Of a total breakdown. And technical glitches marred the launch of disneys new streaming service. To breakingirst, news from south korea. The jobless rate coming in at 3. 5 . This is in line with estimates but slightly higher than the previous month. Add 419 thousand jobs in october, more than they did in september, which was already quite a strong job scheme number. Pe number. That is helping to offset some losses,anufacturing job not to mention declines in retail employment. In south korea they have been really supported by fiscal policy. In budget is helping growth the public sector. Right now, the jobless rate coming in at 3. 5 for the month of october. Lets see how we are doing in the markets in asia. Overnight,d messages hearing from President Trump in new york, threatening the possibility of more tariffs if phase one trade deal doesnt get done. Hasydney, as that market just come online, new zealand,. Rading is underway with Fourth Quarter Inflation Expectations, it plummeted off
This is bloomberg surveillance. Im Francine Lacqua here in london. These are your markets. Global chief economist. A lot of the focus is on the next, the mastercard trade war. A lot of the focus is on data executive vice chair on out. We see pound. Diversity and her thoughts on we are of course watching that because we are one month exactly the apple card gender bias issue. From the early election, this is bloomberg. December 12, and the u. K. After the brexit party said they will not expand conservative seats. 1. 93. 0 year yield at coming up, we will be speaking to musabbeh al kaabi, the chairman of Mubadala Petroleum at 9 30 a. M. U. K. Time. That is manus cranny bringing that live. Lets kick off the show with the latest from hong kong. Rn that the city is on the brink of total breakdown as protesters rocked the citys financial district to a standstill. The chaos follows a flareup in violence after the first fatality linked to the protests. Is it different from yesterday . Is the mo
Happy friday. Maria big story and the top story right now this hour 2020 shakeup, new york city mayor billionaire Michael Bloomberg to enter the 2020 democratic race, hes expected to file paperwork to do in alabama. You heard it here first, white house chief strategist steve bannon and former adviser to the Clintons Mark Penn told me last month. I think that bloomberg and clinton are still there as biden is in fourth in iowa, second in New Hampshire, dropping to third. Hes losing steam everywhere. Maria do you think Michael Bloomberg or Hillary Clinton will enter the race . The two representatives of the centrist party. Maria who are you expecting to enter the race . Im not sure exactly who is going to enter, if youre a Michael Bloomberg, Hillary Clinton, john kerry or Michelle Obama, youre probably sitting there saying, i could take this field, maybe i should get in, maybe not, i think all four of them are possibilities. Maria thats why we love our guest so much because you heard it h
Nissan releases Second Quarter detailed earnings in just under half an hour. Joining the streaming wars, expanding breadbox in the u. K. Hong kongs financial district is paralyzed for a second day as protesters block subway lines and clash with police. We will get updates live. Less than half an hour to go until the start of the european trading day. Yesterday we were dominated by talk of hong kong. Violence on the streets there. Things seem to be violent once again. Clash is taking place. At the moment that is not having an impact in hong kong or the European Equity space. European equity markets set to bounce a little at the start of the trading day. Lets have a look at u. S. Futures. Racked up its first drop in four days in yesterday session. We had a slight pullback in the last 24 hours in terms of expectations around trade, in terms of the news flow around hong kong. Now we look set for a rally. U. S. Futures overlook convinced. Up by 0. 1 . Lets get to the gmm. This tells us what
Wellpositioned to win the streaming wars. It is all coming up today on coast to coast. Our top story, new reports say saudi arabias oil out put will indeed return to normal levels maybe the next two or three weeks. That is a lot quicker than the months we originally had been hearing. It comes as iran is now responding to the allegations made by the u. S. Blake burman at the white house to pick up the story from there. Whats the latest, blake . Reporter hi, there, connell. On the political side of things the white house is still walking a fine line saying that they believe iran or at least at this point signs are pointing to iran being behind the attack on the saudi oil complex. They are not yet willing to definitely say that they are absolutely certain that is indeed the case. Remember as part of the response from President Trump over the weekend, his initial response was that he said that the u. S. Was quote, locked and loaded. Yesterday on three different occasions when we heard from