For a september quarter. There are also concerns about the ant ipo fallout. And america awaits the outcome of the president ial election, seven states now holding the keys to the white house. Wisconsin heads to a recount and others face challenges in court. Foropen here in sydney friday trading in asian markets, we have seen an eerie calm and trading across equity markets, and globally, on expectations that policy gridlock will me know extreme measures when it comes to the tax front being taken and more status quote when it comes to the visible markets. We are up. 2 when it comes to sydney, the in aussie dollar and commoditieslinked currencies it particularly well. We have the u. S. Dollar fall to its lowest in two years. The nikkei 225, we expect weakness going into the open but we have japanese stocks trading in the green every day of the week. Also watching the yen, but interestingly, as an election respirometer, we continue to watch price action in china as well as volatility in ch
Candidates were in florida yesterday with an emphasis on the latino vote in battleground states across the eastern will, minnesota, wisconsin, iowa. Eventful to say the least, but the number one story is the inability to capture a bid. We will have plenty of extra data checks. Lets get to first word news ritika. K cap nancy pelosi and Steven Mnuchin and are playing the blame game, minutia and accused policy of holding of the stimulus bill by refusing compromises, pelosi says the white house is not responding on a number of sticking points. Joe biden has appealed to hispanic voters, telling a rally that if florida goes blue, its over, indicating that biden and President Trump are virtually tied. Europeanrkel says the union should have acted sooner to control the pandemic. Saying that political realities a stop stems from imposing restrictions earlier. And shares of apple are lower today. Company reporting missed wall street estimates. Apple gave no forecast for the holiday quarter, but
Joe biden making that final push to win over voters just days before the election. Brian sullivan lays out the big guide in one big battleground stooit stat state. And well go live overseas into the deep dive an app hes success. Youre watching World Wide Exchange good morning, im dominic chu in for Brian Sullivan. Lets get right to how the money and the markets are shaping up right now as you have been seeing in the corner of your screen, stock futures are indicating a lower open, right now the dowism app isdow implie nearly 400 points. S p by about 49. And the nasdaq lower by 220. Well get in to that more. Stocks are looking to cap off what has been an incredibly turbulent week the three major indices are now done between 3 and nearly 6 so far in just that short time span alone. It is also the last trading day of the month and october proving to be a tough one for investors. The dow down nearly 4 , the s p down 1. 5 . And the nasdaq with a fractional gain, although we know the nasdaq
For those two companies, it was a tale of two different big tech quarters alphabet has certainly been the laggard this year. Underperforming not just its big tech peers, but the nasdaq amazon has been a standout, 70 gains. Alphabet had a low bar and amazon had a high one. Did they deliver we can look at a number of metrics, what i want to drill down on particularly is cloud. These are the companys newer growth engines cloud numbers came in only in line with expectations revenue up 29 year over year. Love large numbers but google cloud, revenue was up 45 and now the company is going to break it out as its own segment. Have a listen to what was said last night. Given the progress we are making and the opportunity for the cloud in this growing global market, we continue to invest aggressively in our gotomarket capabilities and extending the global footprint you will see information about the scale of our investments so investors are going to be able to see exactly how much google is inves
A hectic month. There is a lot of uncertainty with regard to the world in general. Jonathan jim b juncker joining us now. What a week in this market. The equity market breaking down by a little more than one and a half percent on the s p 500 but it is the absence of the bid in the bond market hitting the attention of you and i and everyone else. We are selling off, not driving yields lower. Yields are higher by four basis points. What is the signal you take away from that . Jim a worrisome signal. You are right, the fed is doing qe, buying 120 billion dollars of bonds a month, the stock market flirting with a 10 correction. That has all the hallmarks of a classic risk off rally, that bond yields should be falling as treasuries catch a bid as everyone rushes into safety. None of that is happening. The take away the market is still worried about uncertainty over next weeks election, uncertainty about the rising coronavirus, and potential or more fiscal stimulus and or inflation. All of t