Good evening from the Clark Athletic Center at the university of massachusetts in boston. Im jim lehrer of the news hour on pbs and i welcome you to the debate between the democratic candidate for president , Vice President al gore and the republican candidate, governor george w. Bush of texas. They will be conducted within for th formats agreed to by the two campaigns. No answer to a question can exceed two minutes, rebuttals are limited to one minute. But as moderator, i have the option to follow up and extend any particular give and take 3 1 2 minutes. No single answer can exceed two minutes. The candidates under their may not question each other directly. There will be no Opening Statements but each candidate may have up to two minutes for a closing statement. The questions and the subjects were chosen by me alone. I have told no one from the two campaigns or the commission or anyone else involved what they are. Theres a small audience in the hall tonight. They are not here to part
Unchanged policy. Coming back from the typhoon slower by 116 points. We are talking about hsbc, one of the laggards here, missing out. The largecaps under pressure, 4819 right now. We are looking. When it comes to dollar dynamics, we did see a stronger dollar, which led to a hit. 379 right. 7 now. The china 10 year yield, we just got the pricing on the dollar bonds. Gold taking a retreat. Brent crude Holding Around 42. Tom lets bring you back to the top story in this region. Xi jinping will bring a major policy address later, in the next 20 to 30 minutes or so. Across the border in shenzhen, to talk about an integrated tech corridor to rival silicon valley. Stephen engle is following the story and joins us from hong kong. Steve, what are you looking for in this speech . Stephen i am looking for a better tagline. They are calling this a chinese socialist pilot zone with chinese characteristics. I think the greater bay is the grander scheme. And xily china wants to jinping with a trip so
Tech stocks underperforming today, pulling back more of mondays gains or giving up mondays gains, i should say, still on pace for a positive week 59 minutes left of the session, exactly down. 5 , sarah. Weve got a big lineup coming your way National Economic Council Director larry kudlow will join us to talk about the stimulus negotiations and any Economic Impact there. John shrewsberry of wells fargo will be with us and well talk to David Malpass and the race to fund Vaccine Development around the world. First off, though, lets get straight to the big stories were watching mike santoli is watching the market pullback. Rick santelli has the bond report but lets start with mike santoli. Big tech and momentum growth that have been running pretty hotly. This modest payback mode for the prior few weeks. Lows for today were right exactly where the s p closed on friday essentially made this roundtrip a couple of times, trying to bounce off of them yes, if you look at energy, look at pure val
Services. Westpacs full year profits plunge after fines for Money Laundering. Cash earnings falls. One of those stocks where watching going into the sydney open. Lets look at the market open. Sophie . Expecting some moves this monday. The biggest weekly drop since september 25 as investors adjust the some of the risk ahead. We did have the worst week for aussie stocks since april. Adding 0. 1 . We have amp shares gaining trillionter the this wealth manager said that a preliminary takeover approach of every management values the company at 4. 5 billion. Westpac has results out this morning. Later this week we get results upm alibaba which ticked single day sales early on sunday. The ipo is a big event we are watching this week. We are expecting a big pop here on thursday given the massive appetite we have seen for the offering. Friday had the biggest drop since june. Of a private survey of chinese manufacturing data. To focus more on the u. N. , lets pull up on the chart on the terminal
On china. Sources say curbs on jack mas group over concerns on National Security. Shery we are getting south koreas current account balance numbers and the surplus right now narrowing the month of august from july, coming in at 6. 56 billion. This is a little bit of a narrowing from that 7. 5 billion we saw in the month of july. The balance widening. The surplus coming in at 7. 0 2 7. 02on dollars and billion dollars and this is widening from the previous month. When it comes to export numbers, we have seen the plunge easing a little bit and in september, south koreas exports rising for the first time in seven months and we are seeing the goods balance surplus widening a little bit, haidi. Haidi take a look at the open we are setting up in the first few minutes of trade here in australia. We have seen that bounce following the super expansionary budget that was delivered this week by the federal government. The asx in the previous session closing at a one month high on those budget exp