Closer to the mainland. Wrapping off the iphone 12. It is bigger, pricier, and supports 5g. It could trigger a wave of growth. Lets get a check of the markets. We are seeing u. S. Futures under pressure at the open. This after u. S. Stocks retreated from sixweek highs during the regular session. Prospects for us fiscal for a fiscal stimulus have remained stalled and we have mixed corporate views. The s p 500 lost 0. 06 , nine sectors were down. Financials leading the declines. We had a positive start for Bank Earnings but they went south of her investors took a look at reserve relief and Regulatory Risk. 0. 1aq composite, down percent, apple shares tumbling after the release of those latest iphones. Giving up some of the big gains we saw ahead of the event. Oil is under pressure, but still above the 40 per barrel level. It held onto gains in the new york session. This after data from china showed robust crude imports but we did get an executive director shuttered restart of output may
Bloomberg surveillance. Im Francine Lacqua in london. A lot a focus is on the bank results yesterday. Many more banks reporting today with Technology Stocks and apple news. We expect a lot of earnings, and pound weakening, something to keep an eye on. Stocks,ook at european travel shares declining on concern of more lockdowns, but financial shares are climbing. Theyd are today, our active etf, new surveys say active equity funds underperformed in the first half of the year. Lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news. Good morning. Here in the u. K. , Prime Minister Boris Johnson is facing growing pressure to order a National Circuit breaker lockdown. The Opposition Labour Party is calling for increased nationwide restrictions for up to three weeks, after documents revealed the scientific advisors called for that action three weeks ago. The sprint to find a medical breakthrough to contain coronavirus stumbled this week. Eli lilly is the latest company to pause a trial as a safet
Not good enough, eu leaders are set to say no breakthrough in brexit talks. Boris johnsons thursday deadline for walking away approaches. Bank earnings turned sour, jp morgan and citigroup slide despite posting betterthanexpected trading revenues. Bank of america and Goldman Sachs are among firms reporting today. Clinical complications, eli lilly becomes the latest company to pause its covid19 drug trial. We will bring you our interview with rival Johnson Johnson. One hour until the start of cash equity trading across europe. Thats look at what is going on in terms of futures. We are seeing gains and European Equity Index Futures even after live trade. An you can see ftse futures up 0. 3 , and euro stocks and dax futures little changed. In terms of u. S. Futures, you can see on s p and Dow Jones Futures slight gains, a little more on s p. Nasdaq futures up 0. 3 . Anna, you have earnings out. Anna lets get the closing details, the business talking about the year but remaining cautious o
Other question is where what has apple become . Tom instead of the markets and the nasdaq war that we have seen , ties into apple, this was actually, francine, a huge deal yesterday. Arguably the biggest meeting they have had in three years. We are not going to go apple fan boy on it and explain all the stupid is that and the other thing. But i also want to go in with alex webb, sort of the racket that theyve got where everybody has to upgrade because this is old technology. This phone is a failure. I have to get rid of it. Francine the question i have been asked the most is, do we have 5g here, and people just dont know yet. Lets get to the bloomberg first word news with leighann gerrans. Leighann prospect of another stim list package before election day look bleak. President donald trump and Senate Republicans are at odds. The president is urging them to go big or go home. Senate majority leader mitch admitting to aly vote on small businesses. Nancy pelosi says the latest offer is no
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