Giving a lot of insight well be bringing you results apple, amazon, alphabet and facebook all report their earnings coincidence those four Companies Make up about 16 of the s p 500. Worth about 5 trillion combined and come a day after the heated antitrust hearing. Wolf, this is a good read in for you. For sure. There was meant to be three of those. Facebook got moved from yesterday to today after that hearing. After the close, we are waiting for two economic reports it is thursday, that means weekly jobless claims. Another 1. 4 million filed for the first time last week the first read on Second Quarter gdp. The economy likely contracted by 34. 7 . Both jobless and gdp due at 8 30 eastern time you look at those numbers down 34. 7 from the estimate we know it, weve been hearing from companies and what has been happening. Thats a lot of news to digest ahead of all of these reports. You are watching futures under a little pressure. Lets look at where things stand now. Dow down 206 points,
Nasdaq futures once again up 45 points. The momentum continues for tech. S p 50 down just a fraction after markets rebound yesterday with nasdaq ending the day at another alltime high. This is the fourth record high in the last 5 sessions for the nasdaq with gain of 118 points. The United Airlines could be cutting half of its workforce, half of employees. 2020 presumptive nominee joe biden said to announce economic plan today as Goldman Sachs warning of possible delay of Election Results that could slam markets, all expectations coming up. Plus push to Defund Police, biden says some funding should be redirected from Law Enforcement. Big cities seeing surge in Police Retirements as crime soars across the country, mornings with maria is live right now. Maria Global Markets look like this, the cac quarante is up 5 and dax index in germany higher by 152 points, one and a quarter percent. The government takes action to support an economic recovery with stimulus. In asia overnight green acro
The markets are focusing on what jay powell said yesterday. The market is also focusing on what we are seeing across the globe. The number of infections being weighed compared to the extra Monetary Policy being put out there. Investors weighing better economic figures against the continued increase in virus cases. In other news, metals advance with copper climbing for the fourth day. Manufacturing and services in china. That adds to a bit of optimism. Lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news with leighann gerrans. China has approved Landmark National security legislation for hong kong at the end of a threeday meeting in beijing for the nations top legislative body. Representativee confirmed the vote. The u. S. Said it is suspending hong kongs special status, making it harder to export sensitive American Technology to the city. German chancellor Angela Merkel is throwing her support behind a radical Recovery Plan for europe. Packages include 750 billion euros of joint debt. Wh
Without question, the most odd, the most historic first half in the history of american finance. Theres no question about that, and it still continues. We will talk to you on economics, finance and investment. Jon will have a usable jon ferro data check for you. I really want to go to the farnt at hand, which is how people are behind after the down that we saw, and then the whipsaw up, up. Jonathan First Quarter since 2008 replaced by the best quarter since 1998. On the policy response, the next 30 days he is critical. At the start of march, end of february, we talked about building a policy bridge to the end of the year. I think what is clear going into july is that bridge needs a serious extension for a lot of people still in a lot of pain. Tom theres not a moment to patrick borrow from obrien. Much more than two weeks ago, it is let go. Lisa the more uncertainty there makers,e part of policy with fed chair jay powell expected to talk about this massive uncertainty, the more uncertai
Nasdaq is leading the way again. 9,996. Will we get to 10,000 again before the quarter and the half year are over . Its a 1. 25 gain today. Its the only of three majors to be positive year to date ill start that there, josh brown. The nasdaq is reminding everybody how we got here in first place. Thats right. It continues to be a tale of two markets despite those days where it looks like were about to have this massive mean reversion for the rest of the market it really is these names that are getting the job done day in and day out. Ive highlighted the fact the nasdaq equal weight is doing as well or better on some days than the regular market cap weighted triple qs. Thats indicative of broad strength not just five stocks dragging the whole market higher. Then the coronavirus losers are doing what think have been doing for quite a while. Each day were getting new names added to the list. This is just another casualty of this two speed economy that were going to have. If you focus on wh