The bill awaits signoff from the president. Akron turns up the heat. France threatens to veto a brexit deal if it does not like the terms, piling pressure on the e. U. Not to make further concessions. Welcome to the program, everybody. 7 00 in london. 8 00 in paris. Lets look at the futures. We are fairly flat on futures. The young stock x50 futures flat. Yesterday, we saw some decent gains for the ftse, up by more than 1 and that was a standout compared to the rest of europe which was more mixed. It was mixed in the u. S. Session as well. We did actually see a bit of a late rally in u. S. Equity trading, up to some of those new highs we were talking about in headlines. All of that in the context of the hopes and dreams around u. S. Stimulus. The concern about what can legitimately be done in the shortterm and a lot of hope around vaccines. Perhaps oncent day some parts of the equities space and a late rally in the u. S. Yesterday and we are now pausing. We are pausing somewhat here. W
Lets break it down with mike mckee. Is a it is michael it little bit odd. On the headline, 100. 9 is lower than it was in the month of august or september, rather, when it was 101. 8. You would expect that maybe the present situation would be causing people concern because of the coming closures of some businesses as covid cases spike but the number comes in at 98. 9 at up from 104. 6, up from 98. 9. Turnabouting quite a in the way people are looking at the economy. The interesting thing here is this bemay see is reasonably good news for donald trump because if you are looking at the economy, stupid, as the old saying goes, you are looking at the economy as it is right now, and the economy as it is right now is better. The employment number is something Everyone Wants to look at in the set up to next week. Jobs number is an improvement, so those who think we are going to have a dismal jobs report next week might be in for a surprise, at least according to the underlying Consumer Sentim
Their q1 a couple of political stories out there on the market and this is what we are looking at for european stocks. At the banks or some of the industries sustaining the surging afterwards shareholder raises its stake. The other thing im looking at sentiment bolstered by enemy. It expects business to improve as far as restaurants as bars and restaurants reopen after lockdown. According to the new york just, President Trump paid 750 in income tax in the 2016 and 2017. That is due to reporting losses of millions of dollars from his golf courses. According to his returns, he paid no income tax intent of the past 15 years. The paper says he has hundreds of millions of debt in the next few years. The president says the report is fake news. President trump has nominated judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. She will be his third appointment to the bench, cementing its shift to the right for a generation. She is known to be a devout catholic and has defined abortion is always immor
President trump aggressively denied the story, with, i believe, four sources cited early in the article. It is amazing how one story can shift a dialogue. Francine shift the dialogue, maybe, tom, but i dont know what impact it will have on the polls. Polls, it is one of the interesting conversations in an election year, banks realize they could be one of the most volatile moments in the markets, if you look at the states or whether there is a broader change of heart toward change of mind when it comes to that november election. H, brilliant on that yesterday, talking about the swing state polls as the thing to watch in september. Right now in new york city with our first word news is karina melcher Karina Mitchell. Karina republican the democrats have agreed on one thing secretary Steven Mnuchin and nancy pelosi are working to avoid a Government Shutdown before the election. Up a vital holding stopped spending bill clears the way for the government to stay in operation at the start of
On this thursday, jobless are front and center jon jon . A News Conference center. Jon a News Conference over the weekend, lisa, i love this about the great depression. That after delivering record fees worldwide for the firm. Just try to reconcile those things for us. Lisa its a boom of fees in a time of incredible uncertainty coming on the heels of fiscal stimulus and the question is how do they pair these realities . We will have more on that decision at 7 45 a. M. , i am watching it even though guy johnson calls it a snooze. Hopefully the press conference will be less of a snooze. Tom, to your point, jobless claims and retail sales are already anxious history, but we can get a sense of how much momentum there was going into this resurgence of cases in the virus. We are also getting netflix earnings after the bell. Interesting to see if some of these high flyers improve. Me you would never catch characterizing and ecb News Conference that way, would you, tom . [laughter] tom never.