Breakthrough could happen any minute. Good morning, everyone. This is bloomberg surveillance. I am Francine Lacqua here in london. The focus of courses on the markets, because we are expecting a lot of earnings, banks, roche coming out, and later, u. S. Stocks. Poundlso looking at the on the back of the selfimposed brexit deadline. If you look at some of the earnings, they reignited a bit of concerns about the number of cost cuts and job cuts. Time, you can see european stocks down 1. 7 . Now lets get to the bloomberg first word news. Here is leighann gerrans. Hi, leighann. Leighann good morning, francine. Disappointed by the slow brexit trade talks, and a call with eu leaders, he said he will decide after this wiis key summit if it is worth continuing to work for a deal. He previously indicated the u. K. Will walk away if no agreement by october. Germany is still optimistic a deal can be reached. Always the right way to discount questions that can be difficult, and sometimes at the la
From apple yesterday plus, jim, fedex and adobe to kick around from last night. Wow i mean, these were congratulations gentlemen and ladies calls because the numbers were so unbelievably good, much better than people expected. Now, this is rather amazing, carl why . Because there were firms that upgraded and pushed and raised numbers for weeks and yet they were dramatically exceeded, fedex because of e com, 96 of the growth is e com and adobe because its how companies are able to digitize quickly, particularly retailers, in order to be able to take advantage of this this amazing wave, this amazing boom of ecommerce to the home because of the pandemic so how can there be such a structural thematically strong story behind ecommerce and packages and growth and the targets that fdx has pulled forward by years and all the good news today on vaccines and therapeutics well, i think whats really convincing here with fedex is that theyre talking about how theres actually a weak economy in the S
Services committee and how the markets may react. Then we will talk a bit about this try yant stake in our Parent Company comcast, what is the behind the thinking at triant and what if anything may owe dur as a result. Teslas battery day, where that stock is trying to recover this morning after yet another tweet from elon musk which is part of the discussion today, jim. Whether or not hes setting expectations in a different way saying that some of this high volume production is a phenomenon still a couple years away. Hes giving us an underpromise, overdeliver, i think, which is highly unlike him, but it could make more a little more pizzazz. Theres been so much talk about battery day, maybe he lowers expectations an blow them out. People come out and want to buy tesla, want to buy amazon, positive notes about apple, positive note about facebook its just become the pattern youre waiting and waiting for when the selling is over and then, david, they cannot resist. Theyre down 15 and 17 p
Table . Speaker pelosi says theres a chance she and the treasury secretary can still reach a deal later, pause for tiktok why a judge sided with bytedance and blocked the Trump Administration ban. Futures do imply a big open to start this monday morning of course, coming off the first fourweek decline of the year. Mike, you did some writing over the weekend. Largely about the degree to which september is doing the job its supposed to do. That being the sort of pause that refreshes the argument here is that if we came into september with the markets at record highs and everything looking very stretched to the upside and sentiment and the technical position of stocks and maybe even hopes for an immediate stimulus and this fourweek decline has largely reset a lot of those factors right. You have sentiment very muchal coo acooled off and huge short position develop in nasdaq futures and pretty much 180 degrees on that front. I would say back in the neutral zone, not necessarily super beari
Runs out and shares of Bed Bath Beyond are surging, the retailer reports comps of 6 , online sales soaring 89 , jim so earlier in the week, jim, and even last week you seem to be pessimistic about the prospect of a compromise coming together. Do you feel any different this morning . Look, i think the Airline Layoffs are looming large because with layoffs come a cut in roots, with a cut in roots is a pain point, but i think its the senate, we keep talking about mnuchin and we keep talking about speaker pelosi, but i think the senate is buying into the president s vshaped recovery and i think Mitch Mcconnell is buying into it which says why do we need more we have a v shape, its just Certain Industries that can be triaged. I know that the industries represent small and mediumsized business so im against that, but i would say in favor of the mcconnell position, at least if you are looking at the stock market, this set of earnings, now, that is not what they care about and i dont want to m