We see the dow below the 50 day for the first time in awhile nasdaq hit that last week were off of the lows, 32. 29 maybe just ten tonights off of that the problem is not so much technology, but the reopening sectors. They are weighing on the s p if you just take a look energy, industrials, and materials. They have separate issues with suspicious trading activity. Not as they are notably week taed and this is another sign that the reopening story is not going as well as people anticipated. Remember the bucket thats we watched the market with. It is true there have been advancements with treatment and vaccine. The delays in the stimulus program, europe locked down is a worry. Concerns about the potential for the european lock down is there. As far as the stock market goes, we have been looking at valuations for a long time many people feeling the market is over valued but earnings overall have been improving. There is a lot of balance and debate going on. That happened on friday, nasdaq
Few sessions for tech stocks losing over a trillion dollars in value in just the last three days josh lipton is sorting through the carnage and has more josh thats right, jon bigtech names suffering big losses take another look here at apple, minhaj, amazon, alphabet, facebook and tesla just to put the plunge into perspective. The last three days essentially wiping out three weeks of gains. At the start of this year, these Six Companies were worth about 5 trillion. Their value then peaked at 8 trillion just last week. Now they lost about 1 trillion sounds like a lot, but also keep in mind, the remarkable runs these stocks have had. For example, apple is trading about 15 off its alltime high. Still up, though, about 60 so far this year. Same goes with amazon. Down about 6 so far this month, but the stock is still up more than 70 so far in 2020. Also, check out the smh, the etf that tracks the chips bouncing here this morning. Trading about 10 off its most recent high. Sector surge on th
Additional funding for the post office to other elements of support that might potentially encourage mcconnell to call the senate back as well. But that will be a bridge we will find out more about later yeah, will they have a relief bill as people look to get relief and extension that they have been waiting for for, you know, several weeks now since it last expired. Over to you, john. Interesting what the president was just saying. Drawing a distinction between universal mail in ballots, which he opposes, and absentee ballots which he has cast himself and is in favor of saying he does not favor slowing down the mail. He wants to speed up the mail, of course. The house wants to question a lot of that and well see if that happens thank you, it is 8 00 a. M. At apple headquarters in coopertino, california, its 11 00 a. M. On wall street and squawk alley is live good morning, what a week it is, can you believe were starting this monday at levels for the markets that we were prepandemic. T
I do want to highlight a 10 year yield in the u. S. , the yield is lower by about one basis point. 60 to 70 basis points, and how much can we tolerate on higher upside when it comes to yields . The Democrat National convention will be focusing on joe bidens vision of the party. Last night focused on trumps performance in office including his handling of covid19. To everyone who supported other candidates in the primary, and to those who may have voted for donald trump in the last election, the failed federal government that watched new york get ambushed by their negligence and then watched new york suffer but all through it learned absolutely nothing. Itay, six months after began, the nation is still unprepared. Magic if we had a national strategy. So everyone has access to a safe vaccine. More than 150,000 people have died and our economy is in shambles because of a virus that this president downplayed for too long. That even before trumps negligent response to this pandemic, too many
By market. Indonesia coming online. You are seeing a marginal gain. Although when it comes to the virus, the deadliest day yet in indonesia. The story is chinese stocks. The csi 300, we are up another 3 , extending the fiveyear highs. All four of the major benchmarks in china in overbought territory. Is it the case of foam a of fomo . The topix up by 1 . We expect the earnings season to kick off with consumer stocks. The market has underperformed as of late. We are also watching currencies. We mentioned the dollar, posting the drop. Across asia fx, a strong renminbi. Risk on move today. Brent crude, hovering around the 43 mark here. Commodities gaining ground in the second half. Copper futures slightly lower today, but up last week for the seventh straight week. Lets get context with our reporter. There seems to be a very clear upward trend when it comes to virus infections in the u. S. Several other economies have reopened. How do you see that affecting markets right now . Reporter ri