Record close since february 12th. Right now, its above that at the moment. So we look to the s p 500. That should set its first record since september 2nd. Its 23rd record of the year. We have that moving higher right now pretty significantly. The nasdaq just a bit off the mark at the moment. From the Pfizer Vaccine developed in conjunction with German Company biontech and the stock basking in the halo effect from the blockbuster announcement to the mask makers and Rapid Testing stocks on the move. Weve got team fox business at the ready. Market mavens bill snead, jon core pe corpino and Tracy Maitland and Hillary Vaughn live in delaware, with the president elects plans Just Announced and how it might affect your money. The two matadors in charge of todays record bull rally, pfizer and its german partner biontech. Both stocks hitting 52weeks highs on the news that their covid19 vaccine candidate is more than as we said, 90 effective. Pfizer jumping 8. 33 at the moment. Biontech up 15 .
An estimate of expansion. About 1. 3 . Switching out the boards and having a look at the other asset classes, which are in the mix at the moment. The u. S. Election, according to a survey, sending the dollar in opposite pumps. If donald trump wins, we could see a stronger dollar. If joe biden wins, the reverse. Also wests going on with the also was going on with the yen. Against the backdrop of a slightly better industrial read out of japan. Opposed to. 8 . Al, despite coming back, has 36 a barrel handle. Oil is set for its worst month since march. It is down to coronavirus demand fears hitting things. Bring livee want to pictures from vietnam, where mike pompeo is meeting with the vietnamese deputy Prime Minister hanoi. Counterpart in this is part of his tour in asia. Some have called it an empty china tour of asia. Thats happening right now. Both are expected to exchange ideas. Up relations with the two countries. Vietnam had been boosting its import of u. S. Products. Mike pompeo wr
Has the details. I just spoke with kirk over at isi i wanted his take. He said microsoft is firing on all cylinders, beating all three major categories, Strong Quarter across the commercial franchises it was better than the street was looking for. Kirk said growth is translated into increasing profitability. He said are enterprises willing to spend giving this backdrop and in one of those segments he mentioned 12. 3 billion up 11 . Commercial revenue gross of 20 . Intelligent cloud 13 billion up 20 . And more personal computing, up 6 shares not doing a lot in the after hours. The forecast will be delivered on the call which starts at 5 30 a. M. As josh mentioned, no guidance i am sure every one wonders what they will say about Enterprise Spending especially with the news delivered yesterday what do you make of the quarter . They hit on everything. Josh went through it across the board better, with the Cloud Services area. What we are waiting on now is what is the forecast, what do thin
Fallout to spread beyond the walls largest economy. As the brexit bluster ramps up, why Boris Johnsons threat is leaving most economists and traders unruffled for now. Haidi lets take a look at how we are setting up when it comes to the asian trading session this tuesday. U. S. Markets remain largely close for the Labor Day Holiday and this is how we are shaping up when it comes to the futures session, looking like we could get some positive momentum going into the resumption of trade. S p active futures up. 7 after the s p closed at the lowest level since august. We have the tech selloff really continue until full force on friday and will have to see whether that resumes when trading resumes later on this week. The nikkei 225 is up by. 3 when it comes to the future session as we get the leadership race in japan officially kicking off dollaryen pretty steady. 106 and a. We have the dollar rising against every g10 peer. The u. K. Is getting closer to that Nodeal Brexit scenario. New yor
Or rather, which is worse than expected. We had expectations of 0. 1 . Rishaad exactly and thats currently where we have industrial production. Coming inese are pretty much bang in line with what we were expecting. The retail sales and only showing this contraction for july. Lets get over to bank of chief chinarities economist. Headlines pretty much what we were expecting, but tell me, what sort of picture is it painting for you . That atlly, i would say first glance, this set of numbers does not look extremely encouraging. For several, industrial output ip we would have thought it would be somewhere around this in belowt still coming 5 implies that the momentum of continued industrial recovery seems to be moderating. I think that is number one that i got out of the data. Number two, if you think at investment, thats roughly in line, but we need to look at the breakdown for example properties versus infrastructure to know what is going on. More importantly, retail sales i think to a la