Suspending ant Group Listing major issues, this is days before the largest ipo of all time well give you the latest details. And social Media Election strategies how facebook and twitter aim to tackle misinformation on their platforms as voters head to the polls and beyond whatever beyond means, carl. David, thanks guys, were going to be talking all day and all night about arizona, florida, georgia, North Carolina, jim, goldmans got a note out just now saying because it would be difficult if the president does not win any of those states, quote, there is a good chance the election outcome will be clear on election night. Right, i think that thats what the market is saying. So the collectionive voice of the market, both yesterday and not just the morning, but when the nasdaq rallied in the afternoon and today with the futures, people say, we cannot afford after last week with the market being down, we cant afford to wait for the outcome we have to presume the outcome is going to lead to
Fall on year and below analyst expectations. They confirmed plans to exit thermal. U. S. China relations sour even further. Jing says the tax lets take a look at how we are shaping up for this asian trading day. U. S. Futures within shouting distance when it comes to the regular session of that february record but then retreating by the close. We are seeing not much happening when it comes to active futures contracts. The nikkei 225 looking weaker going into the open. Chicago futures trading there. The topix in the meantime remains the bestperforming market in august. We will see if it continues those gains today. Ftse futures looking like we will open up higher by. 4 . The data calendar for the day, we get the rba august meeting minutes, looking into the details of their bond buying as well as the renewed assessment of how that new victorian lockdown will barter economy in those Monetary Policy settings. Also watching crude, we are seeing weakness, just holding over 42 a barrel althou
Weve already had some great conversations this morning. We drive that forward in this hour, and out to jon ferros the open at 9 00. We are really going to focus on the dominion Warren Buffett transaction, which i find absolutely fascinating. Within all of this is a lift to the market because the government has the back of the financial system. The dominant feature right now is the certitude of 1 trillion here or 1 trillion they to buoy the economy up into the end of the year. Jonathan maybe another 1 trillion this month as well. Theres a huge debate taking place in washington. It is not a matter of when. They will do this. It is not a matter of how big. It will be large. It is a matter of the composition, what they agree on a moment. I am edging there is going to be some pushback down in washington in the next several weeks. Futures up 38, dow futures up 374, so a real lift to the has as aea all of this backdrop dependent. It is really a mixed picture. Theres no russian about that area
If retail buying cyclical, do you have to . And one of the potential movers u. S. , theket in the pharmaceutical analysts. A lot of pockets but we can start in the u. S. What is your biggest take away and how should the markets be taking it . I think the simple read of trying to analyze wave one, wave two, it really does not matter. At how thisto look rise in the number of cases, i think we talked about this last week, actually translates. Nobody wants to get infections running around still but we want to make sure that people, if they are getting hospitalized, that that is the hardest and best number to practice with. It is possible that because you are doing thousands more tests, you are obviously finding more infected people. Lets just keep an eye on the hospitalization rate. That is the one i am keen to look at. And it is not as well reported for some reason. So what is it telling us . I get what you are saying about the fact we are testing more and logically, therefore, the number
How much of a threat is coronavirus to the worlds food supply is there a serious warnings of a global shortage as the pandemic spreads so how can the availability of food be safeguarded on kind of famine a crisis be averted this is inside story. Hello welcome to the program im burned its me. Widespread famine of biblical proportions the u. N. Is warning covert 900 could cause an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe it says the number of people who cant get enough to eat could double by the end of the year thats more than a quarter of a 1000000000 people 21000 people already die of hunger every day and that number could saw if people dont get help Food Supplies are limited by lockdowns and peoples incomes are drying up poor countries affected by conflicts economic crisis and Climate Change are particularly at risk the un says this could drive a wave of refugees and threatens an exponential rise in social unrest the World Food Program has previously been pledged one point 9000000000. 0