Are preparing to go to the polls to vote in a referendum on whether to replace the countrys pinochet era constitution the present constitution is considered by many to prevent social progress and justice the vote comes after a year of mass and rest against social inequality. A suicide bombing in afghanistans capital kabul has killed at least 18 people and wounded many more the interior Ministry Says the blast struck an Educational Center in a Western District of the city the socalled Islamic State militant group has claimed responsibility for the attack. This is d. W. News from bolen follow us on twitter and instagram at news or this is our website w dot com. Org. For. This week on the world stories. British sheep farmers fear for their livelihoods. Dangerous apportions in kenya but we begin in the south caucasus where han conflict between armenia and azerbaijan continued this week despite a cease fire the 2 nations from the former soviet union are involved in a dispute over the not go
World . And another heatwave in the northwest. Wildfires continue to rage in california and colorado. How technology can battle the blaze. But first, stocks ending the week mixed. We saw a tech slide. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi saying the divide still persisting in stimulus talks with the white house. Lets get the latest from bloombergs abigail doolittle. Abigail another bumpy one. Had decentay we gains for stocks. Options Expiration Date tends to bring volatility. We saw that into the close. Often you have traders that need to hedge on different positions around the options to the underlying security. The nasdaq 100 earlier today up pretty sharply, then closing down about 4 10 of 1 . A bit of a bearish reversal for the nasdaq 100. One of the big drags was amazon giving up big gains on the day. Ay may not have been as inspired as it was last year. Something we talked about earlier this week, since the stock was down both days of the event. Traders for whatever reason, you will see that
Secretary talks to cnbc moments ago. Shares of Morgan Stanley are slightly lower, it would appear, ahead of the open. The bank topped revenue estimates by a billion on what was stronger than expected trading revenues and ev price war elon musk cutting the cost of teslas model s for a second time in one week, carl meantime, guys, got to take stock of this selloff here in the premarket, jim general take this morning is that the market is now catching up to what we know has been a problem in europe, and these lockdown restrictions in the uk and france are getting more serious. Dollar strengthening, some believe, because the situation here is at least better than europe on a relative basis. I think were importing their negative ty. I dont think it is going to last you cant make any moves to the positive until about 11 00 when you start seeing their markets peter out. It is one thing, it is very frightening when you read what is going on there. It is obvious it is a second wave it seems mor
Good morning, everybody. Welcome to squawk alley. Im Carl Quintanilla with jon fortt a fortt. Weve seen risk off behavior in europe we watch both covid19 developments and system husband hopes. Dohm is going to break this down to start the hour. We were down in the early parts of the session so far. Just after the opening bell. 300 point decline. You can see here were still hovering near. 75 decline for the dow and s p 500 about 1 p as it has been for the past couple months now, the nasdaq has really been the outperformer or underperformer on down days as you can see here. Continuing in that trend today 11,616 there 1. 25 declines overall take a look at the nasdaq so far, were still continuing to kind of hover near the record high levels. Not so far away from them right now. Finding some support over the last couple of months here with the nasdaq now down 1. 3 there still is a renewed focus on many of the Technology Names that are driving some of the action for instance, the momentum tr
Much better to be honest about it and you know both candidates have talked about being tough on china weve definitely seen president trumps track record in terms of the trade war weve heard yet it biden talk about the fact that he wished prohibit u. S. Companies from abetting repression wanted quote at supporting the chinese Surveillance States also talking about imposing economic sanctions on beijing and so these are this is something that definitely is in the air although right now i think coronavirus issue is on the top of the lets put it in your i mean yeah i think as i said i consider my introduction and its a lot of written rhetoric because the captains of industry in finance have done extremely well in their interactions with china over the last few decades i dont think they want to see that change one iota so im on the one hand i think its very rhetorical. And in the end it incites passions and emotions but i dont see the c. E. O. s and president s of companies doing very much