Europe, up by 2. 5 . Todays number from barclays, very strong. We are going to hear from jes staley a little later in the program, our interview from early round. The pound bouncing around all over the place. We were into 1. 31. I think this is broad Dollar Strength rather than anything else. Take a look at the bloomberg dollar index. Alix rising covid cases impacting the economic data. Composite pmi for the euro area dropping below the 50 mark, which shows contraction. Meeting. O ecbs next joining us is john hardy, Saxo Bank Head of fx strategy. Does 1. 18 make sense for when you consider the rising uncertainty . John of course, the pressure should be on the downside given the covid resurgence. I think the general take on the could be that if we are seeing this democrat sweep scenario, we are positioning for a weaker dollar for some time in the future. Anything looks fair between 1. 17, and to me, this is the upper area of where we should be. We shouldnt be doing anything and eurodoll
Around a bidens portfolio there is honestly not that much difference as a matter of feedbaact, most e stocks work under trump also works under biden. Can i get a bidens stock, bi n bidens stock, please. Dell gained and nasdaq drops for the day. The leader the soaring stocks it would be fabulous for energy. Tr it is good for u. S. Jobs once Oil Companies are drilling, there is only so much the president can do coal is dead it is not economic and it is not worth the trouble. Meanwhile, we have seen a huge gain in renewables because like it or not, theyre the future. If biden wins, democrats are eager to throw the money at solar. I like three solars. First is generac your power does not go out when the sun goes down and tesla. Remember when elon musk floated the idea of just a simulation, that was more than five years ago. I challenge the idea that we get our electricity from colorado. That was his plan. Musk figured it out. The future looks like a lot of distributed solar panels that flo
Good tuesday morning, welcome to squawk alley. Im Carl Quintanilla with jon fortt and Julia Boorstin with us dow because up 275 this morning. We lost some of that the covid19 vaccine rotation is continuing with tech down another 2 today and the s p 500 down 26 points thats where well begin this morning. The nasdaq falls investors rotating out of tech to some degree the managing director is going to help us start off the hour. Good morning, mark good to see you. The. Hey, carl, good to see you. We know i mean, the argument has been made that world changed a little bit yesterday for the better but is the tech reaction is there bath water being thrown out too . Well, yeah. The world did change id argue a lot yesterday. And not surprising that were seeing a rotation in some of the tech names i think for the next little while here, you know, expect the expected were going to think continue to see some rotation away from the work from home names probably bate probably a bit of a short term r
Says a 10 correction remains the most likely outcome in the nearterm. Joe, tell me whether you agree with this call he said last weeks failure to break through technical resistance for the second time suggests the correction is not over he expects softness past the election before the next leg of the bull market. Do you agree with that last monday we got up to 3,459 on an intraday high. The previous high was 3,588. The reason we pulled back is the absence of a stimulus deal the conditions are fully in place now to exceed that 3,588 high when you look at retail sales in the u. S. , when you think about the strength of chinese economic numbers, think about the fact that yesterday we had the single largest travel day for the Airline Industry in the united states. Clearly the conditions are in place. If i look within the markets itself, its just not technology on friday reaching 52week highs. Air freight logistics, construction and engineering the conditions are there its the absent of sti
Swan number three, hurricane zeta. We will show you exactly where it is right now and how its crushing oil, natural gas and energy stocks. At its lows the Dow Jones Industrials had fallen 908 points. So when you combine that with the previous two days, thats a drop of more than 1700 points. The s p 500 and the nasdaq are also struggling hard right now. We have the s p down 94, the nasdaq down 332. Look, now we see octobers gains wiped out for those two indices and oil getting crushed in the aftermarket session, down 5. 25 . We are now at 37. 51 a barrel. This is not helping, either. Three tech giants, facebook, twitter, alphabet google, adding to the nasdaqs woes. Their shares hammered as their ceos faced congressional scrutiny from both sides of the aisle during a very contentious hearing on capitol hill. We are about to show you the key moments and then our tech panel, top guys in the industry, will translate what it might mean for the stocks. Will the renewed lockdowns invite a supp