. O a presumed debate october 15 crisis, go to cash. Do you understand we are 3 from a dow record high . Jonathan the narrative has really shifted away from the worries about a contested election, and now the conversation about the potential of a blue wave. No question about it. We like to see more polls coming out. The candidates really migrate to arizona today and tomorrow to come off the messaging from utah. Have you seen the polls for going to be at polls from quinnipiac . A fivepoint lead in iowa for biden. The average right now, 9. 4 points to biden. I feel you, tom. I get it. Everyone else does, too. They are conditioned by the experience of four years ago. That is a conversation with kevin later this morning. Tom again, i look at the markets. The doom and gloom out there, the vix, the volatility at 28, im sorry. Look at the equity recovery and look at corporations adjusting. This breaking ibm news is important. Jonathan after a big acquisition last year of red hat, the restruct
Have set new alltime highs today with corporate earnings sending some mixed messages to investors. And the target miss rippling through the market, were seeing some take a hit. Joining us for the full hour, paul hicky, cofounder of the spoke Investment Group do you see any interplay between these big stories that were watching today so i think combined, they play into themes that weve been looking at coming into the year. So the pros and cons of the market heading into 2020 now, were pretty much evenly split. And the target could be a sign that maybe the economy is a little bit weaker than people are seeing were seeing weaker than expected data. On the positive side, were seeing the market continue to hit new highs. And the number one positive we look at is dont fight the tape. When we see new highs like this, you dont want to fight the market and trade is important its not necessarily a positive or negative, but at least weve got this behind us and theres very little in the way of exp
Languishing in storage. An president xi jinping confirms china supports carrie lam in hong kong, but says the protests create the grimmest and most complicated challenge. Paul all right. We have the market open here in australia. It is highly likely the asx will make some record highs today. But we have a staggered open here so it is fairly quiet right now. Just modest increases that we are seeing. We are going to keep a close eye on westpac, now facing its 4th investigation into these Money Laundering allegations just filed by the banking regulator today, announcing it will be investing getting whether law. Ac broke the we have new zealand higher by almost. 5 . Was packed new zealand shares still in a trading halt. U. K. Futures looking flat right now, a similar story for u. S. Futures. But that may well change during the course of the day, especially after we saw some very positive gains on the u. S. Equity markets tradeinspired during yesterdays trade. We will keep you uptodate as t
1. 5 . L one down the fed being a little bit harder on the credit card side of things. Guy we are waiting for that g20 meeting. We will be keeping in of it we will be keeping an eye on things in turkey, were president erdogan lost that Mayoral Election. Bond proxy stocks continue their incredible round. The dollar is down versus the euro. We hear from powell again tomorrow. Bid, 1406nues to be where we are now trading. Vonnie bitcoin above 11,000 right now, making a comeback it seems. Ins get more on the markets general, including how geopolitics are playing in todays trade. We are joined by ab emerging multiasset portfolio manager. Fedt the change in the tone has certainly supported risk assets more broadly. I think this is probably going to be a more constructive week going forward, but i think after the g20 meeting, it is more likely that people will be reminded we are in a slow growth, high volatility environment, so strategy set emphasize Risk Management and income are more likely
Assuring some cooler air aloft. It did produce some high clouds but it looks like it washed out, mostly sunny today, hitting some patchy fog, then itll get chewed up. The temperatures on the cool side, the breeze is out of the west, southwest, even out to the delta and sacramento, there is an onshore breeze. Itll be mostly sunny, and on the cool side as you can see the system digging in and not going anywhere anytime soon. Itll slowly lift out on the weekend in the temperatures will climb. But today and tomorrow, we are looking for unseasonably cool temperatures, we have 60s and 70s. 7 01, he is here on a wednesday tell you the traffic is doing okay. If you are driving in most areas, we havent had any major problems, traffic insee it on t monitor, and you can see it on the commute here on the map, you can see all of the red hitting into the valley, it is still not as bad as i have seen it, but it is definitely slow. As you look at the santa cruz mountains, the glenwood stop has become