Hour, likely to confirm thirdquarter results that beat forecasts. The first since the patriarch. It may losewarning Legal Protection over user content. Lawmakers accuse platforms of abusing their power for political speech as the election nears. First, lets get you started with a quick check of the markets. Sophie kamaruddin in hong kong. Sophie after the steep losses we saw for u. S. And european stocks, we are looking for a downside move here in asia with earnings also in focus and we have u. S. Futures edging higher early in this session. We do have aussie shares under pressure, off by. 4 this morning. This after the tech lead rebound we saw wednesday looking shortlived. And set under pressure, falling 3 after recording a 42 slump in profit. Those results coming in line with analyst estimates. Check out the aussie dollar holding about 70 but trading near a nine day. It could be in the making the next few days. Metzler about the board to check in on some other assets in focus. We are
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
But the equity markets are open. We are up by 1. 2 . Earnings season getting up tomorrow with j. P. Morgan, but stimulus talks are not going anywhere. The german tenyear yield, yields are going lower. We are also seeing some pressure caught in periphery. We are getting awful close to a has 100 spread that basis points on it, and that is certainly something we are watching very carefully. We note the comments from mr. Lane over the weekend. The other thing we are noting as well is what is happening with chinese currency. The pboc over the weekend basically putting two way risk back into that currency pair. The question is, will that be marketto stabilize this and keep the pboc happy, or is further action ultimately going to be required . Kailey joining us now is mark mccormick, Td Securities global head of fx strategy. Lets talk about the u. K. First. More restrictions to stop the spread of the virus there. The market doesnt really seem to blink at any of these new additional restrictio
The coronavirus pandemic continues to loom large. Addressing the crowd in pennsylvania, trump again touted an experimental treatment he was given while hospitalized with covid19. The drug that they gave me, im going to were going to be distributing it all over the country to hospitals and everything else. A day earlier, Health Authorities said 19 people who attended two trump rallies in minnesota last month tested positive for the virus, but they say it is unclear if these people werere infected at the rallies. The u. S. Governments top Infectious Disease expert, anthony fauci, has warned that holding large gatherings is asking for trouble. Meanwhile, biden held a rally in florida where he criticized trump for his handling of the pandemic. So many lives have been lost unnecessarily because this president cares more about the stock market than he does about, you know, wellbeing of seniors. Biden also plans to visit pennsylvania later this week where he is likely to continue his focus on
Else, stimulus optimism. Pelosi and mnuchin are set to speak again. Airline stocks are up. Plus the race for a cure and treatment for the coronavirus. Shares of regeneron and eli lilly are rallying, both asking the fda for emergency use approval for their antibody therapies. And speaking of surging, look at shares of ibm this morning, moving up on plans to spin off its it infrastructure unit Arvind Krishna and Ginni Rometty will both join us first to discuss this historic move for the company. Carl we are awash in headlines from the president after this 55minute interview. But buried in there are discussions about the progress of stimulus talks and emergency approval for the likes of lilly and regeneron. Look, i think that there is a narrative that were going to start hearing and it was the president s narrative, he voiced it, i know if youre george ancopolous, you dont want to hear it is a cure. You want to hear it is something that is part of a cocktail of things that you need to be