The polls as investors await confirmation of a snap election. He speaks at 10 00 a. M. London time this morning. Buy ge industry solutions, 2. 6 billion. Abb shares open around 30 minutes. Matt we are 30 minutes away from the european open. Lets take a look at futures. Equity Index Futures a little bit weaker this morning, this could be concerned about green policy in the German Government, probably unlikely or if it is, will have a very small effect on the german and french automakers. We do see a little bit of weakness this morning and equity Index Futures. What are you seeing on the gmm . Guy we are seeing the euro a bit weaker. The coverage continues post the closing of the polls. It is interesting to see that coming out. We got another election we should talk about. The markets thing attention, the new zealand markets trading higher. The new zealand dollars trading down. The nikkei is trading higher as confirmation of this snap poll. We have got this yen trading a little softer th
In europe. Sterling is a little bit lower. You had the moodys downgraded friday but the market yawned at that. Im looking at wti versus brent, and unbelievable move, almost at seven dollars. David its time for your morning brief. We will hear for room we will hear from a range of central bankers. William dudley will talk about Workforce Development at 8 30 a. M. Eastern time and then we will had to russells where the ecb president mario draghi will speak at 9 00 a. M. Eastern time. Charles evans will be this afternoon. At 12 40 p. M. Neel kashkari will speak at 6 30 p. M. This evening. Jonathan thats your morning beef brief every day. When they dont talk they do, when they do when they dont do they talk. Jonathan a victory in germany was marked by the popular party. A major new challenges in front of us namely the fact that the afd has entered parliament. We shall certainly analyze this closely because want to gain back those voters of the afd by solving these problems, by giving them
Koreas foreign minister says hess country has the right to shoot down strategic u. S. Bombers even if theyre not in north korean air spas. Stocks dropped sharply. The major indexes did recover some of those. The Dow Jones Industrial averag dropped 53 points to 22,296. The nasdaq was off 56, and the s p 500 was down five. Well, north korea got a lot of investor attention, so did something else. Bob pisani explains. Tensions are on the rise once again after a war of words between President Donald Trump and north Korean Leader kim jongun escalated today. North koreas foreign minister said trump has effectively declared war on the rogue nation, and that north korea now, quote, has every right to take countermeasures, including the right to shoot down u. S. Bombers even if theyre not in north korean airspace. Weve had hear similar exchange of threats now, the markets have mostly shrugged them off up until now. The gold was up. Bond yields dipped to lows, lifting real estate, defensive nails
Did you spell Bed Bath Beyond wrong did you spell it ben the first time i wrote it. You say im a stickler for detail then they think i did this im like getting flack for something that you can you take it down ill talk to my people. U. S. Equity futures at this hour lets show you whats going on now. The dow looking like it would open up higher, 32 points higher nasdaq opening about 16 1 2 points higher. S p 500 looking to open a little over 3 points higher lets go over to asia. The nikkei off a bit the hang seng and shanghai are looking up if we fly to europe, we will show you what that picture looks like youre seeing green arrows across the board you would be happiest if you were investing in the index there in spain finally wti crude, buying it by the barrel, still over well, still way over 51 coming in on 52. 51. 74. Here are the big stories were watching our top corporate story. Shares of nike lower this morning. The Worlds Largest sports wear brand reporting a 24 drop in quarterly
Channels and 1,000 videos were likely linked to moscow. However, it says the viewership of those videos was low. Lets kick it off with breaking news. Industrial production numbers for september, coming out, blowout numbers here on the year on year figures. 8. 4 for the month of september. The estimate was for 4. 8 . Month by month though seeing a mills. Still seeing quite a bit of resilience. Especially when it comes to year on year. This is the highest weve seen in four years on the factory side of things for korea. Well see how things fare, but really seems like this data may just fall in the shadows of all that is happening with this drama when it comes to the manafort indictment. Testimonies under way pretty soon, as well as that phasingin of the tax reform. That could be the big culprit, why we did see that pullback when it comes to markets. Lets look at how things are faring here in asia so far. On the back drop of all that, we are seeing a little bit of green here on the index 5