Worldwide, a number of stories, including 21 days to the election. Both campaigns gearing up and finetuning. We are distracted by Bank Earnings. Jon ferro, jp morgan doing better than good. Citigroupi am getting , on first blush giving us the same enthusiasm we heard from jp morgan. Jonathan jamie dimons jp morgan delivering the beat, and it looks like city group is repeating the action. Figurepoint out, the eps third quarter, 1. 40. A little bit of an upside surprise here. I believe we have sonali basak with us. What are we seeing. Sonali we are seeing a beat on revenue, on fixed income. We are seeing loanloss provisioning higher than what jp morgan put in, but lower than what analysts expected. Perhaps wall street has just gotten it wrong compared with the banks are expecting in terms of loan losses. They are higher than jp morgan, so we are going to want to understand why the divergence, but overall, pretty clean numbers here. Tom as we see the numbers come out, we are getting this
Amazon billion offer to goes from rivals to partners as jeff bezos is willing to take a 40 stake in his indian retail revolution. At thelets take a look set up for the session of trading in asia. We saw that resumption of the loss in the u. S. How are we setting up in this part of the world . Sophie a pickup in volatility once again. In asia, futures are mixed, but we are seeing s p eminis. Chicago adding. 3 . The yen is stuck in the range with brexit risk also a consideration. We are watching tiktok reaction to trumps extension of that tiktok watching reaction to trumps extension of that tiktok sale. Jupiter Asset Management is cutting its exposure to debt of Chinese State linked borrowers so that is something to consider as well. Ahead of the u. S. Election, you are seeing one vol bets can yuan vol bets. Keeping an eye on korean bonds with potentially 6. 3 billion of supply coming through. The government may submit its proposal to parliament this friday. The global rush of Corporate
The concern about the stronger currency, not to worry just yet. We saw that euro jump. Ist weakness on brexit sparking a rebound in the dollar. Your offshore renminbi, we are set to break six weeks of gains. 683 right now. That is below 40 right now. We have copper also and gold on the back foot. Oil prices on track for the biggest twoweek drop since what we saw back in april. Lets get to the first word news, we have Karina Mitchell. Senate democrats have shut down a relief plan proposed by republicans. They failed to get the 60 votes they needed. Estimatedican plan is at anywhere between 500 and 700 billion dollars. The democrats are proposing to. 2 trillion. 2. 2 trillion. Boris johnsons government refused to scrap plans to reignite the divorce accord. The eu is threatening legal action if the u. K. Does not drop the legislation within three weeks. Thes president has painted an optimistic picture. Economic data suggests a strong rebound. They kept policy on hold for Economic Contract
Remember on the week u. S. Markets are lower. On the week european markets are higher. Eurodoller trading 118. 30. Taking a tougher line on the link between the Exchange Rate and inflation. The pound continues to fall trading 11787 as we continue to see the stalemate between e. U. And the u. K. On the u. K. s new legislation, the internal markets bill, which will undermind the treaty signed between the Boris Johnson government antie. U. Not that long ago. Alix thanks so much, guy. We are very welcome special guest, we are happy to have him here. Stanley fischer, the former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve. He has just been awarded the first miriam pose yem prize by the m. I. T. College center for finance and policy for his Outstanding Research and leadership in financial policy. Its a pleasure. Congratulations. We truly appreciate you spending this time with us. Not to get right to it but lets get right to t the latest Inflation Numbers out of the u. S. Today, Consumer Prices arose
Attention to what is happening. Very much what we did earlier. This is it this is what Christine Lagarde says the central bank will do. The governing council will carefully assess incoming information, including developments in the Exchange Rate when it comes to simplifications for the mediumterm inflation outlook. Christine lagarde, president , speaking earlier and joining us now. Christine lagarde basically indicates it is ok until there is an impact on inflation. Three ways the ecb can talk about currency. They can talk about principles, how it is not a part of their policy. They get seriously concerned about the movement currency and it could lead to price stability or the aims to achieve inflation goals being undermined. We can go back to worrying more about covid19, more about the growth prospects, rather than ecb getting too worried today. Whenever you see a headline about policymakers, bear in mind the context of where it is coming from. Those comments are in reference to the q