Republicans want pennsylvanias mailin voting process declared illegal. One of the president s most loyal supporters says it is time for mr. Trump to move on. Stephen schwarzman says the outcome of the election is certain today, and he is ready to help president elect biden. Global news 24 hours a day, onair, and on bloomberg quicktake, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. Im Mark Crumpton. This is bloomberg. Vonnie it is 1 00 p. M. In new york, 6 00 p. M. In london, and 2 00 a. M. In hong kong. Im vonnie quinn. Welcome to bloomberg markets. Here are the top stories we are following on the bloomberg and from around the world. Astrazeneca and the university of oxford the latest to deliver positive vaccine developments. Shares are lower today as analyst question some of the findings, although there is an outperform on the stock. We will speak with Matthew Harrison about the study and environment. We are talking health care with larry robbins. His outlo
Cigna came in with great earnings and a revised higher fullyear forecast. The stock taking a bit of a dive down 2. 5 . 5 coming up, we will hear from the ceo David Cordani after that result. Guy lets talk about what is happening in europe. The oil sector is lower because of shell. The Mining Sector is down. Chinese pmi data was super weak overnight. That is what we are focusing on, particularly the manufacturing side. Weve got this sorry surrounding what is going on with the trade narrative. The lighthizer deal, basically the chinese arent convinced. Volume is reasonably good today. We are seeing a big moving yields, as you can see. Bonds are bid, yields moving lower. We are 41 on the german tenyear. Chinese data is feeding into that story. Treasury yields moving exactly the opposite direction you would have thought if the fed is going to stand pat from here. Keep an eye on the 97 level on the dxy. Eurodollar, 1. 11. We are absolutely flat on the session. Vonnie the fed cuts for a Thir
A slew of upgrades on facebook is it a big thumbs up for the stock from here . The Halftime Report starts right now. Its great to have you with us on this thursday. Our Investment Committee today, joe terranova, steve weiss and john and Pete Najarian and Portfolio Manager ann brown. Alphabet, amazon and intel all set to report earnings after the close. It could be a big day for the markets tomorrow, depending on what these three say pete, your feelings on amazon. I think it will be very interesting because of the fact that everybody weve watched this thing move all around it, and now all of a sudden youve got sort of the government kind of coming at them in some ways as well. I think its going to be very interesting how they put this out there. I still think you look at aws. That really is what amazon is, and because of that, they are a cloud company, the biggest there is and how well are they doing there, and if they do as well as i expected they would after you look at microsoft and
Theyre about to make a big bet on all Day Breakfast. Will this be the move that finally turns things around for the fast food giant . Or is it just too little too late . We have both sides of yet another heated debate on mcdonalds. Everybody, you either love it or hate it right now. Nobody is lukewarm on mcdonalds these days. A lot of people like breakfast for dinner. We will see. That big selloff in commodities. Keeping an eye on that for you. Gold seeing the longest losing streak since back in 1996. Well discuss whether the strong dollar and the commodity drop could actually delay a fed rate hike. Oil just closing below 50 a barrel. Well start, though first with the tech sector. Getting hit the hardest today after apple and others reported disappointing Quarterly Results yesterday. Apple and microsoft are the bottom performers on the dow. Yeah we had those two plus go pro and yahoo. Theyre all down today. And go pro now has turned positive. It got slammed hard initially after reporte
To be. In fact a very good week overall. The ten year note yield hanging in there not really that much of a reaction to those jobs numbers despite the fact that it does appear to be coming down that being a percentage for continued fed tightening as you see wti and brent crude gasoline prices are a big thing this morning growth slowed more than expected stock futures still pointing to the higher open. Plus a retail bright spot shares of lululemon jumping 6 strong same store sales and strong online sales. And Hurricane Harvey infrastructure hit ports are closed refineries and gas stations are flooded. Also new warnings from a flood damaged Chemical Plant were going to start with the u. S. Economy which added 156,000 jobs in the month of august. That was less than expected as the recovery did appear to slow a bit. The Unemployment Rate ticked up to 4. 4 . All three major averages in the stock markets at least coming off their first across the board august gain since 2014 and futures are