The state of your health that day . [laughter] one of the most powerful women in the Business World today is ruth porat. She started as an investment banker at Morgan Stanley and rose to be the cfo of Morgan Stanley and rose to be the cfo of google and now alphabet. In that role she has enormous influence at that company and has done a terrific job in making certain that the Balance Sheet works well and that they really are much better organized. I have no doubt she will be a power at alphabet for a long time unless the next president says i would like her to be secretary of the treasury. She would be a terrific candidate for that position. During this period of time, google and alphabet have done quite well. Your stock is up more than 20 this year and from the time you became the cfo, the stock is up over 200 and the market cap is up over 200 , so its done quite well under your leadership. Im curious, are more people looking at doing searches now during this covid19 period of time tha
211,000 cases and 5400 deaths. It is Prime Minister Boris Johnson is facing a battle in the house of lords over his controversial plan to break International Law over brexit. Prime minister johnson has agreed to give the house of commons a veto over whether the government can exercise its proposed powers to override parts of the brexit agreement. He made a after meeting conservative mps who were threatening to rebel against him. The house of lords is expected to reject a bill by a large margin. Global news 24 hours a day, onair, and on quicktake by bloomberg, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. Im Mark Crumpton. This is bloomberg. Vonnie it is 1 00 p. M. In new york, 6 00 p. M. In london, and 1 00 a. M. In hong kong. Im vonnie quinn. Welcome to bloomberg markets. Here are the top stories from around the world we are following. Investors reacting to the feds signal it will leave rates near zero through at least 2023. Chairman powell striking a cauti
Provide administrator to provide information about security protocols with chinese behemoth tencent. Meanwhile, bytedance and oracle have tentatively agreed to a deal has to be approved by the Chinese Government, and there is significant confusion about timelines. Lets check in without markets ended the day with senior markets correspondent scarlet fu , leading declines but outperforming all year. What has been happening . Scarlet there was a lot going on and to some extent, you can blame the federal reserve, j powell saying rate will stay at current levels, lower for longer, but investors were expecting a dovish surprise and were left hanging. When you look at equities, most of the damages from the large cap, big tech names, but it was a broad decline, eight out of 11 sectors in 20 active 24 sectors finishing lower. Outperformance today were value encyclical stocks. If you look at the past two weeks, it has been a clear theme. The two bestperforming groups were materials and industria
Is europe close. This often happens. We just had a horrible day in europe. Worst day of the year really. A lot of markets down 3 . You see just right after europe closed, closer to noon, the market came up and moved into positive territory. As for china, the etfs in china very heavy volume today. Doesnt matter what etfs, ashr, thats mainland china, the a shares. The second one is hong kong shares. All of them are down though not as much in hong kong as you can see. This is spilling into the emerging markets. A lot of activity in emerging market etfs. For example, indonesia has moved down in the last few days. Those are new multiyear lows for indonesia. The same whats going on in other emerging market etfs for example, br zale. Ewz is very active. This is a 10year chart. We just broke below the 2009 lows in brazil. That was widely commented on trading this morning. With Interest Rates moving down, Interest Rate sensitive groups, particularly banks and insurers are weak. Banks understand
Where is the value . We will talk to a Top Value Fund investor this hour. And he will point us to three stocks that he likes right now. How about the race on democratic side . There are 17 of them on the republican side there are three right now. Can you name t2 of the 3 on the democratic side . You know clinton. You might know sanders. You know omalley . Well, those two guys gore. The veeps, gore and biden may be getting in. More there are more and more questions popping up on the democratic side. Will gore, will biden jump in and challenge hillary . Mandy is out, sara eisens in at the new york stock exchange. Good to see you, tyler. Start with oil, watching that price move. Its been sharp today. Were off the lows of the session as we speak, actually pushing higher 42. 56 is wti. Earlier in the session we dropped below 42. We hit the lowest point since march 2009. Well see where oil goes next. Also want to show you some of the big oil companies. Exxonmobil is trading lower by about. 2