Good Tuesday Morning welcome to squawk alley. Im Carl Quintanilla with jon fortt and we had losses at the open but were close to session lows. Dow is down. 3 . S p 500 below 3400 the name of the game, jon, q3 earnings really no stimulus headlines to speak of were watching covid19 levels mega cap, m a in the chip space. You know what im talking about. Absolutely. We telegraphed it here it s were going to begin with amd and that 35 billion planned acquisition of xilinx. Its the boldest bet in a remarkable run by amds chief executive officer dr. Lisa su taking over almost exactly six years ago in october 2014. Sue has taken shares of amd from 3 to, what, 79 as of this morning. More than 2,000 rise. Todays deal is another challenge to intel its a push for market share in data centers and just the latest move by sue to turn amd from an also ran into a leader. Hopefully you have got to know me a little bit im all about focus and execution. You know, what we set out the plans for amd over the
The cash trade here in europe is less than an hour away. Lets get your top headlines. Softbank plummets on reports it made big bets on derivatives linked to u. S. Tech. A selloff looks set to continue, although u. S. Stocks are shut today for the labor day holiday. Johnson plays hardball. U. K. Officials say britain is not scared of walking away from brexit negotiations emptyhanded. Talks restart on that note in london this week. And cracks in the pipeline. Germanys board member former minister links nord stream 2 to the poisoning of alexey navalny. We are less than an hour away from the start of european trading. There will be no u. S. Equities trade today. You can see european futures are gaining. We are getting more german data out now, economic data. Up 1. 2 . Strial output the estimate was for a gain of 4. 5 percent, so a mess in terms of Industrial Production so a miss in terms of Industrial Production. Yearoveryear, there was a drop. The actual drop was 10 . The estimate had bee
At 4 00 though sometimes go into extra innings but at least we got some sports, it happens to be in the form of a stock market had sports gamblers descend because they have Nothing Better to do, nothing else to do. Does that explain the action today when the dow gained 131 points and s p claimed nasdaq jumped but be careful, there were late day reversals or just investors pouring money into the same members of the new high list based on a winners win philosophy maybe driven by foreign buyers honestly, at this point it could be all three and the problem with these constituent sees is they make things more dangerous for the rest of us how do i know this i made it up no let me first, i did some first class work by my friend david, the master of research at goldman sachs. In his mustread u. S. Weekly kick start, he talks about how Foreign Investors with largest net buyers of u. S. Stocks in the First Quarter and notes that there is a surge in retail trading. Retail meaning like regular peo
Billion. That is the rumor promising 850 billion. That is the rumor from secretary of the treasury Steven Mnuchin. Crude also recovering. We still have a two handle, all after the vix hit a record monday. Time now for global exchange. We are going to bring you todays market moving news from all around the world. From new york to brussels, washington, and berlin, our bloomberg voices are on the ground with this mornings top stories. Futures trimming early gains this morning, then rallying. Here was more in new york is bloombergs annmarie hordern. Walk us through some of the action so far. Annmarie as you said, we hit limit up on those futures. We then went lower into negative territory, but now back in positive territory. It does look like the bears are in control of this market. The biggest plunge on markets since 1987. In europe, similar story. We were seeing a lot of gains, then went negative. Right now on the stoxx 600, we are about flat. We are seeing some Massive Gains on the lose
Hong kong as strength in china, europe and the americas offset the impact casino shares plunge after the retailer warns offering profit in france miss estimates as social unrest weigh on the company. President trumps impeachment trial begin with a reading of the charges as the Government Watch dog finds the white house broke the law by withholding military aid to ukraine. A very warm welcome to street signs on this friday morning. So far trade seems to be dominated by a few corporate stories. Getting into those starting with richemont reaching expectations despite a slow down in the hong kong market. Blaming political unrest for a severe sales contraction but said double digit growth in main land china more than offset the down turn. Still, sales growth did slow from 4 to 6 in the first half. Shares there almost 5 higher. Casino shares higher after cutting the forecast citing the effects of the ongoing transport strikes. The company which is Closing Stores and selling assets to slash d