Achieve strong Sustainable Growth and safeguard against downside risks. The group offered no specific actions to combat the virus. How disappointing was that look, i think this is the same problem, central bankers are dealing with a biological problem that is then going to spill over to economics, probably means fiscal help what are we talking about here lets talk about restaurant closing, malls closing how about the people who work at the places, thinly capitalized companies that are supposed to pay these people Steve Liesman i worked with him this morning, excellent drop in there, par suited into their office one point the Federal Reserve was saying well stand back behind people whose insurance for instance isnt paid off for a hurricane. I think that its up to treasury and incumbent upon treasury to say were going to work with Small Business, if you have a problem, you can come to us, because thats where the real pain is going to be. We dont want the only retailer to be walmart when
Daybreak asia. Thisr top stories wednesday, new questions about President Trumps many deal that says chinas higher purchases of agricultural goods depend on a reduction in u. S. Tariffs. The imf cuts its outlook for the fourth straight time. And sterling reaches a new high on high optimism about a new brexit deal. Shery breaking news out of south korea. The jobless rate ticked up to 3. 4 in september. The estimate was to gain from 3. 1 , so the Unemployment Rate higher than expected. We have seen weakness in the private sector, south korea very exposed to trade tensions and slowing global demand, although we have seen passage of that extra budget in august, which could provide support for labor markets, but so far september unemployment at three point 4 . Australian markets just open. Lets turn to sophie. Sophie. Sophie sherri, shares in sydney are breaking ground, advancing fifth straight day, in tokyo the nikkei 225 open. It fresh 2019 high with valuations below the fiveyear average.
And were looking ahead to earnings jpmorgan, all on deck. Joining us is dan nathan from risk vertical advisers what are you watching today heading into tomorrow . The fact that the dow is onle we had these massive surges in stocks yet, we dont have a whole heck of a lot of content about what that means, other than buying ag and a lot of Market Participants right now feel like weve seen this movie before and we kind of know how it ends except that this time, its a threepart Netflix Series that we have to stay tuned for. And we may have to stay tuned for multiple seasons Binge Watching is what youre saying were in for Binge Watching on the trade front. We are flat, as we said volumes down a little bit. But there have been a lot of intraday moves, as well. Lets focus in on the big stories were watching today bob pisani is watching the Market Reaction. And well break down all the latest trade headlines phil lebeau following a c suite shake up of boeing but lets start with eamon reporter no
I sawed this loud and clear to everybody. Rob portman back immediate up. Theres nobody more honorable than rob portman of ohio he called up, please let the money go i said rob i hate being the country thats always giving money when ukraine helps europe and the European Countries far more than they help us theyre like a wall between russia and europe. Theyre like a wall. Theyre a big, wide, beautiful wall and he said, you know what but its important in fact, he came out and he said that this was my only reason. Because i dont like being the sucker country we were the sucker country for years and years. Were not the sucker country anymore. But i gave the money because rob portman and others called me and asked. But i dont like to be the sucker and European Countries are helped far more than we are. And those countries should pay more to help ukraine ask a question. Thank you, sir. What did you want on biden . Biden and his son are stonecold crooked you know it. His son walks out with mil
The pentagon, including lots of generals and lots of other military experts 18 sites of confliction, meaning 18 sites of big problems every one of them was backed by iran or in some cases actually using iranian soldiers, but at a minimum iranian wealth, much of it given in the ridiculous deal where they were given 150 billion plus 1. 8 billion in cash and they used that money for some bad purposes. With that being said, i think that iran is a country of tremendous potential we are not looking for leadership change. Were not looking for that kind of change. This country has been through that many times before that doesnt work. Were looking for no Nuclear Weapons, no Ballistic Missiles and a longer period of time. Very simple. We can have it done in a very short period of time and i really believe that iran can be a great nation id like to see that happen, but they cant have Nuclear Weapons. Thank you. [ inaudible question ] excuse me. [ inaudible question ] if the circumstances were cor