The u. S. Election and there is profit taking in parts of the market. Investors, trying to figure out what a biden possible blue sweep and the senate means for markets. The focus is on brexit. Rushing outstories and we go to the fed and jobs tumbling. Oil two other stories we are watching, euro area october are thanring pmi, that expected, 54. 8 instead of 54. 4. Se extra this is pretty lockdowns. Watch down for some of the stocks because there was an input error. Maybe we look at individual countries instead of the stoxx 600 as a whole. Lets get to the first word news in new york in london with leighann gerrans. And thank you. With one day until the u. S. President ial election, democratic nominee joe biden is leading incumbent donald trump in a series of polls. He remains ahead nationally as well as in key battleground states although some of the races remain extremely close. A number of polls put widen and ahead in the key swing state of pennsylvania. The u. K. Is set to enter a loc
The uncertainty is out there in the election and particularly on pandemic news worldwide. Jon ferro, we are touching 50 on futures. On radio and tv, we will do more data checks throughout the hour. Rro in withn let fe his famed cross asset that a check as well. Three big figures out on vicks. What is the data on the screen that matters to you right now . Jonathan i just think the news flow out of europe has hijacked the whole agenda morning. The data is looking at the banks and bank equities, particularly in europe. I think the banks this week are down 6 , 7 in europe. Thats where the story is, more restrictions. Macron a little bit later this evening. Reports out of france suggesting a onemonth lockdown. Chancellor merkel talking about proposing restaurants that proposing closing restaurants and bars for a month talking about proposing closing restaurants and bars for a month. It is winter now in europe. That the idea right now not only is the virus increasingly severe throughout euro
An inperson showdown. Commission holds firm it will be virtual. Good morning, everyone. This is bloomberg surveillance. I am Francine Lacqua here in london. Stimulus talks could be closer, or at least they. Are back on the agenda. Here is what. I am looking at across the board. Is movingr yield attached, dollar declining, global stocks rising as the white house appeared to shift track, which signaled it is open to a large. Later on surveillance, we talked to armand sarkissian, 9 30 a. M. U. K. Time. Now lets get to the bloomberg first word news in london with leighann gerrans. Hi, leighann. Leighann good morning, francine. Leighann the debate will happen. The commission organizes it insists it will be virtual, but President Trump says he will not debate,t in a virtual calling the commission a joke. He is calling for to be rescheduled, but joe biden is rejecting that. He says the president pulled out, not joe biden. As dailyaximum alert coronavirus cases exceed 18,000 for a second strai
Open. We are seeing curve flattening in the bond market, although btps moving earlier on out of coming from the ecb suggesting that stimulus may not be forthcoming in the near future. The cable rate also tracking lower as well, 1. 2911. Still north of 1. 29, but yesterday we were north of 1. 30. We are down by 0. 8 . Alix lets get back to the virus resurgence in europe. Italy reporting over 8800 new cases yesterday. Leaders from the u. K. , germany and france all weighing in. For londoners and to all who work in our great capital, i want to say thank you for what you have done to suppress the virus once. We now all need to play our part in getting the virus under control once again. I am convinced that what we do and dont do now in the weeks that are coming will determine how we get through this pandemic. We can see that the curves and the infection figures are pointing upward, and some cases quite quickly. A government which is absolutely committed to be divided, that is what the Busi
London. We had that surprising news, a lot of it on how it could up into the markets Going Forward into the november 3 election day. Now, we still know very little about the symptoms, if any, that President Trump has, so that gives us a little indication of what will happen next. I suppose we could see him stop campaigning for the next two weeks if not longer. It could also have an implication for the ballot if something were to escalate. Canpean stocks down, you see s p futures also down, and then vix, one of the measures we look at for volatility, is gaining as the market trying to recalibrate exactly what that means. Now lets get more on the markets with dani burger. Hi, dani. Dani good morning, francine. We see this reaction starting with a gut punch, starting to bleed into the red for the rest of the day. Yes, u. S. Futures are lower, but interestingly, what is doing worse right now are russian assets. The russian stock index down more than 2 , the ruble down more than 1 . Yesterd