Philips beats expectations in the Third Quarter, sending shares higher in early trade this as the dutch Health Tech Company also backs its outlook. The world needs more Productive Health technology, find new ways to connect patients to doctors, overcome the pandemic and philips is very well placed for the coming years to benefit from that. And chinas gdp rises 4. 9 in the Third Quarter as strong growth in retail sales and Industrial Production support the economys rebound. But the data slightly misses expectations so, there are three parts if i can put it more sub sectors and ideas, one, whats going on politically and economically and on a corporate front this week promises a lot of information on all of the above. Maybe not conclusive information. As the u. S. Elections. Such as brexit were getting to a very key crunch moment as well. Because lets face it, weve got around 15 days until americans have their vote, theyre already voting in droves by the way in the u. S. Election. Not muc
That broadly speaking if we dont get that, there would certainly be Downside Risks certainly through the channel i mentioned. Thank you cnn. Thanks for taking my question chairman powell, give us an update to the policy framework and repeated calls for this and this event, is the fed open to other parts of the economy such as income inequality and Affordable Housing we monitor everything we think is important in the u. S. Economy. In a broad sense, all of it goes into thinking about Monetary Policy you mentioned inequality so disparities in income and Financial Wellbeing demographic and racial categories, something we monitor carefully, inequality, which i would point to its a multifaceted thing, stagnation of nat the lower end of the income and lower mobility those are things that hold back our economy. They are the thing is we dont really have the tools to address those. We have Interest Rates and Bank Supervision and Financial Stability policy and things like that, but we cant get a
Good morning, it is 8 00 a. M. At apple park in coopertino it is 11 00 a. M. On wall street, and squawk alley is live. Good Tuesday Morning welcome to squawk alley. Im jon fortt. Were going to kick things off with apple, just under two hours away from a big event this afternoon where we expect to see a new ipad and a new apple watch. I argue this is the most important launch for those products since their debut why . The environment that were for the ipad it is all about covid productivity people are trying to buy devices for work from home and school from home. They are trying to extend their lead on the tablet space and what about the watch its all about Health Monitoring as people work out from home and now look for additional tools to monitor their vitals during covid. Apple might provide the knockout punch and make things like googles proposed deal for fit bit irrelevant if it was a fortune 500 company, that would have put the ie had alo alone ahead. One star of the show today cou
Speaker pelosi says its absolutely absurdly unconstitutional. What will they do . Go to court to stop people getting the money . Right before an election . Good luck with that. The president s playing political hardball. 84 days to the election and again, the money will flow. Investors like it, by the way. Looking at the futures, the dow industrials will open this morning with a gain of about 100 points. The s ps going to be up about four. The nasdaq, up about 13 as we speak. The president s playing political hardball with china as well and beijing is responding. Jimmy li, a leader of hong kongs democracy movement, has been arrested under the new security law and china has imposed sanctions on u. S. Senators, including marco rubio and ted cruz. Now, that is escalation. Dramatic change may be coming to a mall near you. Amazons in talks with americas largest mall operator, Simon Properties simon group properties, to use some Department Stores as fulfillment centers. Amazon gets cheap spa
A medical journal is due to publish more information on the vaccine trial. Welcome to bloomberg surveillance. Im Francine Lacqua in london. The markets are more quiet, but a lot of the focus is euro given what weve seen in the markets and what we saw with the eu leaders. The eu strengthening to a fourmonth high, bond spreads narrowing as regional leaders in europe make progress negotiating a stimulus package for economies devastated by the pandemic. Eurodollar, 1. 1455 and gold flat. Lets get the first word news with laura wright. May joink. International allies and suspending its extradition pact with hong kong, it could come today when the foreign secretary addresses parliament. Tensions have ramped up in recent weeks. London could introduce sanctions over human rights abuses, a move beijing once would have consequences. Donald trump is playing down arising coronavirus cases. He told foxnews many are experiencing nothing more than sniffles and positive tests are only up because of wa