Ahead of remarks from fed chair jay powell on thursday. Investors are interested in the path forward. It is day two of the public and national convention. And mike pompeo on the list to speak tonight. Abigail doolittle has been watching the back and forth. Lots of earnings after the bell, new record highs. What are you drinking . You tracking. Abigail those earnings, right in the hub of technology. Hewlettpackard up 6 . Seeceo is saying that they robust demand driven by big data. Down 2. 8 . E company this may have something to do with the subscription model. We will have to look at that as more information comes out. Right now, a little bit of a decline in after hours. T also up sharply, up five point 6 . They beat the earnings estimate and revenue nearly doubled yearoveryear. Some of these tech companies, the stories of the haves and havenots. You were mentioning record highs during the day. That was the case. It was a mixed close even with those record highs. Index of the Mega Cap C
Is two parts to that last night i focused on the major averages are not representative of the broader economy. Something held true today with the dow and s p losing 4. 4 and nasdaq sinking 5. 7 after the dollar skyrocketed something we warned about because the fed made it confusing how much they will keep helping the economy. The stronger dollar isnt great but the incredible v shape rally in the stock market doesnt jive with reality in a world where we still have double digit unemployment tonight, though, we need to talk about the other part of the sentence the stock market doesnt reflect Current Conditions emphasis on the word current why . The market is a forecast machine across the ball and supposed to be appearing six to nine months in the future. Maybe the economy is in rough shape. Let say they reflect next february so what are the odds the economy will be in much better condition by then because some people would say stocks are saying. Thats the key question. Tonight, i want to
Kong and shanghai. 5t includes valuation of 22 billion, more than aramcos record sale. And polenta here is also going public. There were none the most valuable private companies. It could be silicon valleys biggest listing since uber. Shery we are seeing u. S. Futures coming online much flat after we had major u. S. Benchmarks ending the new york session mix. Investors are and waiting for fed chair powells speech thursday about the longawaited framework review. Dow was pressured down. 2 , declining for the first time in four days. Gains andung between losses but managed to reach an alltime high for the third consecutive session. Six sectors were higher, five lower. Energy was actually a drag on the s p 500. Take a look at what oil is doing. Pretty much flat right now. This of course after surging to the highest level since march. Not to mention gasoline futures were also at the highest level in five months. We have hurricane lower rattling towards the u. S. Gulf coast. More than 80 of
Installed within a whisker of februarys alltime high. The cash trade is less than one hour away. Your are your headlines. Germany extends its Job Support Team until the end of next year, spains or rules out another National Lockdown as cases rise. Britains vaccine bet, the u. K. Backs a plan for a dnabased maxine. We look at a 50 million rates for a solution. And caveat emptor, u. S. Consumer confidence drops to the lowest level in six years. We will get the latest french figures out this hour. Just under one hour away from the start of cash equity trading in europe. Lets look at how futures are trading. Right now across europe, we are seeing slight green arrows. And i mean slight. You can call dax futures and euro stoxx 50 futures unchanged. In the u. S. , we see most futures contracts falling this morning, although also very slight drops. S p futures are unchanged after another record high yesterday. Nasdaq futures gained about 1 10 of 1 . Anna, what do you see on the gmm . Anna feel
Good morning, everyone. This is bloomberg surveillance. I am Francine Lacqua here in london. The market is taking in a few things, european stocks dropping due to these new travel roles. Now lets get to the bloomberg first word news in london with leighann gerrans. Hi, leighann. Leighann good morning, francine. Israel and the united arab startes have decided to talks. The two sides will hold a range of talks in the coming weeks. In the meantime, israel has agreed to suspend its efforts to annex part of the west bank. Palestinian officials quickly criticize the move, calling it a betrayal. The u. S. Is adding france and netherlands and malta to its quarantined list. People now have to isolate for 14 days. It comes as the u. K. Has even more lockdown measures and even tougher penalties for ignoring social distancing rules. Fines for not wearing a mask will double to a maximum 3200 pounds. Lai kong media tycoon jimmy accusing china of arresting him on trumped up charges. Lai pushed back a