This is counting the cost on aljazeera your look at the world of business and economics this week as Oil Prices Slump economies shrink and austerity kicks in is this the end of the middle east oil rush also this week south africas unemployment hit a record high before the pandemic whats gone wrong for an economy that emerged from the 2008 financial crisis in a strong position. When you try to reinvent the wheel but turns out you may simply be the Worlds Largest taxi firm is this the end of the gig economy into fights and labor laws and courts around the world. The world economies are moving away from fossil fuels right now being an Oil Producing nation is a tricky proposition burning through money set aside for a rainy day and borrowing money from International Investors to make sure you can pay your bills its also a time many Big Oil Companies are thinking about leaving more oil in the ground many countries have failed to wean themselves off Oil Struggling to diversify their economies
Nasdaq up more than three quarters . The industrials also back on track today. Is there any reason for worry apart from the fact. I worry when i dont worry. I think because you change months doesnt really change the na narrative. There are pockets of the economy that are doing well and recovering housing, auto, parts, consumers, manufacturing. Did you see the numbers . The new orders jumped 5 the ism was the best number since november 2018. Manufacturing is recoverying i would argue is in a v recovery you have pocket of the economy that are not doing well. That are struggling. We have a million job in initial claims thats why i think youre going to see a fiscal package. You still have a lot of trouble in things happening with regards to travel and leisure and restaurants and that sort of thing. I do think that you get the fiscal package i dont think the change is in terms of my investments because as you recover, the economy recovers you get through the elections. I think profits recov
Russian vaccine. Yeah. Which i guess is, i dont know i dont know are you going to take a russian vaccine . Thats about now, were really talking about a tremendous leap of faith a russian vaccine which i think theyve dubbed did chernobyl ii. Im going to pass. Is that a hard pass yeah, hard pass chernobyl its been approved even though its had trials. Easy come, easy go. Remember, they spent a fortune on the trial and a couple people died i dont think thats the russian way. Nor do i think when 28 people died in world war ii did necessarily everybody come to a fight with a machine gun fight and they have very little fear and its demonstrated in certain trials, really well, listen, we can hope theres great science there and there is something well, they used to have great science. And plenty of scientists, no doubt. And rockets they stole a Hydrogen Bomb from the rosenbergs, they can do that. Lets read what putin had to say, as far as i know a vaccine against a new coronavirus has been regi
Tiktok launches a legal bid to stop President Trump from imposing a ban in america. He says the app is a threat to National Security and tiktok says the bands peer politics. The president marks the official nomination at the Republican National convention by criticizing mailin voting and saying the opponents his opponents want to steal the election. Shery u. S. Futures are opening flat after solid gains for u. S. Stocks in the new york session. Record highs for the s p and the nasdaq. We had optimism over vaccines and treatments for coronavirus. The s p 500 saw most of the sectors in the green. Small cap biotech got big moves from the authorization of convalescent plasma for treating covid19. Vaccine developers tumbled on this new focus on plasma treatment. The dollar weakness we saw earlier in the session did pervak. Did pare back. Look at what oil is doing. It rallied and gasoline surged to a fivemonth high at the moment under pressure headed to the 42 a barrel level. Laurae storms m
Year auction that has taken the wind out of the big Growth Stocks. 59 minutes left to go. Now just about 20 points away from a record on the s p 500 wilfred, we crossed over that level that would have been a closing high we lost a the lot of steam i know. We didnt quite make it and sold off near the close but doesnt look likely to happen today as things stand lots to come on todays show well hear from two key market voices as the s p 500 nears and pulls back and then hovers below that all time high dan niles and mohammed larian will join us well discuss the growing china fallout with Carly Fiorina lets start with the key stories were watching mike santoli is looking at the recent recovery in bond yields and joining us to talk about apple as they hit the new high is tony from Sanford Bernstein its really not that unusual for the market to hesitate for a while when it reapproaches an all time high. Although, it seems almost a little too cute the way its done the past few days really floa