On the consumer. We will dig into the fallout there as power lunch starts right now. Tyler, thanks. Welcome to power lunch, everyone stocks are selling off hard for the second day in a row. We are near session lows right now with the dow down about 600 points thats a 2. 4 drop for the dow for the s p the nasdaq down 2 today but if you add up yesterday and today, all three of these averages are down about 5 in just those two sessions. Take a look at some of the moves weighing on the dow. You have boeing, United Health, visa down 4 we were just discussing United Health a lot of different challenges there. Lets go to the New York Stock Exchange with a run down on todays selloff. Hi, bob. Kelly, an old saying on bleet if you cant trade on the fundamentals, trade on the technicals s p 500 the last two days this was yesterdays low, midmorning, another drop volume picked up, trading on technicals this happened a little while ago and the cdc announcementadded to new lows for the day. New lows
From istanbul to london to washington, our bloomberg voices are on the ground with this mornings top stories. We begin with a pause in the trade war. President trump hailed the signing of the 86 page document as an important step towards a fairer trade deal with china. We take a momentous step, one that has never been taken before with china, toward a future of fair and reciprocal trade as we side phase one as we sign phase one of the historic trade deal between the United States and china. Alix joining me on the phone from washington is shawn donnan, bloomberg trade reporter. What is the day to story the day two story . Some there are already question about chinas purchase commitments. We heard overnight a real emphasis on the role of the market in this, saying they will live up to these commitments if it is with Chinese Consumer demand and if the prices are right. That is not what the Trump Administration wants to hear. Secondly, a lot of tariffs remain in place, and there are Big Qu
Mester, president of the Federal Reserve bank of cleveland, a Voting Member of the fed. To start with what we were just talking about, the ism numbers this morning. Quite ugly, unexpected. New orders, production, and the headline numbers all the weakest since 2009. Does that shake your confidence that this will be a reasonably good year for the economy . Underlying fundamentals are so good, manufacturing has been weak for some time. Growth affects our manufacturing and export numbers, and also these uncertainty surrounding trade. That has affected Business Confidence and their spending plans. We see it in their investment numbers. Early on, when the trade war started to heat up, the firms that we talk to were telling us we are still on plan, it gives us some pause, is a concern, but we are still on plan with our spending. As it has gone on, they are rethinking their plans, and we have seen that in their numbers. I think the manufacturing numbers, obviously, a better number would have b
And lets get a check on the markets. Stocks are higher hitting record highs again today and get this, the dow on track for its best week in nearly five months there you see the industrials basically flat never the less higher. Welcome, morgan. How are you . It is great to be with you this friday afternoon. Record breaking rally has been led by the biggest names google join iing microsoft in te trillion dollar club for more on that impact from those megacap stocks and what theyre having on the market, were going to go to seema hey, morgan, the reason we care about these milestones is because alphabet and microsoft and apple collectively make up about 13 of the s p 500 and all three are sitting on gains for the year really setting the bar high for earnings this season. Now evaluation metrics for these three Tech Companies shows that alphabet is the only one trading at a discount to its five year average of 34 times earnings microsoft apple are both trading above their historic pes with a
We have been covering the economy, bringing you live coverage from beijing. In the meantime, this is what is happening in europe. Euro area november services pmi falling to 51. 5. Anything above 50 is expansionary but below forecasts. Again, this is for yourarea manufacturing for the month of november. Quite a lot going on in the markets. It is all about the ecb speech and Christine Lagarde. How she means new policies will be taking place. Stocks overall on the up. We had a similar rally when it came to asia. Pointing towards a marginally strong open in the u. S. As investors try to figure out headlines on the trade dispute. Say, a lot of the talk in beijing was on that. The dollar is mostly steady. Lets get first word news in newark city. New york city. I fear this was all going to blow up. Those were the exact words spoken by fiona hill in the impeachment hearings, that is what she told fellow diplomats but that she now understands why he was not involved in security or Foreign Polic