Washington ramps up pressure on beijing. Goldman sachs raises billions for a new fund to focus on private equity. The move comes amid rising interest in secondary investing. Haidi lets look at what the day has in store at the sydney open. We are expected a muted start to trading in asia after downward pressure coming from the u. S. Session overnight. Restrictions continue to take place to curb the the Coronavirus Spread we are starting to see accelerate again, even as we get further good news on the vaccine front. Trading marginal. The u. S. Dollar held to the lowest we have seen since april 2018. We are also seeing the aussie dollar on the back foot. Nikkei futures look like they will see a muted start to trading. Shery lets get started with good news on the vaccine front. Pfizer says final Data Analysis shows its covid shot is 95 effective. The ceo of its german partner told bloomberg about plans for mass production. Our goal is to supply up to 50 million doses by 2020 which andd go
Higher density battery, greener, but the technological breakthrough towards that are still speculative so the market reacted negatively to that news. Right the bull case is that were seeing built today say that if you were to be able to cut the cost by 56 in three years, it would have enormous ramifications on volume, implications for margins and ostensibly positive for the stock. Cramer said it best this morning, if you were a believer going into the event, you remain a believer and if not, maybe youre not. Fair enough its absolutely true that the Battery Technologies worldwide tesla and everybody elses will continue to get cheaper and better thats a given thats just the all laws that support Technological Breakthroughs support that theory so thats already baked into the price. You know, all the disruptive capacity of the technology is already baked into the price theres Everything Else is just sexy brand, elon cult personality who of course deserves all the credit in the world he adm
Services committee and how the markets may react. Then we will talk a bit about this try yant stake in our Parent Company comcast, what is the behind the thinking at triant and what if anything may owe dur as a result. Teslas battery day, where that stock is trying to recover this morning after yet another tweet from elon musk which is part of the discussion today, jim. Whether or not hes setting expectations in a different way saying that some of this high volume production is a phenomenon still a couple years away. Hes giving us an underpromise, overdeliver, i think, which is highly unlike him, but it could make more a little more pizzazz. Theres been so much talk about battery day, maybe he lowers expectations an blow them out. People come out and want to buy tesla, want to buy amazon, positive notes about apple, positive note about facebook its just become the pattern youre waiting and waiting for when the selling is over and then, david, they cannot resist. Theyre down 15 and 17 p
Good morning, it is 8 00 a. M. At apple park in coopertino it is 11 00 a. M. On wall street, and squawk alley is live. Good Tuesday Morning welcome to squawk alley. Im jon fortt. Were going to kick things off with apple, just under two hours away from a big event this afternoon where we expect to see a new ipad and a new apple watch. I argue this is the most important launch for those products since their debut why . The environment that were for the ipad it is all about covid productivity people are trying to buy devices for work from home and school from home. They are trying to extend their lead on the tablet space and what about the watch its all about Health Monitoring as people work out from home and now look for additional tools to monitor their vitals during covid. Apple might provide the knockout punch and make things like googles proposed deal for fit bit irrelevant if it was a fortune 500 company, that would have put the ie had alo alone ahead. One star of the show today cou
I see Energy Leading the way welcome just like tyler said, tech is lagging the Broader Market right now. You can look across the sector board behind me. Financials down only 1. 3 . Look at technology its the worst performer down 5. 6 today even as the nasdaq hit a record high yesterday, its not just the big cap tech stocks selling off. The momentum names have been struggling for a lot of this week already take a look at zoom. The stock is up nearly 500 this year the this amounting to a pretty big pause. Same story with tesla. Its down 18 . Finally docusign is down about 10 . About 8 today 10 in two days and it reports earnings after the bell. Well have more on that in a moment first, lets get to bob for more on this market sell off today. Bob. Youre right, kelly this is largely momentum driven. Not external news events around the economy or vaccines like that the news has been positive let me show you the momentum etf. These are the Largest Holdings in the momentum etf. Look at stuff t