Particularly for you. Having spent so much time close to her, what did you see about the greatness some of us do not get to see just watching her on the bench . Was a Justice Ginsburg surprising person in many ways. She was shy and retiring and super serious, and yet she had an extraordinary sense of humor. She loved to laugh. That is part of the reason she was able to maintain such great relationships with all of her colleagues on the Supreme Court and with everybody who worked with her, including her famous friendship with justice scalia. It was interesting to get a little bit of a window into how practical she was, how strategic she was. Person a very strategic and i think you see that in a lot of her rulings. In honor of a lifetime to tell her story. David one of the things that strikes me as remarkable is we forget when she started out, it was not recognized that the equal protection clause even applied to women and she systematically i got to see one of her arguments at the Supre
Citigroup names james frazer Ceo Jane Fraser ceo, making her the first woman to run a wall street bank. Good morning. A massive milestone on wall street. The first female to run a major wall street bank. Is this a High Water Mark . It is a crack in the glass ceiling. We have a lot to cover this morning. Covid cases are kicking up, brexit drama, and, of course, no stimulus bill yet. Nasdaq yesterday closing down 2 , a crack in the tech rebound. Futures are up. 01 this morning. Here are your stoxx 50 futures in europe, showing a slower start. Down nearly 0. 3 . In the eurodollar, 1. 18. What lagarde said about the euro, not too worried, she seemed. Joining us now is janet mui, investment director at Brewin Dolphin. Good morning to you. I want to start with what is going on with the tech rebound we are seeing. I was looking at the bullinger, and you can see the nasdaq unable to get rid of that breakout of the midrange. Is this a signal of more erosion or will stocks start to trade sideway
It feels like a long week but second week of september. European stocks are prep flat. We had a mixed week overall. There have been concerns over evaluations in some pockets of the market, global and technology stuff and then the other big question is what happens to euro . Christine lagarde delivered relatively mild comments on the currency surge. And headed for the biggest weekly drop since march. Lets get to bloomberg first word. Europe has overtaken the u. S. In terms of coronavirus infections. The e. U. , norway, iceland and lichtenstein reported more than 27,000 cases on wednesday compared to 26,000 in the u. S. The region has remerged as a global hot spot after bringing the pandemic under control earlier in the year. The odds of another round of u. S. Fiscal stimulus has dropped. Senators dropped a republican proposal for slimmed down support in the region of 500 billion to 700 billion dollars. Temperatures are looking for temperatures are looking or 2. 2 trillion. The u. K. Eco
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Since march 20th microsoft is in midst of its second negative week in a row. Amazon is positive for the moment if it closed lower it will be the fourth straight negative session. Facebook, will have its fourth straight negative session as well also pacing for the worst week since midjune are we at a tipping point, pete, for some of these big tech names . I dont know that i call it a tipping point. I think id sort of more tab this something of little bit of a rotation i dont know how long that will last well see. Its just in the early stages of this well see how much pressure really does get put on i think the names are very favorable. I think theres a lot of reasons to like the names. It makes some sense that we would see pause there. We have seen a bit of a pick up. You look at financials and especially the regional financial names and see a bit of something thats showing some signs of a little bit of life. Well see if that can last as well i can tell you this, right after the earning