How well it weathered the shock of the coronavirus. A blowout performance in fixed income trading beating all but one of the large wall street banks. The cfo does not see an economic recovery anytime soon, though. There is a pickup in activity. It is stronger in some. Said, you should look at the whole world. Level,it is back to the we dont think that will happen until 2022. Nejra lets get more detail on those numbers from bnp paribas. That trading we are talking about, it surged 154 , trailing only Morgan Stanley out of wall street banks. It was a blowout performance of b. N. P. Paribas in fixed income trading. It allows the lender to move past embarrassing losses from equity derivatives at the start of the year. Basically what bnp paribas has said about that jump in fixed trading, it said volumes were driven by governments and corporations selling that to deal with the Coronavirus Crisis as well as Foreign Exchange and commodities, hedging by clients. Those results more than offset w
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
To get things started off. The dow is down by 17 points but the s p and the nasdaq is there. Nasdaq is indicated up by 47 points this is after a strong month of july for all three of the averages the dow up by 2. 4 for the month. The s p saw its best july by ten years. It was up by 5. 5 . Thats nothing compared to the nasdaq today is the first trade ding d of august. Thats out at 10 00 a. M. Eastern time today also take a look at treasury yields you did see yields under extreme pressure or ten year closing at its lowest level since all the way back to march 9th. Right now it is a little bit higher 0. 546 stimulus talks in congress. Trump administrations officials and House Speaker nancy pelosi are set to resume negotiations today on their competing visions of a bill. The Sticking Point continues to be a boost set at 600 per week in march that lapsed on friday he and Speaker Pelosi are on the same page about the need of direct Cash Payments of 1,200 to most americans. Andrew. And big co
Ah but have a look at tesla. It made a profit. Its opening a factory in texas. It hopes to sell a half million vehicles this year and the stock is up again this morning. Elon musk now leads, im going to say he leads the technology economy. The stocks up 64 bucks now. Microsoft down. Whys that . Im told its because their Cloud Business only grew 47 . First time the growth rates been below 50 . Well, sell that thing. The stocks down nearly four bucks. Theri cnhe tin in po rt landrtla oregonor a44th offf inriing. Th ayor or jtl jedostl bedy b b pst at th supporsupp the anarc ahinast anast anaaken ne inne t ihen theheneworkork ity i nows theshehe wororst pl ac businebuness retairsrsrsrsrs sarsy. Now, tnohaw,tw,w,s a is. Th e new cold war, china and andhe s. A a fitivs researcher linked to chinas military is reportedly holed up in the chinese consulate in San Francisco. The president s considering closing that consulate just like the one in houston. And now look whats lapping on happening o
Burn a good thing in when you are an airline good morning, good afternoon, good evening thank you for joining us here on Worldwide Exchange. Aside from those top stories, we are following a massive 7. 8 earthquake that hit off the coast of alaska. There was an original tsunami warning that has been called off. That is a very big earthquake. Well bring you more relevant headlines as we get them thinking about the folks of alaska a quick check and futures will see the bottom right the dow futures are off. This comes off modest gains from the dow yesterday. We finished well off session highs. The nasdaq came off mondays move again hitting an intraday alltime high. Outside of stocks, we continue to watch Oil Prices Tick up. Yesterday, officially at prelockdown highs crude is a couple dollars more than that, we can see where we were prior to march 11 when all the lockdown and virus stuff hit and negative 40 price will go down in history. Oil still down 32 back to pre lockdown levels. As som