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Oct 2020

9m 38s

US equities taking election polling to h...

Financial Times

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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

https://www.ft.com/content/1dcbbed2-6d9e-4898-98bf-00e98a19eb5b

Five things to watch in US bank earnings season

https://www.ft.com/content/2604ab01-c562-4601-a8d6-921825a9e4ae

UK’s youth count the cost of the Covid pandemic

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Samuel Brittan, economics editor, 1933-2020

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