SQUAWK BOX, THURSDAY 15TH OCTOBER, 2020

Another round of U.S. virus talks stall as U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says that an agreement seems unlikely before the election. Blowout earnings from Goldman Sachs weigh on U.S. futures and fail to rouse Wall Street. Standard Chartered CEO Bill Winters tells CNBC exclusively that banks are well capitalised in preparation for an event such as the pandemic. In France, President Macron slaps harsher restrictions on nine of the country’s biggest cities in a bid to halt the rise in Covid-19 cases. And in South Korea, Big Hit Entertainment, who manage K-pop sensation BTS, has almost doubled its stock price on its market debut.