To work our way through. Let me start with the Michigan Consumer sentiment index. Headline number coming through at 76 point nine, broadly in line with expectations of 77. Current conditions at 87, i had of expectations. At 75. Tions youve got the difficult situation i think the consumer has got to figure out. Do i worry about the here and now and worry about the impact the virus is going to have over the next weeks and months, or do i think about what the vaccine is ultimately going to deliver . Like the markets, i think the consumer is probably having to balance those factors out. Kailey i want to point out housing data as well. The Housing Market has been particularly strong. That does continue. A pace of 909,000, versus the estimate of 975,000. We are getting october personal spending data, and for more on that as Bloomberg International economics and policy correspondent Michael Mckee to break it all down for us. Michael michael it is may the most important number of a lot of numb
Will wake you up, call it ludicrous speed. Stay here, airbnb making its pitch to go public even as the travel sector continues to suffer amid the pandemic and buffetts big buys, the sto stocks he says are ready to rally. It is tuesday, november 17th, and this is Worldwide Exchange. Good morning, good afternoon or good evening from wherever in the world you might be watching. Im Brian Sullivan thanks for joining us. Here is your markets and money on a tesla tuesday as well call it futures are mixed to flat. Dow lower, nasdaq futures are higher neither are moving very much but another big monday for your money, more new records and a new vaccine candidate of course. The dow coming off its first record close since prepandemic levels in early february the index now just 50 points away from 30,000 something certainly a number to watch. Small caps continue though to be the star the s p small cap 600 up another 3 yesterday if you are not paying attention to small caps, you should. Lets also t
Belgium urge eu leaders to step up plans for a no brexit. 50 questions from german lawmakers. We will talk to a member of the team. Rd investigative a warm welcome to the program. U. K. Data. Datac sector net borrowing coming in this morning. Excluding the banking group. At 28. 3ber has come in billion pounds. That is below estimates. The estimate was for 30 billion. That are than anticipated. Really interesting aspect here payhat the Public Sector conversation will look like from here. We have a Spending Review coming wednesday of next week. In july, the chancellor made the point that the fed felt publicsector pay was needed. We are bracing for some effort from the treasury with regard to Public Sector pay. Squeeze in Public Sector pay perhaps coming. We will focus on that and it will be interesting to see the comments coming through or the numbers coming through on the banking sector. That is the u. K. Data. Markets. Futures looking a little bit mixed really if you take a global pict
Highs on the news with the money flowing to value and cyclicals. Havens are clawing back some ground today. Retaliation. The European Union will impose tariffs on 4 billion of u. S. Goods starting today. The eus trade achieve calls on both sides to drop countermeasures. A very good morning. If you think about it, we had that tantalizing, parabolic move, i would say, in this market yesterday evening. I was here late. Isar rationing around the markets i saw rationing around the markets. This morning, we face i suppose reality. Feels like a massive night out and this morning was a bit of the hangover reaction. Michael purves says it perfectly, talking about the vulnerabilities of the vaccine narrative. If the republicans gain control of the senate, this is very much so for them less onerous to want to do a fist lee onus less onus for them to want to do a big fiscal package. Lets take a look at what we did see yesterday, that euphoria manus is talking about. I want to show you the close ye
Beating after reporting solid earnings, when a to expect what to expect next, and m, and a is ramping up following a pandemicinduced slowdown. Which deals are on the table. On the barrons round table, ben levisohn, carlton english and jack howe. Happy halloween, ben. We just saw the worst week since march cap off the worst month since march. What do you see happening in the markets . Yeah. This week was definitely more trick than treat. [laughter] theres, this was the week where everything just came home to roost. We had the election uncertainty which the market had been able to put aside for a while. It came back bigtime. We have these rising covid cases, and theres something about the fact that it hit a record that really stock spooked the market. And then you can have the end of the stimulus dream, earnings from all kinds of companies that no matter how good they were, they really didnt seem to really help the market at all, stocks at all. And by the end of the week, it was just awf