Worldwide, a number of stories, including 21 days to the election. Both campaigns gearing up and finetuning. We are distracted by Bank Earnings. Jon ferro, jp morgan doing better than good. Citigroupi am getting , on first blush giving us the same enthusiasm we heard from jp morgan. Jonathan jamie dimons jp morgan delivering the beat, and it looks like city group is repeating the action. Figurepoint out, the eps third quarter, 1. 40. A little bit of an upside surprise here. I believe we have sonali basak with us. What are we seeing. Sonali we are seeing a beat on revenue, on fixed income. We are seeing loanloss provisioning higher than what jp morgan put in, but lower than what analysts expected. Perhaps wall street has just gotten it wrong compared with the banks are expecting in terms of loan losses. They are higher than jp morgan, so we are going to want to understand why the divergence, but overall, pretty clean numbers here. Tom as we see the numbers come out, we are getting this
The hardest, and that is the stress test. Confusion with dividends and buybacks. We will break that down. The safe haven bid intact. Of the bondinto all market, particularly on the front end of that curve, guy. Guy absolutely. We are getting data through from the u. S. Economy as well. Coming through at 70. 1, that is light. , 87. 1. Conditions that is a little light. In terms of the oneyear inflation number, that is higher. That is a reflection of the people focusing on what their Grocery Shopping is look at the looking like. That rate is rising. We so that in the u. K. Today. Grocer, a big u. K. Showing really strong numbers. Alix all of that is going to play on the market as well as we continue to see Consumer Expectations probably hit, despite what happens on a state to state races, Consumer Spending, the number that we got basis, state to state the number that we got today tim adams joins us. Sheila bair will be joining us. She is a former fdic chairman. The top story, which is th
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Easing of lockdowns. Taylor i got him steven major you have thes massive helicopter money and stimulus but if the demand does not come back, he is more worried about disinflation, that made my ears perk up. Francine lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news. The European Unions executive arm is coming out with its own stimulus package to deal with the regions worst economic emergency since world war ii and calls for spending 823 billion. Two thirds will be in the form of grants and the rest will be loans and funded by joint debt issuance. In hong kong, hundreds of protesters returned to the streets demonstrating against chinas plan to take more control of the city with National Security measures. Projectiles. Ired the u. S. Is thinking of ways to punish china for the hong kong crackdown and is weighing whether to declare the colony has lost autonomy from beijing. There could be visa restrictions for Chinese Communist party authorities. For the first time, twitter has added a f
Certain tariffs. Not just a trade deal, but actually removing some of the economi existing tariffs earnings continue to lead us higher just a bit. We have names like kroger and tapestry, the old coach beating expectations joining us for the entire hour is a man you know well, steven weiss from Short Hills Capital partners steven, good to see you down here at the New York Stock Exchange good to see you brian good to see us both heres the thing, earnings, trade, maybe just general positive market sentiment. One of those three or maybe something else, that has been the primary driver for what has been a nice little run we are up nine of the past eleven sessions on the s p 500 i think there are multiple drivers to the market. Trade being the most important and the most dominant. You can see the correlation. For those who say that trade is all in the market, thats clearly not true because when you get positive news coming out, the market ticks up when you get negative news, it goes down. So