Bill gates says the nations testing has mind blowing problems. A mediag Police Arrest tycoon and prodemocracy activist reportedly on allegations of foreign collusion. Nexts in his Media Group Digital slumped. Gone 6 00has just a. M. In london. Good to see you this morning. Names a ceo and president from november. He had previously served as the chief operating officer. He will take over on november 2 he did his first interview, fiveandahalf years, go to your bloomberg 6 returnelivered relative to peers of 6. 4 so a change at the stop on equinor. We will keep an eye on any more detail on that. Rump, turkey, tiktok i am on tiktok. I have sent something out on. Tiktok trump, turkey, tiktok, and trade. Im determined to boost my tiktok numbers. Nejra good morning. Ill add tech because tech lead a decline last week on friday with the confrontation with china being ramped up with the white house. I cant wait to see your tiktok account. Manus it is awful, dreadful. I havent worked it out yet.
The chicago fed president australia heads into earnings season amid the worst recession in decades and a pandemic crippling the economy promises to be one of the most challenging periods on record. Shery u. S. Futures opening flat. This after they finish mixed on the friday session. We had u. S. Stocks falling with the s p 500 flat after five sessions of gains. We have escalating u. S. China tensions. Some positive data. We have the dollar inventing after u. S. July job dated beat estimates. The nasa composite was led lower. Composite was led lower. We had small caps leading the gains on those better than expected econumbers out of the u. S. Here is how oil is trading. We are seeing oil gaining ground above 41 a barrel with brent coming in around 44 a barrel. This after the biggest loss in a week. Not only u. S. And china tensions but the outlook for the u. S. Stimulus. They saw the biggest advance since early july. See some are going to of those uncertainties, the lack of a deadline w
John, to me the silence of this friday is the unemployment checks that will go away and the silence from washington. Jonathan i hope they are not looking at the equity market this morning. I hope they are focused on the highfrequency data and jobless claims. The recovery that we have been doing a victory lap on over the last couple of months. There will not be one this time around. Jobless claims are higher. Recovery is stalling. The economy needs more assistance. And congress is going for a long weekend. Tom so many things this morning and we will have a lot of different conversations to get you ready for the weekend. Lisa abramowicz, we all know in equities and commodities and currency, the bond market talks. It is speaking with a vengeance this morning. Lisa you are earning nothing on safe bonds. That is what this is telling you. Inflation will not take off. We are seeing record low yields. Almost back to its record low. I think you pointed to the most important yield we are looking
Said yesterday, you know very well what you said yesterday, it was a big story. I just dont know how they cannot recuse themselves for anything having to do with trump or trumprelated. The right thing to do. As a Supreme Court justice, there is a different standard. At the same time, i think it is a higher standard in a certain sense. Her statement was so inappropriate. When you are a justice of the Supreme Court, it is a like what you strength to do is take the people that do feel a different way and get them to vote the way that she would like them to vote. I thought it was so inappropriate, such a turbo statement for a Supreme Court justice. What was inappropriate about the statement . I am not an attorney, so i cant she seemed to criticize the white house for running to the Supreme Court at the drop of a hat to seek pres. Trump no, that wasnt it. I think she is trying to shame people with perhaps a different view into voting her way. That is so inappropriate. Lets see what happens.
Listening to him say i dont watch the stock market seems fanciful given that he tends to be firmer on his trade rhetoric when the market is close to alltime highs when he frames things these way i wait for the moment he stands up in an arena like alabama and says all those Treasury Bonds the chinese hold, how did they get it . They stole it. Thats where hes headed if hes around another four years, thats where its headed. Youve raised that point before it seems a natural conclusion and it would be totally in character. Not paying you back. Threatening not to pay back totally, right . Treasury. Remember this conversation because when he says it in front of one of his crowds, theyll cheer. Theyll cheer. Markets wont no, they wont. Brings up the mindset of President Trump where he looks at the stock market at record highs and says we can afford Something Like this today because were doing well thanks. Congratulations on paper back. Michael lewis. Good Tuesday Morning welcome to squawk alle