Predictability. Strong winds blanket the bay haze fromdark, thick wildfires throughout the state, rolling blackouts as firefighters prevent more fires from breaking out amid extreme weather conditions. Joining us now in new york city, bloombergs abigail doolittle. I hope you have clearer skies than we do today. I want to talk about the tech rebound, the biggest rebound after the worst stretch since march. Saying you nailed it the only certainty is volatility. That is going to continue, it seems the worst stretch since march, and then today, the best day for the nasdaq 100 going back to april 29. The big question is whether it will last. Will investors continue buying the dip, knowing what they know about options volatility going into august . You jump in that huge down. Apple and tesla, certainly a good day for each. Apple, down 4 , excuse me up 4 today after dropping more than 10 over a few days. Nothing changed in that story. That tells you the degree of hesitancy, uncertainty on the
Netflix shares also in the red. I spoke with Reed Hastings for his thoughts on how the pandemic would affect the industry and how he sees the streaming wars playing out. First, a deep dive into what is moving after hours. Slack moving after the bell. Shares plummeting after filling fell short of analyst estimates. Abigail doolittle has been looking at the numbers. I just got off the phone with the ceo of slack, who focused on the demand they see accelerating in paid customers. They are still not seeing still not giving guidance. Afterch a dramatic impact hours . Abigail one thing investors do not like is uncertainty. Also, in terms of the billings miss for the quarter, it was not huge, but 6 . You would think that folks would be using the messaging platform during the stayathome days, but it signals the idea that some of the small and mediumsized businesses are hurt enough, signaling that slack could be a nice to have Technology Rather than a need to have. This stock really getting plu
The auto sector. Ford and nikkola news coming your way just about to flat line with 59 minutes left in the session. We have a big lineup of ceos coming up on todays show. Dan rosensweig on the back of cheggs earnings it is a moon shot. Then the head oof another stock that has been on a terror, henry ji, ceo of Sorrento Therapeutics and its a huge earnings news, disney, nikola and well speak with the ceo of ww right after the numbers hit. We have 58 minutes left of trade. Mike san totoli is tracking act and phil lebeau. B mike, start us off with the Broader Market it is flat. We alternate the days between when the indices look better than the majority of stocks and days like today when the indices are doing nothing but holding near the highs take a look at the s p 500 here we are on a year basis. You have the pop and turn pattern. You pop above the highs and then chops around right now were above that june high 3350 or so would be a 50 rally off the closing low for from 23rd that is 19
Years. And lots to come on the show. Two big ceo interviews on the back of earnings in a few minutes well speck to the owner of Outback Steakhouse blooking brands and later the ceo of boston beer will join us that stock surging after the truly hard seltzer brand helped boost sales. Looking forward to both of those interviews were down. 6 lets get to the big stories were watching meg tirell has more on the signing. And mike san totoli is joining s meg, let aers start with youen that executive order news. Hi. Drug pricing hasnt been in the conversation as much this year as the drug industry has been racing to develop vaccines and drugs for covid19 but the president reportedly planning to sign an executive order with a few different aspects on drug price this is afternoon. One could be allowing importation of drugs from canada where theyre price moored cheaply. Another could focus on tying prices to basket of prices from other wealthy countries. And a third could focus on providing free i
Of the surge in new cases. Ill have more on that in a moment. We are getting new information on the twitter hack. It wasnt just a handful of celebrities. 130 accounts were targeted and it appears to have been an inside job. That is serious stuff. Im not sure that Twitter Twitter is up, thats right. Im thinking of another stock. Okay, twitter is up just a fraction. It is serious stuff about twitter. Weve got an analyst on the show who says it might have been a test run for something much bigger. Time to drop your twitter account . We will ask the question and get an answer. More on that coming up, too. Lets get to the market. This week we have seen a shift away from big tech and towards smaller companies. The russell index of small cap stocks, for example, up 3 this week. The dow industrials, down just over 2 . This morning, we will open with a nice gain for the dow, up maybe 100 points, 26,600. Look at the nasdaq. Theres a bounceback for you, up 100 points at the opening bell. All righ