I do want to talk about the resiliency of american corporations to adapt and adjust , whether it was Johnson Johnson a bit ago, the seven could jillian dollars the seven gajillion dollars at blackrock. Thenow the story, executable excellence we are seeing in the statistics. It is going to be fascinating. Jonathan it might be too early to say the gloom of pandemic is behind us, but it might be time that we talk about the provision build of these banks. The number comes in at 611 million. I think that is the positive out of this Earnings Report this morning. Talkednali basak really about that being a key statistic, and it is better than good. I go back 10 minutes ago, the idea that they suspended share buybacks, and yet theyve got enormous Free Cash Flow available for Dividend Growth and maybe some share repurchase. Granted, youve got the mystery of what commercial real estate is going to do. Jonathan i imagine their Capital Return Program will change drastically in about 12 months time.
Are attempting to interfere with the president ial election. They say there was no hacking involved. 12 days until the vote. Spain is the first nation in western europe with one million virus cases. It comes as u. S. Hospitalization rates reach a two month high. Stimulus, the wrangling continues as the white house says the goal is to reach a deal in 48 hours. The pound surges the most in six months as the u. K. And European Union will resume talks over a postbrexit trade deal, just a week after Boris Johnson walked away. Negotiators arrive in london today. Its just gone 6 00 in london. It is 1 00 in washington where procrastination and politics play out. Some read headlines which we have to do first. To germany. We have breaking news there. Germanys daily coronavirus hits a record. Thats 12,330. A quick top line. A blistering beat. 2. 9 9 billion dollars. 2. 75 billion dollars. 36 margin, larger than expected. What sets the agenda for you this morning . Annmarie quickly going back to g
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
Vice president ial contenders take the stage for the one and only vp debate in Salt Lake City tonight. We will take you straight to the beehive state for a live preview of what could be the most intensely watched vp faceoff in history. And our allstar Political Panel, Brad Blakeman and mary ann marchon on why the president chose his Supreme Court nominee over trillions in coronavirus stimulus yesterday only to reverse. Plus, slack stepping it up to take on tiktok and instagram . Slack unveiling workplace video stories as it fights off new challenges from google. Ceo Stuart Butterfield joins us live in just a moment because they have a whole host of other things they are floating. Really interesting things. In the meantime, lets get to the president s tweet thats got the markets doing quite a dance. This is what we saw at this time yesterday, after President Trump put a full stop to stimulus negotiations. You could see it. It really began to fall very dramatically. His tweetstorm right
You can see individual markets and you can see how we are seeing most of these north asian performers here. Hong kong is up about. 6 . We just heard from carrie lam who said the social distancing measures may be on for a while in the city. Jakarta coming on pretty strong. We are counting down to that rba Rate Decision and the budget announcement. Super tuesday in australia. We take a look at the yield curve as well. That will be the story here. A massive steepening overnight. Take a look at the two and the 10. As well as the 30 year. That yield reached the highest since june as we continue to price in this blue sweep. Powell the fed chair jay speaking later on. We will watch the aussie 10 year. 89 business points for the aussie tenure. The dollar also selling off on expectations of more fiscal stimulus. You do have the aussie as well. That has been gaining ahead of that dual announcement coming through. Heading closer to 6. 7. Haslinda we want to show off u. S. Live pictures. Mike pomp