Patriotic. Vaccine is on to find a amid warnings of a greater resurgence to come. Haidi pretty mixed midweek outlook when it comes to trading here in asia and for the first time in a while, we have seen equity markets kind of take a step back in terms of not headlines. A great deal of activities and commodities. Lets take a check of futures. Contracts trading higher after we saw a lack of conviction in u. S. Markets as we get concerns that perhaps this fourth round of fiscal stimulus will not be forthcoming. We are hearing the republicans are in the midst of crafting their own proposal to take to the democrats and we also heard from President Trump as he resumed his virus presser, encouraging americans to wear patrioticart of a duty. Over in japan, we are seeing outside of point 3 when it comes to trading for nikkei futures in chicago. More earnings on tap along with japanese pmi readings as well. Take a look at gold and soldiers. Pretty much flat at the moment, jumping close to a nine
S p 500 essentially flat year to date nasdaq up some 19 59 minutes left in the session, sara coming up on this friday afternoon, weve got a series of great gifts for you. Red finns stock was on fire the stock selling to have day on the companys cautious outlook as the ceo says the bottom codrp out on the economy were going to talk to glenn kelman in a few minutes. And then apple once again, the Biggest Public Company in the world, surpassing saudi ramco. Continuing the historic run. The market cap now sitting above 1. 8 trillion. Its up over 8. 25 well talk about what an investor should do with this stock next lets focus in on the big stories that were watching. Mike santoli looking at the market and the tech stocks surging to day kayla is looking over the next stimulus package first to you, mike. The story from the morning was that Great Results from the big four of tech did not really lift all votes did you have weakness. Sold a strong open the market firmed up in the last hour or so
The companys intelligent cloud bids that including azure, windows, posted 13. 4 billion in revenue. That beats consensus by a bit. Azure slowing up a bit. Ceo had a question about that and the companys growth on last nights call asked whether or not he is concerned about it my own approach to this would be not to worry as much about shortterm whether or not it is the growth number, im not trying to match an artificial number i think the world will come out of this and it will be stronger when we invest in this space. An ad spending slow down, and they closed that acquisition four years ago right now the Gaming Business had record engagement. People stayed home and they played they call itd a breakthrough quarter for gaming, guys yeah, xbox and surface two were nice surprises. The other big earnings move in tech is twitter. Lets get to Julia Boorstin on that yeah, twitter grew, growing their monetizing value from the year earlier quarter the addition of 20 far exceeded expectations and
No word yet on the cause. And its a very s ofea. Bunojust om ngnto the bay area. Including one thats burned 11,000acres. The mineral fire erupted monday in Fresno County near highway 198 in colinga. The wind whipped flames exploding to 11,000acres with 5 containment. Smoke from this fire is collecting now over the east bay. And in san bonito county the socalled coyote fire has grown to over 200acres in just a matter of hours. Chief meteorologist paul hagan tracking those conditions for us, paul . Yeah, you can see the haze out there right now as we look out from mount hamilton. It almost looks like high cirrus clouds overhead. Fortunately, the fire crews are able to get a handle on that martinez fve testimony scenic fire. And the fire danger really wasnt that high today. Not by our standards this time of the year. We ranked that on our fire danger index. And these are the values we have out there this evening. This is a scale from 0 to 10. Its very simple. We want to be as close to zer
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,