Once again i say good morning to we have been full by randomness. The story of the french banks this morning is absolutely extraordinary. Francine the french banks, but actually hsbc also disappointed. That is why we are seeing a to thebit of weight banking stocks in europe. I know you want to start with your data tom. Volatility for august. Tom lets do the data check as we go into august. I like what kit juckes of socgen says. August has some risk to it, and we start out with a turn. The markets lower, but the nasdaq 100 trading abruptly higher in america. We will have to see how the tech stocks open. In the yield space, it is a jumble right now. Maybe Early Morning u. S. We are not there. As we see the churn in europe and such. The real news is the u. S. 10year inflationadjusted piece. 1. 01. It breached one on friday, or maybe it was thursday. That is a huge indicator of disinflation. Merrick and oil under 40 a barrel gets my attention american oil under 40 a barrel gets my attentio
Toolbox, but there are no plans to use them. Since the decision, we did see the market pare back a little bit, pricing around negative rates. Bailey also saying the bank of england forecast has an unusually large downside skew. The reaction, the pound suggests the market took the boe forecast as pretty robust. 1. 3172. Dailey also says it is hard to draw a conclusion from the bank of vacant forecast and we must be careful not to over interpret faster indicators. Hes speaking in a briefing to journalists right now, saying the boe could use like forward guidance, negative rates of the toolbox. Tom it looks like it is moving the market with lower Interest Rates seen across the u. S. Sterling on a tear, 1. 31 69. Look for our conversation with the governor of the bank of england. Francine lacqua and the governor, 8 00 a. M. New york time, 1 00 p. M. In london. She has some very in pointed she has a very pointed questions from our economics team. From news in new york said he, ritika gupta.
Did as well in terms of market cap. You can really move if you give the market a beat. Romaine you saw apache rally fall by and conoco about the same amount. This split between Companies Still invested in shale and companies that have more offshore resources. Taylor i still think we should have bought oil at 30 per barrel and stored it in your swimming pool. Romaine right next to the gold. We are waiting for a lot of earnings today. Apple, amazon, facebook, shake shack, yum brands. One of the busiest days of the year right now. As isne gileads outcome Electronic Arts. The 1. 44 expected. Second quarter revenue, 5. 1 billion, that is a slight mess. That company, focused on pharma. Electronic arts. Gaming has been front and center in terms of what we have all been up to. We are seeing Electronic Arts seeing the full year 21 1. 6ngs, revenue coming at billion. Romaine doing well on the quarter and guidance. There is an issue of high expectations. Even as you have adjusted revenue coming i
150,000 mark as texas, california and florida see record fatalities. Infections spike in china, hong kong and japan as well. Hill. Tech titans on the the ceos of amazon and alphabet and Facebook Face a virtual grilling over antitrust. Haidi lets get you started with a check of the markets. U. S. Futures opening flat, slightly higher that by. 1 . This after we saw u. S. Stocks extending gains in the regular session, the dollar declining estate as dovish as possible. The s p 500 gained more than 1 , adding to the july rally. 11 sectors were higher with tech leading the way. As i mentioned earlier, we are seeing that big tech antitrust showdown in congress ongoing at the moment. Nasdaq composite and at 1. 4 high. At a oneweek. The dollar weakness really resumed with the fed sticking with low rates. Look at what oil is doing. It has been the weak dollars supporting oil prices. We continue to see these gains of 41 a barrel. It was also propped up in the new york session by the biggest decli
Abigail doolittle who has been over this story. Nasdaq another record high today. What are you hearing about sort of the strength that we saw into end of todays session . Its pretty amazing. We have another record high for nasdaq. Nasdaq 100, big tech stocks continuing to do well. Those are the stayathome stocks this years defense. Theres an odd tension that you have this years defense and new hitting record high after record high. Interesting,t earlier today, you had tech slightly lower. Bulle end of the day really rushed through supporting technology. Investors looking past virus numbers. Its not going to slow the that it hadhe way on the shutdown. Back in february when the virus was raging in china, that down, stocks here ignoring it. It feels we are ignoring some of fundamental data. Take a look at the moves that we have on the day. Wasnt just tech. Tech actually on the day a sector. Ower as financials up 3. 5 . Bit of a nice cyclical tilt s p 500 beings s p helped out by bond fall