Record high after a global meltdown melt up on monday. Futures are pointing lower. The cash trade tray is less than an hour away. Hong kong on notice. Microsoft joins google, facebook, and twitter in pausing government user data requests. Tiktok also pulls out of hong kong. The risk rally pauses. Equity markets and futures trade grow aboutncerns rising coronavirus infections. Bloomberg learns that Deutsche Bank and google are planning a 10 Year Partnership on cloud and tech investment. Computing and tech investment. Just under an hour away from the start of cash equity trading across europe. Futures are down right now. We see losses on ftse futures of 0. 5 . About 0. 6 . Es, futuresxx you choose down about 0. 7 . Yesterday we got germany factory orders, missing the mark. Coming out at a 10 gain compared to a 15 estimate. Now we are getting german 7. 8 . Rial output rising that is the month over month figure. The estimate was for 11. 1 . Dataagain, german economic missing the estimate,
Level north of 50. New orders are very positive, 31. 8 was last time around. Significant beat with prices paid better than expected and unemployment picking up as well. Unemployment, this is what we are seeing in europe as well. Headlight numbers are good, but the unemployment numbers are quite weak and remain so it is a cause for concern. Yes, its an improvement but a while things pick up around the world what you are not seeing is full employment and a lot of companies are beginning to lay off people. You are seeing that in the data here. Alix and the question of who recovers less, that will be the next question. Breaking down the numbers even more, Michael Mckee joins us now. We had the headline numbers, but to guess a little deeper. Mike there is work to do out there. Diffusion indexes compare one month with another. This is the difference between june and may and at this point it looks like we saw a rebound andune from the dismal may april numbers. As this continues its going to b
The dow eyeing eight Straight Days of gains on growing optimism around u. S. china trade. Weworks rocky road to an initial Public Offering. And the democratic faceoff, warren, biden, sanders dominating the debate stage. Just what their plans could mean for your portfolio stocks are chasing history this morning the dow and the s p each within 1 of hitting record intraday highs. The blue chips in the midst of a sevenday win streak for First Time Since may of last year. You have signs of a health y consumer, Government Data shows retail sales up. 4 in august, double expectations. Core unchanged, looking for. 1 but july even after that upside surprise revised higher. Is this ever putting the pressure on jay . I think jay powell is uniquely faced with a difficult decision. You posted some stuff the other day about you raised rates and the economy is not being hurt so why should we just want to cut them i continue to say he raised rates too much and i want i want to go for the full on 3 on e
Saying that it didnt expect the fed to tighten. You could see it, it rallied in the brief oneweek period where it seemed like maybe theyd tighten and raise expectations to 40 . After that crummy unemployment number gold rallied again saying theyre not. Today is interesting to me because its rallying along with the safe havens. I dont think its telling us this is any global panic. What it is telling us it not ohm fits in with the weak dollar trade it also fits in with the safe haven trade. Ive been on this all year and pretty harrowing times for a while but i like it now. This is jim says jack a kind of riskoff trade not an inflation protection trade. There aint no inflation out there. How do you see gold . What is it telling you . Tyler, there say big, red flag with whats going on in gold and people need to heed that warning. Its telling you theres been a loss of confidence in central banks. It really started a few months ago and its been creeping and one of the reasons why especially
Apple actually losing the smartphone war . Well explain that. First to sue. A little nervous tone to the mark today. Investors nervous with wall street getting more negative about growth estimates, and super tuesday may be in danger, the s p 500 has risen 15 of the last 17 tuesday this is year. So right now were in danger of losing that. The Dow Jones Industrial average up 78 points, s p 500 off 7 3 4, the threeyear note, which is at auction today, the yield right in and out is at 0. 886 . We should get the results momentarily. We did dip below the 2. 6 mark earlier this morning when those jitters were more extreme. Bob pisani joins me here on the floor. Its a little tough for the markets, because were still held hostage by the tenyear yield. Sue is right. When we drift below 2. 6 , the market has no energy, were essentially there right now, but look at the s p 500, youll see what i mean. Weve got largely down all day. Weve been at that 2. 6 and below it. You can see it goes nowhere. I