Ecommerce the big baba breakout. We start off with the end of an era. Exxonmobil getting booted from the dow after nearly 100 years in the index exxons tenure as the longest serving dow component comes to an end on monday when salesforce takes its place. Exxons removal from the dow is nothing less than a remarkable sign of the times. Just seven yearsago it was the largest publicly traded company in the United States since then, shares have been on a steady decline exxon is down more than 40 in 2020, on pace for its worst year ever so is exxons removal from the dow a sign that big oil is dead money . Guy adami . I think so. Its something weve been saying for a while. I think they finally came to the realization that the worlds changed. Energy is not nearly as on the to the u. S. Economy as it was a decade or so ago i guess we have to make a choice between chevron and exxon. For whatever reason, im sure they obviously have their reasons, they picked exxon to remove i think exxons been in
Any sale must include a substantial payment to the u. S. Government viewed and results season continues. Bps dividend expected to be cut for the First Time Since the deepwater horizon disaster. We will look at the toll coronavirus has taken on a drinks giant. Manus is just gone 6 00 a. M. In london and 9 00 a. M. In dubai. There is no sort of outstanding alpha driver this morning. We are grappling with different things. The unilateralism is alive and where. Unilateralism of trump to stand the unappointed benefits, of trump to deal with tiktok. That unilateralism i think is fed w rather than the this is betwixt good morning. Good morning. Nejra i am with you, it is hard to see any great conviction or catalyst in the market today. The rally we are seeing in asia seems to be feeding off what we saw in the u. S. Yesterday in terms of tech stocks. Was it just about the stay at home trade . Apple hit another record. Also interesting what we heard from the rba, especially since you are seeing
Tom maybe we should get you out on tiktok to advance the show. This is an extruders story. It exploded last night with the prep this is an extraordinary story. It exploded last night with the president s comments. As you know, bloomberg reporting on the response from the chinese. It has been abrupt. It certainly is, a finders fee, something we have not seen in the past. For microsoft it could mean the deal of the decade. Lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news in new york city with ritika gupta. Ritika good morning. President trump may take executive action if congress cannot agree on a new coronavirus stimulus package. A president told reporters he might impose a moratorium on evictions and an act a payroll a payroll taxct holiday. That ant trump insists pickup in u. S. Operations has stalled, the u. S. Government if tiktok it said the money would come from china or from an american buyer such as microsoft. Earlier in the day, he said tiktok would have to close in the u. S.
With us. We welcome all of you to a news flow that is simply a cacophony. In the last hour, we really focused on the stimulus. In this hour, we got to focus on the fed. I downloaded tiktok this morning. Jonathan what was the first video . Tom unspeakable english. Certainly on bloomberg radio, it would be inappropriate. But the second and third video were the same way. Jonathan it is popular. We need to do a segment on irony. We are talking about forced sales, technology theft. The Chinese Communist party has been doing this for decades. The u. S. Administration has been talking about reciprocity. Now they are talking about, you know what . If we cant get access to you, you cant get access to us. Underwriting it all will be national security. That is the direction we are challenging here. To be behind microsoft, it seems. Cash, theyillion in certainly have the money to take a dalliance here. That really speaks within technology to finally use some cash. Lisa the question is, will they b
The dollar,ack to so it was not clear what the safe haven was today, and then the vix is lower. Lessinly pricing in a lot risk than we were even a few weeks ago. Murky in terms if the market is hoping for some stimulus to come in. Financials aret your outperformance on the day, probably with that very small uptick. Atlor the senior strategist invesco is still with us. I know you said you favored equities over treasuries, but how does highyield and credit look . I was looking at our highyield barclays index. I thought 500 basis points over treasuries looked at one point, and down further, we migrate. How are you viewing credit at this point . I think we are being incentivized on credit, and i expect we will be incentivized to own credit and i expect we will be for a while. These moves that presage a recession, and that is the time when you need to hold true and by Corporate Bonds and investments that always bemoan the low yields never seem to want to do so. You get the policy response i