This is the exact moment where Boris Johnson may be about to speak to eu leaders. We understand that most of it is virtual. We are expecting the Prime Minister to give his response on whether he is continuing to negotiate. There was that selfimposed deadline on october 15. We dont know whether he is happy with the progress or whether he thinks even if there is not progress, he still wants to give it a shot. Tom there is your update this morning. Lot, like about the map of the fisheries. Its like a big deal, right . In the north . Francine i remember being a young reporter a million years ago showing up in brussels and actually going to at the time, it was not much to talk about, but our editor said watch out for fisheries, because nobody talks about them. Its always a fishing problem, as we see with brexit in 2020. Tom there we are with your update. Ritika gupta just nodded off. Lets start the show with the bloomberg first word news in new york. Ritika good morning. President trump and
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On china. Sources say curbs on jack mas group over concerns on National Security. Shery we are getting south koreas current account balance numbers and the surplus right now narrowing the month of august from july, coming in at 6. 56 billion. This is a little bit of a narrowing from that 7. 5 billion we saw in the month of july. The balance widening. The surplus coming in at 7. 0 2 7. 02on dollars and billion dollars and this is widening from the previous month. When it comes to export numbers, we have seen the plunge easing a little bit and in september, south koreas exports rising for the first time in seven months and we are seeing the goods balance surplus widening a little bit, haidi. Haidi take a look at the open we are setting up in the first few minutes of trade here in australia. We have seen that bounce following the super expansionary budget that was delivered this week by the federal government. The asx in the previous session closing at a one month high on those budget exp