Todays action dow gaining 140 and nasdaq surging 1. 71 the market reflected everything going right, but totally obscured everything going wrong. Its a tale of two cities. It was the best at times and worst at times but on up days, we focus d on the best and ignoe the rest what do i mean lets start by going over the winners today to see what they are trying to say. You have to define them. They speak to you. The stars of reteail tell the story. The most important winner is amazon this morning, analysts who missed nearly the whole rally here took the recent pull back as an opportunity to upgrade it was very significant. I liked everything in the support from approval to the patience you see, he waited for a double digit decline before he pounced. Most people were flying. Not him. I like that. In recognition of the incredible strength with rapid delivery and the fly wheel approach he says buy amazon is there anything in this note actually, yes. You can make the same arguments about amazon
Of that will be technical selling. The bond market is a little bit unusual not so much happening in yields here, but in europe you are seeing pretty strong support. The time now for the market moving news from our new york team. We want to begin with china and that historic economic slump. Ae first contraction in backdated. We have our correspondent with all of the details. Mike it was actually worse than you expected, 6. 8 decline, the worst since they started reporting quarterly in china back in 1992. The economy has not contracted the fullyear basis since 1970s. We will watch that. One reason the numbers were not worse, if you look at the second number, smaller than expected, Industrial Production of on. 1 , factories returning to work. The problem for them is with the rest of the world unlock and there is nobody to buy their stuff. Consumers are not buying. Lockdowns were lifted but people are still reluctant to go out and spend. Retail sales down 15. 8 this is important because th
Developments and Governor Andrew Cuomo has been mentioning these developments. Now worry on the food side though. We heard that tyson foods is indefinitely suspending operations at that largest pork plant in south dakota and worries now, forget about whether you get pork or beef. Whether, if and when you get it. We could be looking at sharply higher prices because right now it is in short supply. Connell mcshane on the latest developments. Hey, connell. Reporter neil, we have widespread agreement whether it is governments or companies, about the economic damage being caused by this pandemic in the country where there are differences though is on the approach to how to reopen economies. Now, you mentioned, some of it is businesses versus government. Business us will make the own decision. Tyson is example of that. Suspension of these operations you mentioned is an indefinite suspension. The basic thing here. A lot of workers, so many calling in sick at that plant that tyson felt they ju
Exchange, where we bring you todays market moving news from all around the world, from hong kong to london, to new york and washington. Our bloomberg voices are on the ground with todays top stories. In asia, hundreds of thousands joined hong kongs biggest demonstration in months in signs that demonstrations will continue into the new year. Joining me is stephen engle. Give us the update. You know, this has been a protest movement that is now into its sixmonth, and i have to say, there is a bit of protest fatigue. People are tired of the violence. People are tired of the vandalism. They are tired of the disruptions to their morning commute. They are tired of the damage to the economy. But they are also tired of what they perceived to be an intransigent government here, unwilling to make any concessions to the protesters. That left this weekends big mark. A big question will there still be momentum for the protest movement, which has dwindled in size, but increased in violence . That an
There was much confusion this week about u. S. Policy toward kurdish allies in syria and to nato member turkey. President trump seemed to make a major policy shift by saying the u. S. Would authorize Turkish Military action over the border but later appeared to backpedal. We have more with two guests. Last year, there was the issue of the pastor held by the turks. The turkish economy went into a tailspin on the back of american pressure. This is a serious threat. The key to me is what is offlimits . In the previous statement from the white house, it seemed pretty clear that the u. S. Was saying we are not going to stand in the way of the turkish government doing what they want to do in northern syria. And now, he is saying yes, but if they do anything offlimits i have a difficult time interpreting what that may be. It seems that in the u. S. , trumps own allies in Congress Went up and said, hang on, these allies are key in the fight against the Islamic State, and the Islamic State is n