• After calling off the referendum vote, Greece’s Papandreou is struggling to stay in power. Opposition leader Antonis Samaras rejected sharing power with Papandreou in an emergency government, and called for him to resign. He faces a confidence vote tonight. From Bloomberg News.
• Confirming softening in Europe, German factory orders fell 4.3% from August. The third straight monthly decline. From Bloomberg News.
• After its $4.4 billion 3rd quarter loss, Freddie Mac, the U.S. backed mortgage financier, requested $6 billion in additional funding from taxpayers. Homeowners are still falling behind on their obligations, and their $3.6 billion set aside for loan losses is not large enough. From the Financial Times.
• U.S. payroll numbers for October will be released this morning. A gain of about 95,000 is expected after an increase of 103,000 in September. The small gains are not able to budge the unemployment rate at 9.1%. From Bloomberg News.