Corporate results come fast. The hiring trend on Second Quarter impairment and the cost of the pandemic. 6 00 a. M. In london, 7 00 a. M. In germany where siemens numbers are crossing the bloomberg terminal. This is amidst this is a beat. 1. 79 billion on the industrial businesses. The estimate was for 1. 19. They are reaffirming the 2020. They still reaffirm refrain from giving guidance for 2020. It is still very tough for them. The estimate on the numbers was for 1. 1 billion overall. Let me try and get those for you. Still no fullyear guidance. They see it comparable to crime this year. Still a moderate decline for 2020. Refraining from the guidance. Third quarter Free Cash Flow is 2. 46 billion versus 134 a year ago. 434 a year ago. It is a different business to the one they took over in the early 2010s. 2013 is when he was there. You have got a little bit of data to get through. We will talk a little bit later on. He is the ceo of siemens. Firstns us for the interview of the day.
Options. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to bloomberg surveillance. I am Francine Lacqua here in london. Now, there is quite a lot going on in the markets, simply because the stimulus in the u. S. Is getting people quite excited. Part of it is what we are hearing from Central Banks around the world, the projections. This is what the markets are doing overall. Stocks are turning higher. Gold at the same time is ascent, and then we have the word on the latest american stimulus package. We need to mention pound, rising against the euro, after the bank of england said it did not plan to tighten policy until the inflation outlook is more clear. Now lets get to the bloomberg first word news. Here with me in london is laura white. Hi, laura. Laura as fast as they can, but that does not mean safety is being sacrificed. Dr. Anthony fauci he hopes the vaccine is at least 70 effective, but he says he would still feel good if it is at least 50 effective. Classical history of viruses, particula
That Summer Vacation today, youre losing money, particularly if you are a tech investor. On this first trading day of august, the nasdaq aiming for its 29th record close of the year as tech giants from apple, like we were talking about, to microsoft and a whole host of other names, lead markets higher. We have the nasdaq up 176 points right now. Dow is up 274. Youve got to watch microsoft in this final hour. It is hitting a record high after confirming charlie gasparinos report that the og Software King is indeed in talks to rescue viral video platform tiktok from President Trumps threats to ban the chineseowned favorite of dancing teen agers. Of all the chinese apps, why ban this one . Charlie breaks it in just moments. And if the president does ban tiktok, will that be a shot across the bow aimed at china . We have team fox business coverage of the brewing tensions between the two superpowers. Our tech panel is here to tell you if we are on the verge of a high tech cold war and why t
Becomes a cash flow power house in your words. We think were seeing the part of the possible and the buzz kill of the probable coming together the worlds alarmer tam. The worlds most energetic, enigmatic, courageous ceo. A phenomenal human being in many regards, and then against that, and also frankly the product has a huge lead on anything else in the market on the other side of that to extrapolate that out, 10 or 20 years, investors are making a number of bets theyre betting on the legacy guys failing even if they spend half a trillion trying to succeed. And i think the big bet is against amazon, apple, and google nose are the things that concern us right now when you see the case there at 70, is there a symmetry on how good and bad it could get. If you lock most people in a room for a week or a month and say you need a 5,000 or 10,000 share price for tesla, they can dream the dream, right and you would have to have a path to get there. That may not be provable, right . What we are t
Debts are about 700,000. The Trump Administration dabs up its attack on chinese tech. Mike pompeo wants to cut ties well beyond just a campaign against tiktok. Alert on start with an the bloomberg. South korea announcing its surplus widening to 6. 88 billion. This is a recovery from the 2 billion level we saw in the previous month and recovery after logging a deficit in april. When it comes to the trade surplus, widening to 5. 867 billion. We have seen south korean exports slump, slowing in july. We are seeing an economic recovery in china and demand for semiconductors. Lets turn to Sophie Kamaruddin in hong kong for a check of the markets. What should we be watching out for in south korea today . Sophie we have more data coming out. Tourism revenue falling for a fifth consecutive month so the focus will be on the consumer sector. Of o have the likes reporting earnings. Consumer sentiment has rebounded for a third month in south korea and online spending will continue to be key as the