Shortly. Onhave got hopes of progress a vaccine and signals that they are making progress in terms of the u. S. China trade tensions. Both of those really firmly supporting the risk rally that we are seeing. Let me show you the state of play with the stoxx story. The back ofming off record highs in u. S. Stocks. The good times might not last, according to morgan stanley. They are saying the market is vulnerable to shocks, especially rising rates. Treasuries are on the back foot as we speak. We are looking at a weaker greenback. 830. Dollar at 1. 1 yeah,ps a little bit of a strange one given the wider risk appetite. The folks at pimco saying the gold rally is it played out yet is not played out yet. They believe gold remains attractively valued, especially in the context of low Interest Rates. Here are some of the stories we are watching. Both of the u. S. And china are seeing progress under their phase one trade deal. They are committed to the success of that. Senior officials from the
In terms of pmis. May look ata data august manufacturing pmi, 51. 7, in line with expectations. Economists were expecting 51. 7. The dollar dropping to a two year low. U. S. Features climbing after chinese manufacturing data that indicated exports are underpinning a recovery, and the euro leading the charge against the dollar. The weaker dollar fueled commodities with copper climbing. Lets get to the bloomberg first word news in london, this is laura wright. Expectgermany does not economic fallout from the coronavirus to be as bad as previously thought. The updated forecasts are officially released today. Europes biggest economy has staged a rebound after collapsing in the Second Quarter. Global trade is on course to recover more quickly than the 2008 financial crisis, according to germanys institute for the world economy. It said shipping volumes are back at levels faster than it took after the lehman collapse. Argentina has received support to restructure its overseas debt , that pav
Continuing to be all about tech. Surging since the best monthly performance since 2000 u. S. Equity futures, youll see at this point you are looking at some green arrows across the board. Nasdaq indicated up. Dow is up, so is the s p 500 well talk about zoom. It is those Technology Stocks leading the way. Looking here to date, they are up more than expected. Looking at the treasury market, it looks like the 10year is yielding around the same amount of 0. 726 . Zoom, huge news. Right now, top single stock of the day is zoom the stock is on fire that may be the least impressive thing. Jumped over 300 year over year. Free cash flow up 2,000 year over year. New customer subscriptions delivered 81 of the Revenue Growth and less customer churn than expected. Kelly will join us to dig through the quarter at 8 30 eastern time stock up 80 right now how would you like to be in a business where your Free Cash Flow was up 2,000 it sounds like a kids lemonade stand. Thats what has happened to zoom
As an ecommerce site when youre talking about doing that what youre actually doing is youre strengthening the monopolies that these Tech Companies already have the stranglehold they already have and by going around using the full force and might of the u. S. Government youre preventing any kind of foreign competition to companies that are not benevolent companies or companies that have abused their power in the past and will only continue to increase that abuse as they are the only game in town not jeffrey what about that point that ben is making here i mean these moves are actually antitrust or anticompetitive practices but are being issued by Big Government instead of another company do you see it this way as well. Ben is absolutely right and ill tell you Something Else is absolutely right is that the spokesman for the Chinese Communist party i hate to say. You know when the communists are preaching markets and competition and the u. S. President is d is is using a wild experiment in
That this is just another example of how the u. S. Is violating its own free market principles. Because as a dummy so zizi once again proves that the socalled freedom and security are nothing but an excuse for the digital gunboat diplomacy pursued by some us politicians. Do this type of bullying d is a blatant denial of the market economy and various competition. That the us has only has advocated. And joining us now to discuss is boob us coast investigative journalist ben swan and Jeffrey Tucker editorial director with the American Institute for Economic Research thank you both for joining us but i want to start with you here because we know youve been very critical of the u. S. Stance on Chinese Companies including this move over to so does this latest statement i mean he just matched it over ali baba does it surprise you. It doesnt surprise me it disappoints me i continue to be disappointed by these decisions by the Trump Administration really to take the stance look i have a huge p