Vaccines. Virus deaths hit a record in the u. S. And in italy. And finding a compromise, opec agrees to slowly add more oil year after days of tense talks. Saudi arabias Energy Minister called the process of excruciating. Welcome to the program, everybody. Welcome to the European Market open. It has just gone 7 00 here in london. German factory orders rising 2. 9 month on month. The estimate was for an increase of 1. 5 . That was better than anticipated. Factory orders arising year on year, 1. 8 . The estimate was 0. 2. We have seen a continuation of growth coming through. We will see what momentum is like in the further winter months. Another story out of germany, potentially more interesting, perhaps. Germany has agreed to extend a to preventr bankruptcies as the economy is hit by the second wave of the pandemic. Germany is extending its 37 billiondollar backstop for Credit Insurance by another six months in the month of june. The industry will surrender 60 of remittance to the gover
Candidates were in florida yesterday with an emphasis on the latino vote in battleground states across the eastern will, minnesota, wisconsin, iowa. Eventful to say the least, but the number one story is the inability to capture a bid. We will have plenty of extra data checks. Lets get to first word news ritika. K cap nancy pelosi and Steven Mnuchin and are playing the blame game, minutia and accused policy of holding of the stimulus bill by refusing compromises, pelosi says the white house is not responding on a number of sticking points. Joe biden has appealed to hispanic voters, telling a rally that if florida goes blue, its over, indicating that biden and President Trump are virtually tied. Europeanrkel says the union should have acted sooner to control the pandemic. Saying that political realities a stop stems from imposing restrictions earlier. And shares of apple are lower today. Company reporting missed wall street estimates. Apple gave no forecast for the holiday quarter, but
Away from the alltime record high, there you have it the worlds most valuable company, apple the stock is up again, the worlds most innovative dynamic seller, amazon the stock is up again. The market, that is digested a lot of Bank Earnings already, goldman did very well in the dow is looking at 80point gain and look at the nasdaq up about 26, 27point again, i see a lot of green this wednesday morning. Heres the headline dueling townhouse tomorrow night instead of a second debate, mr. Trump working with nbc, joe biden working with abc, obvious question why not reinstate the debate, the Electoral Commission really blew it by insisting on virtual. Did you see Speaker Pelosi getting rattled on cnn, in primetime will blitzer asked her what was wrong with the president 1. 8 trillion stimulus plan, why not pick up the phone, call the president and make a deal. She became very flustered and accused blitzer and his colleagues of being an apologist for republicans. Have you ever watched online
U. K. Sounds a note of optimism. Make my day. Tough words from saudi arabias oil minister. Whoever gambles on this market will be quote ouching like hell. The under an hour away from start of cash Equities Trading in europe. Lets look what we have. Futures not all that convinced in any direction. Weakness in markets yesterday and equity markets, and nasdaq. Ar in u. S. Futures flat and mixed. We do see nasdaq futures heading to the upside. Because ofnificant the selling we have seen. Concerns about concentration and previous gains in the tech sector. We are digesting what we have heard from the fed. In assessments of weaknesses the u. S. Economy. The fiscal boost that will be needed. Lots of questions over the fiscal side of things. Modest gains coming through in asia. Asian stocks of around 0. 4 . The south korean market up a fraction of a percent. Elsewhere, fairly flat markets. Won up to anean eight month high. Dollar weakness part of the story. Keep an eye in oil prices. We mention
Good morning. Getting right to the top story you can see right now, the dow jones is implied higher by 225 points, nasdaq still showing relative weakness given the technology selloff weve seen. This is coming after that massive selloff from the major averages yesterday the dow closing down more than 800 points slightly off the lows. In this situation, they are all coming off their worst trading day since june 11. Since monday, all are on track from weekly performances since june one sector snaps the heat. Snapping the win streak when it lost nearly 14 apple saw its worst day since the 20th losing that market cap, the largest loss of the biggest oneday record they lost more market cap just yesterday than the individual market caps of 470 of the s p 500 companies. That is how much money was lost by apple microsoft, alphabet, tesla saw market caps sink by 10s of hundreds of dollars. You can see tesla lost millions. Microsoft lost 115 billion. August unemployment report is due out. Expecti