Through for the United States at 57. 8. The previous number, 56. 9. The survey, 56. 2. We have a easily beaten expectations on this number, but the details are important. Lets dig into the details with bloombergs mike mckee. Michael important to realize this is a diffusion index that basically asks companies, what are things like this month compared to last month. There is a bit of an improvement. The level of improvement has slowed some. But that is a reasonably good number because we see business activity, which is sort of the same of production in the manufacturing index, up to 63 from 62. 4, and new orders up. Again, this compares with the last month. We were at very low levels, so the fact that things are expanding doesnt mean we are back to where we were. It just means that things are gradually Getting Better. The one thing everyone has been watching his employment. This report comes out too late to influence everybodys view on what the payroll report was like for august for sept
Market. In the we want to begin in washington, where the u. S. Passed a record 2. 2 trillion economic rescue package. The house will vote potentially on friday. Going this is kevin cirilli. Walk us through some of the highlights here. Kevin shortly before midnight, the senate, in a resounding 960 trillionsed the 2 economic stimulus bill. That puts pressure on the house of representatives to get this done quickly. Theres been some comments from farleft progressives and far right republicans that they may have some issues with this version of the bill. I do not it is about that being enough to significantly stop this from being passed, based upon my reporting. I can tell you that the likely vote will come friday, and President Trump has said he is going to sign this virtually immediately once it lands on his desk. Alix thanks so much. As i mentioned earlier, europe really stepping up its effort to deal with the fallout from the coronavirus. The latest is the ecb started buying bonds, but
Exchange, where we bring you todays market moving news from all around the world, from hong kong to london, to new york and washington. Our bloomberg voices are on the ground with todays top stories. In asia, hundreds of thousands joined hong kongs biggest demonstration in months in signs that demonstrations will continue into the new year. Joining me is stephen engle. Give us the update. You know, this has been a protest movement that is now into its sixmonth, and i have to say, there is a bit of protest fatigue. People are tired of the violence. People are tired of the vandalism. They are tired of the disruptions to their morning commute. They are tired of the damage to the economy. But they are also tired of what they perceived to be an intransigent government here, unwilling to make any concessions to the protesters. That left this weekends big mark. A big question will there still be momentum for the protest movement, which has dwindled in size, but increased in violence . That an
Exchange, we bring a market moving news from around the world. Kong ifus from hong enda curran, we have Annmarie Hordern and emma chandra, and Michael Mckee joining us in new york. I want to show the slowdown. Bloombergs enda curran has more. Enda . Enda i think it was quite weak across the board, alex. The worst single month meeting retail002, which saw the sales side of things confirming that even though a lot of it was due to the slowdown in the car market, the auto market, there is a feeling that consumers are starting to track as well. The activeixed, investors side of it, we saw that lacking, pretty soft reading, setting up the economy for a pretty slow in to the year. Putting pressure on the government to respond. Alix thanks so much, enda curran come in hong kong. Saudi Oil Facilities were attacked. Annmarie hordern have the latest. Tomarie that is right here 5 of global supply, 5. 7 Million Barrels a day, but half of the kingdoms net exports. The biggest infrastructure that d