Review of the week russian opposition figurehead i guess and im only it says he is making progress in his recovery as moscow and berlin wrangle over evidence in the alleged poisoning. Welcome to the weekly here on our to international where we bring you the latest Headline News and the top stories from the past week. Opposition crowds have regrouped across belarus and theres now a massive protests underway in minsk anger at the alleged rigging of the president ial election and Police Brutality has been driving people to the streets for 6 weeks now. Reports from the capital. This is a still gathering together in this square behind me what they do is they gather in little groups over the city in various districts where they live and then they could show all of that into it into a huge rally huge much asss happening barden knowledge crowds merging together right now its difficult to tell with the with regards to numbers for perhaps 5000. 00 people behind me more maybe joining the but the
Record high today, up more than 17 this year. Check out the big tech names hitting fresh alltime highs in todays session, apple, microsoft, facebook, amazon, netflix all marking new highs. Is this headed straight for a giant iceberg, guy [ laughter ] when you read that, you hesitated reading that this is the bubble in my head literally said should i read this or should i skip over it, titanic tech run headed straight for a giant iceberg. I went with it lets go with the metaphor. I am a fan of leo i know you might find this propostrous but leo is a huge fast money fan we should collectively give a shoutout so i was talking to the great dan nathan earlier today and we were just talking about the move in amazon. Amazon is up 3 today. Amazon has added this month which i think today is the 9th of july. Just this month its added almost a quarter of a trillion dollars to its market cap. I think there are only 22 companies in the s p 500 that have a market cap of a quarter of a trillion dollar
Lets have a look at those markets that seem absolutely impervious to what is going on in the real economy. The dow is up 1. 5 . The s p is up 1. 5 . The nasdaq is up 1. 6 . Gains on companies that had a good quarter, including news corp. , although advertising was down. Bit off ofg a little its stock price. In its comforts own, 66 basis points. Just off of our high on crude oil, just short of 24 a barrel. Lets get into the Market Action with taylor riggs. Theor you mentioned 10year yield. I also wanted to mention the twoyear yield. Overnight, dipping below 12. 5 basis points. Getting a record low. The futures market is also pricing in negative rates, that at some point over the next 12 months. Jay powell said that is not the direction that he wants to go, but the markets seem to think negative rates could be in the future. The twoyear yield at 12 basis points certainly catching our attention. Over the last five days, down seven basis points or so. , what look across asset it means for
Decades. The economy there slowing by almost 7 . And two dow components moving higher boeing that is restarting some production in Washington State and proctor and gamble reporting strong sales growth. Ill hit that later in the hour. Yes, indeed, hooking forward to that. Markets up 1. 5 59 minutes left of course. Lots of big guests coming up including we will discuss the broad market rally with bank of america and blackrock and chamber of commerce ceo, tom donohue will discuss the call for congress to provide more emergency funding to Small Businesses bob pisani is tracking todays rally. Adam from staten news is with us to talk about the market moving report he cowrote on gileads drug bob, lets kick things off with you. Well, we are up today and have been all day, but were at essentially just off the lows for the day. So the markets kind of running out of steam here. The good news here is is all the beaten up sectors are rallying today on the somewhat hopeful news on coronavirus treatm
Travelers. Biogen, set to seek Regulatory Approval for a treatment for alzheimers for early next year. U. P. S. Shares sinking ahead of the open, despite a pretty nice ecommerce boost to profit. The ceo will join us later this hour. The ceo of verizon as well will be here at post nine in a few minutes. An interesting announcement, another guest as well, but i guess it is a mystery. Well wait to solve it in a few minutes. Lets start with earnings, dive right in. Tale two of dow components, p g up, quarterly beat helped by Strong Demand by premium Beauty Brands and mcdonalds falling on an earnings miss as growth on us comps came in below forecast u. S. Mcdonalds 4. 8, looking for 5. 2. Jpmorgan told us the quarter would run light. Im glad you messengered that a lot of people are saying this is a big surprise, a negative surprise if you listen to what jpmorgan said, you would have been ready for exactly this number, which basically to me says not as bad as feared. 5. 9 , thats a number th