Stephen mnuchin speaking on the phone today regarding stimulus negotiations with a promise to speak again tomorrow and new york city is back in had the coronavirus spotlight. People refuse to wear a mask still to come, coming up on todays show, embattled e. V. Maker nick la with new lows. Well ask the former auto executive what it all means for nikolas pending deal with gm. Plus, well speak with the newly minted president of shopify about the run that stock has been on. Up more than 150 . Well ask about the recent news of rogue employees stealing some Customer Data. Harl Harley Finkelstein will be our guest. We have the latest headlines coming out of washington, d. C. For us start with you, mike a little bit of low volume churning going on today. Maybe a little apprehensive. Kind of Holding Steady ahead of these couple of known potential catalysts, of course the president ial debate and the jobs number. After 4 two day rally, s p 500 year to date, train day, we kind of had that half 1
We saw a poll coming out of the weekend on sunday, a couple polls, actually, saying a majority of americans that were surveyed had very strong feelings about the fact that the president himself managed to contract this virus. Emily to a certain extent, it has served as a little bit of a wakeup call, if you will, that the president , with all of his security, testing, and the people that have been around him, even the most powerful man in the world can contract this virus. Can contract the virus. You see republicans. They have been sort of pushing forward and saying we are going to go ahead, continue with the debate, continue from what they can do with campaigning. Look over in the senate, where there is a huge debate going on right now about filling the Supreme Court vacancy. We have not seen any changes to that schedule despite the fact that we have three republicans who currently have the coronavirus and a couple of them sit on the committee that is going to be responsible for having
Francine we will have plenty more on that throughout the day. Lets get to first word news with ritika gupta. Ritika no murder charges in the Fatal Shooting of breonna taylor. A kentucky grand jury chose not to file the indictments against any of the Police Officers involved. A single officer was charged with wanton endangerment for firing into neighboring apartments. The decision has sparked outrage and renewed violence. At least two Police Officers have been shot. President trump says the Supreme Court will likely have to decide the outcome of the november election. Hes arguing he needs to confirm a new justice to replace ruth bader ginsburg. Hes casting doubt on the validity of the election, reiterating his criticism of mailin voting. Idea of challenging the virus is gaining. The study speeding up research but raises ethical questions about exposing people to a potentially fatal virus. Global news 24 hours a day, on air and at bloomberg quicktake, powered by more than 2700 journalist
Territory. The week has had news of ashares cell a share sell. China puts money on chips to counter rising pressure from washington. It has the same level of backing as the Atomic Program enjoyed years ago. Sophie lets get a check on the set up in asia. Some much awaited pullback on wall street. Asian stocks look set to fall. 1930still Holding Around levels and the yen above 106. But when it comes to stocks in china and hong kong, a drop is productive at least 1 . Softbank is said to be considering a bid for tiktok. In the Semi Conductor space, news that china is planning to support the domestic industry, which launched a billiondollar route in u. S. Chip stocks. Also in south korea, watching for any details of a potential in thecash handout budget that could be announced this weekend. A snapshot of the u. S. Close, the s p fell the most since march, and it was the biggest sincefor the s p june, the biggest drop for the nasdaq since march, with apples market cap falling below 2 trillio
Change his mind about approval. Latery powell will say that the u. S. Economy is improving, but has a long way to go before fully recovering from the virus. The st. Louisrom fed president this hour. Haidi investors are waiting to hear from fed chair powell. But we know the gist of what he is likely to say given that the commentary has been around how recovery will be, managing expectations. The recent fairly positive data points we have gotten. S p active futures after the session overnight really erasing some of those earlier losses as well. Some of the gains we have seen trading flat at the moment. U. S. Stocks fell. Could have been worse if not for that rebound in tech shares stemming the losses. It did get close to that threshold to be considered a market correction. 0. 1 ires down by should say by 1 at the moment. Japanese markets are closed for a second day this week for the autumn equinox holiday. ,ydney futures down by 1 trading in new zealand down by 0. 1 . Victoria has come o