Were halfway into a pretty difficult trading day. Incidents, critics say the voting is not secure. The pope francis heads to africa it is difficult. To visit some of the world we are off the lows of the session. Poorest countries. Is off by about 350 it is a region hardhit by some concerns,es biggest points. The s p 500 and nasdaq off as well. Chinamid ongoing u. S. Conflict, corruption, and climate change. Africa is one of the few places on the planet are catholic communities and priestly vocations are growing. Uncertainty. Are we going to get back to the global news 24 hours a day, on air and at tictoc on twitter, table as trade as well so weaker powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more manufacturing data we got out of 120 countries. U. S. This morning, sparking a russian a classic safe havens including u. S. Bonds, 10 year this is bloomberg. Yield down by about five basis points. I am vonnie quinn. That defensive tone is confirmed when we look at the sector composi
Putting Jeremy Corban in as their leader. Looking forft and radical economic changes there. The dax in germany is 15 points lower now, just under. 2 . Everybody watching the dollar. The dollar index is lower this morning by just. 1 . The u. S. Trade weighted dollar is something we need to teac kep an eye on. The fiveyear going for 1. 5 percent once you rounded off. The twoyear is at 71 basis points. Topping the list of things were watching today, volatility. The vix fell. Volatility lower this morning despite the fed ahead. Congress is back trying to find a way not to shut down the government in two weeks. Last shutdown hit the economy hard. China, more weak economic data. Credit is growing there. Tom sees may be tiny green shoot out there . Tom yes. A little bit of a green shoot. What an ugly win for the Denver Broncos. That was terrible. We enjoyed the mets, and still managed to pull things out. Wonderful worda for our sponsors and then i will pull up a chart. Bloomberg surveillance
As for earnings central, mcdonalds results will be in the spotlight. 8 00 well expect those numbers. It will be a busy week on the economic front. A number of key numbers. The september jobs report. Thats right, on tuesday we get that jobs report we were supposed to get a couple of weeks ago on a friday. Also, well get last months Consumer Price index and then september cpi on wednesday. Our economic newsmaker of the morning on squawk box, Charlie Evans will be joining steve leaseman in a cnbc exclusive. Joe. Thanks. Back to our top corporate story of the morning. Jpmorgan coming up with a settlement. This is mandatory reading. Im going to talk about it later. Well let you do your report and then well talk about what it means. And then we can go for it . Then we can go for it. After weeks of tense negotiations with the government, jpmorgan appears to be very close to a resolution to the tune of about 13 billion, which is a bit more than expected originally. In a phone call friday night
The country protested this week to raise the minimum wage. Theyre looking for 15 an hour. Should the minimum wage be increased . Call us and tell you what you think on the democratic line, 202 5853880. The republican line at 202 5853881. Independent line at 202 5853882. A special line we set up this morning for minimumwage workers 3. 202 585388 you can also join the conversation on social media. Or send us an email. Our first guest this morning is steve jamison, a reporter for the huffington post. Good morning to you. Caller good morning. Of these were at one fast food worker protests in South Carolina earlier this week. Tell us what you saw and what it was all about. Caller i went to charleston, South Carolina. This was about workers who were demanding 15 an hour. Its a living wage. And union recognition. I followed about two dozen workers. Many of whom were declaring oneday strikes. Others had the day off and joined the protest and they took part in civil disobedience. They protested