Madrid could announce a state of emergency today. A golden reopening. Beijing is back to work efforts week long holiday. Chinese equities and the yuan outperform. Very good morning to you. 6 00 a. M. In the city of london. Happy friday. Its one week since we learned the president of the United States tested positive for covid19. D. C. Politics is messy. We will talk about that a little bit later. We are 25 days away from the u. S. Election. Some optimism that we have had a bit of shift on stimulus in the white house. Nancy pelosi, Steven Mnuchin, are talking again, but many skeptical we will see support. The hope of that is moving markets this morning. S p 500 futures to the upside this morning alongside euro futures as well. Chinese equities outperforming. We are up more than 2 this morning, 1 00 p. M. In beijing. China is back to work after golden week. Its back with some good optimistic measures when you look at the equities space. The bloomberg dollar index lower against all of g10
Onnce places restrictions more cities. Pedro sanchez calling an extraordinary meeting. House signals it is open to a comprehensive plan shifting its stance as a result. Pushed higher. Gorman goes hunting. Morgan stanley steals a 7 billion deal for the purchase of eaton vance. From our interview with the ceo itself. Himself. Lets look at what futures are doing. Green arrows. See, they are incredibly slight. Not even 0. 1 . The percent missed price indicating a higher open then futures are showing you right now. U. S. Futurest the after stimulus talk. It will more directly affect the u. S. Economy. Nasdaq, dow jones and futures up 0. 4. Breaking news coming through. Lets get to that. First on the macro front. The u. K. Economy, clocking in some growth figures looking to be much worse than the market anticipated. The u. K. Economy grew at 2. 1 in the month of august. The estimate was 4. 6 . We were expecting that rate of growth compared to previous months to come down. A bounce in june, t
Covid19. His physician warned he may not be entirely out of the woods. Global stocks still see modest gains. Hong kong maintains its coronavirus social distancing measures. 34 u. S. States see more virus cases than they did a month ago. The cdc warns the virus can spread indoors in the air beyond six feet. Deutsche banks ceo tells bloomberg exclusively it could consider m a as early as next year, but with one caveat. For us, it is important that we are not a junior partner. That means we first have to sustainably increase our profitability. We are just under an hour away from the start of cash trading in europe. We have german factory orders coming out on the ticker. Rising orders in august 4. 5 month over month. That is better than the estimate sorry well, the estimate and the previous reading or both 2. 8 . 4. 5 beat the estimate and the prior reading. Yearoveryear, you have to drop 2. 2 . It is not as bad as the 3. 8 that was estimated by economists, and not as bad as the 7. 3 drop
22 days to go until the election. Trump trails joe biden in a national poll. Yuan rally hit the pause. A weakerlowed with than expected fixing. It is just gone 6 00 a. M. Really filled with a lot of fingerpointing as mark cudmore points out. No one really expect money from a major new package before the u. S. Election, but they are betting on a monster injection. That puts our focus on the rising coronavirus cases europe is battling, and attention will shift to london. We will hear about restrictions from Boris Johnson. Lets take a look at how. Monday lets see how monday morning is shaping up. Equities, the csi 300 outperforming. Up to. 5 . There is a lot of optimism ahead of president xi jinpings address this week. That is expected to announce reforms to the upside. Trade,. S. Equities of the bond markets will be closed for columbus day. Lets take a look at what is going on across asset. When you look at the currency space, it is about the yuan. A higher dollar weaker yuan. This comes
Europe here. We initially saw quite a negative story coming out of europe. In the United States, maybe some stimulus talks helping propel the story a bit higher. The s p up by over 1 . The euro has come back. It is still negative on the day. We did have a 1. 16 handle. We now have a 1. 17 handle, but we have seen continuing dismal inflation data out of the eurozone. Yesterday was germany. Today it is france. A 0. 6 print. We get the final number friday. Alix totally different from the u. S. , in that we are able to generate some inflation. Christine lagarde with her strongest signal that the ecb will change its goal. She said it may be worth examining a strategy that allows inflation to temporarily rise above the target rate, similar to the feds shift. We need to thoroughly analyze the forces driving inflation dynamics today, and consider whether and how we should adjust our strategy in response. The anchoring of fixed rate expectations might have loosened. The wider discussion today i