Now. Power lunch starts now thanks welcome to power lunch broadcasting from a secure and undisclosed location the nasdaq on pace for its first negative week since june lets go to bob for more on the marks. Bob. Choppy trading but very narrow trading range bio tech sb flat energy, oil has been hugging 40 for a month now. Were down today but up overall in the week. Banks are down but up on the week and had a pretty good week. Amazon down about 8 this week one of the worst week its had in a long time all the damage in netflix has opinion today. The problem is when you have megagabe kaplerture ecagabe kacm players. Thats a head and shoulders, folks round trip the same situation with netflix, really netflix was 500 a couple of weeks ago. It goes to 580 and then its back down to below 500 thats another semi head and shoulders. We keep trying to get over 3230. Were just keep knocking on the doorp that guys have a good weekend. The same to you the Trump Administration is ramping up its rhetori
Ten year is yielding around 0. 65 . Yeah, 0. 648 30year is at 1. 383 andrew thanks, becky nice to see you. Meantime, civil Rights Groups involved in that meeting with facebook which we previewed for you yesterday right here on squawk, well, the companys platforms, they are calling that sitdown meeting disappointing. They say they were unable to get commitments from Company Leaders on how they plan to combat hate speech and misinformation on the site facebook spokesperson said this was an opportunity for the company to reaffirm the commitment to combatting hate on the services well talk a lot more about this later with somebody who was on that phone call. I dont know if it was a phone call or a zoom. They dont do zoom, guys. They didnt i thought it was a zoom . Facebook now has their own. They do they have their own platform now. I dont know if you are going to meet with well, ive had meetings on facebook they often use blue jeans. I thought it said zoom but it might have been used sayi
Million, representing more than a quarter of all cases globally. I want to bring in our Bloomberg Markets reporter, who has been on top of all of this action. What did you notice today, with more record highs it is the usual suspects that continue to lead the way. A story of tech outperformance again. Boarde higher across the when it comes to major averages, but the outperformance came from the nasdaq. A record high. It was up by more than 1. 5 . I want to highlight that even though tech stocks and stocks wasdly were higher, so gold. It has been the highest since 2011. 1800 an ounce. That creates safer assets. The tone is not all risk on. The tech has been a safety trade. They are benefiting from a world staying at home. Todays session was the largest of the large that were leading the way. Apple, amazon, facebook, all contributing the most to todays rally and all four of them closing at record highs today. From a valuation perspective, how overvalued does the tech market look . We are
And the 775 barely. Seven point 75 barely. China is trying to cool down more. This rally also in tech stocks in shenzhen. Marginal gains in the csi 300, but the chinext seems to be on fire. 8 10 of 1 higher for shenzhen small caps. Keep in mind, offshore investors also sowed sold a record amount of stocks recently. Seems tohe hang seng, be brushing aside the executive order from President Trump. We are seeing the rally up more than 200 points for your hang seng. We are watching things like export data out of indonesia, indian trade numbers. When it comes to the philippines, that is the only loser on the board today. We are expecting to hear from the president to announce the latest quarantine measures. They have not really been able to stop this virus there. The nikkei up 3 10 of 1 . Steady stream of earnings in tokyo. Taking a look at the dollar, that seems to be dropping. You are watching things like your dollaryen unchanged around 107. U. S. Yields at. 63 basis points. Oil after fou
The university of texas on the pandemic. Of then Michael Morris guggenheim securities. You can only go back in florida. Taking a more circumspect view of whether or not these parts should open. Earnings next week are going to be a big theme as well. A lot of the big tech names are going to be in focus. Lets talk about what is happening broadly in these markets. You mentioned the curve steepeners. The curve is flattening. There is pain in that trade. The u. S. 10year yield has come down. A tight rangein over the last month. S year, we saw the 10 year the range as than 60 basis points to 75 basis points. Equity markets have faded. Im struggling to see where the catalyst is coming from, which catalyst to focus on. How markets are going to progress from here. Lets get help with that question. Yields, theg bond curve flattening out. Equity markets are going nowhere in a hurry. We have a. We have virus. We have elections. Where are you focusing your attention . Thank you for having me. When