Here are your top headlines from the bloomberg terminal. Confirmed coronavirus deaths top one million globally but some estimates are double that. Angela merkel warns about a christmas virus bike as the netherlands imposes a threeweek curfew on bars and restaurants. Stimulus still drives stocks. House democrats released a scaledback 2. 2 trillion proposal. President trump goes headtohead with joe biden tonight in the first u. S. President ial debate. Out free now, considering the purchase of daimler and bmws joint shares 3 . 3 into the close. Lets take a look at futures. We see green arrows, but only up. 1 or. 2 . U. S. Futures are doing better at this early hour, up one third of 1 . Regardless of where you look, the dow jones, s p, or nasdaq, contracts are rising. What do you see on the gmm . Anna a fascinating day yesterday in markets, with gains of more than 3 on some European Markets. As you have been through, futures looking more subdued, and that is the case in the asian session.
In houston. Test the shares rise after hours as Quarterly Earnings beat the streets. Profitability meets the criteria for inclusion in the s p 500. We got a report earlier today that china is moving to close a u. S. Consulate, not being seen by some commentators at as some sit as serious as hong kong. Saying that asian would likely respond to the forced closure of that beijing would likely respond to the forced closure of its consulate. The possibility of potential cuts to its larger hong kong mission. He said cutting the Mission Staff in hong kong to 100 or 200 people is an option. China has pledged to respond to the u. S. Closing its houston consulate. Will come back to that and the Market Reaction in a moment. We are of course into earnings season. Lets get some of the lines from daimler. Considerable Global Economic outlook decline in 2020. In terms of other lines, it sees a bit to be positive in 2020 but lower than the prior year. Considerable it sees a considerable decline in glo
Lets look at these markets and our into the european trading day. Stoxx 600 in europe up by. 1 . And even start to the trading day. Evenly divided winners and losers on the European Equity markets. Lacking any direction. Into the u. S. , also lacking direction. We have seen a little bit above the flatline. Not getting a great bicker great bit of direction. A big focus on Central Banks and a u. S. And a focus on u. S. Policy. Titians, ay trade tensions, that coming up. Wrist bank leaves behind five years riksbank leaves behind five years. Is now what we are showing you. We were showing you the norwegian krone. Not to be confused with the riksbank. Bank, we scroll back to what they did there. That was as expected. See a to this picture, we number of Central Banks leaving policy unchanged. They were treated for negative Interest Rate hiking. They were moving in their own direction moving against the cutting cycle for many previous months. We continue to do that. Lets get a new lets get an
T International John thomas certainly glad to have you with us right after a week of a damning testimony at the house judiciary committees impeachment hearings donald trump said he wants a trial the u. S. President suggested to fox news that he would be able to defend himself successfully in the senate against the democrats claims that he abused his office he is also separately described proceedings against him as a sham and said his political rivals look like fools. Tremendous week with a hoax you know the great hoax the quote the impeachment hoax and thats true it worked. Incredibly well and we have tremendous support i think rogers around here so please i dont think ive ever seen support in the Republican Party like we do right now weve never had this guy on the super. Committee chairman hits back hit back at republican claims his testimonies have been hearsay and absurd democratic democrat adam schiff also didnt rule out. Holding more public hearings as palin begins to draft its in
Alphabet and amazon report. Nejra welcome to daybreak europe. It has just gone 6 00 in london. Earnings onslaught is a great way to describe it. Roche numbers are coming through. At 30. 4lf sales come in 7 billion. The estimate was 30. 53. First half core operating profit. The red headline, let me get to that. View toits sales growth mid to high single digits. Thats very interesting. Raising its sales growth view to mid to high single digit. Thats the red headline on roche. At 11. 1. Comes in the estimate was 10. 65. Thats a beat on first half core eps. Core operating profit for the first half comes in at 12. 36. The estimate was 12. 16. Theres a beat on some of the numbers. The headline you want to focus on is the fact that its raising its sales growth view to mid to high single digits. There were some pressures whether it wouldve raised guidance a second time this year. To the ceowe speak of roast. Dont miss that interview at 7 30 a. M. London time. Dani burger is standing by with th