A running mate. Waiting for news that bella reuss thousands are still in prison after protests against sundays disputed election. Homes and schools damaged beyond repair and a severe shortage of hospital beds when we called from the beirut blast cleanup effort to reveal the extent of the devastation. Reports of a social media post considered offensive to islam sparkle violent protests in southern india. All the sport the European Champions League return to action with an all new format 8 teams are in portugal for knockout tournament that will decide this seasons winners. Sen comedy harris has described this years u. S. President ial election as a battle for the soul of the nation the day after being chosen by joe biden as his candidate for Vice President biden and harris will make their 1st appearance together at a Democratic Campaign event in just under 2 hours time harris is the 1st black woman to be included on a major partys president ial ticket the 2 will deliver remarks in wilmin
Annualized basis. Slightly less bad in the estimates. They do expect a contraction of more than 20 . Nonetheless, the nikkei up 2 . You looking at u. S. Jobless claims and payroll, adding urgency around stimulus in washington. The snp active futures in the u. S. Up 1 10 of 1 . The dollar still a big story in terms of the weakness. 6. 97 . Offshore at stronger data suggesting the economic recovery in China Remains on track your the bloomberg dollar index flat. This is what is happening with the dollaryen, flat essentially. The pound on a tear. Have a the boe that will meeting thursday and no action is expected. We will look at some of the commodities as well. 56,10 year yield below yelled at 55. Today we are expected to get details around a treasury in cash issuance and the economic recovery plans in the united states. Thats whats happening with oil at 43 a barrel, down 6 10 of 1 . Lets get to first word news with Karina Mitchell in new york. Karina global coronavirus cases have topped
The best day in two months. This may suggest that despite the fact we have a huge gains to the mega cap stocks, there is uncertainty from whether there will be fiscal stimulus from d. C. , other earnings report, big oil doing poorly. Not a lot of cyclical bullishness at this moment. There are concerns showing through that haven yen getting such a big bid on the day against big tex strength. Taylor when you talk about that big tex strength it is the big tech strength is exacerbating the trend hows that faring as the winners continue it to extend the gains . Abigail it shows on a yeartodate basis. Apple is up yeartodate as a sign of the winners. Chevron, which also reported today, down more than 30 . If we were to take a look at this relative to the s p 500, we will see on the year apple and amazon up in a huge way. On the other hand, the s p 500 flat. The s p 500 equal weighted index is down almost 9 . This is the tale of two stories relative to stocks around 2020. The pandemic haves, t
The coronavirus marches on with u. S. Remaining in focus. Aussie prepares to meet with melbourne again under lockdown. The Health Care Sector sees his biggest deal this year. Siemens will pay more than 16 24 premium from fridays close. Shery lets get you a check of how markets are trading. We are seeing u. S. Futures addingng gains up. 1 , to that rally we saw on friday. Have seen the s p 500 rising for the fourth consecutive month. More positive sentiment over potential virus relief packages being released in the u. S. Not to mention the surge in tech shares. We had the nasdaq composite outperforming with Solid Earnings from tech giants. Apple, now the worlds most company valuable overtaking saudi aramco after posting other than expected results. Posting betterthanexpected results. See negativeo economic numbers out of the u. S. With secondquarter gdp seeing its sharpest contraction on record. Rating switching from negative to stable. Oil was under a little bit of pressure because of
Resee recovery in retail sales dow down 271 session lows 59 minutes left of trade the nasdaq has been the underperformer is actually off its lows were kind of moving around, as we speak, in the final hour. All the major indexes are lows ahead on todays show, well speak to mike sievert. Well get an upgraciointergrac sprint and the president of the university of arizona will outline his plan for the fall semester as cases and hospitalizations rise in that state. Well focus on the big stories were watching at this hour Steve Liesman with details on todays jobless claims will is digging into Big Bank Earnings and meg has details on johnson and johnsons results. But, steve, start us off with the jobs picture. You know, were getting two different stories from the jobless claims one of improvement and one where the improvement has kind of flat lined. Well take a look at the numbers. Claiming coming in at 1. 3 million. Above expectations dow just 10,000 on the weekly jobless claims thats kind