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President Trump signed an agreement with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albinizi to boost access to critical minerals in rare earths.

This includes plans for projects worth a total up to eight and a half billion dollars.

The deal is part of efforts to secure a stable supply of critical minerals, with Australia positioning itself as a viable alternative to China.

Meantime, Trump said his administration is still talking to Beijing about working on a trade deal.

A lot of countries took advantage of the US and not taking advantage anymore.

No, China's paying a fifty five percent and a potential one hundred and fifty five percent come November first, unless we make a deal and a meeting with President c We have a very good relationship with it.

Be meeting in South Korea in a couple of weeks and we'll see what we can do.

That's President Trump.

The US China trade truce is set to expire on November tenth.

Former FBI Director James Comy is fighting federal charges against Bloomberg's Amy Morris, supporting from Washington, Comy has.

Moved to dismiss the Justice Department indictment of making false statements and obstructing a Congressional proceeding.

Filing motions that he's the victim of a vindictive prosecution by President Trump and challenging the appointment of the prosecutor who brought the case.

The court filing by Comy and his lawyers accuses the government of singling Comy out for prosecution because of quote President Trump's personal animus towards mister Comy.

They also argue Trump's appointment of White House aide Lindsay Halligan to be interim u S attorney is unlawful.

Combe's trial is set to begin January fifth in Washington.

Amy Moore as Bloomberg Radio.

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

Republicans want to pass a short term resolution to resume funding.

Democrats are demanding that any stop gap bill includes additional health care protections that includes an extension of Enhanced Affordable Care Act tax credits that are due to expire at the end of this year.

National Economic Council Director Kevin Hasse predicts that the government shutdown is lightly to end some time this week, has it?

Spoke on CNBC, I think.

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

But I can tell you that if it doesn't.

If it doesn't, if the story that we've been basically hearing from moderates that look, we just can't do it in front of the No Kings rally, if that ends up not being true, that I think that the White House is going to have to look very closely, along with russ vote at stronger measures that we could take to bring up to the table.

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

A US appeals court allowed President Trump's plan to deploy troops to Portland, Oregon, to counter protests against his immigration crackdown.

The two to one ruling lifted in order that blocked the deployment of Oregon National Guard members to Portland, but it does not affect this second order that blocked the deployment of troops from any state.

The ruling is temporary and a three day trial on the merits is set to start in Portland on October twenty ninth, which may lead to the Appeals Court reviewing the case again.

Amazon Web Services said it has resolved the issues that plagued its services for about fifteen hours today.

In an update on its service health dashboard.

The Amazon dot Com Inc.

Unit set it Services quote return to normal operations as of about six pm New York time.

The outage, caused by a database network issue, disrupted hundreds of websites and apps.

Earning season is underway.

So far, about eighty five percent of the companies in the S and P five hundred reported results that have beaten profit expectations, and now more companies are set to report this week.

Rob Hayworth is a senior investment strategy director at us Bank Asset Management.

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

It is still a very constructive earning season, and we think we should probably see that continue as we push through the rest of the earning season because we've certainly seen solid consumer data, solid activity data, so this should be a fairly solid earning season is how it starts.

Seems to be shaping up.

Rob Hayworth of us Bank Asset Management, speaking on the Bloomberg BusinessWeek Daily podcast, and one of the companies that are set to report tomorrow after the Bell is Netflix.

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

Expect a combination of new hits like that blockbuster K Pop demon Hunter's movie and returning hits like the latest season of Squid Games to give earnings a big boost, along with growing advertising sales from its live sporting events and its ad supported subscription tier.

Also expect to get a little boost from some favorable foreign exchange rates.

Bloomberg consensus calls for revenue of eleven point five two billion dollars, less than half of that coming from the US and Canada, and earnings per share of six dollars ninety four cents.

Tom Buzby, Bloomberg Radio.

In Major League Baseball postseason action, the Toronto Blue Jays have won Game seven of the ALCS, knocking off the Mariners.

They move on to the World Series.

Game one will be in LA on Friday.

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