Constitutionally. Barrett is expected to cast herself as a judge committed to keeping her personal views out of rulings. Shecrats are concerned that will rule against abortion rights if she is confirmed as expected. Pope francis met with a cardinal accused of child sex abuse in australia. He became the most senior catholic official to be convicted of child sex abuse. In prison13 months before australians high court acquitted him in april 2020 of charges involving two choirboys in the late 1990s. Global news 24 hours a day on air and on bloomberg quicktake, 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. Im vonnie quinn. Welcome to bloomberg markets. Here are the top stories we are following. U. S. Equities start the week in rally mode. The s p up nearly 2 now. Hooper with christina about all of this optimism. Thats study showing proportions of americans dying from coronavirus is the high
Sales and the stock is hitting new highs. And finally teslas tumble, why the street is mixed on what actually came out of the companys battery day event yesterday. J j, though, jim, going to be the lead and you just called it maybe the best company we have in this country. Yeah, look, i think that i like triple a balance sheet, i like a company that continues to make the numbers, i like a company that pays a good dividend, has the best pipeline, most robust pipeline in pharmaceuticals and i like a company thats not a hype company. The fact that they are ready to do their vaccine now, full disclosure i am attempting to get into the trial, i think its everybodys duty to get into the trial they are the only one emphasizing the atrisk people they want people who we view as people who we need to protect. I dont hear that from any of the other companies. I like the fact they are willing to give it to their whole employee base. This is the way i think it should be done and i know people are c
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
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
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