FT News Briefing

US equities taking election polling to heart, US banks kick off earnings season, UK lockdowns

US stocks built on last week’s rally with investors assessing US presidential election polls that show a strong lead for former vice-president Joe Biden, and unemployment looks set to hit the UK’s youth the hardest with the country’s economy facing a sharp slowdown. Plus, the FT’s US finance editor, Rob Armstrong, explains why US banks might suddenly be hoping for a Democratic wave and what their most recent earnings could look like.  Wall Street rallies as angst over contested US election wanes<a href="https://www.ft.com/content/1dcbbed2-6d9e-4898-98bf-00e98a19eb5b" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.ft.com/content/1dcbbed2-6d9e-4898-98bf-00e98a19eb5b</a> Five things to watch in US bank earnings season<a href="https://www.ft.com/content/2604ab01-c562-4601-a8d6-921825a9e4ae" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.ft.com/content/2604ab01-c562-4601-a8d6-921825a9e4ae</a> UK’s youth count the cost of the Covid pandemic<a href="ft.com/content/1220ba66-de09-4507-8616-ef112cd2c109?" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ft.com/content/1220ba66-de09-4507-8616-ef112cd2c109?</a> Samuel Brittan, economics editor, 1933-2020<a href="https://www.ft.com/content/b763bf06-3fc2-4e95-9fe6-a17acf3d8f3b" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.ft.com/content/b763bf06-3fc2-4e95-9fe6-a17acf3d8f3b</a> Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:grey;" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

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