Boris johnson is due to the side on fridawhether to walk away from the talks. New zealand prepares to vote with polls indicating the Prime Minister will be a comfortable winner. Both party leade are criticized for not doing enough for women. Breaking news out of south korea. We are getting the jobless figures for the month of ptember coming in at 3. 9 , which is much higher than analysts had expected. Its also larger than the previous month, when it came in from august at 3. 2. 300 92,000 jobs were removed in september from a year earlier and we have seen the jobless rate ssawing. We did have the virus resurgence in south korea so that hit the labor market negatively and we had typhoons in september that might have skewed the numbers. The positive boost for the labor market in south korea is the governments planned fourth extra budget that should help the employment market. S p saying it will take many years for employment to return to prepandemic levels. We have seen the bank of korea
But those hopes may be shortlived. Democrats proposed a new plan but republicans worn a wide gap remains. Mitch mcconnell says the plan contains poison pills. And australias plan to have women hold at least 40 of leadership roles in asx 200 companies. Aberdeen has already signed up. Shery heres a look at how markets are trading. We are seeing u. S. Futures coming online, down. 2 . This, after u. S. Stocks ended the session higher wednesday. Also the last trading day of the quarter for u. S. Stocks. Haidi mentioned talks and hopes for a stimulus package in the u. S. The house has delayed the vote on that bill, trying to get more time to reach an agreement with the white house and treasury secretary. The s p 500s on nine sectors out of 11 higher. Health care and financials led the gains. Showingitive ecodata, u. S. Companies added more than 700,000 jobs in september. The dollar weakness, a third consecutive session of losses. Not to mention before the quarter, just posted its biggest qua
Investors are awaiting the latest gdp data from china. Growthrg economics sees above 5 . And then just send a rv and dens historic victory. She is considering a new coalition. We have s p and nasdaq futures. You can see the and the view shirts are actually about a third, and they were pretty flat on friday. The s p 500 at 3483. The nasdaq took a bit of a beating. Was not the usual biggest day ever. Keepler sentiment helped stocks from really falling. Lets move to the oil markets. What we have here is an advance on the on the week shrinking u. S. Crude stockpiles. At what isok ,appening in the week ahead what are they going to do about their plans to cut production, boost prices. This is the big question as the week begins. Haidi lets look at gdp. The kiwi stocks are at 7 10 of 1 . Warre looking at a tug of situation. The aussie dollar rebounding ardens historic victory. She has a mandate to govern alone, but apparently this will continue. There may be an upside of half a percent. Incre
The rba signaled for their willingness to ease. And the other big story at this hour lawmakers in washington take aim at the power of big tech. An antitrust investigation says they are abusing their dominant status. Check lets get a quick of the markets. We are seeing u. S. Futures down at the open, extending gains after we saw the regular session seeing a bearish reversal at your after trumps of fire called off negotiations. Already, market have been trading mixed and about flat after the fed chairs cautious tone on the economy, warning that too much support was better than not enough. The s p 500 saw the largest drop in two weeks and fell to session lows after the president ended stimulus talks. The losses were led by discretionary talks. Airlines also tumbled and we saw the nasdaq losing 1. 6 . After the close, we saw that House Democrats released antitrust reforms to curb the power of u. S. Tech giants including amazon and alphabet. We will be watching that space very closely. Doin
Worsen, suspending imports of australian coal. Disney jumping a late trade on a management shakeup and a focus on streaming through a newmedia unit. We hear from the ceo. Check of howget a the markets are trading. We are seeing u. S. Futures coming online pretty much flat. We saw u. S. Stocks climbing to an almost sixweek high we had a rally. The s p 500 gaining ground. We also had financials pretty strong, gaining more than 1 ahead of earnings season. Jp morgan and citigroup reporting tomorrow. It was really about this years trade that really led the rally. The nasdaq composite gaining more than 2. 5 . Amazon soaring ahead of its prime day. Apple also jumping. The product unveiling but its price target was raised by rbc Capital Markets. Take a look at what oil is doing, reversing some of those losses it saw during the u. S. Session when it fell below 40 a barrel. Gulf operations restarting after hurricane delta. Sourcesention, libya saying we could see output there doubling within 10