We are going to bring you todays market moving news from all around the world. Our bloomberg voices are on the ground with this mornings top stories. We are going to start with the latest in asia, where chinese officials concluded the biggest meeting of the year in china. The gathering of the communist Partys Central Committee focused on the economy and hong kong protests. Going me is and occur in joining me is enda curran. What did we learn . ,nda it was a fourday closeddoor meeting. They spoke mostly about rising domestic and international risks, and of course, the backed up domestically being the slowing economy, unrest in hong kong, and internationally, trade war with the u. S. We didnt get any Major Economic initiatives out of it, but we did get some signals that it is doubling down on party control, and ensuring much stricter oversight of hong kong. There was no sense of compromise when it comes to dealing with protesters. Alix thank you so much. Now we went to head to germany, w
Its back to 32 a share. Down 6. 58. Overall, the markets holding pretty steady as the profit reports roll in. In fact, id say stock prices are real solid and some of the profit reports, thats keeping the market at very high levels. No big pullback at this point. The dow industrials will open up about 40 this morning, s p up 6. By the way, the s p is only 22 points away from the alltime high. Whats that, just one big rally . The nasdaq, look at it go, up a half percentage point premarket. Big deal. Now let me lay out what we have for you. An important speech from Vice President pence on china. He may take a hard line. That could affect the market. And here comes amazon, perhaps the most important Earnings Report of them all. How strong is Consumer Online buying . Very important and we are going to find out today. Of course, we are going to watch apple hit new highs and unless something dramatic happens, we are hardly even going to mention impeachment. Here we go. Varney company is about
And the economy recognizes we are a free market economy, and though we want everyone to participate more fully in our success. That means that we say to people , two books, the wealth of a nation, and responsibilities. A compassionate book, but it was a pragmatic book. President bush ran, he said compassionate , it resonated well with the American People. I think our capitalism has to be more inclusive in terms of success. So our policies, whether it is taxation or whether it is appropriations in terms of budget, or just policy and terms of how we value the Climate Crisis and what a job opportunity that is for many new people who have not been in the higher ranks of our economy to have opportunity. We just have to be thinking to more than just trickle down, but bubble up. David as we look at 2020 where we have not just a president ial election, but the senate, what is the democratic equivalent to capital compassionate conservative . What is the alternative . Speaker pelosi it is someth
October 18 futures indicated up about 50 points for the dow s p indicating to be up about six points all of this riding on the big number it is jobs friday expecting an increase of 75,000 none farm jobs and increase of Unemployment Rate of 3. 6 . The numbers are weighed down by the strike at General Motors those striking are treated as unemployed thats important to remember overnight in china, new data showed factory activity slank. Analysts expected it to pick up from last month. All of this raises the stakes for the trade war. Eunice yoon has more for us now. Thank you, becky. That official number was different from the private survey that came out showing factory activity expanded at the fastest pace in two years. It could be because the private survey tracks small and private companies as open toesed to large ones. China this morning proved to be a tech power house the goal here for 50,000 they keep on serving now with the 5g enabled phone apple is on 4g and the huawei phone is 10
Workers are not celebrating. To infinity and beyond. Richard bransons Virgin Galactic could be the first Space Tourism business to go public. We will analyze demand. But first, top stories. Alphabet earnings. The report was impacted by heavy investment in googles Cloud Computing business. Google has been Building Data centers and hiring sales people for its cloud unit that runs services over the internet. Joining me, our correspondent from bloomberg intelligence. Cloud is all the rage, potential for future growth. What did you make of it . Like you said, they are spending. They are showing results. What we are seeing for the next year, they will take the center focus and you will get success here and they have the capacity to compete. Microsoft. And you will see this being a bigger deal for google but at a cost. Taylor what is your take on keeping up in the Cloud Business . It will take continued investment as we just said, but there is a huge potential for payoff. Taylor i want to tal