Morning. And the nasdaq is down by 182 points a lot of this is whats happening in europe right now. You dont just look at the oversees market but were going to take our queues from what is happening there. You can see the ftse down by 3. 4 and the other markets are down by more and a lot of this is coming in the last few hours. They could be considering a second lock down as covid cases there have soared theyre back to the levels in may. Theyre concerned about whats happening with the number of cases and the hospitalizations admissions doubling every 8 days theyre now looking at 6,000 cases a day and again theres been some talk of a potential second lock down there now they want to make sure that schools can stay open and that some businesses could stay open but just the threat of that, the potential for the second wave coming is enough to push all of the stocks in europe into the red. If you take a look at whats been happening with travel and leisure stocks they were down by 6 earlier
And how they are working with diversity and how they are changing the company with what that means. Seasons season is officially underway. Scarlet fu is here with some of the highlights. Scarlet i wanted to start big picture, as with banking and other parts of the economy, the stronger getting stronger and the weak are getting weaker. Citi leaning on their trading business. You can see that jp morgans revenue soared thanks to training. Record revenue for a second straight quarter, and equity rising more than 30 . At citi we saw trading surging 68 and with companies trying to raise cash as quickly as possible, investing got a boost as well. Wells fargo does not have the same wall street operation. If you look at wells, reported a loss 2. 4 billion. The first quarterly loss since 2008. Nine and a aside half billion dollars for credit losses. See jp morgan putting aside 10. 5 million. That is the biggest loan loss provision in its history, and it shows us how covid19 affected the economy
Year not beating estimates. David it looks like their stock is down in the premarket about 2. 5 . Home depot before you so rudely interrupted me alix david is funny today. David not very funny. Per depot beat earnings share, a little light on revenue. They basically blamed a lot on lumber disinflation, basically. They are warning a lot about china. One is how they want to eat up the lumber costs, a 21 drop in the cost of lumber. At the same time, you have continued slowing homebuilding, but theres a lag for that. Home depot not necessarily feeling the full effect of that could weakness. Because of the price of lumber, overall sales are down. They took it down for the year. There estimates went down. Ls, theykoh reaffirmed their adjusted Earnings Guidance on that comp sales mess. We will dig into retail more over the next couple of hours. The equity markets looking a little bit soggy here, with s p Futures Party much flat. Dow jones off by about five. It doesnt feel like theres a lot of
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At 1. 9s coming in billion. Investment banking revenue at 1. 3 8 billion. We will discuss later in the hour. Well get Goldman Sachs. David time for the morning brief. We will give you you as production data. The greek Prime Minister will be visiting the white house today. There will be a joint News Conference at 1 30 this afternoon. At 3 00 we will get an idea of how the fourth round of nafta investigations have gone on. President trump will deliver a major policy speech on tax reform tonight in washington. Thats coming up at 7 30 this evening eastern time. In the u. K. Data came out showing the highest inflation right in more than five years in september. Increasing the odds for boe policymakers to raise rates for the first time in a decade. Earlier this morning mark carney reiterated the bank expects inflation to peak above 3 around october. After the data came out the pound raced in advance. Hsbcrevised forecast expects the pound to reach 135 of from the initial call of 120. Now we