Another one coming in half an hour from now. Lets go through the techs because they are obviously doing well. Apple, you have to share with apple, tens of millions of shareholders, up again 3 bucks higher, 137. Amazon, now well above the 3,500dollar mark, the company is worth over 1. 7 trillion. Microsoft, also worth 1. 7 trillion with another record high. Up another buck today at 228. We will bring you the rest of the tech titans in a moment, just wait till you see zoom and how much its worth. Politics, you are going to see a sharp contrast in Campaign Styles today. The president continues to fly all over the place answering reporters questions whenever possible. Hes off to North Carolina today. Joe biden will not be getting on a plane when he travels to wilmington, delaware. He never goes far and shies away from reporters questions. This is becoming a political issue, favoring President Trump, hes out and about almost every day. Joe seems unwilling to abandon his basement strategy an
Welcome to surveillance. Off to a firmly risk off footing and then remain so. Additional wobble coming through after news china is slapping sanctions on Lockheed Martin. Barely Holding Onto Gains here. Up by one whisker but the losses are heavy into deep in europe and asia. Looking at key earnings including the banks but also delta reporting numbers in a few hours. Eurodollar up, this is the story of Dollar Strength. You have treasuries play big after the open on monday. When california reintroduced some restrictions to stem the virus. 1. 2 . En brent crude down looking ahead to that Monitoring Committee meeting and the expectation is theres going to be some additional action. Lets get to the bloomberg first word news and get you the round up there round up there. China has called the u. S. A troublemaker which is undermining regional stability after the Trump Administration rejected beijings claims to large parts of the south china sea. The u. S. S china previous policy of not taking
New claims actually rose. And 17 Million People are still drawing Unemployment Benefits. I believe thats a negative for the overall market. Get to that in a second. Look at this. Amazon, apple, google, facebook, the day after the top executives took a pounding from the politicians, these stocks went up during those hearings. They are down in preMarket Action this morning. Hold on. All four of these giants will report their earnings later this afternoon. This is big techs big day. My opinion, these Companies Need blowout numbers to sustain their very lofty stock prices. Watch it unfold at 4 00 this afternoon on this network. Overall, i got a lot of red ink to show you. The dow is looking for a loss of over 300 points, down maybe 40 for the s p and off 131 on the nasdaq. Heres one of the negatives thats hurting the market. Emergency virus relief. It runs out in 24 hours. Congress is divided over how to replace it or extend it. Investors want more stimulus but theyre not sure they are goi
The dow is looking for about a 300 point gain right there at the opening bell. S p up about 34. Look at that nasdaq go. Technology is doing well, up 104 points. Thats premarket for the nasdaq. Now, lockdown winners. Clearly emerging. Lowes, the Home Improvement people, headquartered in North Carolina. Profit up 28 . We stocked up for the lockdown. Target, they really organized their online delivery and store pickup operation, lumped together under digital sales, up a whopping 141 . Walmart, same story. Stockpiling helped them, too. Amazon, kings of the online selling business. Boy, did they clean up. The stock is near a record high. And the netflix, well, they are the kings of the streaming business. What else are we supposed to do when we are ordered to stay home for weeks on end . There are a lot more virus winners and we will go through them throughout the show. Meanwhile, the revolt continues all across the country. Businesses are defying the authorities and opening up despite the
Some demonstrators across the u. S. Say that fed up with ongoing coronavirus restrictions. In some shops and schools reopened in germany one of several countries easing research. The grim economic fallout of the new coronavirus pandemic for 1st time in history u. S. Oil prices crashed below 0 dollars into negative territory on monday its just rebounded in asian markets to around 2. 00 a barrel but why did the crash happen in the 1st place well thats because theres more oil in the market because of low demand and produces a fast running out of storage lockdowns around the wall the response to the coronavirus have produced a massive slump in demand for energy u. S. President donald trump says the collapse in prices is short term and suggested that it could even be a positive thing for america. Based on the record low price of oil that youve been seeing. At a level thats very interesting to a lot of people were filling up our National Petroleum reserves through dziedzic you know the Strat