Demand under continued pandemic pressure s p global has reportedly put 44 billion on the table to buy londonbased ihs markets and tie up the data giants and mark the largest deal of the year shares jump after the german chip maker confirms advance take over talks with taiwans globwas it could create a leader in the Global Semiconductor space well, good morning, everybody. Welcome to street signs and happy monday it is the start of a new trading week, a week of new possibilities. But before we get into the show, i just want to take you to our main story thats hit overnight, and that is to do with china so, beijing has said that it hopes the u. S. Will not build barriers to cooperation. That was in response to a report that the Trump Administration is preparing to blacklist top chinese chip maker smic and oil major chinook. Washington will restrict access to customers by adding two companies to its list of firms owned or controlled by the Chinese Military according to reuters. Cnooc said
Score lately what one new study is saying about the American Household and it may be good news for you on this monday, october 19th. This is Worldwide Exchange. Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, im Brian Sullivan thanks for joining us to kick off your week. Heres how things are looking to start this new week. Futures are solidly higher dow futures up about 135 points. Its a big autumn so far the nasdaq and nasdaq 100 coming off the fourth straight winning week both now up around 4 since the beginning of october small caps, they continue to shine. The russell 2000 up more than 8 on optimism for more stimulus as well as hope for a domestic economy rebound. Check this stat of the day out in the s p 500, 60 stocks are up more than 10 this month the best of the best is tapestry, tpr, the old coach retailer on the more macro front, another huge day for speakers from the federal reserve. Chairman Jerome Powell will make remarks along with three other fed speakers actually five other
The dow industrials this wednesday morning are going to go up about 170 odd points at the opening bell. S p, modest gain. A fractional loss, though, for the nasdaq which is at the 11,000 level. Stocks overall getting help from the virus relief talks. Mitch mcconnell talking compromise. Senator schumer talking concessions from both sides. Theyre looking for a deal by the end of this week. My opinion, there is no way Congress Leaves Town friday without spending at least a trillion dollars. I think a deal is coming and the market likes it. Two stocks in the news and moving. Disney, up sharply despite losing 5 billion during the pandemic lockdown. Disney plus has 60. 5 million paid subscribers, 100 million overall and they are starting another streaming service next year. All of that helps. Disney is up seven. Novavax, their phase one trial showed their vaccine to be safe and created an immune response. That stock is way up, 30 bucks a share on the upside. All right. Something different. L
How these cuts will be disk it and how willing will russia be . Certainly some optimism today. Jakarta is coming online. A pretty steep fall off of stocks yesterday. We are rising. Ingapore is up the csi 300 is up. 3 . The dollar is looking pretty mixed across asia. The reaction from that meeting has been seen in the korean won. We are seeing that strength. Nine out of 17 economists respected the hole. Some were expecting for a cut. We are looking ahead to governor lees press conference. We will hear more clues about the trajectory of where rates go and whether they will embark on this qe theme that we have seen in many Central Banks. The dollar yen, we are seeing a little come off of the yen. Were advancing on the back of the oil prices in the euro, premuch flat. Lets stick to oil. Prices are rising again ahead of that opecplus. The worlds Top Producers may be moving closer to a deal on curbing output. Volatility remains a key theme. Wti has seen another 24 hours of wild springs with
Globes but netflix is still gunning for awards gold and forcing the cinema industry to change look at what that could mean for a theater near you. And manilas growing thirst for water threatens to wash out villagers living upstream from the new dam project. This is your Business Report im Stephen Beers in berlin its good to have you with us. Stocks in europe and asia have fallen as investors response amounting tension in the middle east the downward move follows the continuing fallout from the killing of irans top military commander qassam solo money in the u. S. Drone strike on friday worries about potential conflict in the region Push Oil Prices even higher after fridays gains this time more than 2 percent thats a big concern for asian markets which rely heavily on the middle east for their supply but it hasnt all been doom and gloom news that washington and beijing could sunnah trade deal next week that shares in china up. And lets check in on european markets now with Chelsea Delan