The u. S. Investigates an alleged fraud to assassinate the American Peace envoy to afghanistan and waiting to be reunited a father who is one of thousands of palestinian separated from his family because of coronavirus. The at the end thank you very much for joining us a former canadian diplomat and a businessman have been charged with spying in china in a case set to increase diplomatic tensions between the 2 countries michael cole reggae is being held in beijing and businessman michael spade or he was chaunge in a city near the north korean border theyre accused of spying for state secrets for a foreign entity both were detained in late 2018 soon after the arrest in canada of men wang joe a Top Executive at chinese tech giant huawei shes a daughter. And hes facing extradition to the u. S. On fraud charges over trade with iran now those developments come as australias Prime Minister says a state base is behind a major cyber attack there he wouldnt say who but there are suspicions it s
Theyre all moving lower put on the positive side, a report that china will accelerate agriculture purchases from the u. S. Which could deescalate some trade tensions and were set for a particularly volatile final hour of trade this is the s p 500s first major options and futures rebalancing day of the year. We have 59 minutes left. Were down just over. 5 sara coming up on todays show, pressure mounting on apple over the treatment of App Developers weeshgs going to speak with Roger Mcnamee ahead of the Developers Conference plus, david kenny holds not only the companys ceo title but also the chief diversity officer. Hell discuss neilsens recognition of juneteenth and how they can push for more diversity in the workforce and can figure out a way to measure it as well lets get straight to the market another volatile session to close out the week on wall street one that is headed for another upweek mike santoli is tracking the down action weve seen this afternoon. Yeah. A little fatigue th
Across the americas. Texasa sees a record as says covid19 is spreading at unacceptable rates. The u. S. Raises the pressure on Chinese Media organizations, foreigning four more as missions and calling them nothing more than began to outlets. Shery lets get you started. We are seeing u. S. Futures kicking off trading flat at the moment after u. S. Stocks rose. A pretty choppy morning session but technology did manage to lead the advanced. The nasdaq composite rising to a record high, seventh consecutive session of days. The longest winning streak since december. We did get some negative sentiment on rising coronavirus cases in dozen states. The s p 500 did lag this gain across the board. Some sectors like financial and health care under pressure as investors weigh the Economic Impact of a second wave. Take a look at what oil is doing at the moment. Wti right now falling towards the 40 a barrel after finishing at the three month high. We have some demand optimism as states have moved tow
Everything is in green across the screen right now joe, were talking this is basically the growth value trade conversation but it takes on a little bit of a different face because were talking about this recovery trade i want to go through some stocks with you i want you to decide whether these things have come too far, too fast whether its the airlines, american, delta, united delta, southwest. You know what the gains are over the last two weeks alone thats just a representation of what were talking about here. Clearly skots, what we have witnessed is we had what i would call the v recovery stocks. Those stocks are the Growth Stocks those are the quality momentum stocks and you have more recently the stocks that are the u stocks the l stocks the dash for trash stocks. Im going to stay positioned with my growth name, my nasdaq names. Theres clear exuberance and when we look back upon this, well realize it was a rational kp exuberan exuberance im not going to bite. Im going to stay with
Market. Three year and 10 year bond options coming in superstrong. Watch how that winds up performing. Time now for todays top market moving news from our new york team and washington team. We want to begin with economic the u. K. Economy shrinking on the 6 in march. Predicting what could be its deepest contraction in more than three centuries. Bloombergs Michael Mckee has more. Michael ask not for whom the bell tolls. It is the u. K. This time. Just one week under lockdown was still enough for a 2 contraction during the first quarter. As you mentioned, a 6 contraction during the month of march. Britain plunging into what may be its worst depression or recession, at least, since 300 years ago. Three centuries, according to those who have been figuring out. Tourism fell by 46 , air transport down 44 . Engine ofpending, the the economy, down 1. 7 in the first quarter, the largest drop since the financial crisis. We got data from the British Retail Consortium saying total sales down 19. 1