Good morning, everybody. Im becky quick and welcome friyay were watching the equity futures. Three down days in a row, but the dow did make a pretty stunning recovery, down actually over 300 points after the numbers at 8 30 yesterday that showed that initial jobless claims were higher than anticipated. Ended down by 20 points at the end of the session this morning dow futures down about 13, s p s p are flat lining, nasdaq basically flat lining too well be watching this closely to see how people shoring things up you as we head into this weekend. And also take a look at what is happening in the treasury market the ten year which yesterday fell back below 7. 0 and now is 7. 26 . Lets talk about what happened last night. President trump and former Vice President biden making their case to the American People on dueling town halls i was sitting there with my remote going back and forth, both events focusing on the Trump Administrations handling of tGlobal Pandemic. Do you support herd immu
Citis analyst call is getting underway. Jp morgan had their analyst call. Those stocks are now lower. Sonali basak has been on the call and joins us now. Why the rollover here . What has been the take away so far . Sonali we saw lower Loan Loss Provisions than initially expected, but at the same time, theres a lot of uncertainty ahead. Reserves releasing slowly because we dont know what the economy is going to look alike the future. Jamie dimon told media this morning that there could be considerable suffering if we do see a dip in the economy, and we are on a day where we are seeing coronavirus cases up a bit. Asking a and analysts lot of questions this morning about Net Interest Income and kind of securities that could pose to executives pushing back, saying they are not about to change their Business Models on what they view as temporary headwinds. Getting some breaking news, so hold that thought. The wto is coming up with its news relating to the airbus boeing case, awarding 4 bill
In washington coming up the rate in new unemployment claims may be leveling off but congress and the white house look to be stocked yet again on a stimulus plan and the pressures continue to rise across the globe due to the pandemic swine flu and unpredictable weather well tell you what this could mean for those who are already struggling to get enough to we have a lot to get through to a lot of markets. We begin today with jobless claims as u. S. Unemployment fell just slightly for the week ending on october 3rd to a fresh pandemic low the u. S. Labor department reported initial jobless claims at 840000 worse than expected showing the labor market is still experiencing a slow recovery while the economy is still growing its been a gradual comeback as concerns rise over another wave of layoffs without another federal relief package still some 25500000 americans are collecting some sort of benefits so for more on this and the overall state of the economy and markets we bring in boom bust
A stimulus before the election. Nancy pelosi says the white houses offer remains short. Plus, a brexit roundabout. Boris johnson seems willing to overlook the deadline. The finance minister tells bloomberg that a deal could happen at the last moment. A very good morning to you. Manus cranny is off this morning. If you are just waking up, europe is waking up to intensifying efforts to control the coronavirus. President macron announced in 9 00 p. M. Curfew. London could face tighter restrictions tomorrow. And chancellor merkel to germany that the next days and weeks are decisive. Germanys new coronavirus cases rose to a record of 7173. Adding to all of this doom and gloom, in the backdrop, we have yet to strike a deal on fiscal stimulus or brexit. Lets look at where we trade this thursday morning in the markets. We are riskoff. Lockdown measures across the continent coming back into focus. It looks likely we will not have a stimulus deal out of the United States before the u. S. Electio
Pips. We are looking at the rest of asia doing this. 1 8kospi index down about of 1 . Some updatese, here on what happened yesterday. Military saying it is on high alert in that part of the world. Today,the top stories just a couple minutes ago, we did get confirmation out of the pboc, adding more funding to the system here. It is trying to guide the economy through a rough patch. A smaller chunk, 2. 95 . Jason. Us now is pleasure to have you. Good morning. Your top thoughts for today. What is top of mind for you . At chinas liquidity guess first the primary liquidity facility, but it does also add to the positive growth picture for china, especially on a relative basis. Covidast because the situation has been continuing in china. When you couple that with Strong Capital flows and improving current accounts balance, it doesnt mean the fundamentals are quite good at the moment. Note, and i guess on that many people say go long against the dollar. Your trade is the currency against the i