Some fears over china trade. Retail sails topped expectations in october, climbing by 0. 3 and oil pointed to surging Global Demand in the quarter. Joining us is lindsey bell thanks for joining us. Good afternoon. We mentioned on track for three record alltime closing highs at the moment and also on track for the sixth week in a row of gains for the s p thats a remarkable run. It is absolutely a remarkable run and theres a few things that have gotten us here we have more clarity on the fed. Theyve cut for the third time and theyre willing to maintain the stance where they are right now, keeping rates where they are. The Third Quarter earnings season was very good and weve seen an easing of trade tensions while theres a little bit of uncertainty there, that could rattle the markets going into the end of the year. All things understood, the economic environment though does still feel pretty good. Lets focus on the big stories we are watching today. Kayla has details on those china trade
Legislation, equivalent to 4 of gdp. Set to pricesis mammoth ipo at the top of the range and should raise more than 25 billion. We get you started with breaking news out of south korea. We have the current account surplus coming in at 7. 8 billion dollars. This would be the surplus widening from the previous month of september. Also the previous month was revised higher to 7. 7 billion. Andgoods trade surplus narrowing a little bit us the number coming in at 7. 8 billion, also down from the previous month of 8. 8 billion. Despite the fact we have a current account surplus widening this time around, we have not seen the south korean economy under pressure. Novemberports for both and october contracting more than 14 , but we also had imports plunging, doubledigit digit declines for imports in. He past two months haidi weve got breaking news when it comes to this part of the world as well. We were expecting announcements from the argument terms of how much the big tanks will have to hold
Investors are not so sure. A Virtual Reality platform picked up for oculus. We are live in san francisco. Lets get to sophie forecheck on markets. Sophie aussie shares are unchanged after a threeday gain. Kiwi shares building on gains after topping 11,000 on tuesday. Nikkei and cost be futures kospi are lower. Slide despite the enthusiasm we saw for alibaba shares, which closed about its issuance price. Lets check on housing bonds, which are gaining ground after the rba governor the move tracking treasuries. Aussie yields falling 35 basis points across the curve. The three years left below the rba cash rate. A bond rally expected to push the 10 year to 50 basis points with unconventional easing expected in the second half as the australian economy slows. The kiwi holding its threeday gain. This morning, we heard from the rb governor. Mentioned rbnzso is working with westpac after the findings in australia. Paul thanks very much. Lets check in with first word news. Chinaly indicators sh
Facebook, is there still too much risk in the stock and differ devidend darling. Ten stocks making big gains. The Halftime Report starts right now. Welcome, good to have you with us on this thursday our vichlt committee, joe turn know, Jim Leventhal and pimco portfolio manager. Nice to have you back. Lets start with the selloff of stocks, it was the worst day for the s p. Chicago pmi number going cold water on things may be bottoming. Josh, about to come in today, apple good, facebook good, earnings pretty good wow that pm movement, 43. 3 versus an estimate of 48. 5, the worst since 15. Are we reassessing now once again . No, because we had a rate cut yesterday. Well it may pause now the s p 500 hit an alltime high yesterday its down marginally today if the stock market went a point a day, no matter what, wed number a bubble. So we backfill perfectly natural. I think there are those that hit prior levels one could be the kre, regional banks down today double sfs on the session. They ju
Well see how that turns out. Were waiting two highstakes reports that could massively shake up the market. Disney powerhouses disney and news corp set to release Quarterly Results any minute. Find out numbers here first before it impacts your wallet and the market tomorrow. Connell we wait for earnings to come in. Bring in the panel, erin gibbs, joins us and paul dietrich, fairfax global ceo. Paul, you first on markets. Well get into earnings as soon as they start to cross . Anything on trade . Well get some details from blake burman what is going on or not going on with china. Any hint were going in the right direction . We go up, when there is tension we come back down. You would think some is priced in. I guess not. What do you make of action we saw today. This phase one of the trade talks is the easy stuff. You know, getting china to buy more Agricultural Products which will help during the elections but all of the difficult stuff we pushed off. We pushed it off until probably afte