Claims to be slashed after 65 percent drop in revenue we have a lot to get to fill up get started. On thursday the u. S. Commerce department announced that the United States economy g. D. P. Plunged 32. 9 percent on an annual basis in the april through june quarter this is its worst 2nd quarter period on record where the previous worst quarter contraction was a 10 percent drop during the Eisenhower Administration in 1958 but these records dont they back to the Great Depression all hopes to end on that v. Shaped recovery is Consumer Spending which actually accounts for about 70 percent of Economic Activity it brought down the g. D. P. On wednesday the Federal Reserve chairman powell warned of the lasting damage to the economy of this expectation. Even with the improve Economic News in may and june overall activity remains well below its level before the pandemic and the contract could. Traction in real g. D. P. In the 2nd quarter will likely be the largest on record. Now this comes as r
Good morning welcome to squawk box here melissa lee is hanging out again with us. Becky is off today for some welldeserved vacation well see her next week. As joe said yesterday, one of the first down days weve seen in a while a little better s p up about 13 and nasdaq looking to open about 45 points higher also showing you treasury yields now you can see where those are standing well flip that around to. 628 on the 10year you thinking about refinancing a mortgage anytime soon, guys . Im as low as they go im good if you have an account where you can use assets for credit line or to make an investment or Something Like that, i remember two or three years ago, i locked this ridiculously low rate if they come to me again and offer another one, it will be lower than it was last time. It was like 2 or 1. 5 when you get money that cheap, dont you think you you are in the drivers seat when rates are this low i dont feel bad about borrowing money at rates like that so you are talking about get
Commerce department announced that the United States economy g. D. P. Plunged 32. 9 percent on an annual basis in the april through june quarter this is its worst 2nd quarter period on record for the previous worst quarter contraction was a 10 percent drop during the Eisenhower Administration in 1958 but these records dont date back to the Great Depression while hopes one day old on that v. Shaped recovery is Consumer Spending which actually accounts for about 70 percent of Economic Activity it brought down the g. D. P. On wednesday the Federal Reserve chairman powell warned of the lasting damage to the economy of this expectation. Even with the improve Economic News in may and june overall activity remains well below its level before the pandemic and the contract contraction in real g. D. P. In the 2nd quarter will likely be the largest on record. Now this comes as republicans and democrats are working on the one trillion dollar relief package on a looming friday deadline but it appea
In terms of an after hours session for us it certainly is so many Earnings Reports coming out. And four giant Tech Companies among them coming up on this massive show, fresh off earnings this morning, an exclusive interview with david taylor shares hitting a new record high today. The company saw consumers stock up on Household Goods amid the pandemic and then at the close, well get earnings as sara mentioned from names like apple, amazon, facebook, and alphabet those companies represent some 40 of the nasdaq 100s total market cap that is all coming up today on closing bell. Lets start with the markets the dow more than 500 points intraday swings today. Now at the moment down by 200 points mike, an intraday recovery inspired by the european close this was soft. Once we got that behind us, allowed us to bounce a bit it is true. The markets absorbed that weakness in europe as well as, of course, the ugly economic numbers before the open. Also i tested the recent lows in treasury yields w
Several aljazeera stothard been questioned by police in kuala lumpur about a documentary on malaysias response to covert 19 police say theyre investigating the report for sedition defamation and violation of the countrys communications and multimedia at in response aljazeera has released a statement saying it calls on the malaysian authorities to respect Media Freedom and desist from treating its journalists as criminals 0 has serious concerns about developments of occurred in malaysia since the broadcast of its want to an east investigative documentary locked up in malaysias lockdown focused on july 3rd when the documentary investigated why the covert 900 pandemic is forcing Migrant Workers into hiding the government put some areas of kuala lumpur with high infection rates on the locked out of people tested and some fingerprinted foreigners without valid documents were arrested malaysian officials and state television have criticised the report aljazeera as attempts to. Interviewed go