Giuliani. The dow industrials up 71 points and the s p 500 up 20 points. Higher for the week. A full Market Analysis coming up this morning as you can see, from ids close at the dow industrials down 134 points, mornings with maria is live right now. European markets this morning are higher, take a look, green across the board in europe, cac quarante up 37 and dax by 83, german economic minister proposing no tax increases during the pandemic. In asia overnight markets were broadly higher, take a look here with asian markets up on average better than 1 , china was closed for a holiday. Top stories that we are watching this morning, President Trump could return to the white house as early as today as doctors tout his recovery from covid19. Doctor Walking Around the white house medical unit without limitation or disability. Our continued monitoring of his cardiac, liver and kidney function demonstrates continued normal findings or improving findings. Maria the president giving an update to
Navigate it all. With the clock ticking, get reaction from republican Congressman Ken Buck from colorado. It takes a lot of guts and a lot of innovation to start a business during a pandemic. One man is doing just that, very inspirational story coming up. All that and so much more on making money. Charles so for the most part the market has been elevated all session long but obviously on pins and needles which plains the rapid air pocket we saw earlier in the session where there was a tweet that nancy pelosi sounded very skeptical about a deal with steve mnuchin. I suspect it was strategic tweet as both sides are using proxies to move the market and gain leverage but beyond the drama in washington, d. C. , there is lot of mostly positive news on the economy and stock market today. Initial jobless claims came in better than expected. As they continuing claims was dropped by almost one million in just one week. Consumer spending came in much better than expected even as incomes declined.
It came before the coronavirus headlines started to impact the u. S. And as a result l brand, which owns victorias secret, bath and body works, has had to close stories, lay off employees and this was sort of a lifeline to l brand to unload it because they werent able to turn it around so if they get stuck with it again, its pressure on the retaile retailers. L brand is a prime example, one of the worst hit. Indeed. Well see you later this afternoon, sara. Welcome to squawk alley, you see the bounce today after two days of losses as we get some progress regarding rescue packages from the senate to the house. Got a bunch of discretionary Companies Raising Capital through various means, secondary and so forth and the earnings not bad when you look at snap, chipotle and netflix last night. Interesting when we look at netflix and snap which had interesting positive metrics in their earnings we had ibm the day before talking about a pause in some customer spending. Were just starting to get
Wall street is set to join that Global Equity selloff at the open plus, th juan falling to a more than ten year low versus the dollar China Central bank denying it is devaluing its currency shares of apple, theyre down, like everything else, or more, ahead of the opening bell. Which trumps tariff threats could mean for that technology giant. And potentially for the costs of the iphone we start, though, with the Broader Market stocks under pressure around the globe as u. S. China trade tensions escalate. Chinas yuan, which has now breached the 7 level for First Time Since 2008 is certainly a focus this morning in response to that move, the president tweeted this morning, quote, china trdropped the pric of their currency, called currency manipulation, are you listening Federal Reserve, this is a major violation which will greatly weaken china over time so, jim, were back in the concerns about china, of course, this following the decision last week by the president to put 10 tariffs on th
Losing month for 2019, first may decline for 2012 this morning you see modest green arrows s p futures up by 2 points and the nasdaq up by about 9 points. Overnight in asia markets slightly stronger. President trump coming back from japan. You see the nikkei closed up by a third of a percentage point. Similar gains for the hang seng and the shanghai deposit up about 0. 6 in europe its a mixed picture. The ftse up by about a tenth of a percent. Stocks are weaker in it will i and in spain as well if you talk a look at whats been happening in the treasury market in the United States, youll see the tenyear is yeeling, wow, 2. 89 , so below 3 . This morning alibaba deba debating whether to offer new public shares in a second offering, this time to hong kong reported will i they could raise up to 20 billion. Theyre currently working with financial vuzers to offer the listing as early as this year. The Company Initially listed in new york in 2014 raising a record 25 billion shares of alibaba