Good morning from the Financial Times. Today is Tuesday, October 13th. This is your

FT news briefing. U.S. equities markets got a jolt from the outlook for the

U.S. election and it's been a year of low-income. markets got a jolt from the outlook for the US election.

And it's been a year of low interest rates for US banks.

So what will Wall Street's most recent quarterly earnings look like?

Plus, the UK is imposing a tough set of new lockdown restrictions.

We'll take a look at one of the groups that's been most affected by the pandemic.

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After U.S. equity markets took a drubbing in September, investors have been living it up in October.

Yesterday, especially, the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ composite both had a big day on Monday. One reason for it, the start of

earning season, which begins with US banks today. We'll get to more on that in a

second. But the other one has to do with the US presidential election that's right around the corner.

And with the FTS U.S. capital markets correspondent Rich Henderson,

Rich, first off, can you believe that the election is already less than a month away, three weeks away? And second, what does the election is already less than a month away three weeks away and second

what does the election have to do with the gains for equities we saw yesterday?

Good question. No it's come around really quickly. Really quickly.

Extremely quickly. Really quickly. Extremely quickly. So what did we see on

Monday? We saw a big day for tech. We saw Apple stock up more than 6%.

Facebook and Amazon up more than 4%.

These are pretty big moves.

In terms of the election, there's a bit more certainty in the market that we're not going to face a contested election.

That's been a big fear, obviously Donald Trump has fanned those concerns a little bit with his comments over the last few months.

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