Conversation later this hour. Katie welcome to bloomberg markets. Looking at stock markets on this morning, you can see is pretty quiet. The s p 500 is unchanged, big tech is trying to stay green and the nasdaq is currently up about 0. 3 . We did have ppi coming in hot but a downside surprise relative to expectations. Thats giving a little bit of relief to the bond market. The 10 year yield is higher but only to the tune of about two basis points. Thats relatively quiet relative to what weve seen earlier this week. All eyes are on ai and and amazons annual letter. They say the Cloud Infrastructure will become an essential part of the ai move. They are optimistic that much of the world changing ai will be built on top of aws. We have more details. It makes sense that they would want that to happen. One of the things Everybody Needs to remember, amazon has a commanding lead in Cloud Infrastructure. The thing they dont have now is a very close relationship with openai. Chatgpt is the buzz
Bloomberg daybreak australia. The top stories this hour. U. S. Stocks game on bets the fed can pull up a soft landing. The euro slips amid signs that ecb may stay on hold following thursdays hike. Soren 25 on its trading debut, arm. U. S. Futures coming online in the asian session. Shery investors were really digesting strongerthanexpected numbers, strongerthanexpected retail sales, producer prices. Our consumers in the u. S. Doing betterthanexpected is the key question. S p 500 finishing above 4500 but the auto sector was under pressure today. Detroit carmakers are facing a threat of potential walkouts. Take a look at treasury yields because they were up across the board. We are watching the two year break even because investors are looking at the possibility of shorter term inflation so it expectations are growing. Above 90 per barrel in new york for the First Time Since november. It has to do with the supply picture later in the year. Arms trading debut, a jump of 25 . Closing at 63
Tells cnbc his government is opening an investigation into a report that there is a plan to devalue his countrys currency. Nobody will be happy about this but the good thing is they will not succeed. Qatar is an open economy benefits and rewards dont pay off for sodexo revenue and profits came in shy of expectations sending shares down in paris. Better news for bouygues shares hit highs not seen since 2008 as the Company Increases its gins were roughly an hour into the trading session in europe. Its ban deen a difficult coupl days in the u. S. The oil sector has been weighing in on stocks in europe, things are broadly shifting to the green. Theres a broad sweep towards the most positives for most stocks in the indices. That points to a stronger day for the Overall Index up 0. 4 . Now, just some of that has been led by the stabilization overnight that we saw in some of the asian indices. As you can see, the nikkei posted a strong overnight session, up 1. 5 shanghai a little bit weaker,
Been so much under pressure of late that rotation coming amid new fears about the impact of the republican tax plan. Joe, yesterday we give up 300 dow points today we give up 60 and now were negative by nearly 20. Has this suddenly become a sell the rip market becauseof fears over taxes i think that in the tech sector, yes, for the near term, thats probably the strategy longer term i dont know if thats the right play but i do think in tech thats what you want to do you want to sell into strength right now, but, again, thats a very short lived phenomenon, and i think everything thats going on this month is very short term oriented youre seeing a lot of moves in the Derivatives Market that are predicating what were seeing in the larger equity markets themselves, but its all short term in nature and once you flip the calendar into january you need to understand that the fundamentals will return in january. I hear you on that, but im wondering, stef, what happens between now and the end of
Technology specifically. We have investors and traders coming back and attack after that rotation out of it, a couple of times notably in the past week, most recently yesterday. The dow, not much changed, hitting a bit lower. Thats a different picture than we saw yesterday. Heres another way to look at it. You can look at it as value versus growth in this market. Heres a way to compare. The s p 500 pure value index and the pure growth index. In the gap between the two in terms of their percentage performance. And what we saw yesterday was the gap between the two, value beating growth by the most since the election. Its come down a little bit today, but still beating it by a fairly wide margin. Since again reflective of this rotation that weve been seeing again out of technology and into financials has been the trade. In terms of other groups on the move today, we are watching telecom and a number of executives are presenting at ubs conference today. Sprint, one of the sprint comments c