Chips. And, Microsoft Online Game Services hitby by an outage. Dropping amid a tuesday. N big tech the ecommerce giant amazon facing an antitrust complaint from the eu abigail, walk us through the factors dragging stocks down today. Abigail another mix today. Another down day for tech and the nasdaq 100 in particular having the worst two days and months. On the others, other sex is and indexes doing well such as the russell 2000 and other cyclically minded sectors. 4 . Worst slide, down about investors want out of this years stayathome trade. Investors charging forward into the reopening trade. Inout, inout. As for what was dragging on technology, you were talking about amazon. , in a, now down that youn, the eu talk were mentioning. This was the ultimate stayathome stock. If the economy is going to reopen, recover a little bit sooner than expected. Even as the virus numbers are worsening right now. Investors one out of amazon, one out of microsoft. Zoom, these stocks up so much on the
Tech and bond trades play out. Lets dig a little deeper into the virus story in the u. S. U. S. Infectious disease official Anthony Fauci says it wont be a pandemic a lot longer because of vaccine progress. Joining us now with more is bloomberg Senior Editor drew armstrong. We all want to have the monday where we were very happy about the Pfizer Biontech results. What if the state of play in the u. S. . Drew the state of play in the u. S. Is brutal. We are sitting case records because of uncontrolled spread in huge amounts of the u. S. Hospitalizations are higher than they have been at any point during the pandemic. During thet pandemic. Depend on who you ask, 1500 sorry, 1506 to two deaths in the u. S. Yesterday, a number we havent seen since the early days of the pandemic. Numberout every single or way you look at this that you can is going in the wrong direction right now, and newman the hospitalizations and knowing that hospitalizations after that, it is going to be a grizzly pictu
A glitchy start. Microsofts Online Game Service is hit by an outage on the same day it introduces its newest xbox gaming console. We talked to the head of xbox this hour. U. S. Stocks dropping amid a selloff in big tech tuesday. Amazon among those caught up in it, falling as the ecommerce giant facing an antitrust complaint from the eu. I want to get to Abigail Doolittle in new york. Walk us through the factors dragging stocks down today. Abigail another mixed today. Another down day for tech and the nasdaq 100 in particular, having its worst two days in two months. You have other index is doing well such as the russell 2000 and other cyclically minded sectors. Nasdaq down for the second day in a row, the worst slide since september 8. Investors want out of this years stayathome trade. The russell 2000 gaining an alltime high as investors charging forward into the reopening trade. We have seen this playbook so many times this year, inout, inout. As for what was dragging on technology,
Salesforce also up higher. A lot of those secondtier tech names also did well. 10, 15 or more. They are looking for what they think will be the next leg up in this market. Taylor we do a lot of analysis here that abd traditional models dont work anymore. But over the weekend, i was reading about the fed model, ifating around an idea that you use the fed model, equities could march higher than where they are right now. That is a note in the midst of some of the optimism, that catches my attention. Romaine jack, lets pick up where taylor left off, specifically around this idea of how you evaluate market and whether some of the core metrics for valuation really matter in the timeframe we are in. Into this next earnings season really paying attention to some of those more traditional metrics . Jack i think some of those more traditional metrics make sense still as long as you compare them to other metrics. I dont know if the core price to earnings ratio on the s p 500 tells me a whole lot
And inflation hopes are fading fast. Then President Trump steps up his attack on his potential election rival joe biden, calling on china to launch an investigation. Later, apple made a pricey gamble on the iphone 11 camera as more people get their hands on the device, we will ask if the gamble has paid off, but first, lets get you a quick check of how markets are trading at the moment. We are seeing u. S. Futures currently unchanged at the moment. It is still early in the session, but this, of course, coming after the s p 500 rose the most in a month. We are talking. 8 gain for the s p 500 as we had Week Services sector numbers, the weakest weve seen in about three years. That, of course, sort of raised odds the fed could be moving, and that led to investors pricing and more rate cuts. The dow gaining 122 points, and the nasdaq leading those gains with gains of more than 1 . We also had financials higher, but a little bit of underperformance that we saw against the broader markets as