In our podcast this week Mark Lister, Investment Director discusses last week was an extremely eventful one for global financial markets, and there's plenty more going on in the days ahead. The US midterm elections are coming up, and there's an important inflation report coming out of the US too. Closer to home, the Reserve Bank will release its survey of expectations, while earnings releases will be forthcoming from Mainfreight, Xero, and two of the Australian banks.