Hsbcs turnaround picks up speed. The bank surges in hong kong as speculation grows around a return to Dividend Payments. Good morning, everybody. It is wednesday morning, just over an hour away from the start of cash equity trading. Lets look at futures. European equity markets, u. S. Equity markets of by more than 1 . And, of course, we have touched the levels key levels. The dow at 30,000, and the s p touching an alltime high at the close as well. Real strength coming into today, in futures suggest we have some upside to play for. Futures all point higher. European futures also to the upside. Ftse futures up by about 0. 3 . Broadly speaking, it is the same as the last couple of days. We are talking about vaccine optimism. The news about janet yellen picked up the appetite. It is into just stocks. We can look at what has happened through the asia session. Some of the markets in asia have turned increasingly negative as we have gone through the session. Parts of asia now retreating. Th
Yesterday, another record high how concerned should we be about our health and the health of the economy . And three full days until the president ial election. A live report from what could be a key county in the deciding of the election power lunch starts right now welcome to power lunch. Another down day for the market. It is the dow clearly outperforming the nasdaq three of the four tech giants reporting yesterday are lower right now. Apple, amazon, facebook, google in the green twitter off its low hitting a major roadblock today. Exxon and chevron under attack and underperforming. Are these stocks still worth investing in well get into all of that we begin with stocks closing out a bad week and a bad money bob pisani tracking the action for us good to see you its a tough end of the week and tough end to october look at these stats here were not closed yet but still pretty bad worst week since march 20th. Dows worst month since march. Its the second straight down much for stocks an
First lets go right to bob pisani for more on the market selloff today. We are off the lows but just barely 3366 was the low today, 3381 right now. Lets not quibble about a few points the damage is pretty widespread, but the general theme is cyclical stocks and stocks most associated with reopening stories are having a tough time of it. Energy, oil down about 3 at 1 , banks, which had a good time last week not starting off the week well, industrials, another cyclical group and defenses will sectors like utilities and staples all down sap dropped as much as 21 over in europe here they cut their revenue forecast for the full year they expect a fresh wave of lockdowns to hurt demand through the first half of 2021 first off, first half is alarming but just the idea that general airically t general ai generically, people are betting its a broader more than stock specific so we have no stimulus right now of any term, near term, long term, any term we have a reopening story thats going rather
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The bond market is locked in a jonathan ferrolike manner. In nice correlation to a weaker dollar as well. There is a really nice lift to it. I have to admit, i havent watched the debate since kennedynixon, a few years ago, i think, 1960. I am actually going to watch this. This will. Be extraordinary jonathan i think the ratings will be through the roof. But the bar is low for the former vice resident, joe biden. And i think from a market perspective, if joe biden was a stock, the stock is running high going into earnings season with plenty of downside ahead. Tom i really defer to the pollsters that we have. One of them in iowa has been so professional. Over the weekend, the Vice President had a wonderful weekend, pulling at the national level. But you really have to go to the thoselevel on battleground states, particularly pennsylvania and florida. Jonathan looking after catching up with Kevin Cirilli in a few months time. Tom is there anyone not speaking this week. Francine the fed sp