In terms of an after hours session for us it certainly is so many Earnings Reports coming out. And four giant Tech Companies among them coming up on this massive show, fresh off earnings this morning, an exclusive interview with david taylor shares hitting a new record high today. The company saw consumers stock up on Household Goods amid the pandemic and then at the close, well get earnings as sara mentioned from names like apple, amazon, facebook, and alphabet those companies represent some 40 of the nasdaq 100s total market cap that is all coming up today on closing bell. Lets start with the markets the dow more than 500 points intraday swings today. Now at the moment down by 200 points mike, an intraday recovery inspired by the european close this was soft. Once we got that behind us, allowed us to bounce a bit it is true. The markets absorbed that weakness in europe as well as, of course, the ugly economic numbers before the open. Also i tested the recent lows in treasury yields w
We are looking at currencies, strength coming through for the yuan. Dollar weakness is a big factor. Of the planthe back signed off or agreed to on 0. 1 . Us, the euro is up weaknessollar again, down 0. 2 . Hade is still value to be when it comes to chinas bonds, 2. 96 is the yield the. Is the yield. Gold is closing in on 1900 an its spot price. Future is pointing to 1900 in the near future. Il down 0. 7 demandweakness is a factor. Rishaad lets get some sense in all of this. Joining us is frank benzimra, head of asia equity strategy, societe generale. Thank you for joining us. How was your strategy evolving . The last couple of months europe become bullish on , and here politics is playing an Important Role in closing the gap in terms of undervaluation. In asia we have been reinforcing the view on hong kong liquidity. Our remaining strategy is on china. Is that all down to this Recovery Fund and what that presents in terms of a more united cents in europe and the eu itself . A relation
Hitting stocks. Wall street falls as the virus weakens the recovery. S p slipping, led by energy, financials, and industrials. Lets get started with a check of the markets. We are seeing u. S. Futures flat, after we had a solid risk off session in new york. We had a resurgence in virus cases and news the white house is weighing tariffs on european exports. We have the imf downgrade of the 2020 Global Economic forecast, so the s p 500 saw its largest fall in almost two weeks. All 11 sectors on the s p 500 sank. The nasdaq composite falling for the first time in nine sessions, down more than 2 , halting the longest winning streak of the year. This, as we continue to get more political news on how the coronavirus pandemic could affect the political schedule Going Forward towards the november elections. Democrats, saying state delegations shouldnt attend a convention. Saying they should work remotely. Pressure coming not only from the fragile economic recovery that also u. S. Crude invento
Up for an eighth straight day. The mega cap tech names making the new milestones josh, the big five as we say amazon, apple, facebook, alphabet, microsoft all but alphabet hitting the new highs today crossing 6 trillion as you flag end market cap for the first time ever. They, amazingly, are now equal to the next 24 largest s p 500 stocks combined. You flag that. Yeah. What do you make of it . Yeah, so my research. We put this up last night. Just incredible when you think about the companies that make up that next 24 were not talking about small potatoes were talking about jpmorgan which is a 300 million cap and pepsi, coke, mcdonalds. Its really wild and these stocks now are just going parabolic. I think i want to maketwo points very quickly. The first is that this is not unprecedented. In the mid 1960s just two stocks General Motors and at t made up 14. 5 of the total market cap of the s p 500. And the top ten names in the mid 60s made up about 50 of the market cap so, we have seen t
Was up by better than 5. 7 also watching whats been happening here with the treasury market in the United States. Keeping an eye on those things and youll see that right now at least it looks like a ten year is yielding 0. 689 just below that 0. 7 that we had the last couple of weeks. What was that i dont know. Im trying to explain this. I could make up a bunch of reasons. Because were reopening its the same thing over the weekend. New records were hitting the states where they were talking about more than 10,000 cases a day coming in and here you are watching the markets this morning saying yeah, okay. I was just listening to Worldwide Exchange and by the time he got done talking we should be at 10,000 on the dow look at whats happening and this, that, gaps here that are it can all end badly. At this point, this is really serious when you got this many people obviously that have passed away from the disease remember at one point i said we need a reality check i think that overall, may