Talks continue into today. The s p global is in advanced talks to buy ihs mobile markets in what would be one of the biggest deals of the year. A very warm welcome to the program, everybody. Just under one hour away from the start of cash equity trading for European Equity markets. Good to be back in the studio. Thats have a look at the future is and what they tell us about where we are headed this monday morning. Futures dont look great. European features move to the downside. The Asian Session has been fairly negative. These have been record months for global stocks. Rebalancing at the end of the month perhaps is part of the story here. We will talk to the market live team about this shortly. Lets take a look at what is going on on the gmm. Some of the weakest in the weakness in the Asian Session, down one point 3 on the msci asia pacific. Indonesia under pressure. A host of emerging markets under pressure. China outperforming a little today. The Manufacturing Activity we referenced
Because we lost control of covid19 today went higher. The the s p gaining and nasdaq gaining 1. 02 . Hospitality and leisure. Has the market lost its mind no we are dealing with cross currents any time stocks get hammered, it seems to trigger visceral vaccine reaction good news bails out. On the one hand we know the cavalry is not coming. It is going to be in the form of at least one, pfizer vaccine, wont reach us until spring. In the meantime the virus is out of control we had 162,000 cases yesterday we are in a rough winter earnings from cisco, the networking type and Applied Materials and walt disney which needs no introduction. It is looking like well have a smooth transition from the Trump Administration to the Biden Administration thats a huge strange and even last week at this time, a notion of trump refusing to make plans to vacate the white house. I am sure you are sick of hearing it could the good earnings continue if you are worried of the virus and encouraged by the vaccine
Down 1. 6 yesterday, off of session lows. The dow industrials down 650 650 points, that was 2 and a quarter percent lower at 4 00 on wall street. Investors rattled over no progress on stimulus and a rise in covid cases. Its a big day for earnings, dow components merck, 3m. Caterpillar all reporting quarterly numbers this morning. We will get a snapshot of the airlines when jetblue reports and a look at big pharma when pfizer reports. The road to the white house, we hit the one week to go mark, americans are headed th to the polls in seven short days. President trump and joe biden begin the final push before election day. Stimulus negotiations losing momentum, time is running out for lawmakers to make a deal before november 3rd. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she remains opt my particular over talks optimistic over talks. Congressman tom reed told me yesterday if we dont have a deal by election day, we may not have one until february. Todays the day, my new book, the cost, trump, china
Fastest pace in three months. I think probably the fed needs to be here, but the october number is the one you want to look forward to. Lets get the totals of what we learned today. It is kind of a good news, bad news day in terms of the economy for some we have had one good, one bad, and michigan is kind of neutral. Retail sales of 1. 9 in the month of september, much better than the forecast and much better than the. 6 gain the month before. Retail sales, ex autos also big. Car sales were strong during the month. And then we look at the control group, the part that goes directly into gdp, and that was percent inly up, 1. 4 august. In august it was down by. 3 . A significant boost for retail sales in the u. S. Economy in september. On the other hand, that news on the manufacturing side, Industrial Production falls. 6, a lot of that because airconditioners were switched off, utilities went down. When youre factoring production surprisingly went down by. 3 . That was the bad news for to
Election delay. Another wave, the u. K. In france report record daily virus cases. Good morning. Session volatile yesterday on wall street. Action, s p 500 futures are in the green. Flat on the year on the index. Alongside 50 up 0. 5 asian equities. Dollar index had a firm week, little change this morning, but we are up or the 1 , biggest weekly gain since april for the dollar. Nymex crude getting a lift, 40 a barrel. U. S. Equities, a volatile session fluctuated yesterday erasing this years gains briefly. The jobs data disappointed on top of stimulus talks. Dani burger is digging into it for us. Dani anyone trading yesterday is suffering from whiplash. We did get the s p 500 erasing yeartodate gains, and today it 0. 5 , unclear whether we will get that are not. We had converging forces between hopes for forces, poor jobs numbers, and new housing data that was optimistic. Thing that might comfort about what we saw yesterday, we are getting close to a correction. We need to drop 0. 8 on