Lets look at these markets and our into the european trading day. Stoxx 600 in europe up by. 1 . And even start to the trading day. Evenly divided winners and losers on the European Equity markets. Lacking any direction. Into the u. S. , also lacking direction. We have seen a little bit above the flatline. Not getting a great bicker great bit of direction. A big focus on Central Banks and a u. S. And a focus on u. S. Policy. Titians, ay trade tensions, that coming up. Wrist bank leaves behind five years riksbank leaves behind five years. Is now what we are showing you. We were showing you the norwegian krone. Not to be confused with the riksbank. Bank, we scroll back to what they did there. That was as expected. See a to this picture, we number of Central Banks leaving policy unchanged. They were treated for negative Interest Rate hiking. They were moving in their own direction moving against the cutting cycle for many previous months. We continue to do that. Lets get a new lets get an
On. If we dont get more cuts, presume believe that is negative for oil prices. Eurosterling around the 0. 85 level. Got closer to it a little later on. This is a big line of sand for that pair. We are now up by 0. 2 . The hong kong story absolutely front and center. President trump signing a bill expressing u. S. Support for the protesters in hong kong. It is a move that threatens to complicate trade talks with china. There was a lot of reaction around the world. Not a welcomet is news, but the Market Reaction so far has been pretty calm, so to speak. Basically, its just another thing like having the tariffs. Its a thanksgiving present for everyone. This too shall pass. This was more posturing than substance. This is a real headache for them to try to figure out what is going to be a violation of human rights. How are they going to decide that . It is a foregone conclusion that he would sign, so china is prepared or was prepared for this. The new bipartisan consensus from both the u. S
It is still mixed. Analysts in the reports use words like mixed, mediocre and unimpressive to describe the result. Unlike Credit Suisse, we did see ing miss. They are feeling the pinch of lower Interest Rates. Google, herbert stumble for them. Google, a rare stumble for them. We saw staples in europe followed by utilities. Switching to the negatives, these are more telling. You will see oil and energy and materials have the worse earnings, basically seeing the growth drop by nearly 30 for energy. And more than 35 for materials. Thank you dani burger. We had more breaking news on the bloomberg. Let me bring you these numbers. It is at the low end of guidance. Cost of fx is up. Thirdquarter sales come in at 32. 8 billion danish krone. Ever so slightly soft, in line on thirdquarter sales. Thirdquarter net income, 10. 1 danish krone, that beats the estimate of 9. 6. The red headline says it raises the low end for 2019 sales growth guidance. Lets get back to earnings season, we are joined b
Currency call it the Advent Calendar for the 1 the price tag, just 112,000 it is trending coming up, october 23. Just 63 days until christmas Worldwide Exchange starts right now. Good morning. Good afternoon, good evening welcome. Im Brian Sullivan let me be the first to wish you a merry christmas. Why not . We are already seeing decorations at the stores. Your chart has nothing to do with earnings. It has to do with that wild ceo shake up that has the service now ceo to nike. Service now down on that move. Theyll miss their ceo apparently now is the ticker and that stock is now down nearly 10 well get you more on that story coming up. First, how your markets and man are setting up the day a lot of individual stories to chew on. Overall, the markets didnt do a lot. Futures are down a staggering six points we are seeing s p down down a couple of Percentage Points in japan, the nikkei 225 grinding higher. Again, day after day, thenikke seems to be going up anoth another. 3 . We have it u
Companies in the sector over the next year, rerun the analysis next year and present more analysis and set of recommendations. I will pause and pass it over to luke now to discuss similar analysis we have done in the Utilities Sector and what we have done here is conducted a similar analysis to identify companies to engage within the Utilities Sector over the next year. This is a separate memo attached to the same item. The way the pages are numbered it is broken up. We tend to say boards recommendation. On which page is the item. I see several items. We can make up the motion but i want to make sure we are on the same starting point. Page 36 has the summary of recommended actions. This is three parts. It references tables on the other pages that contain the list of companies. This is the company name. Okay. It is all the same starting point. We dont have to adopt 36. Lets work off that point. Board questions . Just a comment that on the cover page there is three recommended motions. P