The hardest hit nation is iran. Nearly 22 thousand people there have died from covid19. Spacex has placed 64 more satellites into orbit. A rocket took them into orbit from florida. It is the 12th the batch of satellites for the companys broadband network. Rocketalso recovered the booster with a controlled landing at sea. Global news 24 hours a day, onair, and on quicktake by bloomberg, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. Im Mark Crumpton. This is bloomberg. Vonnie it is 1 00 in new york 6 00 p. M. In london, and 1 00 , a. M. In hong kong. Im vonnie quinn. Welcome to Bloomberg Markets. In just a few moments, and inclusive interview with bill ackman of Pershing Square, an update on the spac and the market turmoil. Lets get to the markets. The vix today is above 30, the worst day for the nasdaq 100 so far since march. The nasdaq down 5 . The s p down 3. 5 . The dow down 2. 7 . Several individual companies have been doing extraordinarily well such as d
Airline stocks are popping after the government gave approval to a different way to disinfect surface onz planes american, united, delta, theyre all up 8 or so. S p 500, nasdaq set for a record close. With he have 59 minutes left of trade. Brian, good to have you onboard. Yeah. Good to be here on a day where there seems to be a lot gf news. The markets are powering higher again. We have a long way to go two hours. Coming up, you remember herbalife. They sparked wall streets most epic battles on the Halftime Report it is reinvigorated, more than doubling from the march lows and our interview with the ceo is coming up later on. Were going to be joined by Penny Pritzker and ask her about the democrats economic platform and how a Biden Administration would tackle the coronavirus are your taxes going up . Were going to ask her directly. Right now lets focus in on the big stories that were watching to day mike santoli, as always, watching all the Market Action joining us to talk about the la
A big question about Political Risk heading into november. Francine we will have plenty more on u. S. Politics. We start with Leslie Vinjamuri shortly. Lets start with first word news with ritika gupta. Ritika joe biden is counting on thela harriss ties to Africanamerican Community and herself branding as a prosecutor. As a progressive prosecutor. She is the first black woman in the first asianamerican on a major Party President ial ticket. Before being elected to the senate, she was californias attorney general. Upcoming trade talks with the u. S. , bloomberg has learned to chant that chinese will bring up President Trumps second ban on the two apps, wechat and tiktok. In hong kong, media tycoon jimmy lai has been released from jail after being arrested monday, the most prominent figure detained yet under chinas sweeping new National Security law. It is seen as a sign of how hong kongs independent Justice System is being undermined. The apple daily is critical of chinas communist part
August 15 but also continuing down. 7 the nikkei and the futures in the u. S. Are looking lower as well. Data expected out of the u. S. Later today. And in terms of looking at some of the currencies in the region, we talked about the bloomberg dollar index. Down about. 10 . Dollar weakness is essentially beneficial to equities in this part of the world and currencies as well. Aussie, thats what youre looking like, essentially flat and new zealand had jobless numbers that came in less bad than expected. The kiwi dollar up. 2 . Lets move on to some of the commodities, gold again looking strong and well, above 2000 an ounce, a little bit of weakness in the last hour or so, down about. 2 . Terms of oil were looking at the beirut story, the port explosion there and there was concern that have geopolitical tensions emanating from that. Thats the yield picture in the points. St over 10 basis rally washe dollar rather short, and then weve got gold, the inverse correlation back at the moment. T
Socalled mother and baby homes in ireland. Stranded in yemen the dangers for tens of thousands of ethiopian migrants and why they cant return home. Im joined by just go with the sports as tiger woods prepares to return to competitive gold for the 1st time in 5 months get his view on the back drives mats on the fence and playing in the current virus pandemic. So were beginning this news hour with a flare up in fighting on the border between armenia and azerbaijan 13 soldiers and at least one civilian have been killed in the heaviest fighting between the 2 neighbors in years the 2 former soviet republics went to war in the 1990 s. Over the disputed region of not gone or cut above the areas internationally recognized as part of azerbaijan but its controlled by armenians a fragile cease fire was agreed in 1994 but tension has simmered have a sense. By 216200. 00 soldiers and civilians were killed in whats known as the april war russia brokered that cease fire and the International Communit