October has been a great month for meals. One of the most interesting is being called a partnership between ge and baker hughes. We have details and insight into why shares are lower on the day. Look at that down more than 7 . Both are lowered with the dow down 20 points. The latest developments on the new clinton email investigation. After the bell we are joined by libertarian Vice President ial candidate bill weld to talk about the impact on the election. Shares of tesla and solar city. We have a closer look at why investors do not seem to like this announcement again. A lot of skepticism about the proposed merger between the companies. A big announcement tomorrow, as well. On this merger. We have more details. Lets begin with how this month is finishing up. Nice costume today. I try to keep the colors coordinated. This is supposed to be a big volatile month. Markets to the down side. S p down about 1. 7 for the month. Worst monthly showing since going back to january. The russell 20
First, we start off with what should have been a huge day for the markets, up or down. Weve got tens of billions of dollars of baker hughes and ge, century link and oil sinking, its worst day in more than a month. None seemed to matter because of one thing. The u. S. Election. The polls are tightening as we head into the final week of campaigning. So with everything seemingly on hold, we ask, no matter who ends up in the white house, what should you be buying this week . What are your win win bipartisan election trades . Buypartisan. Buy, pete. My list would be whats been performing most recently and thats going to be technology and financials. If the financials are doing well underneath the circumstances that we have in the last six or eight months or so, with no change in the interest rates, and they continue to show some strong results, like they did this past quarter, i have to stick with the financials. I like where theyre going. When you look from a valuation perspective or book
The republicans have said fbi has not provided enough details about the probe. Cnn cut ties with donna thezeale, who is currently interim chair of the democratic committee. She apparently only allegedly gave clinton answers for questions. U. K. s ambassador to the called his Company Country a major stakeholder in the u. K. And the Company Country must put improve communication. The british spy chief warns that russia is an increasing threat to the u. K. The director general Andrew Carter said that russia has active agents in the u. K. And is pushing Foreign Policy through Cyber Attacks and subversion. It is the first time a chief has given a newspaper interview. In china there are new questions about the next generation of leaders. A Senior Communist Party official says there is no set retirement age, calling into question who will step down when the president reshuffles his leadership next year. Usually the communist party has retired officials age 60 and over. Global news 24 hours a
Takeover targets coming up. Donald trump has bigname investors advising the campaign and now details if think oar putting their money where their mouth is. We have got the lawyer behind a controversial lawsuit accusing Morgan Stanley of mismanaging the employees 401 k plans and rippling through the industry. Hes going to join us after the bell. Be sure to stay tuned for that. Adding to the bearish sentiment is last weeks rig count showing u. S. Oil producers added rigs. Right. Ra raising concerns of supply online. Lets bring in ed war morris and halima kroft. You know, a lot of talk about how the latest move, whether its the 20 decline, the 20 bounce, 9 up in wti crude last week, has been mostly about investor positioning, is that the case or are we seeing real fundamental supply demand factors here . We have a position of basically a record high in short positions and expected a rally on the back of that and started the see i think the discussion of the opec freeze coming back into pl
On topics of critical importance. I am never going to rule anything out. Nejra it is all straight ahead best. Mberg never kill hello and welcome. I am there at k rich. This is bloomberg best. In retrospect, this week has been dominated by tuesdays tragic terror attacks in brussels. Monday, attention was focused on Silicon Valley with a major Product Announcement from apple. A apple unveiling the sc at event in cupertino with a smaller screen and a smaller price tag, starting at 390 nine dollars per the cheapest new iphone ever. What are your big takeaways . I was making an analogy with the golden state warriors. They found the small ball works well for them and they want a world championship. They got to 30 Million People lester and that was a shocking number. 30 Million People bought an iphone five last year per they have dedicated users who want to use smaller phones and pay less. They are being slightly more aggressive, maybe appropriately aggressive, that should be with a price tha