No one knows them better than dan tillman. Plus, working from home, bitcoin and more. And demand for electric vehicles. We hear from the ceo. We have to get back to the markets. This is the top story of the markets ending the day near the session highs. Stocks tech stocks are ending high. President elect nominate janet yellen to be treasury secretary. So much news on the day. There is more positive news around vaccine. We have this big, cyclical valley. That brings another record high for the small caps. As you are pointing out, it has taken a few years for them to get a record high. Day, hitting the alltime high. The energy index is up. It will be interesting to see what is there and what happens in the future. Some are saying that the excitement around the iphone 12 is priced in and the buyers are stepping away. Nominate is likely to janet yellen, the former fed chair for treasury secretary. The markets took a move up. There was a moment where the s p 500 dipped ever so slightly. The
The measure of the ecb were the good one now it is up to the industry to be occur ageous. French finances a massive plan to support the economy amid a resurgence among virus cases siemens at the bottom after unveiling an increase to help fund its deal. A warm welcome to street signs. Lets kick off the show with fresh data just off the wires here the composite Pmis Services have come in at 51. 5. The august composite has come in at 51 dat 9. Almost slightly better than the flash number of 51 dat 6 new business, that has come in at 49. 8. Bang in line with flash estimates weaker than july new business, a little weaker. Overall, we are looking at growth territory for the composite as well as Services Sector within the eurozone mixed picture when you look at the country break down germany stands out as a bright point this morning italy and spain in contraction for the Services Sector. France remaining above the 50 mark for the month of august overall, the economy is slowing a little bit we
Considers a plan to order a for tiktok. Nership microsoft is in talks to buy tiktoks u. S. Operations. Of covid19 rising, but at a slower pace. Florida reporting record deaths. As of today, the 600 unemployment checks millions have been getting will expire. Next week, 200. To break down how investors are digesting this, abigail doolittle. We have to talk about this tech rally. Buteveryone, it seems, google. Abigail yes, a big rally for apple, amazon, facebook. Google the odd stock out. You and i were talking about quarters forblowup most companies. Apple, in particular, the stock had been up 5 , then in the afternoon around that news came reversed, and that is when apple took off, as though there was an invisible hand behind apple surging. It is hard to believe institutional money is buying the stock at a fiveyear high. They havent provided in outlook, but nonetheless, great results, each beating estimates. Apple and amazon beating, meeting or beating the adjusted earnings estimate pri
Major speech since stepping away welcome back from royal life encouraging lets get into your weekend girls to be brave and bold fraf forecast and this is typically early today starts now the hottest period of the year and this is not going to disappoint it is going to be beach and pool good thursday morning im weather all over the country phillip mena a few storms rolling through the im frances rivera. Cases rise as officials scramble northeast. An isolated storm in areas of to keep the outbreak from spinning out of control. North dakota the u. S. Reported more than 67 and then it builds through the new infections making it the midatlantic second highest single day total. The heat wave continues through much of texas and areas of the infections have now topped southeast. A few scattered storms in the 3. 5 mi confirmed great lakes but the big story, staying hot pretty much from coast to coast 165 new cases of Covid Infection well, at least its the peak. We got that. Right . Raising its
Covid19 throws the banks. It will be harder to hit that in 2020 we see the beginning of a Global Economic impact. Wpp shares plunge after the british media group plunge from a sales slow down and warns that 2020 will be flat despite the Company Delivering a solid set of numbers cfo tells me they are monitoring the situation in china with coronavirus. We dont see a slow down. We see a postponing or delays. We dont see a slow down in growth in china compared to 2019 urs futures pointing to a sharp open a california resident has contracted covid but does not know how the patient constituted. This could be the first time persontoperson transmission occurred in united states. For the first time, more new cases were reported outside china than inside. Norway, pakistan, italy and koran. Croatia, spain and barach also reported new cases looking at the stoxx 600 essentially flat the main benchmark now 1. 8 lower. 2. 2 investors pairing back losses and introducing more stabilization. The number