Biggest spike in cases in nearly four months. Good morning and welcome to bloomberg surveillance. I am Francine Lacqua in london. This is what the markets are doing , european stocks moving to the downside gorsuch any trading sideways, despite record highs on wall street. This is what we are also looking at when it comes to gold, always look at gold because it gives you a good sense of where there is appetite, slipping back below 2000 on ounce. We saw declines in utilities outweighing gains in travel shares, of the stoxx 600 actually gained. Up, the chief executive of the Hong Kong Exchanges and clearing joins us for an interview after the Company Posted a record firsthalf profit. That is in a couple. Of minutes lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news. We start with joe biden, it is official. He has become the democraticc nominee for president. The second night saw a slate of speakers, from former president bill clinton to representative alexandria ocasio cortez. Biden himse
Shift. Weve got another bonus hour of fast money tonight at 6 00 where we will be answering all of your burning trading questions. If youve got one, tweet us cnbcfastmoney. We start off with zoom zoom shares staged a gigantic really its 40 jump today now gives ut a market cap bigger than lowes, ibm and citigroup. It is about 3 4 of the size of cisco, which of course is a similar product and 83 times the revenue. What do you make of this giant move today its pretty incredible. I dont know how often weve seen a stock thats jumped by 40 in a single day. But it ran into earnings weve seen nothing but bullish paper in here for the entire year the interesting thing is when you look at the numbers, yes, the numbers were astounding. When you look at the revenue and the earnings beat, its incredible what stands out for me is i look at this company. You just wonder, theres not a short squeeze going on here. Its not a very large short position i think this is just an amazing stock. People look at
How apples shakeup is driving the blue chips plus the online surge, best buy notching is 242 gain in ecommerce sales in the Second Quarter but can it last . Trade optimism, u. S. And china officials reaffirming their phase one commitment, the s p is poised to add to its record run. Jim, i saw you last night mentioning those changes to the dow and your general point was dont be fooled in thinking there is as much money indexed to the dow as to the s p. We said that last night, its been the theme all morning and theres been no sellers. One of the reasons theres been no sellers are the people who are now trading stocks in early hours have tremendous conviction in the face of being wrong its rather incredible because the hubris of these people they must think dow jones has a lot of money to it and it has to come out of exxon and into salesforce david, you have been at the forefront of the network in explaining the nature of the dow and you see this, too. Arent you shocked that even after w
South korea. Infections slow in japan, but young adults becoming more vulnerable. Do infections in new zealand itsend weaken reputation as a covid19 beater. The Prime Minister is delaying the election. Down that is weighing matters in new zealand, but lets look at u. S. Futures. Uncertainty continues to plague markets as we kick off this new session in asia. Uncertainty when it comes to trade with the phase one meetings being postponed indefinitely. We are also getting an indefinite stalemate when it comes to stimulus talks, as well as uncertainty over the future of mailin voting and usps. Theve futures trading on s p, positive 5. 1 . The nikkei 225 up by about. 25 . We are continuing to watch price action on the topics, the worlds best performing index in august as we continue to see the encouraging recovery in industrials and financials. The japanese economy sent to crater by a record in the latest quarter. We are getting gdp numbers later today. In new zealand, back to one of the to
We have seen strength. It has reached 690. That could mean a path to a level not seen since january. The hang seng up 1. 5 . Take a look at where we are in terms of emerging markets. They are trading higher. 1 shy of a recent losses. The kospi is up. The south korean assets will be watched today as it is expected to stoper restrictions a flareup. Gold down to 1943. Lets get to first word news with Karina Mitchell in new york. Karina President Trump is welcoming a coronavirus treatment that involves blood plasma from corrupt recovered patients, saying it will be expanded to more sufferers after the fda approved its use. This makes it easier to make it accessible. Even though its full effectiveness has not been proven. The fda has concluded the treatment is safe and works. Virushas marked a grim milestone topping 3 million infections as the outbreak accelerates. New cases rose by 59,000 sunday with 57,000 people having died in total. South korea is considering imposing tighter Health Res