Target like i mentioned is up big on the numbers, but Abigail Doolittle joins us now. Give us the highlights. Abigail investors are excited about this stock having its best day. Expected, 24 than. 3 versus 8. 3 . The outlook is strong as you were mentioning. A lot of strength for target and it seems like folks are really stocking up through the pandemic. And they are also doing it from an online perspective. Helping lows as well, lowes a good, and they put out quarter as consumers were improving their homes. Up 35 versus the estimate of 21 of the stock being rewarded. Even with lowes bigticket items up 135 . Down seven point 5 , and it seems like the treasure craze fading out of luck. Investors are not positive on the idea that the Current Quarter could be difficult and they are bringing down supplies for halloween. There we have targets numbers. 11 , but digital is unbelievable up nearly 200 as americans are shopping from home. Brian cornell is encouraged by the online and encouraged
Chipmakers asias chipmakers. And oracle is an talks to purchase tiktok. Reports ap group surge in iron ore. We hear from the ceo this hour. It has just gone 6 00 a. M. And london. Dsia. M. In downtown everything comes back to the price of a bond for me in the United States of america. Stimulus, prevarication what does it do to the dollar, good morning . Annmarie the dollar is in focus. Putting outole research saying the tail wind be the u. S. Election. You and i wake up so early, we got to see some of what is going on in politics. The dnc kicking off its convention. How does this impact the market . That is what we will need to discuss. Will come off the top of the s p. I have get my one favorite line of the day. My quote of the day. Bondholderso says are like boiling frogs. A small kick in rates and they jump out of the pot. Boiling frogs. What an image. There you go. Whoever put that together, high marks on our show. Annmarie we are going to go down this path. My favorite this mornin
After the adp report, employment is still a bad number. From 43. 1, so42. 1 that feeds into the narrative that even if the economy opened up a little bit in july, we are going to see fewer people working, and we will probably see adjustments to peoples payroll forecasts for friday. Alix is that the one take away from today, the slower rate of job hiring . Michael that is the important thing. You can open up the economy and get a yield sitting in the middle of the street or a restaurant, but the people who serve you are not coming back as quickly as they would hope. That will slow the economy overall. Alix you mean in new york you literally have tables in the street. I appreciate that take them. One other sign of hope in the race for a vaccine you have shares surging to their highest in five years. I two shot experimental covid19 vaccine generated antibody responses in healthy adults that were four times higher than in people who have already recovered from the virus. I am joined by the
Over the weekend. We are inching closer to that alltime high when it comes to laterchina that was set september. Of focus. Was one those are the biggest movers here today and in particular, they may be looking at that emergency in tokyo and some of the surrounding areas as well as hokkaido. Those are holding amid some of and we are tensions watching currencies as well. We are obviously watching dollar china and dollaryen. You are seeing some of these china proxies following the ram be lower. Forward markete with plenty of action. Citigroup saying we are not bullish. Someg that there should be caution on these simmering tensions. Ringgit inthe particular are ones we should be focusing on. Be closed later on. End ofsed as we mark the the ramadan festival. Asiahief north correspondent is watching development for us. Where does hong kong stand . Questionsa lot more to the power play by beijing invoke its own security laws, basically being rubberstamped, to impose that on hong kong, bypassi
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