Equity futures lower on the ftse. The s p 500 went down. Bid into the bond market. Into the bond market we go, negative almost 60 basis points on a 10 year. Its like a throwback to our days together five years ago. There is some weight to this. Good morning. Annmarie certainly, it is. Were so excited to have you back. An absolute gladbac bloodbath, nymex dropping below 39 as the resurgence of cases in europe not going to bode well on the demand side. The supplyside worried about libyan oil barrels. Softer. A bit this is the prospect of fresh stimulus. That helped treasury yields rise. Jonathan thank you. Lets get the first word news this morning. We can do that with laura wright. Laura china is laying out a new plan for Economic Growth this week in beijing. President xi jinping is holding a meeting to decide on the next fiveyear plan. Its expected to focus on technological innovation, economic selfreliance, and the environment. But the event is closed to the press. Key decisions wont b
Lets dig into the numbers. Paul is joining us right now, a professor of economics and a nobel laureate. And michael mckee. He broke down the payroll numbers early on. Eye,his really caught my the Unemployment Rate. Mike more people in the Household Survey got jobs, fewer people laid off, even though the labor reports rose during the month. Overall, as you mentioned, 1,370,000 jobs created, the forecast was for 1,350,000, so the economists got it right with their consensus forecast. In the biggest jobs categories, retailing at a 249,000, professional services 197,000, 147,000 in education, and 134,000 food and drink workers got their jobs back, but that still is 2. 5 million below the number in february. Construction at 16,000. That raises the question given how strong the Housing Market is, on whether we do not have enough construction workers. Manufacturing wasnt strong, but added only 29,000 jobs. Of theting fact, 24. 3 people working in august worked from home through telework. The
Well despite the fact that we speculative trading should be curved up, well see how yum china is doing but a muted debut so far here in the city. We are expecting a Bank Decision highly expected to stay on hold here today. Also with the ecb as well. Watching the euro very closely. Did gain yesterday on the back of a report that some ecb officials having a little more confidence in the recovery from this pandemic ahead of its policy meeting. Theyre likely to hold. Well see what they say about the strength of the currency. 118 for the zero dollar. Pound still under pressure here. Things like the seems like the e. U. May be take manager Legal Proceedings or measures here to stop the withdrawal from this deal that Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been play to play out here. Your indonesia rupia as well. Recovering a bit on concerns about the Central Banks independence. Government think ceying it was opposed to the plan of a monetary board being set up at b. Y. Well dig deep beer shah in a
Continue to gradually reopen, auto plants are restarting some operations this morning and Homebuilder Confidence increasing as well ahead on todays show, President Trump host iing a rou b table with restaurant executives at t the white house this afternoon well speak with the ceo of restaurant brand, the Parent Company of burger king and pop eyes. Plus, billionaire entrepreneur and Restaurant Owner will join us to discuss whether people will actually come back to restaurants, casinos an sporting events hes got all three of those covered. Hooe also at that white house meeting. Lets focus in on the big stori were watching mike is tracking the big market rally. Meg has the latest on modernas vaccine progress Brian Sullivan watching the comeback for crude well tart off with the broaderr rally, mike, and what stands out to you obviously the market for months has been moving along this spectrum that goes from you know sooner and faster for a recovery to you know later and slower and right no
For the country and the economy with ian bremmer who says we should be thinking in terms of three years. Plus, well speak with Kevin Durants Business Manager about the lockdown of the sport. 59 minutes left of trade iing. Lets focus on the big stories mike is tracking todays Market Action near the highs of the session. Phil lebeau watching boeing dragging down the dow. David faber covering the executive shake up at at t and kayla on the latest round of government stimulus. Mike, first you on what were seeing slight gains, still lower on the week an upward drift here in the afternoon, but as you suggest within the range, obviously just consolidating r very, very big really historic magnitude of a rally we saw during march. April rather weve come right here, 28 20s is an interesting level in late summer its kind of rushed up last summer we were afraid of some kind of perhaps tipping into a mild recession. Here we are looking at a vastly worse recession. The earnings picture is very opaqu