David one of the most powerful women in the Business World today is ruthporat. She 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 betterare much 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 done quiteso its well under your leadership. Im curious, or more people looking at doing searches now during this covid19. Pop of time than ever before, or people not spending as much time searching . Ruth no, people are spending a lot of time searching. We have trillions of searches per year. Its really the nature of searches tha
President trump refuses to commit to if he loses the election. He says he could try to accelerate the vaccine approval process ahead of november 3rd. Just 6 00 a. M. Here in the si of london. Ma us in is off today. Lets get a look at the markets. The nasdaq dropping below 3 . The benchmark in asia down more than 1. 5 . Futures, there you all in the red. Move over the board. Lets look at what happened across as set. The dollar still on course for the strongest week since april. Were up. 1 of a percent. Trading below 1900. Citi says more upside. And Morgan Stanley taking the flip side. Well talk about that later. The crude just under 4 a barrel. John authors hes without a piece. He says this bout of stock market angst looks much darker. Earlier sell offs is an intent to correct excessive prices in companies. Dominant he said we took things too far as we might have taken things in completely the wrong direction. Lets digest all of this with georgette, senior analyst. We had this selloff.
Have announced today will provide strong support for the economy. We are saying that roommates rates will remain accommodative until the economy as far along. Leaves stimulus untouched. No move expected either. Todays action could come from south africa as they battle we growth. President trump contradicts his health officials, saying a vaccine could come by october. Deutsche bank says new york city staff can stay at home until next year. 6 00 a. M. In london. Lets get you uptodate with the interpretation of fed speak. Good morning. I take you to ing. Its about the credibility andeen Forward Guidance state contingent Forward Guidance. We got both last night. That makes for more potent situations. Perhaps doubly irrelevant. Annmarie a note this morning saying theres no pleasing some people. What else could the fed have done . Maybe qe. Also talking about the fact, they were saying, monetary stimulus, its time to focus on policies for the real economy. In that moment, jay powell is right
Bad reaction. Astrazeneca slams the brakes on a phase 3 vaccine trial after one test patient contracted an unexplained illness. Watch the vaccinemakers at the open tomorrow. The rout resumes. Asian equities post losses after more devastation for u. S. Tech investors. Slumps ses 7 but tesla by a stock record 21 in yesterdays u. S. Session. England prepares to reimpose coronavirus restrictions on the public. Starting next monday, gatherings of more than six people will be banned. Youve been warned. Just under an hour away from the start of cash equity trading in europe. Lets look at the futures picture right now after, you know, the major u. S. Equity benchmarks dropped more than 2 . The nasdaq more than 4 . Now were seeing red arrows once again for european futures. Yesterday was a down day for european stocks as well. Take a look at u. S. Future this is morning after the big drops that we experienced yesterday. Remember yesterday was the first day of trading for u. S. Stocks. They were
Fed kicking off its meeting today. For more on what investors are watching, sarah hunt is here from alpine woods capital. What could the fed due tomorrow that would most upset the markets . Give i think they did not a lot of detail about how they were going to make sure when it was time for them to change their inflation standpoint, when was too much over. If they narrow the window and say we are looking for a tiny bit of on the inflation side. I think they are expecting inflation to run hotter if they get there for a longer time. And if they do something to narrow that window, that would make people more nervous. Newsbut in terms of the flow, have we already had it . Central banks have been dominant this year. It seems to me as if politics is beginning to take over as the key narrative, in london with brexit, and weve got all kinds of trouble in the mediterranean, we have got tension with china, and of course we have the u. S. Election coming up. So does this narrative now takeover fr