Intense in various parts certainly whales, if you are talking about the u. K. And scotland, certainly the north of england. What we are going to be looking for todays further details, various tiers of lockdown from the chancellor. Tom so if i ferry across the it is a london centered london trying to make rules for the north. Has opened, and this up decadesold tensions between the north and the south very clearly. There were clearly tensions on t front opened up by the places that have been very much marginally slightly devolves come if you would like. A new mayor has been appointed, and now this is a test of these guys. Tom there was a discussion devolving me at the house last night. With first word news, here is ritika gupta. Ritika the second and final president ial debate is tonight in nashville, one of the final highprofile chances for President Trump to change the narrative of the campaign. Polls show him losing to joe biden. Debate rules have changed. The candidates microphones w
Prices decline. The asx down nearly 1 . We dont have trading in india either because it is mahatma publics birthday, a holiday. Futures are trading on the nifty in singapore down zero point 3 . The 10 year yield slipping back as anticipated. A slight move to the downside with regard to the futures contracts. You see the currencies and weakness creeping in into the dollar overnight. We have seen a reversal of that this morning. You have the yen a tad weaker. Sterling had rebounded to 1. 29. Seenis after we have brexitinduced losses. The aussie dollar unchanged. Haslinda lets get the first word headlines. Top white house aide hope hicks has tested positive for covid19. She traveled with President Trump on air force one to tuesdays debate in cleveland. The president says there is no indication he contracted the virus. Tested positive, National Security advisor robert obrien. He has spent as much time with the president as hicks has. Coronavirus infections continue to surge with the new yo
The outage cast further doubt on tokyos hopes of replacing hong kong as the equities leader in asia. Japans lost generation. We open a business week report on the people shut out of the employment market in their continuing to search for directions in middleage. Haidi lets take a look at how things are setting up in this fridays session. Of course, a whipsaw week when it comes to u. S. Markets. A lot of travel when it comes to asia. Tokyo to resume trading today. Sophie that is the case. That would be the focus on a case that has several markets closed for the midautumn festival. Japan very much and focus after the start of the fiscal second half was marred by nikkei futures in chicago edging slightly lower ahead of that potential session. The closing prices for wednesday will be the opening prices for thursday. Arkets are also watching for third extra budget in japan. We have jobless numbers for japan along with Australian Retail sales. Above 675, this after it edged towards 673 overn
Well despite the fact that we speculative trading should be curved up, well see how yum china is doing but a muted debut so far here in the city. We are expecting a Bank Decision highly expected to stay on hold here today. Also with the ecb as well. Watching the euro very closely. Did gain yesterday on the back of a report that some ecb officials having a little more confidence in the recovery from this pandemic ahead of its policy meeting. Theyre likely to hold. Well see what they say about the strength of the currency. 118 for the zero dollar. Pound still under pressure here. Things like the seems like the e. U. May be take manager Legal Proceedings or measures here to stop the withdrawal from this deal that Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been play to play out here. Your indonesia rupia as well. Recovering a bit on concerns about the Central Banks independence. Government think ceying it was opposed to the plan of a monetary board being set up at b. Y. Well dig deep beer shah in a
Its possible. Nr investors weigh Economic Data against coronavirus investors anna weigh Economic Data against coronavirus warnings. Netflix shares sink on disappointing subscriber forecasts, but the Company Announces its chief operating officer will become its coceo. Bloombergo surveillance. One of the themes in the u. S. Equity market this week has been the underperformance of the nasdaq against the s p 500 after five weeks of out performers against small caps as well as s p 500. We are seeing european equities edge into the red. They started slightly in the green. Global equities still heading for a weekly gain, not getting any direction from s p, but interestingly, nasdaq futures are posting more green on the screen than s p 500 futures. The 10year yield slipping a basis point. We are steady in european bond markets, and the dollar heading for a third weekly loss with the optimism weve had about a prospect for a vaccine for covid. Lets get to first word news. India has seen coronavi