Successor to Ruth Bader Ginsburg this week. The democrats say there is no rush and any decision to wait for the election. Scott larson says he expects a jobs bounceback in australia has covid19 infection start to ease. We will expect the likelihood that victoria reports lower new cases. U. S. Futures under pressure now, down. 2 at the open. This after recite u. S. Stocks falling to a sixweek low last week, the tech selloff intensifies. The s p 500 lost ground for a third consecutive session. Nasdaq flat at the moment after the nasdaq 100 closed below its 50 day moving average. Pressure,crude under after oil has its best week since june. Warningsaudi arabias to opecplus cheaters and shortsellers which helped opec crisis stage a rally last week. Now under a little bit of pressure above the 40 per barrel level as we continue to see the Dollar Strength and in the last session. We do know the dollar has been under a lot of pressure and it is headed for the weakest quarter in a decade. Lets
Bloomberg surveillance. This is what the markets are focusing on. There is quite a lot of m a news. That is giving a lift to the market. What im looking at is a couple of technology stocks. Couple of other things such as crude oil edging higher, so does gold. Global shares off a back to back decline. To bloomberg first word news in london. Optimism over a coronavirus vaccine. Pfizeref executive of says its likely it will by the end of the year. They say theyre dependent on Regulatory Approval but says the firm has a good chance of knowing the efficacy by the end of october. Secretaryief cabinet won the race to replace shinzo abe. National in the group will use this majority to install him as Prime Minister in a vote on wednesday. The uks justice secretary has warned he may quit over the government plans on brexit. He says it hasnt reached that stage just yet. The controversial rule has this week. Boris johnson is facing a growing rebellion to override part of the divorce agreement alre
Brokered. Weekrude about 13 on the but we cant go without pointing out we are down about 50 on the year. The dow, the nasdaq, the s p down roughly 1. 5 on the day. The big decline or is really the russell 2000. A lot of concerns about what the smaller and Midcap Companies are going to fair. We also saw a selloff in the financial space. The bank index down about 4. 8 on the week. We should also point out, on the weekly gains and losses, the only three sectors that managed to close with gains this week was energy, consumer staples, and health care. Also up about 2 , scarlet. Scarlet it is interesting how weve seen the gains that initially came at the open disappear pretty quickly. For all the talk that the data is backwards looking, the fact that it is friday and we have so much uncertainty i had of us with worsening numbers presumably means that investors dont want to be long heading into a weekend. Now all eyes are looking towards the opec Conference Call on monday. Certainly there a l
600 gaining. A lot of the focus is on earnings and the economic backdrop. 1134. Ollar 1 it has fluctuated but is very arrangedbound. Rangebound. Coming up, the World Economic forum in davos. We bring you all the biggest names in banking. Lets get straight to first word news in new york city. We begin with the new york senate approving Donald Trumps new freetrade agreement with mexico and canada. It handles the president and a major win ahead of impeachment. The overhaul of the agreement was a priority for mr. Trump. Mitch mcconnell called vote a rare moment of bipartisan cooperation. The white house broke the law in withholding aid the ukraine. Accordingting to an independent watchdog, saying the president should not have delayed money. This is a key part of the impeachment case against President Trump. , quoteg with them obsessed with the u. S. Trade deficit. This is according to bill hogan, saying americafirst policies are bringing about a priceless moment for global trade. This came
Matt we have markets sapped in terms of their rally stamina because of amazons profit. Seen int reduction have a couple of years. The reason is one jeff bezos promised he would be delivering since the ipo. They are investing for growth, spending 1. 5 billion dollars in order to get customers free one day delivery and market share. Nejra they are certainly delivering on that. That has helped sales, but not delivered as much as investors might want. Boris johnson wanting to deliver that election by december 12. Jeremy corbyn has said labor will not back in election unless no deal brexit is taken off the table. If johnson succeeds, he may push brexit through by november 6. The other Sticking Point is the to know more about an extension at the moment. The eu saying, we need more details about the u. K. Election. A little bit of a catch 22. Matt absolutely. It is interesting labor makes both of those demands. No deal off the table and wants to know about the extension is going to get from t