The hardest hit nation is iran. Nearly 22 thousand people there have died from covid19. Spacex has placed 64 more satellites into orbit. A rocket took them into orbit from florida. It is the 12th the batch of satellites for the companys broadband network. Rocketalso recovered the booster with a controlled landing at sea. Global news 24 hours a day, onair, and on quicktake by bloomberg, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. Im Mark Crumpton. This is bloomberg. Vonnie it is 1 00 in new york 6 00 p. M. In london, and 1 00 , a. M. In hong kong. Im vonnie quinn. Welcome to Bloomberg Markets. In just a few moments, and inclusive interview with bill ackman of Pershing Square, an update on the spac and the market turmoil. Lets get to the markets. The vix today is above 30, the worst day for the nasdaq 100 so far since march. The nasdaq down 5 . The s p down 3. 5 . The dow down 2. 7 . Several individual companies have been doing extraordinarily well such as d
The hearing was set before the bank agreed to pay 4 billion. The race for tiktoks assets aress the globe sees we told its been talking to geo platforms. We do have some breaking news crossing the bloomberg. Current account numbers coming through. We are getting the july current account surplus coming in at 7. 5 billion u. S. Dollars. The trade surplus sitting at 6. 9 7 billion in july and we are watching out for some other developments coming out south korea today. Highlevel officials of the Ruling Democratic Party and the government will be meeting to discuss a second cash handout and potentially a fourth extra budget according to local mode media reports and we are expecting perhaps an announcement when it comes to the social distancing measures as well as the coronavirus update to come. Lets take a look at the fed when it comes to the markets. It was a fallback overnight when it comes to u. S. Stocks and driven by a correction in the highflying tech sector. We saw u. S. Stocks falli
Or highs just yesterday alone. Bit of a pullback today. As for the nasdaq, yeah, it closed above 12,000. There was a massive runup in tech stocks again, a pullback is to be expected, and take a look at that, thats what weve got. Got it. Next, vaccine news. Very positive. The centers for Disease Control is telling states to get ready for Vaccine Distribution on a large scale come november the 1st. Which vaccine . Dont know, but this is a firm date and, of course, its right before the election. And it is exactly two months to the election, and the two campaigns are in high gear. Joe biden has reversed himself. He will travel to kenosha today. He said he wouldnt go, now he is going to be the comforter in chief. What will he say to the burnedout Business Owners . President trump goes to pennsylvania. Hell speak at Arnold Palmer airport just east of pittsburgh. Ive got a feeling hell talk about fracking. Stay with us, please. Youve got to say what Speaker Pelosi is saying about her break th
Laura as it intensifies into a category 2 hurricane 16 years in the making, palantir finally making a bid for the Public Market but not without a lot of investor scrutiny move over bill ackman, there is a new face you ever watching cnbc good morning. Im dominic chu in for Brian Sullivan today a bit of a miss so far you can see the s p higher by about four points. The dow jones lower by 37. The nasdaq outpacing after the s p 500 closed higher. Hitting the 17th record close of the year nasdaq trying for a fivesession winning streak as it pushes. Now seeing the 38th record close of this year the dow bucking the trend ending the day lower. The key to watch there, 28,000 mark early going, you can see the shanghai composite about flat on the day as well. Meanwhile, we are seeing outperformance in the german dax up about a half a percent. The ftse 100 underperforming as it has been all year currently down in this session we continue to monitor the developing story in the gulf of mexico hurric
Close proximity to a president ial election. We will hear from him throughout the day and the focus will turn to the jobs report. After u. S. Unemployment claims figures even this reading of the labor market we will be joined by larry kudlow from the white house for his reaction. Lets get to our main markets story. U. S. Stock futures continue their slide after the main gauge clocked its biggest plunge in three months, tech shares took in a selloffeating that knocked down the highest flyers. To put it all in context is dani burger. 750 billion wiped off the nasdaq, a painful day especially for a lot of the retail favorites, like tesla, falling down. Let me show you how this breaks down the chart. I want you to concentrate here, the nasdaq composite versus the s p and the equal weighted version. You can see most of the past month on the way up the nasdaq leads. The green day is the biggest so far. This little chunk at the end of the chart, you can see the biggest chart is the nasdaq fal