Tiktok is said to be making contingency plans for a u. S. Shutdown, joining microsoft to challenge a bid from oracle. Australia winds up turning season like never before with a recession and record government stimulus. Lets get you started with a quick check of the markets. We are seeing u. S. Futures opening slightly higher. This as we had another record high in the u. S. With the s p 500 soaring for a fifth consecutive session. We have financial and real estate sectors being the biggest gains. We have banks benefiting. Treasury yields were higher. We had the yield curve widening. Powell chair jerome speaking at jackson hole, conveying a dovish and more relaxed approach. Higher yields leading to the dollar rebounding. U. S. Weekly jobless claims remaining above one million. Not to mention the economic gdp numbers contracting slightly less than forecasted due to oil prices looking like this. About 43 ag barrel. We had oil declining through the new york session as laura barreled into lo
Includes a long serving cabinet secretary. Critics say that abe failed to deliver on promises. And one of chinas is conglomerates says it is optimistic about recovery. We hear exclusively from them later this hour. Arey lets look how we shaping up in the asian sect session. A muted outlook when it comes to asia. Sophie that is to be expected this morning. Malaysia and the philippines offline, those markets closed. S p addingfutures, 1 10 of 1 . A muted start for asian stocks. Havee earnings sprint, we withnames reporting along Cooper Energy and australia. Lets focus on new zealand. Efforts being made for trading to resume as normal on monday. We saw them close to record high on friday. Operators saying it is working with Security Partners to implement additional measures. Arrangements are in place to allow trading if the website goes down. Japanese politics front and center with several names in the running to replace shinzo abe. Japanese stock volatility picked upfriday, the yen firmi
Second term. The president also receiving , the companytok suing the federal government. Lets talk about how the markets are digesting this. Abigail doolittle running us. Joining us. Apple has been one of the companies driving the rally and apple just notified some employees that they plan to reopen a number of retail scores by the end of august. Walk us through the day. Again, recognize. Hopes about a fast tracking of the vaccine and treatment. Abigail lots of optimism. The s p 500 up for a third day. While it is nice to think that it has some of the do with the fast tracking of the vaccine and plasma therapy, it is interesting that the only major nasdaqo close down, the biotech index. The nasdaq 100, the new york faang index. Course if youof own that stock into the close today, you are eligible for the 41 split which will take place next monday. That does not create any value but it seems that it is somehow more attractive. Certainly attractive, the fact that they plan to reopen some
Tiktok launches a legal bid to stop President Trump from imposing a ban in america. He says the app is a threat to National Security and tiktok says the bands peer politics. The president marks the official nomination at the Republican National convention by criticizing mailin voting and saying the opponents his opponents want to steal the election. Shery u. S. Futures are opening flat after solid gains for u. S. Stocks in the new york session. Record highs for the s p and the nasdaq. We had optimism over vaccines and treatments for coronavirus. The s p 500 saw most of the sectors in the green. Small cap biotech got big moves from the authorization of convalescent plasma for treating covid19. Vaccine developers tumbled on this new focus on plasma treatment. The dollar weakness we saw earlier in the session did pervak. Did pare back. Look at what oil is doing. It rallied and gasoline surged to a fivemonth high at the moment under pressure headed to the 42 a barrel level. Laurae storms m
Delays. Pres. Trump know, we did not do that at all. I want the post office to run properly. They are going to need more money if they are going to take intensive billets of ellis tens of millions of ballots out of nowhere. It is a part of the bill that the democrats dont want to make, because they want a trillion dollars to go to states that are run by governors who happen to be democrats, who have not done a good job for many years. Those are states that oa lot of money and need a lot of money, and they are talking about 1 trillion. The post office and the 3. 5 billion for the boats themselves. The votes themselves. Think about that, 3. 5 billion for mailin ballots. Shery President Trump right now giving a press conference at the white house. He is addressing questions about usps funding. Together thoseut two issues of mailin ballots and giving that funding for the u. S. Postal services. A proposed 25 billion financial lifeline. But china, saying the u. S. Would call with china about