Covid surges to its highest level since 2018 disney jumping after hours julia . Better than expected top and bottom line results. Ending the quarter with 73 million subscribers. The company also announcing it will forego its next semiannual dividend and thats due to the cause of coronavirus. Disney shares giving up some of those gains, now about 3. 5 . The ceo saying in the call going on right now, the disney direct to consumer business is its bright spot. The growth of disney plus speaks volumes about the strength of our ip, our unparallel granting franchises and creators, all part of the disney difference that sets us apart from everyone else and when you look across our full suite of streaming services, we have exceeded 120 million paid subscriptions worldwide. Meanwhile, a smaller than expected loss. Losing 2. 4 billion due to covid, but down from the 3. 5 billion. The Company Also Reports that they are reassured by booking trends at Walt Disney World and urging california to allow
Its been a wide range today. Former citigroup ceo sandy weill will join us to discuss the water shed moment at his former company which just became the first major u. S. Bank to appoint a female ceo plus, well speak with jason robins from draftkings ahead of tonights nfl kickoff. And we are counting you down to some exciting earnings after the bell today including peloton, oracle, and chewy. Two out of three are big stay at home winners plus an interview with chewys ceo as soon as the numbers hit the tape lets get straight to the market in the final hour of trade another volatile session on wall street mike santoli tracking the action for us what caused the weakness here in the last few momentors so . That morning rally was really limp it did not pass any of the tests. It stopped where yesterdays highs were nobody had any faith this was really going to be upside momentum then you had a rally in the treasury market. Yields got compressed a little bit. And the dollar is also been higher
Election that may lead on for a while. Jimthan joining us now is karen of morgan stanley. Lets start with that question on the election. So many things we have been told to care about have not ended up mattering. Is the election any different . The election will matter, i just dont know when. Going into the election, there will be some risk that needs to be taken off the table, but when we think about both candidates, what is the main driver for the Economic Policy . The pandemic. Do we get a vaccine, second lockdown. That will be the main driver. If you think about a bride and presidency, you have to see growth coming from the fiscal side, expansion. If it is a trump presidency, probably more from the private side. Either way, both politicians have a plan to generate growth. It is up to the voters to decide which is better. I think both are going to matter. The point that another person brought up earlier, if there is a contested election, thats a problem. Markets can deal with uncert
7. 44 . As you noted before the yield curve. Steepening and a rally in the financials you mentioned that june 10 was the high that was the day where the markets had their maximum enthusiasm about the strength of the recovery and how fast it would be that was the peak where the come back of value and cyclical sectors. That seems to be the dynamic and the push for which stocks were preferred and the market seven days in a row of records is not to be dismissed guys the intraday record high in this session and well have to see if this continues . Yesterdays high is around 3,500. Coming up, well talk about the abrupt halt to the sports world. We ha we have fed president s and the interim ceo of tiktok. What a story it has been and a soap opera all week long we are learning more in the details in the sale of tiktok after walmart confirmed it has teamed up with microsoft sources tell us that walmart ineshlly wanted to be the lead buyer together with what was alphabet and soft bank coo and ran
Nevertheless, the dollar weakness theme is there. And the german tenyear yield. We are seeing a bid on the bond market. It kind of keeps determining what you want to do next in terms of so many of those asset classes. It is friday. And one of the critical things happening is that sports is back. Being on lockdown without sports was really hard. [laughter] but tonight the english rugby season[laughter] , the premiership restarts. We will talk to the ceo of harlequins. With us if youed have ever seen directly and you want to get a flavor for what it watch this player play rugby and you will get an understanding of just how big a sport it is. Anyway, we will get a sense of where the premiership is going. We will talk to what of the Sports Betting companies. Who we speak to now is david kelly, j. P. Morgan Asset Management. The market has taken a few hits this week. It is trying to. Push higher with equities but failed. What do you make of that . David it is probably too high to start with