For the tech sector. Ai Chip Giant nvidia has been surging on reports that the us government is considering allowing it to export advanced semiconductors to Saudi Arabia itjumped some 8 in Wednesdays Session pulling up the rest of big tech. Melissa 0tto is from S P global visible alpha where she heads up their technology research team. Just had us Producer Price Index data a little hotter than expected. That coupled with a little hotter consumer Price Index data yesterday. Does it change anything for when the fed meets next week . Are markets too optimistic about the pace of further Rate Cuts . Thank you, great to connect with you today. 0verall, thank you, great to connect with you today. Overall, the economic data that we saw Yesterday And Today was broadly in line with expectations. Based on S And P intelligence submitted for the September Rate cut of 25 basiS Points, what we have been seeing and driving some of the volatility in the market is there was some rhetoric over the past f
Im lukwesa burak. We start here in the uk because the uks national debt is on course to triple over the next half a century. Thats the warning from the governments official forecaster, the office for budget responsibility. An ageing population, climate change, and rising geopolitical tensions will all put increasing pressure on the Public Finances according to the 0brs report. And it says without extra Tax Revenues or a return to post War Productivity levels, the Public Finances are not sustainable over the long term, and something has got to give. Uk national debt is currently at almost 100 of the size of its annual Economy Output or gdp. The 0br says its Base Scenario is a national debt of 274 of gdp in 2071. Risks from war, disease, cyber Conflict And Trade tensions could push that even higher. By 2071, the 0br expects the uk to be spending more than £200 Billion extra per year on things like health, Social Care and pensions. The chair of the 0br Richard Hughes spoke to the bbc ear
Investors are shrugging that off as stocks look to rally at the open. One name that may not rally is zoom. Shares of zoom are sinking yeah, in the premarket, work from home stock taking a hit from a rising free user base and increasing cloud costs and we have vaccine optimism, moderna and pfizer filing for emergency use and Vice President pence says vaccine rollout expected to begin in two weeks carl all right jim, i guess the question of the morning is whether that rotation, that worked historically well in the month of november, still applies. I think were running out of gas in terms of the oil and gas and focusing on exxon. Stock may not go down, giving the dividend, it says, look, were at wits end and the big Exploration Development period for exxon, market leader, u. S. Leader, is i think now over. We are following were following europe and japan and i think that we forget that you come in today, and you look for all sorts of reasons why were up and up strongly except we dont look
Take a hit. The covid consumer, walmart, home depot and kohls among retailers reporting earnings today. Walmart says ecommerce sales up 79 . And elon musks billions, tesla getting a spot in the s p 500. It is among the highest valued companies to ever enter the benchmark index and musk is on top to become number three, that is the third richest person in the world. Indeed, guys. Well start with the retail picture this morning, jim, youve been vocal as to the investor response on home depot and walmart. I guess thats related to the news out of amazon. Look, by the way, those stocks do tend to run up in the quarter and sell off thats nothing new a more aggressive amazon is always something we have to Pay Attention to i remember when amazon bought pill packs, the drug stores got killed i also point out that walmarts online david, thats not going to go away you can argue someone is going to argue thats the peak i would argue that amazon and walmart have taken so much share in this country,
Ofto see geoffrey yu there bny mellon in our opening. With the new slow out of washington, how to get ready for ferro, do you think the secretary of treasury will be watching mr. Powells press conference . Jonathan i hope they speak before the press conference. These two need to get on the same side. It is not good to wake up ever to see the chairman of the Federal Reserve and treasury secretary on different pages on an Emergency Program that, lets be clear, has really helped keep financial conditions loose at a really tough time for the u. S. Economy. I am surprised, maybe even shocked, that the market is where it is this morning based on the spat between those two individuals. Tom there are distractions in washington, but maybe it was beneath the radar off of president trumps efforts to tolection 2020 lisa move election 2020. It devolves to a market that looks like the fourth week of is taking myferro vacation days. Lisa how do you price the future with a present that is very much dy