Europe, up by 2. 5 . Todays number from barclays, very strong. We are going to hear from jes staley a little later in the program, our interview from early round. The pound bouncing around all over the place. We were into 1. 31. I think this is broad Dollar Strength rather than anything else. Take a look at the bloomberg dollar index. Alix rising covid cases impacting the economic data. Composite pmi for the euro area dropping below the 50 mark, which shows contraction. Meeting. O ecbs next joining us is john hardy, Saxo Bank Head of fx strategy. Does 1. 18 make sense for when you consider the rising uncertainty . John of course, the pressure should be on the downside given the covid resurgence. I think the general take on the could be that if we are seeing this democrat sweep scenario, we are positioning for a weaker dollar for some time in the future. Anything looks fair between 1. 17, and to me, this is the upper area of where we should be. We shouldnt be doing anything and eurodoll
The broader markets are approaching previrus levels. Passed . Or crisis has tiktok is seeking another legal and to curb the use of the out in america. Shery lets get a quick check of the markets. We are seeing u. S. Interest, on the market pretty flat. Had hopes for reelection preelection stimulus, and those hopes are fading away. We have mixed banking reports. The s p 500s song for a second session. Communication stocks are leading decline. As oil rose in todays sessions. Take a look at what oil is doing right now. It rose to the highest level in nearly one week. We got a weaker dollar. The u. S. Shares turned negative. It was a weaker dollar. We had expectations for supply declines in u. S. Inventories, and that really pushing the oil price higher. Lets see how things are shaping up, here is sophie. Stock futures are pointing to more losses, after it pulled back from a march hike. Japan watching reports in , and over in south korea, the agency they hit makes it trading debut after an
White house and pelosi ibm reported after the close yesterday. Another hopeful update on the vaccine front. Modernas ceo telling the wheat journal his companys account to get emergency use authorization next month. 59 minutes left of trading up just shy of 1 on the s p 500. Coming up todays show, a nearby chopra weighs in on todays google antitrust suit from the department of trust we will ask him whether the government has a strong case against the company. Plus earnings. Netflix, texas instrument, Interactive Brokers and snap all gearing up the report results this afternoon we will bring you all the numbers as soon as they hitting with analysis. We will talk with Interactive Brokers chairman thomas petersfy. Mike santoli is tracking the market action. Ylan moi with the justice diplomats antitrust lawsuit against dealing. And we will constitutes the stimulus negotiations before the deadline to get it done before the election. Mike, start us off on the market a partialal recovery from
Francine, went up 15 . That was the kind of move we saw. Last night, and a lot of people missed this in america, exhausted from the election, we nestor8 00 or 9 00 p. M. , barr making these statements. I would suggest this mr. Barr mr. Barr making these statements. He was extremely careful. Every word was chiseled out. For me the headline is the 20year veteran of this under election crimes, mr. Pilger, a herk to james moody, resigned. To me that is the real headline. Francine it is a huge deal and we are trying to figure out what this means for the Republican Party and the strategy possible there. Stephanie baker says it could have something to do with the Senate Election in georgia. We will have plenty more on that. Lets get to first word news with ritika gupta. Ritika President Trumps attorney general, william barr, will let the Justice Department investigate potential voting irregularities in the president ial election. But barr has acknowledged there is no conclusive evidence and w
Will talk about this later on, but seems like europe is edging one step closer to that 1. 8 trillion euro recovery fund, which would be huge, particularly as the u. S. Cant get it on stimulus. So huge that the euro barely budgets. [laughter] alix it could be worse. Guy it is big news, but i think there was belief in the market that this is a done deal, and europe will ultimately come to the right conclusion and make the stimulus happen, 1. 8 trillion euros. So i think the market had already priced this one. As you can see, unchanged on eurodollar on the back of that. We are getting the jobs data coming through. 6. 43 islittle light, the number. 6. 5 was the expectation. Actually, the prior number devised down a little bit as well. So maybe a little bit of softer data coming through, but the market doesnt care. The market is looking through the virus. All of the bad virus news, you can put that in the rearview mirror. That certainly seems to be the sentiment right now. Lets dig around w