we speak with shannon o'neill but first we preview the trade week ahead with k2 asset management head george boubouras when it comes to china. this is bloomberg. ♪ what will you do? will you make something better? create something new? our dell technologies advisors can provide you with the tools and expertise you need to bring out the innovator in you. haidi: markets will be lows there -- laser focused on the inflation reading on thursday and implications for rate hikes. china's october trade and foreign reserves data will drop on monday. economists are expecting a lackluster third quarter gdp print from hong kong as the city struggles to reopen. we also get indonesia gdp data. sales may be muted on friday in hong kong amid a slowing economy and ongoing covid restrictions. alibaba kicked off efforts to spur demand. haidi: inflation is the key issue when it comes -- or one of the top issues when it comes to american voters heading to the polls. that will decide control of congress and the 36 governors. democrats risk losing a majority. we will also be watching earnings coming from sof

joining me now is shannon o'neil, author of "the globalization myth, why regions matter.", how should we think about this? this is a guy who had a very successful run as president, was more moderate in many ways than people feared. but then resided over perhaps the largest corruption scandal in the world, and is now back out of prison, back into the presidency. what are you expecting? >> i expect lula 3.0 to be economically pragmatic, in part because of his inclination, and because of the team he seems to be assembling is fairly centrist. and also because of the politics and economic constraints he's going to face in brazil. this is a brazil that has been hit hard by the pandemic, hundreds of thousands of people lost their lives, businesses went out of business, and what we also saw in this election is that the conservative side of the political spectrum won many of the seats in the congress. so he's going to be working with a more conservative congress than he did the last time. so on the economic side, we're going to see a fairly pragmatic and centrist lula administratio