1000 miles apart. Donald trump and joe biden fight for air in competing town halls. Americans had to the polls and 18 days. Boris johnson said to decide whether to ditch brexit trade talks. And daimler gets in gear. The carmaker reports a 3 billion 3 billion euro profit as cost cuts filter through. Just under an hour away from the start of cash trading. Car sales european out. They gained 1. 1 for the first nine months. Sales, upropean car for the first three quarters of the year. 1. 1 . Lets take a look at what is going on. European car registration, clearly 20 20 has been a tough year. One a look at what is going we have ftseutures filler cheers futures up 0. 8 . Tax futures gaining about 0. 5 . Futures the picture is more mixed. Showing a lot less sized. Futures are. Ractionally down futures flat. We have been more negative. Asian equity markets look seen looking mixed. Are we in a consolidation phase for setting ourselves up for some selling . You have the election coming. That is
Crude getting wrapped into all of this. We get inventories coming out at 11 00, all of that wrapping into the story that maybe we arent that good at dealing with the virus again, despite what happened in the spring, and how that narrative will feed into your equity and asset allocation. The other story we are following his Morgan Stanley, the last major big bank to report earnings. Really wrapping out a winning week for wall street trading desks. The highlight was fic revenue rising 30 . That helped drive revenue above estimates. Also, equity underwriting fees came in double more than year before. Very solid. Now the question is, can it continue, particularly when it comes to the visibility of the election . Joining us now on Bloomberg Television and radio is jonathan pruzan, Morgan Stanley cfo, as well as sonali basak, bloomberg wall street correspondent. It is good to have you. Killer numbers, particularly when it comes to fic. What visibility do we have now for the Fourth Quarter .
Leventhal and liz young. Liz, is this all about stimulus or are were genuinely concerned about these cases were seeing in europe . And, by the way, were doing a lot of cases here every day, too. I dont think its all about stimulus but were in the middle of a really heavyweight news cycle and its not allowing us to look out any further than about 30 days at a time. Ultimately in 30 days time the market is lower than today just on monday the s p was up 5 month to date. That didnt make common sense. Were in the middle of a highly c contentious market season and were still waiting for stimulus in the short term i think we should see a pull back here but in the longer term and even in the next three to four months, some of the fear around a blue wave has been a little overblown and the market has to weigh the two sides. On one side we might see higher tax ees and stronger regulation and on the other side some of the tariffs may be rolled back as an investor, even if we have a pullback in th
From the hospital as soon as today despite conflicting reports from doctors on his treatment and health. Markets recover from fridays riskoff term. France reportedly plans to shut down bars in the paris region as part of new coronavirus measures to be announced today. They warned of a tough winter ahead but equity futures shake off europes spike in infections. Agman Fertilizer Company k s is in advanced talks to sell its morton salt unit to kister group for 3 billion as they propose a review of its indexes including increasing the size of the dax to 40 from 30 companies. Away, just under an hour 60 minutes away, from the start of cash equity trading in europe. Lets take a look at futures this morning. We are seeing green arrows across the board with dax. 75 , and ftse futures gaining almost 1 this morning. If you look at the percent mispriced, we see gains of more than. 5 indicated at the open. Take a look at the u. S. , futures pointing slightly higher this morning, not 1 gains, but m
Day for the Federal Reserve system. It is a meeting of mystery. Our Michael Mckee will be there for the press conference, special coverage this afternoon. But right now, a great conversation on some of the challenges that we are going to see. Jon ferro, to me, the major challenge, with futures up 17, you mentioned this earlier, this morning, is the two americans that are out there, that two americans that are out there right now, jon ferro, are nothing like what john edwards ever thought he would see. Jonathan just compare and contrast, tom, take the airlines on one hand you can take any sector, the retail sector, and compare it to fintech right now. Big tech on fire. Other companies, tom, literally slashing in tens of thousands, and a central bank that has to set policy for both economies. That is a tremendously difficult position to be in as a central bank right now, and that will create distortion. Some would argue that is already happening. Tom Lisa Abramowicz, within your reading,