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Speaker 1: News when you want it. With Bloomberg News Now, I'm

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Speaker 1: Dan Schwartzman. President Trump signed an agreement with Australian Prime

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Speaker 1: Minister Anthony Albinizi to boost access to critical minerals in

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Speaker 1: rare earths. This includes plans for projects worth a total

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Speaker 1: up to eight and a half billion dollars. The deal

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Speaker 1: is part of efforts to secure a stable supply of

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Speaker 1: critical minerals, with Australia positioning itself as a viable alternative

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Speaker 1: to China. Meantime, Trump said his administration is still talking

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Speaker 1: to Beijing about working on a trade deal.

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Speaker 2: A lot of countries took advantage of the US and

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Speaker 2: not taking advantage anymore. No, China's paying a fifty five

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Speaker 2: percent and a potential one hundred and fifty five percent

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Speaker 2: come November first, unless we make a deal and a

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Speaker 2: meeting with President c We have a very good relationship

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Speaker 2: with it. Be meeting in South Korea in a couple

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Speaker 2: of weeks and we'll see what we can do.

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Speaker 1: That's President Trump. The US China trade truce is set

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Speaker 1: to expire on November tenth. Former FBI Director James Comy

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Speaker 1: is fighting federal charges against Bloomberg's Amy Morris, supporting from Washington,

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Speaker 1: Comy has.

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Speaker 3: Moved to dismiss the Justice Department indictment of making false

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Speaker 3: statements and obstructing a Congressional proceeding. Filing motions that he's

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Speaker 3: the victim of a vindictive prosecution by President Trump and

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Speaker 3: challenging the appointment of the prosecutor who brought the case.

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Speaker 3: The court filing by Comy and his lawyers accuses the

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Speaker 3: government of singling Comy out for prosecution because of quote

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Speaker 3: President Trump's personal animus towards mister Comy. They also argue

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Speaker 3: Trump's appointment of White House aide Lindsay Halligan to be

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Speaker 3: interim u S attorney is unlawful. Combe's trial is set

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Speaker 3: to begin January fifth in Washington. Amy Moore as Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: It's day twentieth, the government's shutdown with no end in sight.

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Speaker 1: Republicans want to pass a short term resolution to resume funding.

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Speaker 1: Democrats are demanding that any stop gap bill includes additional

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Speaker 1: health care protections that includes an extension of Enhanced Affordable

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Speaker 1: Care Act tax credits that are due to expire at

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Speaker 1: the end of this year. National Economic Council Director Kevin

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Speaker 1: Hasse predicts that the government shutdown is lightly to end

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Speaker 1: some time this week, has it? Spoke on CNBC, I think.

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Speaker 4: The Schumer shutdown is likely to add some time this week.

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Speaker 4: But I can tell you that if it doesn't. If

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Speaker 4: it doesn't, if the story that we've been basically hearing

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Speaker 4: from moderates that look, we just can't do it in

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Speaker 4: front of the No Kings rally, if that ends up

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Speaker 4: not being true, that I think that the White House

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Speaker 4: is going to have to look very closely, along with

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Speaker 4: russ vote at stronger measures that we could take to

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Speaker 4: bring up to the table.

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Speaker 1: That's National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett speaking on CNBC.

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Speaker 1: A US appeals court allowed President Trump's plan to deploy

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Speaker 1: troops to Portland, Oregon, to counter protests against his immigration crackdown.

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Speaker 1: The two to one ruling lifted in order that blocked

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Speaker 1: the deployment of Oregon National Guard members to Portland, but

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Speaker 1: it does not affect this second order that blocked the

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Speaker 1: deployment of troops from any state. The ruling is temporary

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Speaker 1: and a three day trial on the merits is set

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Speaker 1: to start in Portland on October twenty ninth, which may

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Speaker 1: lead to the Appeals Court reviewing the case again. Amazon

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Speaker 1: Web Services said it has resolved the issues that plagued

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Speaker 1: its services for about fifteen hours today. In an update

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Speaker 1: on its service health dashboard. The Amazon dot Com Inc.

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Speaker 1: Unit set it Services quote return to normal operations as

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Speaker 1: of about six pm New York time. The outage, caused

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Speaker 1: by a database network issue, disrupted hundreds of websites and apps.

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Speaker 1: Earning season is underway. So far, about eighty five percent

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Speaker 1: of the companies in the S and P five hundred

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Speaker 1: reported results that have beaten profit expectations, and now more

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Speaker 1: companies are set to report this week. Rob Hayworth is

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Speaker 1: a senior investment strategy director at us Bank Asset Management.

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Speaker 1: He gave us his outlook ahead of this week's earnings.

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Speaker 5: It is still a very constructive earning season, and we

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Speaker 5: think we should probably see that continue as we push

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Speaker 5: through the rest of the earning season because we've certainly

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Speaker 5: seen solid consumer data, solid activity data, so this should

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Speaker 5: be a fairly solid earning season is how it starts.

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Speaker 5: Seems to be shaping up.

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Speaker 1: Rob Hayworth of us Bank Asset Management, speaking on the

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg BusinessWeek Daily podcast, and one of the companies that

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Speaker 1: are set to report tomorrow after the Bell is Netflix.

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg's Tom Busby has more on what investors expect to see.

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Speaker 1: Expect a combination of new hits like that blockbuster K

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Speaker 1: Pop demon Hunter's movie and returning hits like the latest

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Speaker 1: season of Squid Games to give earnings a big boost,

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Speaker 1: along with growing advertising sales from its live sporting events

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Speaker 1: and its ad supported subscription tier. Also expect to get

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Speaker 1: a little boost from some favorable foreign exchange rates. Bloomberg

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Speaker 1: consensus calls for revenue of eleven point five two billion dollars,

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Speaker 1: less than half of that coming from the US and Canada,

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Speaker 1: and earnings per share of six dollars ninety four cents.

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Speaker 1: Tom Buzby, Bloomberg Radio. In Major League Baseball postseason action,

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Speaker 1: the Toronto Blue Jays have won Game seven of the ALCS,

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Speaker 1: knocking off the Mariners. They move on to the World Series.

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Speaker 1: Game one will be in LA on Friday. And that's

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Speaker 1: news when you won it with Bloomberg News. Now, I'm

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Speaker 1: Dan Schwartzman, and this is Bloomberg