The u. K. Government sets up discussions with industry as brexit disruption closes in. Negotiations with the eu are set to crash through an informal deadline this weekend. Good morning. Just over an hour to go until the start of cash equity trading. Let have a look at where we are on the futures picture. Futures in europe looked to be a little bit to the downside. Lets break into the futures to talk about whats going on with the u. K. Economy growing in the Third Quarter from the previous quarter. Growing by 1. 1 in the month of september. The estimate was 1. 5. We were hearing that from our colleagues moments ago. They were talking about the estimates for september and the First Quarter. The number i have penciled in from them was 1. 5 gain in gdp for september. It is a little bit below that. The broad theme is the same. That 1. 1 in september adding to strong rebound numbers earlier on in the Third Quarter. The Third Quarter comes up by 15. 5 . That could be a smashing of a record in
Is about the two different candidates, two different approaches, stark yesterday with the president fired up in lansing, michigan. And the emotion of mr. Biden georgia, warm springs, which resonates with Franklin Delano roosevelt. I would suggest markets on the move, different than yesterday, yesterday less correlated and today a dramatic correlation. Notice the vix at a strong 36. Francine i think the focus is on these lockdowns, especially in europe, how harsh they could be and what that means for job losses. A lot of the european stocks are at the lowest in five months. We will have extra market checks today. Thats get to first word news with ritika gupta. Ritika President Trump appears resigned to waiting until after the election to get a coronavirus stimulus bill. The president told reporters he will get the best stimulus package you have ever seen. The white house claims nancy pelosi blames nancy pelosi for the delay. Nancy pelosi blames mitch mcconnell. Reluctant tore embrace a
You go to safety. Youre going to buy volatility, yields, bonds, and the dollar. 10 year yield now 75 basis quite a move from just a few days ago. Crude battered, beaten up today. Less demand for those oil prices. Guy absolutely. Lets recap where we are and what is going on. The german chancellor Angela Merkel currently meeting with heads of the german states. We are going to hear from her we think when that meeting wraps. We are probably likely to hear from her as well tomorrow morning. We are also getting Emmanuel Macron a little later on. Both countries moving toward more restrict of lockdowns. Lets get the latest. Maria tadeo joins us from brussels. Theres a lot of ideas floating around. None of this will be official until both Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel speak. The idea is we are moving into something that looks like a fulltime lockdown in the case of the french government, that we understand is seriously considering a onemonth lockdown that would start thursday night, going
And we expect a normalization of that. But you need to remember as well that in our case, we have been working to stabilize, grow the franchise, recover some market share, so what we are pleased to see is that underneath that sort of outperformance in the market environment that we have been in, we have seen really good franchise stabilization traction , client engagement, improvement in clients. We think that bodes well for the future. You are expecting slightly higher revenue for the full year. Not too conservative now given what we have seen in the first half . It it would be james would be a normalization but i think an improvement on last years second half. Again, especially in our businesses, where a year ago, we were going through a restructuring and there was some uncertainty around our people and franchise, so with that now behind us, we see momentum in the core business, and we would like to see a secondhalf performance well ahead of last years second half, but we will see ho
Is going on in terms of economic stimulus. European shares, slipping with u. S. Futures, the dollar snapping a fiveday losing streak. Treasuries edging higher with most european bonds. A full market round up shortly. Lets get to the bloomberg first word news with leighann gerrans. Leighann the u. K. Will pump 3 billion pounds into environmental projects as part of its recovery plan. The investment will be formally announced tomorrow when gives anr sunak update on economic plans. Hes under pressure to introduce a meaningful package after the prime ministers speech last week failed to impress many economists. Emmanuel macron has reshuffled his government. Bruno le maire stays as finance minister. Improve labor affairs, hes moving elizabeth. Orne and ha appended thes National Security legislation imposed on the city last week. Her comments come hours after the government asserted broad new police powers, including warrantless searches, online surveillance, and property seizure. Im glad to