Of tech trade war, while the streaming giant netflix misses estimates. Welcome to surveillance. I am yousef gamal eldin in dubai. Assetse risk eye firmly bid, the state of play of the s p 500 currently called substantially higher after of course the earnings picture continues to fill overnight, including from netflix, which came through with a miss. Latest lawsuit and the uncertainty in stride. U. S. 10year finally Getting Movement in the last 10 hours. We are at 81 bits, and the selloff really taking a little bit of momentum over the last few hours. Behold yield curve beyond five years is trading at four month highs. It is not a volatile rising bond yields. It is doing nothing to help the dollar, though. On the currency note, you have traders testing the chinese governments tolerance for a strong yuan. A major move in the u. S. Fx space keeps rallying, no matter what officials you doing. Gold getting a list as well, up. 7 . Keep an eye on that trade is what Billionaire Hedge Fund mana
Bloomberg surveillance. Im Francine Lacqua in london. A lot a focus is on the bank results yesterday. Many more banks reporting today with Technology Stocks and apple news. We expect a lot of earnings, and pound weakening, something to keep an eye on. Stocks,ook at european travel shares declining on concern of more lockdowns, but financial shares are climbing. Theyd are today, our active etf, new surveys say active equity funds underperformed in the first half of the year. Lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news. Good morning. Here in the u. K. , Prime Minister Boris Johnson is facing growing pressure to order a National Circuit breaker lockdown. The Opposition Labour Party is calling for increased nationwide restrictions for up to three weeks, after documents revealed the scientific advisors called for that action three weeks ago. The sprint to find a medical breakthrough to contain coronavirus stumbled this week. Eli lilly is the latest company to pause a trial as a safet
In the United States today, there are only 38 women serving as ceos of fortune 500 companies. One of those with the best track record is tricia griffith, ceo of progressive insurance, one of the largest Automobile Insurance Companies in the United States. She started as a claim adjuster and worked her way up to become in 2016 the ceo. Since that time, the stock is up more than 175 . My big mistake was, i didnt know her then and i didnt buy stock in the company. If she ever goes somewhere else, im going to buy that stock right away. So for those who arent familiar with progressive, and if you watch television you would be familiar, because you have a lot of television ads, right . I am just curious, why is it that Automobile Insurance Companies seem to advertise a lot . I see your competitors advertising. You advertise a lot. Is that because people will be guided in their insurance decision by the advertisement . Tricia it is just a really competitive industry, which is always odd becau
[laughter] one of the most powerful women in the Business World is ruth porat. She started as an investment banker at Morgan Stanley, rose to be the cfo, and was recruited away to be the cfo of google and now the cfo of alphabet. In that role, she has the normans influence at the company and has done a terrific job of making sure their Balance Sheet works well and that they are much better organized in the financial sense. I have no doubt she will be a power at alphabet for some time unless the next president of the United States says i would like her to be secretary of treasury. She would be a terrific candidate for the position. During this period of time google has done quite well , and alphabet has done well. Your stock is up 20 and i should say, from the time you became cfo, the stock is up over 200 and market cap over 200 . Then quite well under your leadership. But i am curious, are more people looking at doing searches now during this covid19 time than ever before or are people
Good morning and welcome to bloomberg survellance. Francine lacqua here in london. The interview of the day is when we have a conversation for the Vice President from facebook emea. That we also heard from ursula von der leyen, the president of the European Commission. 225 billionlanned euros in green bonds that may have an impact on markets. Later on we look at etf. Stocks are actually rising ahead of the Federal Reserve meeting. Treasuries and the dollar pretty much steady. Crude oil extending gains. Lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news. Ruled the u. S. Violated International Rules by imposing tariffs on china. It is unlikely to lead to changes in washington. The white house can veto the decision by appealing. It has paralyzed the wto by blocking new appointments. President trumps controversial pick for the Federal Reserve senateoes not have the support needed to win confirmation, according to the number two republican in the chamber, senator john thune. Received critic