Four days of losses is about to become five. Are down 7. 5 over the previous four days. Cross assets, we look like this. A bid into the bond market briefly in treasuries. It did not stick. It was a treasury market selloff. This morning, it is about yen strength. Dollaryen coming down on 0. 3 . Again. Rude is down 0. 9 mark wheret is that you have these massive producing countries like russia and saudi starting to worry. These are very hard prices to deal with when you try to balance your books. It all comes back to demand. Everything is about demand right now. When you have france and germany going into lockdown, that does not bode well. Euroyen is striking me this morning. I feel that for the first time it is acting like a haven. It is her membrane what it is supposed to do. Jonathan a bit of yen strength. Chancellor merkel giving a wakeup call to her fellow eu leaders. They failed to act quickly stop the pandemic. For more, our western europe managing editor joins us. Walk us through
Bouncing back a little. Remember, please, this is how we started out monday. It ended badly. All right, walk into a super market just about anywhere in the world and several aisles will be dominated by proctor gamble. Here is the news. They are doing very well. Profit is up, revenue is up, outlook outbeat and p j, one more example of companies turning in Strong Financial results and the stock is up. On the campaign trail, joe biden stays home. No media appearances for 4 days. How convenient. Hes safe from pesty reporter questions and gaffes and fatigue. Hes preparing for thursdays debate and for the rules for that debate have changed. Theyll be a mute button to kill mike mic of candidate if he he running over time. So keeping it out of the debate is in my opinion a form of bias against trump. Another development, in pennsylvania, the Supreme Court says they can keep counting mailin ballots for 3 days after election day. That means the delayed result in a swing state, dispute guarantied
92. 24. Mnuchin setretary to testify before the house subcommittee investigating the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic. With us now to discuss is Agf Investments chief u. S. Policy strategist greg valliere. We will hear from the treasury secretary. He will be asked about additional stimulus. We are hearing republicans are pulling together some sort of stimulus but there is even opposition to that. Thathappens next, given apart from small state aid, the aide is running out for individuals . Greg nice to see you. I think we are getting close to the time where mnuchin will have to get really serious, the same with nancy pelosi. The anecdotes are getting ominous. More evictions, people fixing bankruptcy, peoples finances in terrible shape. The president does not need this before an election. Frankly, i think nancy pelosi has to recognize people are hurting and she needs to take what she can get. Vonnie if you were to call it now between the 500 billion planned by many republican
Break down the key sticking points and a Worldwide Exchange exclusive ed morse making phone calls the investment is his best bet right now. Youll hear it here on Worldwide Exchange on cnbc good morning, good afternoon, good evening from wherever in the world you may be watching. From here in the states, im Brian Sullivan kicking off with the big blue. No real rbi today. Lets call this the rbi. Ibm is up some 5 in the premarket if the gains hold there on ibm and they may not if they do, that could ad 45 points to the dow at the open. Ibm your rbi it is very rare that ibm rises after earnings according to our own earnings guru, this is the 23rd eps beat. Up bigly well call it ibm, your rbi and you are making investors today a little bit of dough. 70 of the time in the past five years, your stock appears to be down after earnings. This is the eighth straight quarter where sales are flat down on the year to those highe futures, the nasdaq showing gains right now. With the move yesterday, t
Covid19 own Macro Economic Development Going forward. I in leary, we should expect lower Going Forward. Ab in bef shares up. Vw slashes its dividend after posting the first half operating loss and renault posts a loss and says it is impossible to give any guidance. Astrazeneca rallies as Second Quarter sales top forecast the ceo says he expects to benefit from the Covid Vaccine this is a business that is redirect examinatio resilient. Weve managed the crisis well. Patients are returning to physicians a very warm welcome to street signs. Now on the gdp front, german adjusted preliminary gdp the calendar adjusted q2 number down 11. 7 slightly worse than the 11. 3 forecast the sharpest decline from 1970 the calendar adjusted level, 11. 7 versus 11. 3 predicted the rebound in that data, the pmis came in growth territory but still q2, a very severe decline. Lets bring in annette who knows more about the German Economy than i do. The 11. 7 drop in gdp. Exactly it is worse than expected but t