For shinzo abe. The pound is big today. We are up by 1 . Governor of the bank of england indicating we are going to see the possibility of negative rates. We are, as you can see, seeing a big bid for the yen as well. Dollar is down. Stoxx 600 is low. S p absolutely flat. Kailey i want to bring you news. Mgm resorts, the casino operator, is cutting 18,000 jobs. That cut impacts over one quarter of its u. S. Workforce. It has been a hard time for casinos during this pandemic. Mgm operates not just in the u. S. , the las vegas strip, but also in macau. All macau travel was shut down, they have yet to catch up. Las vegas market makes up half its revenue. Mgm cutting 18,000 jobs. At the moment, the stock is higher by about 4 . Guy back to that story relating to the bank of england. Governor Andy Beshear Lee says there is plenty of room for more monetary stimulus. He spoke at the feds virtual jackson hole event earlier. He talked about what is in the box. We are not out of firepower by any m
Years on the turkish president says it remains open for all. And in the skies over syria passengers injured on a new rainy in plane as its tailed by a u. S. Fighter jet. 60 fears over the worlds top selling passenger plane thats concerned about engine failure on boeing 737 surrounded by the coronavirus former and his former Major League Baseball is back in north america after a 4 month delay caused by coronavirus the leak starts with no fans in attendance. Welcome to the news our relations between 2 of the worlds superpowers are deteriorating even further chinese staff and are moving out of their consulate in the u. S. City of houston after washington told beijing to shut the office the u. S. Says its to protect American Intellectual property well Chinas Foreign Ministry called it an unjustified act and in retaliation beijing has ordered the american consulate in the southwestern city of chengdu to close the book with you for. Chinas measures a legitimate and necessary response to unju
Dead flat to start the morning but you never know, of course, where it is going to end up and thats why you have to watch every minute. I promise. Take a look at this. The nasdaq in record territory, fueled of course by big tech and for those of you who wonder why we talk about these stocks so much, here is why. They are all going to open at record highs, starting with amazon. Today will make six days in a row that it has hit an alltime high. Apple at 384 bucks, that stock up 40 in a month. Microsoft, 215. That stock is up 25 in a month. Facebook also continues to surge, despite an ad boycott and negative pushback from civil rights groups. Netflix, clear lockdown winner and its been said on this program that we are indeed entering the golden age of streaming. We will talk about all of these stocks and more, tech winners throughout the program. They are remarkable. Its going to be a big day at the Supreme Court. It is the last day of the term and a decision on whether to release the pre
That is where we are at the moment. Another down day for crude. Brent also down. Tom lets get more analysis on the market. When you look at what happened with help things are playing out in asia, is it taking offer a stellar quarter . Probably a bit of both. Concern withys the cases we have seen. In cases like texas. They have a bit of a crisis going on there. The fact that new york, new jersey, and connecticut have now set a quarantine for people who travel from these hot zones and the rest of america. Imposing an economic constraint. They are worried there will be another abruptness to this. That the Economic Growth that america had. In states of new york, when they take this action, that is a worrying time. That would hurt businesses on a much bigger basis. That is what wall street is concerned about. The hit to the economy. There has been talk the u. S. Government is getting ready to do a fourth round of fiscal stimulus. There has not been any details yet. The market would be conce
Are right about the Economic Data. This is the point where it is beginning to click in nation to nation, and we are seeing some grim data. I look at the eto screen for the United States later this week, and those are numbers. We l points that where that we have never seen before. Two year yield continues to grind this morning. Francine we also look at renminbi, given what President Trump said about chinese tariffs yesterday. Lets get to first word news with viviana hurtado. Viviana as many as 100,000 americans could die from the new coronavirus, this death toll update coming from donald trump. He said he hopes deaths would total less than 60,000. So far more than 67,000 americans have died. President trump accuses china of trying to cover up the coronavirus outbreak. He promises the u. S. Government would release a conclusive report on the pandemics chinese origins. He also says imposing tariffs on chinese imports would the ultimate punishment and an explosive Associated Press report s