Fox friends he is considering delivering his Convention Speech from the white house, an unprecedented move. Joe biden is not even going to his own convention. Well get reaction from Deneen Borelli. All that and more on making money. Charles folks, major indices are marching higher, despite a early report from adp on jobs. That was a big disappointment. Stocks are climbing focused on the Stellar Service data and drop in crude inventories. I want to bring in spotlight assets shana disel, and phil blancato, mike lee, of mike lee strategies. Phil, let me start with you. I like what im seeing from Economic Data. We sort of wrote it off as a lot of states started to stall or pull back reopenings. Going back to the ism manufacturing data. All the Regional Manufacturing date, service data today, maybe the v is getting stronger, not weaker. What does it mean if it is for the economy and the market . Ebb tide becoming high tied. We were in the ebb tide last few weeks. Manufacturing numbers told
Doesnt hurt that they beat on the top and bottom lines, earnings per share at 86 cents versus 71, but the real big deal here was the settlement with hauwai is this the end of qualcomms Business Model they faced problems with apple refusing to pay them telling them that their suppliers refused to pay qualcomm. I will, some people say i hate to say i told you so no one hates to say that i did tell you so, qualcomm is really good at this legal stuff. They have been fighting the legal battles throughout their career tom brady, Fourth Quarter in the super bowl, you cant count them out. That is why the stock is up catching a lot of people by surprise, julia. That is right, just looking at the opportunities they see in 5g as that continues to roll out and the idea that maybe the regulatory hurdles are behind them they have the ftc case they won that is under appeal, but really notable looking at those two Business Models looking at the sale of the chips and the licensing. Yeah, the pressure t
Debts are about 700,000. The Trump Administration dabs up its attack on chinese tech. Mike pompeo wants to cut ties well beyond just a campaign against tiktok. Alert on start with an the bloomberg. South korea announcing its surplus widening to 6. 88 billion. This is a recovery from the 2 billion level we saw in the previous month and recovery after logging a deficit in april. When it comes to the trade surplus, widening to 5. 867 billion. We have seen south korean exports slump, slowing in july. We are seeing an economic recovery in china and demand for semiconductors. Lets turn to Sophie Kamaruddin in hong kong for a check of the markets. What should we be watching out for in south korea today . Sophie we have more data coming out. Tourism revenue falling for a fifth consecutive month so the focus will be on the consumer sector. Of o have the likes reporting earnings. Consumer sentiment has rebounded for a third month in south korea and online spending will continue to be key as the
Expected to drop 24 year on year. The futures are looking slightly lower, down four points. We are looking at some of the currencies. As david would say in the last hour, the bloomberg dollar index is on track for its worst july in a decade. A more dovish start from the fomc. No big surprises from the fed, but the lower mantra weighing on the dollar. The dollar index is flat, at least for now. Wellussie in his flat as aussieyen is flat as well. We move on to the commodities and the yield story. The question marks around oil were in focus as well towards the end of play yesterday. You saw a reduction in the u. S. By about 10 billion barrels. That gave some support to crude prices and wti, currently flat. Gold is now 5 10 of 1 . The 10 your yield on year, still below 60 basis points. 57 is barely moved, risch. Rishaad yep. Global coronavirus case is approaching 17 million. More than 660,000 people have died now. The states recording 150,000 fatalities. California, florida, and texas post
Wave. S fears of a second the u. S. Seeing 16,000 cases a day. Hong kong in the third wave right now. All youll futures elevated. You are seeing a risk off move today. Focus on the chinese story. We are seeing a down day even when it comes to chinese stocks. We will see how this plays out. Lower by 6 10 of 1 for the shanghai composite. Asia had their best Weekly Performance in five years. The csi 300 large caps, ada percent of the index has been overbought. Thats the highest on record. We are seeing profittaking here today. Shenzhen, more of that robustness. The most overbought on record. That is still going higher by 1 today. It seems like the bond market is at mercy with this rally as well. Bonds at 306 right now. Yields falling. Bnp paribas saying that 10 year yield could rise to 3. 4 . We are watching other markets as well. Hong kong is a focus today. We saw a Record Number of local virus cases, the most since the pandemic began. They tightened distancing rose again. 150 points low