Colleges are told to offload holdings of mainland companies. Australia signs a deal to make any covid19 vaccine for all. The government will distribute should it prove successful. More vaccine optimism playing out in australia. Lets look at how we are shaping up in terms of the u. S. Future session. Another renewed push of momentum in u. S. Markets overnight, hitting the record, propelled again by the same names. Also betterthanexpected u. S. Housing data. 2016 helping out sentiment, as well. We have positivity when it comes to the active futures trading at the moment. The nikkei 225 trading in chicago, looking flat at the moment ahead of a trade balance numbers, as well as machinery orders. We do have the topix, best performer in terms of Global Markets so far in this month of august. We are looking at broad weakness when it comes to the u. S. Dollar. The dollar sinking to his lowest levels since may of 2018. Im worried about the u. S. Economy with yet no relief package, stimulus pack
The auto sector. Ford and nikkola news coming your way just about to flat line with 59 minutes left in the session. We have a big lineup of ceos coming up on todays show. Dan rosensweig on the back of cheggs earnings it is a moon shot. Then the head oof another stock that has been on a terror, henry ji, ceo of Sorrento Therapeutics and its a huge earnings news, disney, nikola and well speak with the ceo of ww right after the numbers hit. We have 58 minutes left of trade. Mike san totoli is tracking act and phil lebeau. B mike, start us off with the Broader Market it is flat. We alternate the days between when the indices look better than the majority of stocks and days like today when the indices are doing nothing but holding near the highs take a look at the s p 500 here we are on a year basis. You have the pop and turn pattern. You pop above the highs and then chops around right now were above that june high 3350 or so would be a 50 rally off the closing low for from 23rd that is 19
Yesterday, were up the inflation rate as well. They saw exports came in at 13. 3 contraction. The headline number, 16 point 60 contraction. 16 contraction. Tom the question is whether on the fiscal side they will need to do more. The markets. N with a mixed picture in terms of sentiment from investors. You have got some significant southgs in japan and korea. The asiapacific almost back to the prepandemic levels. 169 is what you are looking at. Over on the mainland we have got red on the screen. The shanghai composite is down. Mike pompeo talking about attempts to really divide the internet and the tech space between the u. S. And china. The foreign minister saying he wants to avoid a cold war with the u. S. Got earnings now, looking at those shortly. Seeing gains of. 3 . Looking ahead to jobless claims. The private numbers were a big mess. Jobless numbers later in the u. S. And then the perils friday. Atcan move it on and look the individual stocks. It is earnings season. We have had
In brussels. Then you rollover in the stimulus, and the struggle is to get to august. That is what they are going to do at the white house today to have senator mcconnell go up to. Ee mr. Trump this is a Republican Party in fullscale panic. Jonathan congress returning to work. A 2 trillion spread between democrats and republicans going into these negotiations. Lisa it will be really interesting to see what President Trump is demanding and what he is willing to give up. Lets start with what tom already laid out. 4 00 a. M. Eastern time or p. M. Brussels time, we get the eu leaders reconvening to try to get some kind of agreement. The signal is positive. The question is in the details, as you were talking about earlier today. We will hear from the white house meeting with mcconnell, as well as treasury secretary steven mnuchin, to discuss a new stimulus package. Very curious about the payroll tax cuts President Trump is demanding that has bipartisan opposition. Aftermarket, we get to kic
Rates on hold at one quarter of 1 . The rbnz saying they are going to be they are committed to reviewing their quantitative easing program. The policy committee reached consensus on this decision. They are saying they are prepared to provide additional stimulus as is necessary. All the economists we talked to the benchmark Interest Rate in new zealand staying on one quarter of 1 . Little to no reaction on the new zealand daughter new Zealand Dollar. 64 u. S. Cents. Tom lets get some of the views from our guests at the bloomberg summit. Sharing their views on the prospects of a recovery from the pandemic. I do not think anybody can be confident with the kind of uncertainties that prevail. I would put say is my odds on a v shaped recovery. How we are going to share the burden in a credible way. It is not just financial and fiscal support. It is also regulatory charges we have undertaken to support the economy. As recently as early april, i saw china could only i thought china could only