And s p 500, nas in six weeks. Yeah. Well start with tech. More broadly, ipos and big tech valuations have been surging culture questions continue to brew in Silicon Valley as well i want to talk about that and a lot more with long time venture capitalist whose newest venture is a private and middle school with entrepreneurship baked into the curriculum Draper Associates founder tim draper joins us now. Tim, good to see you i want to start with your take on these markets i was talking just yesterday to the founder of rike. He said he isnt going public this year because he underestimated how well the ipo market was going to perform in a pandemic has that surprised you and what are you saying about it to your Portfolio Companies . Absolutely. I was blindsided i didnt realize that the government was going to print 13 trillion it has been strong for bitcoin and it sure has been good for the Public Markets particularly the tech stocks that have benefitted from that and i think people many p
Little ahead of expectation. The employment number has picked up a little bit as well. But you need some real analysis on what is happening here. Theres one man to ask, mike mckee, bloombergs International Economics and policy correspondent. Michael read into it what you want. The numbers for ism do come in at a headline level lower than the last month. 56 last month, 55. 4 this month. It would suggest a be a little slowing, but that is the statistical anomaly probably. It isnt a major change. We see drops in new orders and production, but those were very healthy. For for new orders, 61 production. It is not positive. There is still some contraction, but it is up to 49. 6 from 46. 4 . It does suggest some progress in adding back some of the jobs that were lost. Customer inventories is an interesting category a lot of people has been what a lot of people have been watching. Do you need to increase manufacturing to replenish those inventories . That would suggest that you do. New export
Also up on the s p. Thend pingpong and pound pingponging around today. I think it was a reuters report talking about the fact that we hadnt made any progress in the brexit talks. Then we got the legal action and the fact that there was a landing zone, particularly on state aid, and that fishing was the only area that we didnt have a deal done. Subsequent to that, we start to see the pound rolling over again. We did see commodities generally do well last month. Crude down, burned trading just north of 40 brent trading just north of 40. Alix nancy pelosi is having a press conference, saying she is talking about how to go forward on really else. She is still ash really ills on relief bills. She is still hopeful, going against the report that she was skeptical. Euro still trading up 0. 3 . U. S. Is politics in the the European Union is starting Legal Proceedings against the u. K. The move was announced by European Commission president ursula von der Leyen Urszula by European Commission pre
High. It is still heading toward its Third Straight winning streak, up 65 points. S p better by 22. The nasdaq up 148. You could argue that the dow and the s p are hamstrung by some serious weakness in financials, particularly regarding citigroup. That stock is taking a hit right now. Its down about 4. 7 . We are watching all the financials. Goldmans down i believe we also have Morgan Stanley down and some of the other big names. Tempest fugit when unveiling more than a dozen new offerings. Apple time flies event just ended with multiple bangs. We will start with the sizzle but theres a lot of steak here. Lets get with the apple watch to begin with. You got to do the colors, right . This is sort of the lighthearted stuff. Blue, a new blue, a new, i dont know, kind of rose gold watch, theres a bright ferrari red, you can see that right there. Then sticking with the sizzle, they hired an artist who came up with customizable faces for the new sixth generation apple watch face. It is calle
,ood morning on Bloomberg Radio good morning on Bloomberg Television as well. Interesting markets as well. We will talk about the market in a moment, whether you need to climb back on board. Lets get right to the yields right now. Yields a little bit higher here. That has proven to be lower prices, stronger yield just in the last hour. Jonathan yields up about a basis point on the 10 year, but yields have been all over the place. They havent really gone anywhere in the last week. Weve been in and around 70 basis points on the 10 year, and that is about where we are this morning. Tom we got a weve got to touch on tiffany. I know youve wondered over in london, and you need the tiffany china mugs for 200 pounds large. But they are not going to do it with lvmh. Jonathan i will take a pass on that. I will be spending less time there, thats for sure. The reason they are giving and the reason people are suggesting is around tariffs on french goods. It is not for me to say whether that has bee