Nikkei, last 30 minutes of trade. Final stretch of the morning session paid south korea is being dragged down. Currency markets. Sterling, cable, eurodollar, aussie, the sing dollar. 136 following this weeks mas decision and policy response. Fairly flat. We could see more action later tonight and into next week, when you have the likes of chinese gdp numbers coming out. Gyrations on the political scene, i would imagine. Lets go to your first word news and get you updated on the virus situation in europe with the u. K. And france facing tough virus restrictions as global infections are heading towards 40 million. Households indoors going under overnight curfew as they have a new wave of covid19. Daily infections hitting record in germany, italy, ireland, and spain. Reporting the most new cases since april. President trump is ramping up rift with Senior Republicans, saying he supports a bigger stimulus package. He is blaming democrats for delaying an agreement, but says he goes further t
You go to safety. Youre going to buy volatility, yields, bonds, and the dollar. 10 year yield now 75 basis quite a move from just a few days ago. Crude battered, beaten up today. Less demand for those oil prices. Guy absolutely. Lets recap where we are and what is going on. The german chancellor Angela Merkel currently meeting with heads of the german states. We are going to hear from her we think when that meeting wraps. We are probably likely to hear from her as well tomorrow morning. We are also getting Emmanuel Macron a little later on. Both countries moving toward more restrict of lockdowns. Lets get the latest. Maria tadeo joins us from brussels. Theres a lot of ideas floating around. None of this will be official until both Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel speak. The idea is we are moving into something that looks like a fulltime lockdown in the case of the french government, that we understand is seriously considering a onemonth lockdown that would start thursday night, going
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Back to an eight day holiday. They are putting much playing catchup. We have gains across the board. Shanghai is up 1. 6. These services pmi rising for a fifth month. The you on getting 6. 73 versus the dollar. This was stronger than expected. This is a weak dollar story. Some yen strength there. The bank of canada governors has negative Interest Rates remain an option. Courts seems like a lot of the action is in the shanghai markets here today given that robust reopening after the eight day holiday. We will speak exclusively to the Everest Medicine ceo. This is 27 right now in its debut in hong kong. The Trump Administration signaling that the administration is again leaning toward a largescale stimulus bill. That comes after nancy pelosi pushed back on the idea of peace for a. She is excepting refusing to accept help for airline without wider bill agreed. We want to help the airline workers. There is legislation that we had ed the cares act that we hope we could continue for the next
The red. Does tech stage a rebound in october . You have huge positions in the faangs what do you think . What matters to me is sales growth they have it we have started on the digital journey. Not just in america. Everywhere, europe, asia, south america. Its a theme we have been tau g talking about for six months be p the idea it will go away after the pandemic is resoevveverreson ever that is, is ridiculous. Remembering apple or amazon over its journey had multiple 20, 30 corrections. You just got to take a deep breathe. It will come back. Did those stocks get too ahead of themselves . No. I think apple is unique. Every name has a different issue. Theres still a little bit of Consumer Electronics associated with apple this whole idea of stay at home stocks, st stocks we are going through a fundamental change in our economy. I want to own them now after the election, next year and the year after that were only in inning three look at nikes earnings. They are almost 33 direct to consum