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
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Market another major selloff on wall street. Stocks temably tumbling s p tumbling but check out what happened on the year this has only happened 17 times before going back to 1962. Brian kelly, what does this tell you about the market well, it tells me we are in for some tough sledding, a lot of turbulence. What is interesting, that bonds and stocks did Different Things than they should have done there are a lot of people in the market, when stocks are down and bonds are supposed to be up. They used that as part of their port foal yoan when things get out of whack, they have to balance that. This feels like the end of february, beginning of march gold didnt do well, bonds didnt do well the only class that was up was bitcoin. That seems to be a safe haven. Jeff, what did you make of that when we talk about safe havens, it is not necessarily negative health care outperformed and utilities outperformed so it was the usual suspects but tech not being a safe haven, that speaks to the statis
Bounce back in the worth session in more than a month pete, i began with you he said the top of the market was on september 2nd, that the bubble has already popped. Were now in the midst of an enormous tech bubble ipo mania, extraordinary valuations and new metrics for valuation, the more fanciful an distant, it seeps the better the stocks performs. Is he right . Are we in the midst of an enormous text bubble, pete i think we are in the midst of certain sections of text that are definitely in a bubble right now, scott theres no doubt about that. We look at some of these names that have absolutely soared to the up side. We all know those names. Zoom would be the poster child you go across the board and say theyre in the right place at the right time but are they fairly priced or are they a little bit in that bubble area i think many of them are but right now, scott, its about growth and there has been growth and cash and last week we heard wre rick riether last friday and youre looking
Rose. Microsoft saw a better First Quarter revenue, helped by demand for Cloud Services as more people work remotely. Sales through september topping 37 billion. Melbourne, the merge from a melbourne emerges from a strict lockdown. Ours and restaurants are reopening, even home visits are allowed. Shery lets get you started with a check of the markets. U. S. Futures opening lower, down. 4 . This after stocks fell to a three week low in the regular session. We had cyclical stocks taking the brunt as virus cases continued to climb globally. We have the nasdaq composite pulling back of yesterdays losses on the deal around amd. Durable goods orders coming in better than expected. Lets see how things are shaping up for the asian markets. Here is Sophie Kamaruddin in hong kong. Sophie we are seeing losses continue here in asia. Chip stocks very much a focus after amds deal to buy. Earnings. We have results from sony, zte, as well as budweiser asia to name a few. And a straley or, we have had