Madrid could announce a state of emergency today. A golden reopening. Beijing is back to work efforts week long holiday. Chinese equities and the yuan outperform. Very good morning to you. 6 00 a. M. In the city of london. Happy friday. Its one week since we learned the president of the United States tested positive for covid19. D. C. Politics is messy. We will talk about that a little bit later. We are 25 days away from the u. S. Election. Some optimism that we have had a bit of shift on stimulus in the white house. Nancy pelosi, Steven Mnuchin, are talking again, but many skeptical we will see support. The hope of that is moving markets this morning. S p 500 futures to the upside this morning alongside euro futures as well. Chinese equities outperforming. We are up more than 2 this morning, 1 00 p. M. In beijing. China is back to work after golden week. Its back with some good optimistic measures when you look at the equities space. The bloomberg dollar index lower against all of g10
Your record deal is 800000 businesses that have permanently closed their doors so unfortunately its going to be at least 2 years were getting back to we were and by the way thats if you believe the Prescription Drug hell. And a viable economy comes from or rolling trillions upon trillions of dollars and drinking it all right the number were looking at still its lower than a 1000000 that we were saying at the beginning of the pandemic but its still pretty high its just over 800000 still closer to a 1000000. Why are we still losing 840000 people i mean were supposed to be underwhelming route to recovery by the way if you look at continuing claims including pandemic unemployment assistance were at 20000000 people there are still seeking dont really need and this should not be the case for an economy that is supposedly in a violent the shape recovery just not james well its definitely not. The case christine meanwhile after pulling the plug on stimulus negotiations the Airline Industry is
This is boom bust the one business show you cant afford to miss unfair montecito in washington coming up the rate in new unemployment claims may be leveling off but congress and the white house look to be stocked yet again on a stimulus plan to continue to rise across the globe due to the pandemic swine flu and unpredictable weather will tell you what this could mean for those who are already struggling to get enough to eat we have a lot to get to the law that starts. We begin today with jobless claims as u. S. Unemployment fell just slightly for the week ending on october 3rd to a fresh pandemic low the u. S. Labor department reported initial jobless. 840000 worse than expected showing the labor market is still experiencing a slow recovery while the economy is still growing its been a gradual comeback as concerns rise over another wave of layoffs without another federal relief package still some 25500000 americans are collecting some sort of benefits so for more on this and the overal
We get additional fiscal stimulus. Our guest is from morgan stanley. It feels like from the last 23 months, we have been turning the volume up and down and gone nowhere. Are we starting to change the track a little bit . Are we making progress around the fiscal talks . Only question that matters right now, Mitch Mcconnell does he have the votes to pass a 1. 8 trillion package . Think the Senate Majority leader needs all 53 senators to vote for this package. Choice is, the between getting something done ahead of the election or waiting until after the election seeing the outcome then making decisions about the stimulus package. Markets most importantly, the question is not necessarily whether it gets done ahead of the election but whether it gets done at all. Upsaw elements of that show in the minutes from earlier this made it clearfed that if there wasnt a stimulus in the next several months, if it gets done in a timely manner, the fed will be pleased as will the market. Jonathan coupl
What hes expecting ahead of the 22 billion their ddollar debut week power lunch starts right now thank you its been another rough week for the market but the nasdaq is now on track to snap a threeweek losing streak. Dom is following the numbers for us assuming that leadership position again and trying to snap that multiweek winning or losing streak rather but if you take a look at the move higher were still in a position now where the dow industrials and the s p 500 could both be on the verge of four week losing streaks. First time thats happened since august of 2019. The nasdaq 11,000. Were watching as the key level. The trends that were happening educational where this year for the vast majority of this year have reasserted thelss this week. Watch what else happens in the marketplace with apple it may be the case to be made there. Well see if that sticks pm back over the you my son just bought apple in his virtual investment port gro portfolio as his starts his 9th grade investment c