Closer to the mainland. Wrapping off the iphone 12. It is bigger, pricier, and supports 5g. It could trigger a wave of growth. Lets get a check of the markets. We are seeing u. S. Futures under pressure at the open. This after u. S. Stocks retreated from sixweek highs during the regular session. Prospects for us fiscal for a fiscal stimulus have remained stalled and we have mixed corporate views. The s p 500 lost 0. 06 , nine sectors were down. Financials leading the declines. We had a positive start for Bank Earnings but they went south of her investors took a look at reserve relief and Regulatory Risk. 0. 1aq composite, down percent, apple shares tumbling after the release of those latest iphones. Giving up some of the big gains we saw ahead of the event. Oil is under pressure, but still above the 40 per barrel level. It held onto gains in the new york session. This after data from china showed robust crude imports but we did get an executive director shuttered restart of output may
Boris johnson is due to the side on fridawhether to walk away from the talks. New zealand prepares to vote with polls indicating the Prime Minister will be a comfortable winner. Both party leade are criticized for not doing enough for women. Breaking news out of south korea. We are getting the jobless figures for the month of ptember coming in at 3. 9 , which is much higher than analysts had expected. Its also larger than the previous month, when it came in from august at 3. 2. 300 92,000 jobs were removed in september from a year earlier and we have seen the jobless rate ssawing. We did have the virus resurgence in south korea so that hit the labor market negatively and we had typhoons in september that might have skewed the numbers. The positive boost for the labor market in south korea is the governments planned fourth extra budget that should help the employment market. S p saying it will take many years for employment to return to prepandemic levels. We have seen the bank of korea
0. 719 andrew and we have numbers to bring you this morning from United Health group just out with its quarterly numbers. Reporting Quarterly Earnings of 3. 51 per share. It beat the consensus estimate of 3. 09 revenue also above forecasts, saying that medical care trends that had been disrupted by the pandemic are moving closer to normal you are looking at that stock up just marginally this morning and we have three more financials, bank of america this hour, Goldman Sachs in the 7 00 hour and then wells fargo in the 8 00 hour. Joe. Thankthanks, andrew. Another Clinical Trial halted over safety concerns, eli lilly late stage trial has been paused by u. S. Health regulation tors it used a Health Sample from one the first patients recovered from coronavirus ill given you more details. Because it leaves out something important. Of the trials ongoing of the antibody, they decided to add remdesivir along with the antibody and that is when they had to halt the trial for some kind of safety
High. It is still heading toward its Third Straight winning streak, up 65 points. S p better by 22. The nasdaq up 148. You could argue that the dow and the s p are hamstrung by some serious weakness in financials, particularly regarding citigroup. That stock is taking a hit right now. Its down about 4. 7 . We are watching all the financials. Goldmans down i believe we also have Morgan Stanley down and some of the other big names. Tempest fugit when unveiling more than a dozen new offerings. Apple time flies event just ended with multiple bangs. We will start with the sizzle but theres a lot of steak here. Lets get with the apple watch to begin with. You got to do the colors, right . This is sort of the lighthearted stuff. Blue, a new blue, a new, i dont know, kind of rose gold watch, theres a bright ferrari red, you can see that right there. Then sticking with the sizzle, they hired an artist who came up with customizable faces for the new sixth generation apple watch face. It is calle
Abramowicz and tom keene in new york. Good morning on Bloomberg Radio across the nation. Good morning on Bloomberg Television worldwide as well. Theferro, without question most mysterious jobs report ive ever witnessed. Jonathan we talked about the wide range all morning. Lets talk about it again. At the top, 2. 4 million. Thats the high estimate. Below, 100,000. The pace of the recovery is slowing. I wonder if we have seen more evident if we are seeing more evidence of that a little later this morning. Tom i thought of one of your good questions earlier, the idea of this shift to the new unemployed. Forget about furloughed. Forget about all of the other language. It is people terminated. Lisa people are becoming permanently laid off. Initially it was temporary. My question today is going to be is bad news good news, and is good news bad news . The idea that if we get a worse than expected report, we will get into this for some as we will get impetus for some kind of fiscal support we