Tiktok is said to be making contingency plans for a u. S. Shutdown, joining microsoft to challenge a bid from oracle. Australia winds up turning season like never before with a recession and record government stimulus. Lets get you started with a quick check of the markets. We are seeing u. S. Futures opening slightly higher. This as we had another record high in the u. S. With the s p 500 soaring for a fifth consecutive session. We have financial and real estate sectors being the biggest gains. We have banks benefiting. Treasury yields were higher. We had the yield curve widening. Powell chair jerome speaking at jackson hole, conveying a dovish and more relaxed approach. Higher yields leading to the dollar rebounding. U. S. Weekly jobless claims remaining above one million. Not to mention the economic gdp numbers contracting slightly less than forecasted due to oil prices looking like this. About 43 ag barrel. We had oil declining through the new york session as laura barreled into lo
That it would be premature to speculate on that possibility. That seems to be one of the factors driving the market today. That theositive news market believes it is going to get on the vaccine. That is why we are seeing the s p up. 6 . We have the euro trading higher. The dollar continues to move lower. We will talk more about bonds as well. Is the bund overvalued . Lets get back to that subject of the coronavirus pandemic. Many European Countries continue to report a surge in cases. Is the Bloomberg Intelligence director of research. We are starting to see a pickup in a number of cases around europe. Has europe missed his opportunity to control the virus . Many people were lauding it for having been able to do so. You have seen rules loosened over the summer we have seen rules loosened over the summer and cases are climbing back. Surprised. Ot if the authorities in charge are when we loosened the restrictions, when bars and clubs opened with very likely people who cannot control thei
150,000 mark as texas, california and florida see record fatalities. Infections spike in china, hong kong and japan as well. Hill. Tech titans on the the ceos of amazon and alphabet and Facebook Face a virtual grilling over antitrust. Haidi lets get you started with a check of the markets. U. S. Futures opening flat, slightly higher that by. 1 . This after we saw u. S. Stocks extending gains in the regular session, the dollar declining estate as dovish as possible. The s p 500 gained more than 1 , adding to the july rally. 11 sectors were higher with tech leading the way. As i mentioned earlier, we are seeing that big tech antitrust showdown in congress ongoing at the moment. Nasdaq composite and at 1. 4 high. At a oneweek. The dollar weakness really resumed with the fed sticking with low rates. Look at what oil is doing. It has been the weak dollars supporting oil prices. We continue to see these gains of 41 a barrel. It was also propped up in the new york session by the biggest decli
Close in 2020. Big day yesterday. Autonomous chaos meanwhile. Seattle looking to dismantle the capitol hill occupied protests as new one pops up in washington, d. C. Plus, back to the ball game, Major League Baseball looks to assure season this year but the players still need to get on board. More on sports talk, stay with us next hour tennis pro joining me live to talk about future of u. S. Open and new bourbon venture. We will talk with one ceo who kept employees on the payroll and bringing new ones on, mornings with maria is live right now. Maria european markets are seeing uptick this morning. The ftse 100 up 65, cac quarante in paris up 72 and dax index in germany high by 76. In asia green across the board. The japanese nikkei average overnight up half of 1 . Now the top stories that we are watching this morning. Major unrest on nations capitol as protestors attempt to create what they are calling a black house autonomous zone right outside of the white house with large garbage ca
Which most ceos sounded positive in some aspect of the business. Is where we are on the s p 500. Some Tech Companies leading that higher. We had alphabet coming out, very positive for the markets today. Some conflicting headlines on gilead right now, though i will say, different tests for different things. Some tests prove some things, other tests fail. That doesnt mean it wont be a tool in the fight against covid19. Thats for sure. The 10 year yield at 59 basis points. We saw a little bit of buying after the gdp data. We were obviously expecting a terrible number. Crude is trading a bit higher, but at 15. 46, nothing to write home about. A slightly comber vix today. A slightly comber vix today. Guy guy the Banking Sector one of the bestperforming here in europe today as we continue with the European Bank reporting season. Deutsche, standard chartered, butlays all trading higher, still bracing for the full impact of the virus pandemic. Heres what some of the executives at some of those