So obviously he said the crisis has devastated lives and livelihoods it has triggered an economic crisis with far reaching implications and revealed the inadequacies of the past meanwhile on tuesday taiwan said it was disappointed and angry with the w. H. O. For not inviting the country to join this years world health assembly. The ministry of Foreign Affairs expresses strong dissatisfaction that the World Health Organization secretary has yielded to pressure from the Chinese Government and continues to disregard the right of the 23000000 people of taiwan. Taiwan has been lobbying to join after it was able to contain the krona Virus Outbreak the country is now relying on its own efforts for production of a vaccine this comes as u. S. President donald trump tweeted out a letter he sent to the head of the World Health Organization highlighting some serious concerns over the response will he also threaten to permanently cut off its funding if the w. H. O. Does not commit to some major sub
Time now for our top market moving news from our new york team. Joining me Bloomberg Opinion columnist brooke sutherland. What were some of your Key Takeaways . Brooke i think what is interesting is target talks about First Quarter comparable sales being up, but nearly all of that was from digital. Digital comparable sales were 141 in the quarter. Those sales come at a cost. They are more expensive. The natural supply chain dynamics of delivering products to homes rather than having them purchased instore is more expensive for target, so you are seeing that market squeeze. Clothes,rent buying where target gets more of a higher profit margin. They were buying food any essentials. Is this a structural shift . Are people getting so used to ordering online that they will continue to order these items . They did also callout market share gains, which is key. Given Amazon Logistics troubles, are you going to be seeing customers rediscovering target and walmart, some of these longerlasting st
Corrupted you need to descend. To join us in the depths. Or im a bit loose shilohs. 5th of june but the one business show you cant afford to methamphetamine to stay open in washington coming up the Senate Banking committee question a 2 top ranking officials on a 2 trillion dollar relief package causing some stocks to slip but Video Conferencing serve at those have become extremely popular but how things are they and which one is best to use will discuss on a panel later show for you today. The less so and i write this. The World Economy faces a potential lengthy coronavirus recovery london based i. H. S. Market said it expects the Global Economy to shrink 5. 5 percent this year now thats triple the damage from the 2008 financial crisis and a new report by the World Economic forum surveying risk managers is now suggesting this will be a long lasting global recession a contraction for the next 18 months managing director of the World Economic forum saudia he said the crisis has devastate
Which means they were the vast majority of the comp sales the in store sales were. 9 . The stores fulfilled 80 of the digital orders in some way Brian Cornell said the retailer will spend 500 million from the beginning of march through july 4th on higher wages and other operational expenses related to the covid crisis so this spending goes beyond q 1 into q 2 not directly comparable with what we heard from walmart yesterday. The sales came at a cost their operating Income Margin was 2. 4 compared to 6. 4 in the same period last year and the gross margin rate was 25 compared to nearly 30 last year but then look at lowes, Michael Baker calls lowes perhaps the most surprising result of the quarter for retail their comparable sales grew more than 11 total up more than 12 in the u. S. Thats only the fourth time in at least ten years we think that lowes beat home depot in the u. S. Both retailers had identical online sales growth in the quarter of 80 but that is a huge growth compared to las
Facebook premarket, zooming after a big gain yesterday. Its Financial Report suggested some stability returning to the advertising market. Facebook getting 98 of its revenue from ads. This company is a truly global platform. Over 1. 7 billion daily users. Stocks up another 6 this morning after a gain yesterday. Look at microsoft. Big gain yesterday, modest gain this morning. Its close to its alltime high. It says the virus had little impact on its business. Up 1 , microsoft, this morning. Its true to say these trillion Dollar Tech Companies are again pulling in a big chunk of investors money. One more for you. Tesla. Yep, another big gain. Elon musk is furious at the california authorities for keeping his fremont plant closed. He calls them fascists. More on that in a moment. Look at tesla go, 854, up 54. Overall trn overall, its a down day. The dow is looking to be down 280 points. The s p down 33, and the nasdaq, despite the success of big tech companies, thats going to be down as we