Worldwide, a number of stories, including 21 days to the election. Both campaigns gearing up and finetuning. We are distracted by Bank Earnings. Jon ferro, jp morgan doing better than good. Citigroupi am getting , on first blush giving us the same enthusiasm we heard from jp morgan. Jonathan jamie dimons jp morgan delivering the beat, and it looks like city group is repeating the action. Figurepoint out, the eps third quarter, 1. 40. A little bit of an upside surprise here. I believe we have sonali basak with us. What are we seeing. Sonali we are seeing a beat on revenue, on fixed income. We are seeing loanloss provisioning higher than what jp morgan put in, but lower than what analysts expected. Perhaps wall street has just gotten it wrong compared with the banks are expecting in terms of loan losses. They are higher than jp morgan, so we are going to want to understand why the divergence, but overall, pretty clean numbers here. Tom as we see the numbers come out, we are getting this
Francine a couple of days ago. They are close in condemning huawei in china. This is over a security law that china did in hong kong with the u. K. Offering to suspend the extradition treaty with china, something that china has not taken so well. Nott punish the u. K. By doing dont touch football. It is something that actually could simmer, but we had a great story on bloomberg yesterday saying that under president xi, we could just see a china versus u. S. , china versus u. K. , as he is ready to take on the world as being the strongman back home. Tom it will be interesting to seal. I will be emailing our chinese brethren, on crystal palace, i believe, sunday. Right now, first word news with karina mitchell. Karina bloomberg has learned there is a settlement in the Goldman Sachs case and malaysia. Elation would drop all criminal charges it malaysia would drop all criminal charges against the bank. China has struck back. He has ordered the u. S. To close its consulate in the southweste
Happy tuesday. These are your markets. A lot of the focus this week will be on earnings. We have a lot in the u. S. And europe. Of days awayle from the signing of that phase one trade deal between the u. S. And china. We are still trying to figure out what happens between the u. K. And the eu. There is a lot of speculation. While Bank Earnings c,itif with j. P. Morgan and wells fargo will follow after. We will focus on what blackrock Just Announced moments ago to focus on more sustainability. Lets get to the bloomberg first word news. The Worlds Largest asset manager is upping its push to a greener future. Blackrock will put Climate Change at the top of the investment strategy. Inwill avoid investing companies with sustainability risk. The u. K. Is likely to secure a trade deal with the eu, according to Boris Johnson. He said he is very, very, very confident. The transition phase is currently scheduled to end on december 31. Iraqi leaders privately want u. S. Troops to stay in the coun
Watching from asia. Welcome to bloomberg surveillance. You are just getting that decision from gorgeous norges, this is an interesting rate on how to set Interest Rates. A hawkish stance because of weakness in the national currency. But given the rest of the world is much more dovish and weaker President Trump putting pressure on the fed to cut, it is interesting if you are one of the lonely banks out there that wants to hike. Overall, european stocks are unchanged. , which gave sold much fear and anxiousness on the markets, currently stabilizing at 2. 01. Will have extra checks throughout the day and more on the inverted yield curve. Coming up, axis of conversation with Philipp Hildebrand, the blackrock vice chair. And exclusive conversation with Philipp Hildebrand, the blackrock vice chair. Lets get straight to bloomberg first word news in new york city. Warren buffett has upped his wager in amazon. Hathaways stake in the ecommerce giant rose 11 in the Second Quarter. It is now value
More downgrades. This time not on the sovereign but u. S. Banks, 10 downgrades overnight. Tom there is a bank story in italy as well. That is the economic thing to look at. Overwhelming everything here this morning led by the news out of china is it is deflation tuesday. Im looking at the screen and i have not seen that screen in 4, 5, six years. Jonathan dreadful. Tom we were out in front of the story, there is deflation in the air. I can bore you with eight ways, all you have to do is say even oil breaks down. Jonathan every time i get data out of china, it is downside surprise. Lisa one interesting area, the divergence between the u. S. And china has been accelerating. What you have seen with respect to the u. S. Dependence on china is it is decreasing even though in europe it is not. I wonder how much those stories are linked. The underperformance of germany and the outperformance of the United States. Tom the banks have to deal with this disinflationary, deflation tendency. You go