Crucial states. Markets are proceeding very cautiously. They are mixed at this hour after the dows 650point monday meltdown. We are only adding to that right now. Getting a little uncomfortably close to lows of the session. We are down 185. The low is a loss of 196 at the moment. You can see the s p is down seven but the nasdaq is holding on to some green here, up 50 points. No surprise, then, that megatech is powering the markets leaders. Could all that change tomorrow, when the top brass from facebook, twitter and google face the music in what is expected to be a contentious capitol hill hearing . Senator roger wicker is the chairman of the Senate Commerce committee. He will tell us what he needs to hear from Mark Zuckerberg, jack dorsey and sandar pichai. And breaking news out of tmobile. Forget telecom and 5g wars. Tmobile Just Launched a dual attack on cable and streaming leaders. Tmobiles ceo is here to unveil his brand new weaponry of offerings that has the stock moving higher a
It and shares of astrazeneca falling premarket, the drug maker hitting pause on its late stage Coronavirus Vaccine trial. Jim, you just tweeted coming to us in a few. Fired up about what . Fired up because i think that people have given up we had 10 correction, most of the people i heard except for jim pullsen in the previous show basically say, look, this is a dangerous its a bubble, its a bubble, its a bubble. Now, i think that anytime the market opens up big, carl, i dont like it but europe is up strong, i think that this idea that its a bubble, what is the it is the it tech is the it apple . Is it tesla . Lets take it case by case ive seen things that have come down a lot that are very interesting. Its just that im not sitting here saying this is the moment where you must buy all the zoom in the world but zoom just fell 30 zoom had a really great quarter. I had cloud strike on last night. People will say these are viciously overvalued, but they have come down and maybe this is the
Hearing will come to order. I welcome everybody to this hybrid hearing. Both Ranking Member mister heiss and myself have wanted to have hearings resume in person. Especially when we are in session i made a promise to mister heiss that i would fight for that and today is the fruit of that effort i believe when we were in session, to the extent possible, protecting everybodys health and safety, we can and should be meeting like this. At least in hybrid form those members who are not comfortable or who physically cannot join us in the hearing room are more than welcome to join us through the web. We are happy to have them. We ask everybody, when they are not speaking, to wear a mask that is the guidance and the capitol hill position. That is the guidance of the chairwoman of this committee. It protects everybody i really appreciate that cooperation. Let me see. For members appearing remotely, just a few reminders before i get my Opening Statement. House rules require that we see you so pl
Is slightly better than economists were expecting an better than the previous month. Leasing Property Investment looking better. Fixed assets investments, also a drop of 6. 3 . Aonomists were looking at drop of 6 , but the trend seems to be better than the previous month. I guess it continues to show that this could still be an uneven recovery we are seeing in china. Uneven recovery but a broadening of chinas recovery, as well. We heard new home prices, the most in six months. That is a good sign as the economy reopens. We are seeing how home prices in terms of growth has accelerated. Easing on credit, helping a lot. Just to recap, retail sales, 2. 8 . Retail sales, still contracting, retail sales have collapsed. Consumers are pretty cautious when it comes to coming back to spending. Beijing and other chinese cities are giving up consumption vouchers to its people. They encourage them to spend in the fiscal month of the year. Retail sales slumped 16 nationwide so as long as retail back
We bring you todays market moving news from around the world. Our bloomberg voices are on the ground with this mornings top stories. We want to begin with china. The government has agreed to cut import tariffs on a wide range. F goods joining us is stephen engle. Break down what we know about the tariffs, why now, etc. Stephen this comes fresh after a trade one agreement a phase one trade agreement. A gesture, yes, to show its lowering trade barriers, but it also wants to spur domestic spending for those 859 products he mentioned, from smartphone parts to food, in particular, frozen pork. All of these products will enjoy lower tariffs, and it comes as china hosts a critical trilateral summit this week that has already kicked off in beijing between china and japan. South korea will also take part. Trade, territorial disputes, military maneuverings, of course, exacerbated by north thoses posturing, and all historical animosities still persist. So those talks should be welcome. Been korea