And technology outperforming in todays trade. Theyre all up more than 1 hers at the moment weve got 59 minutes left to go in another wild session. Green across the screen once again. The company now pivoting to very different space. Well speak with the ceo about the strategy shift plus, former ceo getting in on the spac craze with a Blank Check Company. Lets get straight to the big stories were watching mike santoli tracking the market on this first day of the Fourth Quarter. Steve leezmiesman has a look ate Economic Data and we have the latest on the stimulus notions its been a little jumpy. A little fitful action it is shuttling up and down within that range. It seems as if the market is trying to shake out the people or the al go riridg al algoriths the year to date chart, we remain here. We keep pointing out its kind of this, you know, upper range above the year to date break even level it is about 1 , 1. 5 up from this level in the 3400s. People say maybe represent an upside break
Joe, whats this about what do you think is going on in the market, joe . I think this is an asbestos luts perfect technical correction that were experiencing and we have been experiencing from the beginning of the month i talked about it with you i dont think the time is now to be stepping in and thinking that its over. I agree with your opening. Tlp is further weakness that lies ahead for the market. Lets keep in mind theres significant weakness in germany. I know jim talked about apple being higher for the day as a good positive indicator. Apple should be higher wasnt able to sustain that its in a bear market. As long as apple remains under some pressure, you have to believe the overall market will have a bit of its own problem, dont you think. Possibly. First of all, we needed a correction whether its because the case, the daily case in europe are now ahead of the u. S. Or the debates next weekend or the election coming up we needed the sell off this is great thing. Investors have t
You know, of three straight weeks in the red this time its not tech thats leading the sell off you have materials, industrials and Energy Taking the market lower at this hour plus, still front and center for both washington and wall street is that tiktok melo drama. Will the chinese give it its stamp of approval. Power lunch starts right now lets go to bob for a look at whats happening and why. Bob. This did not start today. It started earlier in the month. It Gains Momentum in the last four days. Theres some very good reasons why. This didnt come out of nowhere. Lets review why the markets are down concerns in the uk about potential new lockdowns. There are increased trade tensions with china. Concerns have increased. Concerns about over value tech stocks that hasnt gone away. I think were seeing a bit of rising anxiety around the election this is not a mystery about whats going on. What you want to look at as tyler mentioned is whats selling off today. If youll notice cyclical stocks
Territory. The week has had news of ashares cell a share sell. China puts money on chips to counter rising pressure from washington. It has the same level of backing as the Atomic Program enjoyed years ago. Sophie lets get a check on the set up in asia. Some much awaited pullback on wall street. Asian stocks look set to fall. 1930still Holding Around levels and the yen above 106. But when it comes to stocks in china and hong kong, a drop is productive at least 1 . Softbank is said to be considering a bid for tiktok. In the Semi Conductor space, news that china is planning to support the domestic industry, which launched a billiondollar route in u. S. Chip stocks. Also in south korea, watching for any details of a potential in thecash handout budget that could be announced this weekend. A snapshot of the u. S. Close, the s p fell the most since march, and it was the biggest sincefor the s p june, the biggest drop for the nasdaq since march, with apples market cap falling below 2 trillio
The hearing was set before the bank agreed to pay 4 billion. The race for tiktoks assets aress the globe sees we told its been talking to geo platforms. We do have some breaking news crossing the bloomberg. Current account numbers coming through. We are getting the july current account surplus coming in at 7. 5 billion u. S. Dollars. The trade surplus sitting at 6. 9 7 billion in july and we are watching out for some other developments coming out south korea today. Highlevel officials of the Ruling Democratic Party and the government will be meeting to discuss a second cash handout and potentially a fourth extra budget according to local mode media reports and we are expecting perhaps an announcement when it comes to the social distancing measures as well as the coronavirus update to come. Lets take a look at the fed when it comes to the markets. It was a fallback overnight when it comes to u. S. Stocks and driven by a correction in the highflying tech sector. We saw u. S. Stocks falli