Bloomberg surveillance. Im Francine Lacqua in london. A lot a focus is on the bank results yesterday. Many more banks reporting today with Technology Stocks and apple news. We expect a lot of earnings, and pound weakening, something to keep an eye on. Stocks,ook at european travel shares declining on concern of more lockdowns, but financial shares are climbing. Theyd are today, our active etf, new surveys say active equity funds underperformed in the first half of the year. Lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news. Good morning. Here in the u. K. , Prime Minister Boris Johnson is facing growing pressure to order a National Circuit breaker lockdown. The Opposition Labour Party is calling for increased nationwide restrictions for up to three weeks, after documents revealed the scientific advisors called for that action three weeks ago. The sprint to find a medical breakthrough to contain coronavirus stumbled this week. Eli lilly is the latest company to pause a trial as a safet
Not good enough, eu leaders are set to say no breakthrough in brexit talks. Boris johnsons thursday deadline for walking away approaches. Bank earnings turned sour, jp morgan and citigroup slide despite posting betterthanexpected trading revenues. Bank of america and Goldman Sachs are among firms reporting today. Clinical complications, eli lilly becomes the latest company to pause its covid19 drug trial. We will bring you our interview with rival Johnson Johnson. One hour until the start of cash equity trading across europe. Thats look at what is going on in terms of futures. We are seeing gains and European Equity Index Futures even after live trade. An you can see ftse futures up 0. 3 , and euro stocks and dax futures little changed. In terms of u. S. Futures, you can see on s p and Dow Jones Futures slight gains, a little more on s p. Nasdaq futures up 0. 3 . Anna, you have earnings out. Anna lets get the closing details, the business talking about the year but remaining cautious o
Selloff. The dow industrials down 36 points, nasdaq up 61 and s p higher by 3 and a quarter. This as we await testimony from treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin and Federal Reserve chairman jay powell today, both on capitol hill later today. This follows a huge selloff yesterday sparked by an open Supreme Court seat and impact of it on the ledge Kellyanne Conway slalegislative agenda. Dow indusn 500 points, nasdaq lower by 14 and s p lower by 38. The state of our cities, the department of justice naming three major cities anarchist jurisdictions that could lose federal funding due to ongoing unrest. Rudy giuliani is back with us with his take on all of this. Then, fine on the field, nfl handing out massive fines for mask violations, all the numbers coming up this morning. Women and wellness, how some are expanding business while keeping their cool in the era of coronavirus. Super model Kathy Ireland is here with lifestyle tips you dont want to yo miss. Mornings with maria is live right n
All right, welcome everybody to power lunch. Kevin is with us dominic too. Welcome, dom good to see you. Here is whats on tap. Stocks are at session highs right now after four weeks of losses the dow is up 500 points both the dow and s p on track for their biggest two day gains since june high stakes stimulus how Speaker Pelosi says she thinks, think, republicans and democrats can get a deal done before the election and tom lee says thats just one reason to buy stocks he will join us very shortly later, which president ial candidate could be better for the economy and the markets . Moodys is out with a new report that takes a look at those questions investors need to know power lunch starts right now welcome to power lunch. Looks look at the bigger wins today. You have fedex leading the industrials over at Deutsche Bank raising target price to 318 a share both those stocks up around 2 Virgin Galactic getting two more buy recommendations. Eight wall street analysts say the same thing bu
Satirists p. J. Orourke. He has appeared on booktv close to 20 times. First up in 2007 on our monthly call in program in depth p. J. Orourke discusses politics, writing and why he uses humor to discuss political and social issues. Is that a real picture of you . Guest oh yeah. Not a we. That was 71. Not quite positive. Host what were your politics in 1971 . Guest a martian left would be the easiest way to summon up. I was a leftwinger but didnt make enough sense to be a communist or anything like that. Host when did the transformation occur . Guest it was gradual. I just wrote about this. There is a book coming out from the Hoover Institution backing this called why i turned right, the story, it is a long story and i wont tell it. I will give the short version. I was a radical leftist very much in favor of a marxist socialist thing in america. I got a job paying 150 a week. I was a messenger in new york, 150 a week was a lot of money, living on the Lower East Side and i was very broke,