Years before resigning to join the trump justice department. He was forced out after his refusal from investigating russian meddling in the 2016 election. That is our first word news. Im Mark Crumpton. Vonnie it is 1 00 p. M. In new york, 6 00 p. M. In london, and 1 00 a. M. In hong kong. Im vonnie quinn. Welcome to bloomberg markets. Here are the top stories we are following from around the world. Schools across the United States prepare for students to return in some form in the fall. Ill be speaking with authority else goes in garcia, the president of the National Education association, representing 3 million Public Education professionals. We will also be speaking with 2u inc. s chip pot check. Position be taking a on how to stop the administration from enforcing those visa rules that would Bar International students. Also discussing the ramifications of colleges going online. Shares of ncino surging today, 71. The ipo was priced at 31. I will speak with the companys ceo about its
Expected to drop 24 year on year. The futures are looking slightly lower, down four points. We are looking at some of the currencies. As david would say in the last hour, the bloomberg dollar index is on track for its worst july in a decade. A more dovish start from the fomc. No big surprises from the fed, but the lower mantra weighing on the dollar. The dollar index is flat, at least for now. Wellussie in his flat as aussieyen is flat as well. We move on to the commodities and the yield story. The question marks around oil were in focus as well towards the end of play yesterday. You saw a reduction in the u. S. By about 10 billion barrels. That gave some support to crude prices and wti, currently flat. Gold is now 5 10 of 1 . The 10 your yield on year, still below 60 basis points. 57 is barely moved, risch. Rishaad yep. Global coronavirus case is approaching 17 million. More than 660,000 people have died now. The states recording 150,000 fatalities. California, florida, and texas post
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
Something positive, right, with that rising case count hitting new records, it seems virtually every day, and deaths also starting to move up in knows hardhit states as well with hospitalizations thats certainly been a focus for Market Participants as you guys well know Scott Gottlieb who we follow closely tweeting about the remdesivir news, very encouraged but needs to be confirmed in a prospective trial, appears to be a receipt peck testify analysis of the face three data suggesting a survival benefit in severe Covid Patients. We have made the point many times it is only good news on remdesivir, but lets remember its an infused therapy in the hospital typically for people who are severely ill what we are hoping for and waiting for are significant antivirals that will have an affect on the virus far earlier in its course so that people will feel much more comfortable in resuming behavior because if they were to get it and these were to be available they could immediately take an oral
Good morning welcome to squawk box. Im becky quick with joe kernen and Andrew Ross Sorkin weve been on a bit of a winning streak up four days in a row. Yesterday the dow was up this morning, you are seeing a little pull back dow down s p down and nasdaq off by 172 yesterday, Goldman Sachs helped. Good news from moderna godm goldman came out with much better numbers than anticipated. Also looking at the trezy yield. The 10year is sitting about 0. 622 good morning. As joe mentioned earlier the twitter shares are lower after the company showed dozens of users were part of a twitter hack targeting some employees who had access to systems and tools. Among those hacked joe biden, jeff bezos, bill gates, elon musk all telling users to send massive amounts of bit koip to an address they are diagnosing the problem and will share everything once the picture becomes more clear if they got in through employees with tools and access to accounts that raises questions about security procedures at tho