To the campaign trail for our top story. Five days to go until the president ial election. New National Polls show Hillary Clinton once again pulling ahead of donald trump as both candidates set their sights on swing states in the homestretch. John harwood is live in lima, ohio weather the latest. I want to step back for a minute from this strongly republican county, al lep county where lima is located, to look at the national picture. Donald trump has fallen two points behind in the Washington Post poll. If you look at the nbc news battleground map you can see Hillary Clinton is either solidly or slightly leaning in enough states to get her over the 270 electoral votes she needs to be elected president. Now, donald trump tends to do better when he follows the direction of his Campaign Staff and stays on script. In fact, donald trump yesterday was musing out loud about that. We are going to win the great state of florida, and we are going to win the white house. Were going to win it. I
Im sarah. Im will. Happy friday as well. Its new music friday, you may not know the song, but know the voice of bon jovi. Its called come up to our house. New music friday. The global markets, we are coming off a series of losses for u. S. Stocks. They have been down every session in a row. A mixed picture this morning. That didnt last, though, at this time yesterday, where we saw stocks finishing lower. S p futures up a half point. Futures down 4. 5. Nasdaq futures unchanged. No yield. Theres been buying of treasuries this week and of global safe haven sovereign bonds. It pushed below 180. We are at 179. Its not super low historic yields, but we have broken the trend of yields moving up, which we were seeing up to this week. We should mention the gap in yields between u. S. And european yields significantly narrowed. Thats a reason why we have seen selling of the u. S. Dollar in relation to that spread, 165 base sis points between the ten year and the u. S. And germ any, its the lowes
Morning. It is the kind of flashback wall street does not want to see. A lower finish by the s p today would mark its first ninesession losing streak since december of 1980. Were coming off eight straight negative days for the First Time Since 2008. And then that jobs number of course showing lower than expected payrolls. But, jim, the wages suggest that unless more people come back into this labor force, its getting tight. Less slack. Thats certainly a way to look at it. I think that the fed has plenty of ammo here. They can say, listen, weve got job growth. Weve got people make a little extra money. I know theres another whole scheme of thought which is hold on let it run. But in an environment where they think these are emergency rates, these are not emergency job numbers. These are job numbers that you get when things are fine. Now, i know that theres an undercurrent in the election which says that one party is saying, listen, not only things not fine but millions of people are los
Welcome to squawk alley. Happy friday. Im sara eisen. With me this morning my partner in crime, wilfred frost, staying up past 6 00 a. M. And en lee. Four days to go until the election. New reports this morning that russia or another state agency may try to undermine tuesdays voting. This as donald trump and Hillary Clinton make their final push into key battleground states. Our john harwood is in washington, d. C. We have a threepoint race. 47 clinton, 44 trump. Donald trump had moved ahead in that poll earlier this week. That indicates things slipping back a little bit toward Hillary Clinton but not desis live at this point. Look at the battleground map. Electoral votes, Hillary Clinton is leading or solid in more than enough states to get to 270 electoral votes if you look at both how shes doing in Traditional Democratic battlegrounds and some new democratic strongholds. Now, how are the candidates deploying themselves over the weekend . This is the time they race around the country
Life from bloombergs European Headquarters here in london. Im Francine Lacqua. Lets get straight to the board and to the market. Here is the picture for european stocks. We did see a reversal a little bit. A lot of these asian equities, the euro stoxx 600 getting down to 0. 5 . I want to focus on german bonds, the 10 year at a new fresh record low. Pulling off 50 a barrel. The japanese 10 year bond yield sinking to a year sinking to a low. Caroline francine, thank you. Chinas export exports stabilized in may. Overseas shipments fell in dollar terms. Imports slipped just north of. 4 . Meanwhile the pboc has kept its 2016 growth forecast unchanged. It provides that cpi forecast up from 1. 7 . Japans economy grew slightly more than reported in the first quarter, helped by revisions and private consumption. Gdp expanded 1. 9 giving some relief to shinzo abe. The british Prime Minister and leader of the u. K. Have argued each side of the exit issue in a tv special of the brexit issue in a t