Rose. Microsoft saw a better First Quarter revenue, helped by demand for Cloud Services as more people work remotely. Sales through september topping 37 billion. Melbourne, the merge from a melbourne emerges from a strict lockdown. Ours and restaurants are reopening, even home visits are allowed. Shery lets get you started with a check of the markets. U. S. Futures opening lower, down. 4 . This after stocks fell to a three week low in the regular session. We had cyclical stocks taking the brunt as virus cases continued to climb globally. We have the nasdaq composite pulling back of yesterdays losses on the deal around amd. Durable goods orders coming in better than expected. Lets see how things are shaping up for the asian markets. Here is Sophie Kamaruddin in hong kong. Sophie we are seeing losses continue here in asia. Chip stocks very much a focus after amds deal to buy. Earnings. We have results from sony, zte, as well as budweiser asia to name a few. And a straley or, we have had
American companies should move production out of china and back to the u. S all of this with the eyes of the world on jay powell in wyoming Steve Liesman has been talking with the most powerful central bankers and will join us in a minute but to e lolon where the president lunaunched a tweet storm. On september 1st, the chinese imports supposed to be taxed at 10 will be hit with a 15 tariff on october 1st, the tariffs on 250 billion in chinese goods that were already in place will go from 25 to 30 . And then on december 15th, all of the products that we import from china will start being tariffed the rate will be 15 instead of 10 . In the tweet storm, trump said that china should not have issued retaliation tariffs 75 billion of goods and called the move politically motivated we know trump was huddling earlier today with the top trade and economic advisors how to respond to beijings move. They were all there and just before or just as that meeting was happening, the president went on a
Earnings tumbled 26 for Carlyle Group you you have exits and new deals slumping. From new york, i am alix steel. Welcome, everyone, to Bloomberg Markets. From where we are now to where we were in 2011, when we had the s p downgrade, the u. S. Is completely different. Sitting in the chair now, looking at market reaction, you can feel the difference. Guy absolutely. The market is struggling. They are saying, we already knew this. But does that mean you can ignore it . Im not sure that you can completely ignore it. I think theres an underlying message here. There are three factors used here, in terms of the downgrade. One of them is clearly that the government is going to continue to spend. We will have bigger deficits, higher debt to gdp. I think that will have this Going Forward for higher Asset Classes. Is it real assets, things like commodities . I think that is something that will maybe percolate for a well. Alix in the budget deficit we do have, has that helped us since covid extend
Estimates thanks to surging mobile ads on the news feed platforms. The company is now turning attention to monday he tiesing messenger and whats app. Were starting to put some ads in the product just to see the basic parameters on how that performs, how people like the ads or dont how they work for businesses and just try to get an understanding of that. So were starting to run that across the world all this, of course, is the market is hitting record highs the nasdaq is on pace for its best month in about a year due in large part to the tech names. On facebook itself, lets start there. Weve been talking about monetizing the acquisitions for years. It is finally happening . Its incredible that it really isnt happening at scale yet. Theyre just starting with instagram. They have the other huge platforms with whats app and messenger. We dont know how well they will monetize instagraem, highly visual, great video platform we and others are seeing huge usage in consumption of videos the id
Oil inventories tonight. The market, futures higher as stocks break their losing streak glimmers of a plan macys adds a Top Executive and announces a further restructuring, how the new ceo is talking about those changes. Forecast in decline in teen anl u usage. Stocks are poised to open higher playing a big role politico, jim, says the big six as they call them, has a lot more than they had in july when it was just six paragraphs. I thought mcconnell saying there is going to be a debt ceiling not an issue was really important. And i think that can be an underpinning for a potential rally, given the fact that until he said that, i think that it was just well cast there may be organizational principles here. Im not saying that i think anything can get done necessarily on taxes im also saying were not going to suffer from a debt downgrader. You believe mcconnell i do. I think mcconnell is trustworthy on this issue. I really do. I know im out there on that. Politico at the same time as a p