We will talk to him about what is ahead for 2020. He is the amazon executive who resigned over what he called vein of toxicity running through company culture. Those stories in a moment but first, tech earnings trickling out today. Abigail doolittle is with us. Abigail there was some action later in the day. Another sleepy day for much of the day for stocks. Record highs for the s p 500 and the nasdaq. News came out from pfizer, another headline that pfizer, the doses they will be able to provide for this year expected to be half of what had been anticipated. When the headline came out, it read very bearish. Stocks initially took a leg lower. The s p 500 going down three tens of 1 . A decent intraday move. The s p 500 finishing down for the first time in three days. The nasdaq, however, managing to keep a small gain and a record high on the date. Pfizer really slipped, 1. 7 . The barclays bond etf up 8 10 of 1 . Tones of riskoff, uncertainty around the pfizer news. Pretty interesting,
Have announced today will provide strong support for the economy. We are saying that roommates rates will remain accommodative until the economy as far along. Leaves stimulus untouched. No move expected either. Todays action could come from south africa as they battle we growth. President trump contradicts his health officials, saying a vaccine could come by october. Deutsche bank says new york city staff can stay at home until next year. 6 00 a. M. In london. Lets get you uptodate with the interpretation of fed speak. Good morning. I take you to ing. Its about the credibility andeen Forward Guidance state contingent Forward Guidance. We got both last night. That makes for more potent situations. Perhaps doubly irrelevant. Annmarie a note this morning saying theres no pleasing some people. What else could the fed have done . Maybe qe. Also talking about the fact, they were saying, monetary stimulus, its time to focus on policies for the real economy. In that moment, jay powell is right
A lot of the focus has been on what mr. Powell said yesterday and what we heard from the fed. We are seeing a bit of Movement Across the board. If you look at some of the european stocks, they are actually retreating after jay powell highlighted uncertainty about the economic rebound. We sought asian shares falling the most in a week. Treasury yields, that curve steepening slightly on wednesday after mr. Powell stopped short of offering specifics on the feds approach to the monthly bond purchases. Lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news. Here is leighann gerrans. Good morning. President donald trump is not happy with what he has heard about the terms of the oracletiktok deal, but says he briefed on the details on till this morning. Sources have told bloomberg that the Top White House officials have raised concerns about the proposal. They say it falls short of Satisfying National Security concerns. President donald trump says a Coronavirus Vaccine could be widely available a
Boris johnson concedes a veto to parliament over his plan to illegally override the brexit treaty. Slumped after accusations of fraud by a short seller. The selloff deepens even if the company rejects the report. Good morning. Welcome to the program. Lets get to breaking news across the bloomberg. Capex andto go to the eu car sales. European collar sales falling 17. 6 in august after a 3. 7 drop in july. This is the story that we are essentially tracking. Europes car sales setback stoke fears over annual drops. This headline was written by our colleagues at bloomberg news. 18 slump snapped a three month streak of improvement. The result may indicate that subsidies are shortlived. We have seen that improvement coming through. Whether that has been a shortlived experience rather than showing underlying resilience, we will have to see. These numbers are not so good. We will watch the automakers as a result of that. Acrosso to the picture European Equity markets. The futures picture. We ar
We have seen some push pull here. Some of that weakness still russellg with the was 2000. 8 . 10year yields continuing to rise. Breaking out of what was earlier 82month trading range between 54 and 78 basis points. Now, incredible the break and we have seen the last two days. Further weakness in the bloomberg dollar index. We are back to weakness that we have not seen since march 11. You wonder how much of that is the feds continued stimulus into the markets. I want to talk about the data that make up this morning. U. S. Jobless data showed continuing claims failed to decline again and instead rose above the forecast of 20 million, to 21. 5 million. The market is reacting to the news as a cast doubt on the hopes of a strong economic rebound. For more, we are joined by nela richardson, edward jones senior strategist. This is one of the first times for the market that it is reacting to the poor Economic Data. Been in your opinion, has driving the weakness of today after what has been a s