Of play for stocks as we build into our discussion. Youve got dr. Birx on the task force. The covid surge, quote, the worst event the country will face coming this winter. Stocks have run a lot coming into november. The vaccine is getting closer day by day values been outperforming lately the value etf coming off its fifth positive week in a row thats the First Time Since its fiveweek stretch ending the end of december of 2019. So my question to you to start things off, where do we go from here it seems like the market wants to go higher i think its been incredible all year it seems to definitely be picking up steam in november and pt fir the first part of december, investors are leap frogging, the political discord in washington, the lack of fiscal stimulus and leap frogging that and buying stocks in general and buying growth stocks, buying momentum stocks, buying value stocks, airline, energy, all of the above. It a really good time to reflect as investors, you got to be in it to win
Iran and russia are attempting to interfere with the president ial election. They say theres no hacking involved. There are 12 days left until the vote. Spain is the first nation in western europe with one million virus cases. Rome considers implementing a nightly curfew. It comes as u. S. Hospitalizations reach a two month high. German cases jump to a new daily record of more than 12,000. The pound surges the most in six months as the u. K. And European Union resume talks over post trex it trade deal a week after Boris Johnson threatens to walk away. Negotiators arrive in london today. Anna lets get to some breaking news. Corporate reporting. Lets talk about some numbers from unilever. Third quarter underlying sales up by 4. 4 . Increase of 1. 8 . That looks to be better than in then has been anticipated. An estimate of an increase of over one. On pricing, things are weaker. The pricing comes in below estimates. Topline takeaway, sales have been beaten estimates. They are talking abou
President trump says hes only willing to go as high as 1. 5 trillion. Signs of the pandemic getting more prominent. The u. K. Reporting a Record Number of virus cases today. With more on how it is playing into the markets, Abigail Doolittle in new york. Tech shares going back and forth but tech leading the way out of the red. Walk us through the day. Abigail another amazing one, but probably more so than a reason days because of the whiplash. The nasdaq 100 at the lows early on, down 1. 1 . It was at one point, up nearly 2 . Just about flat and then closing higher by about 6 10 of 1 . What that volatility tells you on the day, the week, the month and on the year uncertainty. No one knows. When you have firm control from the buyers or the sellers that you can make the case between february and march, the sellers were on control around the uncertainty around the pandemic. The buyers took control but on the year, just about flat for the s p 500. It is a real stalemate as we go into the el
Off last weekends trade talks with beijing as the u. S. State Department Asks colleges and universities to divest from chinese stocks. Tinsley merkel rules out loosening of virus measures. Europes biggest economy recorded the biggest increasing cases and newly four months. It has just gone 6 00 in london. 7 00 in frankfurt. 9 00 in the difc. Warm welcome to the show. Good morning to you. , i love the bank of america report. It looks as if the birds have capitulated. Positionede who have from bear market rally, that was from 47 last month down to 35 . Good morning. Annmarie good morning. Or a bear market rally . Some people are thinking this has legs. This s p 500 fresh record, they finally got there. So much emphasis has been on the retail investors. One investor said, its like 1999. People just left their jobs to go to a trade a trade. 1999, i was in bonds and commodities. I was not dancing to baby one more time. Have a look at your markets. I will not sing it. Good morning. Annmarie
Be risk on. The cash trade, less than an hour away. Here are your headlines. Big attack its even bigger. Alphabetacebook, and tune to techsumers to solve the problems of a global lockdown. The French Economy shrinks 13. 8 or after an increase in jobless claims shows the recovery is in shaky ground. Ibar, bnp arab are par beats all but one of the big wall street banks. Just an hour from cash trading. Lets look at futures. Futures futures, u. K. Are down but only slight moves. Nothing material. Nothing to show us what kind of direction we can expect. Futures right ww, if you take a look at the eif screen, also slightly mixed this morning. Of working slew earnings news. I will kick it off right now with natwest. Impairment charge of 3. 54. 5 billion pounds. Expecting less than one billion. In the Second Quarter, more than doubled the impairment charge for the full year. The company expecting at least possibly up to 4. 5 billion. The operating lost was 770 million pounds. Have iag asyou we