Entered a new wave of cases. Europes twin battles. E. U. Leaders make no progress. Chancellor merkel says finding compromise will be difficult as france and belgium are said to have urged e. U. Leaders to step up contingency plans for a nodeal brexit. Very good morning to you and happy friday. What a week it has been. Witharted the week off optimism and euphoria with markets on a high into vaccine news and we will be ending the week on a much more sobering tone. The news coming out in the United States, california imposing a new curfew, with pressure on officials. We wake up to a public clash between Steven Mnuchin and jay powell on unused lending funds and we saw that hit the futures market. S p 500 futures paring some of those losses. We have nasdaq futures relatively flat this morning. Treasury yields steady. In the pound, north of 132. We do have sources telling bloombergs that Emmanuel Macron is urging his e. U. Counterparts to start drawing up contingency plans for a nodeal brexi
Well. We are watching what is going on with individual indices. Hong kong coming back and a big way after that long holiday. Hang seng up more than 300 points. The nikkei 225 up more than 1. 3 . At this point, seeing positive signs of drug and his recovery, although there has been mixed messages about what treatment he is getting, the timeline of his diagnosis as well. We are looking at risk aversion trade that we saw on friday,. Hich were gaining not doing a whole lot here this morning. Moving on 70 basis points. Seeing the reversal from friday, ozzie gaining and the yen, which additionally i despite, it it kit. 1900 after that 4 brent crude just below 40 a barrel. Watching fx, watching the dollar, pretty steady this morning as well. The pound seems to be holding onto the gains as well, brexit set for a showdown at the eu summit. Aussie and your revenue be holding on the firstlets get world headlines. Republican leader Mitch Mcconnell says the fasttrack schedule of the Supreme Court t
Level deaths are approaching one million with record chain record cases in france and the u. K. Tiktoks band is due to take effect on monday ban is due to take effect on monday. Shery u. S. Futures coming in at. 2 higher after fluctuations. Investors were weighing optimism over a stimulus package over rising covid19 infections. We have the s p 500 up. 3 . Hitby utilities, they session highs with new rounds of the economic stimulus measures. We had strong housing numbers. Trip. Com seeing thirdquarter revenue down about 47 to 52 . The forecast is not great when it comes to trip. Com. Yuan. Coming in at 1. 93 a little bit lower than expected. This as we continue to watch the markets, oil coming in. 25 lower. We saw oil climbing to the highest stimulus hopes, but there were doubts over rebounding consumption as the pandemic cases continued to climb. Haidi. Europethat second wave and the u. K. , one of the risks weighing on the investments at the moment. For the final friday session in nat
A lot of the jobs that have been lost since the pandemic are being recovered. No question it was a much better number than was expected with the headline being 1. 4 million jobs added and the Unemployment Rate going below double digits for the First Time Since the pandemic adding it all up we now have recovered since april a total of about 10. 6 million jobs, which is huge progress, but it also leaves a huge hole we still have 11. 5 million fewer jobs than we had in february which was the month before the pandemic so weve still got to dig ourselves out of the hole and weve still got to look at the permanent impact of all of this. One in the numbers i went to first in this report is the number of people seeing permanent job losses it did rise by about half a million. Its 3. 4 million so that is the highest level since 2013 and does point to the fact that there is going to be some permanent scarring despite the fact, carl, that we are seeing progress, its moving in the right direction. T
Ahead . A delayed launch, Rocket Companies sinking after reporting its first results as a Public Company, the ceo will join us in just a few minutes to discuss. And later Tyler Goodspeed as jobless claims come in under consensus and post a new low since the start of the pandemic. A lot to work with today, david and melissa, as we watch that intraday period yesterday where we saw tesla down 10 , for example, worst day for a moment there since early may, david, and then the buyers came in and we will see once again if that happens with some of those names like tesla down about 6 before the bell. Yeah, well, listen, im glad we have melissa with us today for so many reasons but one is because theres nobody who knows more about this company or certainly has talked about it as much as you guys have on fast, melissa, for obvious reasons as it has soared over the last few years and last few months have been truly extraordinary we keep making comparisons to the late 90s which we all know well a