Provide administrator to provide information about security protocols with chinese behemoth tencent. Meanwhile, bytedance and oracle have tentatively agreed to a deal has to be approved by the Chinese Government, and there is significant confusion about timelines. Lets check in without markets ended the day with senior markets correspondent scarlet fu , leading declines but outperforming all year. What has been happening . Scarlet there was a lot going on and to some extent, you can blame the federal reserve, j powell saying rate will stay at current levels, lower for longer, but investors were expecting a dovish surprise and were left hanging. When you look at equities, most of the damages from the large cap, big tech names, but it was a broad decline, eight out of 11 sectors in 20 active 24 sectors finishing lower. Outperformance today were value encyclical stocks. If you look at the past two weeks, it has been a clear theme. The two bestperforming groups were materials and industria
Was nasdaq and s p 500 down almost 3 . Add boycott slit sit Major Companies pulling out of advertising dollars from social media giant is costing Company Millions anding to surngd pressure and down two and a a quarter percent right now. Boeing takes flight test of the 737 max begin this is week. The stock is up on the news this morning premarket up close to 3 and Federal Reserve Shopping List essential bank releasing name of companies that it is purchasing Corporate Bonds from. Including automakers, telecommunication companies, even beverage cocacola, plus china take more steps to plan down on hong kong frms and beijing says it will impose visa restriction on americans with what they call egregious conducts on Hong Kong Related issues. Mornings with maria is live right now. Global markets look like this european indices highser with the up a third of the percent and paris up about 16 points also a third of the and dax is higher than 34 points twothirds of one percent. In asia across th
Makes their company ceo. Their company so unit. So unique. Silicon valley is listening to your most intimate moments. It is the focus of bloomberg businessweeks indepth piece on how the Smart Speaker praise users vulnerable to the conversations being transcribed. Here with the story including the devices and use of contractors to transcribe those attimate conversations is m in seattle, sarah from San Francisco, and austin from new york. Let me start with you come austin. The management with you, austin. We spoke to dozens of transcribers and contractors in the stories. Everywhere from ireland to india. They really had ethical quandaries with the service, they were eavesdropping on a lot customers toexa improve speech recognition capabilities. Is really fascinating thing the profound disparity you mentioned. A lot of the contractors felt this was ethically dubious. The Silicon Valley folks that we talked to really did not think this was such an issue at all despite years of privacy issu
And a scathing report prominent shortseller andrew left of citron slaps a 5 price target on peloton. Well hear from left. But first, to our top story. Silicon valley is listening to your most intimate moments. It is the focus of bloomberg businessweeks indepth piece on how the Smart Speaker craze left users vulnerable to their conversations being transcribed. It was one of the most read stories on the terminal on wednesday. And here with the story, including the devices and use of contractors to transcribe those intimate conversations, is matt in seattle, sarah from San Francisco, and garrett and austin in new york. Let me start with you, austin. Contractors in your story seem to have a problem with this, while the management of big tech didnt. Why . We spoke to dozens of transcribers and contractors in the story, everywhere from ireland to india. They really had ethical quandaries with the service. They were eavesdropping on a lot of siri or alexa customers in order to improve the sys
A bit. No real direction here. Julie hyman has the latest. Perhaps investors waiting for the jobs report. I think that is a safe that, people waiting for the next shoe to drop or shoe to kick or two helpings or hurt things. Penny on what the numbers show. A tightave been in range throughout the day. It is interesting. You see the tao of 2 10 of 1 . What you see largely today is the smaller stocks have been outperforming blue chips. You look at the s p midcap index, smallcap index, the russell now falling back a little bit here are largely today, we have seen an outperformance from the smaller stocks. Throughoutp itself, the session we have seen an amount of housing around and you can eat here crossing above and below many times throughout the day. It has been a jerking a long kind of day. It has been. And commodities, it is not just about oil today. It is not just about oil but oil itself has seen a lot of volatility today. All over the map as well. Similar to what we are seeing in sto