country's budget deficit jumping considerably in october we can bring in our financial correspondent sophie szymanski for more on this now sophie tell us how all the numbers are looking. baked helen that these are big numbers the biggest since two thousand and twelve actually as the u.s. budget charge is looming food fueled by trams tax cuts and spending hikes spending grew rapidly twice actually as fast as revenue president take a look at the new number here for the month of october we're talking about a one hundred billion dollars budget deficit and this marks an increase of about sixty percent from a year earlier the deficit to widen from around sixty billion dollars in the same month last year the part of the department said in the end statement our job or marks the start of the u.s. fiscal years so we also get a look back to last year and interims first full fiscal year that ended in september the budget gap grew to seven hundred seventy nine billion dollars right i mean so if you sixty percent each steep is this sparking concern. yes because on a basic level the u.s. government is spending way

industry now i want to go straight over to wall street we can bring in our financial correspondent sophie szymanski he's here he's standing by now we've analysis from wall street now sophie of course we can always talk about investor reaction to election results but what was pretty spectacular today was chum's prints press conference the aggressive just hate it towards reporters what if markets made it but. well i actually watched the news conference on the fretting floor together with some of the traders and i think they mostly agreed that louise seemed irritated over the course of nearly ninety minutes he's won repeatedly between calling for unity and attacking democrats and some members of his own party but it was feed and the trading floor and it is not that easy to find someone who's actually critical of the president but this speech and his aggressive manner have cost some of the traders standing next to me while watching it to shake their heads one of them said trump is being attacked and now he's defending himself blindly and from the outside it loke to definitely pretty directionless emoti