Few sessions for tech stocks losing over a trillion dollars in value in just the last three days josh lipton is sorting through the carnage and has more josh thats right, jon bigtech names suffering big losses take another look here at apple, minhaj, amazon, alphabet, facebook and tesla just to put the plunge into perspective. The last three days essentially wiping out three weeks of gains. At the start of this year, these Six Companies were worth about 5 trillion. Their value then peaked at 8 trillion just last week. Now they lost about 1 trillion sounds like a lot, but also keep in mind, the remarkable runs these stocks have had. For example, apple is trading about 15 off its alltime high. Still up, though, about 60 so far this year. Same goes with amazon. Down about 6 so far this month, but the stock is still up more than 70 so far in 2020. Also, check out the smh, the etf that tracks the chips bouncing here this morning. Trading about 10 off its most recent high. Sector surge on th
Ahead of remarks from fed chair jay powell on thursday. Investors are interested in the path forward. It is day two of the public and national convention. And mike pompeo on the list to speak tonight. Abigail doolittle has been watching the back and forth. Lots of earnings after the bell, new record highs. What are you drinking . You tracking. Abigail those earnings, right in the hub of technology. Hewlettpackard up 6 . Seeceo is saying that they robust demand driven by big data. Down 2. 8 . E company this may have something to do with the subscription model. We will have to look at that as more information comes out. Right now, a little bit of a decline in after hours. T also up sharply, up five point 6 . They beat the earnings estimate and revenue nearly doubled yearoveryear. Some of these tech companies, the stories of the haves and havenots. You were mentioning record highs during the day. That was the case. It was a mixed close even with those record highs. Index of the Mega Cap C
Tom up mount marcy, down mount marcy, across saranac lake. Unbelievable. Jon ferro still on sabbatical. People say, why are you here . To be honest, its because i was moving. Theres a lot of that going on. While you were gone, we got some housing data. One of the things we got out there is a booming Housing Market with the haves. Lisa people who can buy houses will, although people who can be at work and avoid being tormented for being off for one week may do so. Maybe jon will prolong his vacation in order to not be lambasted for being on a sabbatical. What about you . Arent you going to do some portage . I heard you love that. Tom no, we are going to try to get the kids back to school and move forward. We welcome you back on bloomberg television, bloomberg radio. Everyone hearing about this challenge of virtual learning, back in the classroom. Simply getting people back to the office. The summary is it is not happening, is it . Lisa no. My youngest kid is beginning school today onlin
Dozens of earnings. Softbank. Cus on nextn move it on to our terminal chart that shows softbank. They have said they will buyback 12 of their shares. Up more than 40 percent yeartodate for softbank. Dollar has been firmly in focus, given what we have been hearing from the fed. The index is down. 4 . Looking for a fifth week of decline for the u. S. Dollar. Gold is up. You have seen a little bit of softness towards the end of the session. Can it break above 2000 and stay there . Crude is at 40 a barrel, up. 8 . There is concern. Is a concern in terms of the pandemic. Point. Own one basis look at lets have a the first word news, kicking things off with the global coronavirus case levels. Passing the 17 million mark. All out with a Record Number of deaths. California had its second deadliest days deadliest day. Texas, hospitalizations dropped for a ninth straight day. Almost 10,000 people in the u. K. A earlystagen vaccine. Almost 1000 new infections in germany. The australians have a cas
Look, any way you take it, employment in april was a disaster. We are looking at an Unemployment Rate that is likely approaching 20 . We get those numbers, the unemployment numbers for the whole country, next friday. However, got to tell you the backtowork movement is really gathering steam. States across the nation are modifying their stayathome rules. Businesses are reopening. Oklahoma reopens some businesses tomorrow. California will allow some elective surgery. This, however, is receiving mixed messages. President trump says georgia is reopening too soon. He says he strongly disagrees with georgias decision. However, he will still leave it up to the states. Heres a positive. The Field Hospital built specially for virus patients in houston, texas, may be dismantled, not needed, underused. Lets get to the markets. First im dealing with oil. Look at this. Moving back up again in price. 16. 71 is the production price right now, but production is being scaled back very very sharply. Sup