More on all of this massive stock market volatility with 59 minutes left of trade. Coming up in the show, were down 2. 5 on the s p 500 and we have a big show coming up for you today were going to talk about all of those things that you just mentioned. We have former cisco ceo John Chambers coming up were going to talk about the comments from President Trump about potential decoupling between the u. S. And china and you will not want to miss what he has to say he previously used to run major Multinational Organization that operated both in the u. S. And had a small part of the business in china and then on todays selloff, you want to hear from Mike Novogratz the ceo and founder of galaxy digital. He said there was a frenzy in stocks he called for major selloff and what do we have on our hands now . Well hear what novogratz has to say now. Lets get to the big stories that were watching. Mike santoli is tracking another rough session for the market phil lebeau is following major moves in
Coverage. We are on highway 128. The fire is behind us, about 20 minutes behind us. We had to come out just to file this report for you. This has been an unusual report. Lets begin with more video from sky 7. Its not off that firefighters know how and when a blaze starts, but theres not much doubt about this one. About 6 30 this morning, 20 different lightning strikes. One person told me the big one shook the ground. He said it sounded like an explosion and saw flames almost immediately. Its burning in steep terrain. By 10 00 a. M. , they begun evacuating residents. Cal fire reports by 2 30, 70 acres had been burned. Now over a thousand acres have been burned. The lucky part right now at least, is the wind is down. That said, we still dont know how many structures have burned, if any. We do know that some are threatened. There was one house we looked at high up a steep road. Flames on the hillside moving in. Cal fire had moved in. We left at that point, but cal fire was going to try to
Fall on year and below analyst expectations. They confirmed plans to exit thermal. U. S. China relations sour even further. Jing says the tax lets take a look at how we are shaping up for this asian trading day. U. S. Futures within shouting distance when it comes to the regular session of that february record but then retreating by the close. We are seeing not much happening when it comes to active futures contracts. The nikkei 225 looking weaker going into the open. Chicago futures trading there. The topix in the meantime remains the bestperforming market in august. We will see if it continues those gains today. Ftse futures looking like we will open up higher by. 4 . The data calendar for the day, we get the rba august meeting minutes, looking into the details of their bond buying as well as the renewed assessment of how that new victorian lockdown will barter economy in those Monetary Policy settings. Also watching crude, we are seeing weakness, just holding over 42 a barrel althou
7. 44 . As you noted before the yield curve. Steepening and a rally in the financials you mentioned that june 10 was the high that was the day where the markets had their maximum enthusiasm about the strength of the recovery and how fast it would be that was the peak where the come back of value and cyclical sectors. That seems to be the dynamic and the push for which stocks were preferred and the market seven days in a row of records is not to be dismissed guys the intraday record high in this session and well have to see if this continues . Yesterdays high is around 3,500. Coming up, well talk about the abrupt halt to the sports world. We ha we have fed president s and the interim ceo of tiktok. What a story it has been and a soap opera all week long we are learning more in the details in the sale of tiktok after walmart confirmed it has teamed up with microsoft sources tell us that walmart ineshlly wanted to be the lead buyer together with what was alphabet and soft bank coo and ran
Across the atlantic. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said there would be no chance of a trade agreement with the u. S. If Boris Johnsons action threatens hes in northern ireland. Meanwhile, Boris Johnson is defending his comments in which he intentionally downplays the severity of this coronavirus. President told author and Journalist Bob Woodward he likes playing down concerns to avoid panic. Democratic president ial nominee joe biden said trump failed to do his job and is responsible for tens of thousands of deaths for not getting adequate warning about the dangers of the virus. Now, one in five companies in coveringwith only just debt Interest Payments according to the conservative think tank onward. It is called for the chancellor to relax the rules on virus loans repayments, warning the economic recovery will be hampered by crippling levels of corporate debt. It says borrowing sense lockdown began, threatening to push more than 4 of companies, employing almost only 2 Million People int