation of themes of the previous day, selling out on tech, getting back to value. Lets get to u. S. Futures, looking more buoyant and having to do with what we did not see in the u. S. Session yesterday. Things are not as strong across the board. Nasdaq down by 0. 3 . U. S. Futures looking have we seen that rotation playing out in terms of the tech versus value story . It is in play in asia. It is inch deceit a japanese equity market doing well. See the interesting to japanese equity market doing well. Part of this has to do with what is going on in tech, a crackdown
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.