Republican leader Mitch Mcconnell says President Trump is right to protest the vote cap. The u. S. Sanctions more people in hong kong over chinas increasing control. Washington has suspended its treaty with hong kong and ended reciprocal treatments on shipping. Haidi lets take a look at this market situation we are setting up for. It is firmly risk on after all the really bullish view overnight on account of the high efficacy from the biotech vaccine. Asx 200 trading higher by 1 10 of 1 . It is a handful of asiapacific markets there is or going into overboard territory. One of those is new zealand. We are seeing kiwi stocks of about 9 10 of 1 . We have the rbnz decision ahead of us this week but that market is up now for six consecutive sessions. Nikkei futures reversing pretty dramatically at the moment. Above looking at opening 25,000 for the first time in 30 years. Trading at thell highest since november 1991. A quick look when it comes to u. S. Futures as well. S p active futures u
Claims came in better than expected, 709,000 signaling more improvement in the labor market. And treasury yields dropping sharply following yesterdays bond market closure. Thats putting pressure on banks, which are among todays worst performers though still strong performers for the week 59 minutes left in the session, sara every sector firmly in the red. Ahead on todays show, chipotle unveiling its first ever digital only restaurant this week without a dining room or a line for ordering we will speak with the ceo brian noccol about the strategy there. And Jeremy Grantham said he thought the market was a mccoy bubble we will get an update on his that it is since those comments. Disney, pal an tear and cisco reporting after the bell we will bring you the numbers as they happen. Mike, whats the market dealing with. Contending with worries pileup of news on the shutdown, on the virus, maybe getting worried about what growth is going to look like in the First Quarter or two the s p 500 was
Mnuchin again today and we will hear from the treasury secretary in a few minutes at delivering alpha. Plus palantirs public debut, backed by peter thiel, it will be a direct listing at the New York Stock Exchange, lots to discuss there. And covid optimism, regeneron saying its treatment cocktail helps in the early stages of the virus and we will talk with the companys cofounder and chief science officer polarity on this hour jim, of course, you have to get the debate out of the way, everybody is talking about that and were going to hear the argument that if you look at futures and even some of the Prediction Markets today, theres an argument that the debate really didnt change the broad contours of the race. Before we got pmi, before we got this little squib from speaker pelosi, the futures were down very big. I was watching dom this morning, it looked like the market would be very ugly and i think that was because of arecognition that there was no way you could possibly have any sort
Strongso getting some data coming through and it comes to pending home sales. The month on month number blowing past expectations. We do better on a month by month basis of 8. 8 . That was well above expectations. That takes the nonseasonally adjusted year on year number two 20. 5 . This is a market that has come back in a really big way. Alix and continues to stay strong, like auto sales, undermining that fall off a cliff scenario. ,ast night, the highlights president trump, democratic nominee joe biden, which a debate, but turned out to be a boxing match. Everyone knows hes a liar. Pres. Trump you are the liar. You graduated last in your class. Mr. Biden you are the worst president america has ever had. Pres. Trump when needed, i wear masks. I dont wear masks like him. He could be speaking to hundred feet away from you and he shows up with the biggest mask ive ever seen. What is the Trump Health Care plan . Pres. Trump first of all, i guess i am debating you, not him, but thats ok. I
Europe here. We initially saw quite a negative story coming out of europe. In the United States, maybe some stimulus talks helping propel the story a bit higher. The s p up by over 1 . The euro has come back. It is still negative on the day. We did have a 1. 16 handle. We now have a 1. 17 handle, but we have seen continuing dismal inflation data out of the eurozone. Yesterday was germany. Today it is france. A 0. 6 print. We get the final number friday. Alix totally different from the u. S. , in that we are able to generate some inflation. Christine lagarde with her strongest signal that the ecb will change its goal. She said it may be worth examining a strategy that allows inflation to temporarily rise above the target rate, similar to the feds shift. We need to thoroughly analyze the forces driving inflation dynamics today, and consider whether and how we should adjust our strategy in response. The anchoring of fixed rate expectations might have loosened. The wider discussion today i