Another day of dragged on stimulus talks, john. Intel not a small factor in the trade. When i think of volatile tech stocks, i tend not to think about intel. Look that two year chart ups and downs. Its like an obstacle course, a tough mudder or something. Last quarter, it was about the supply side and intels manufacturing. This quarter the surprise was more around demand and the extent to which enterprise and government just isnt buying in the data center. Cloud picking up the slack that has an impact on margins. Of course, we have the pc stuff going on which is largely a tail wind they havent for a long time but theyre not buying them in the enterprise as we would expect people are not in the workplace. People are adjusting the way they work. That does have an impact on intel. A lot of balls in the air here this volatility predated, bob swan particularly on that manufacturing side but now hes got all of these other things to deal with as well investors looking for clarity around what
President is insisting something can be ahead on this and nancy pelosi is pretty much only thing stopping that. We are hearing that nancy pelosi and treasury secretary mnuchin will be having more conversations today on that i dont know where theyre going. It is a program often reminded me but the priorities for that spending. In the meantime, the debate over a facebook and twitter trying to silence those who want to pass along and retweet or recomment on this New York Post story. Now, a Facebook Twitter both are telling folks that look we are not shutting down this story just trying to make it difficult for people to sort of carry it on and pass it along to others there are enough doubts about the story we cant pounce it. And conservatives saying you wouldnt do this if individual or roles were reversed nay. Edwards lawrence following developments us joins us out of washington. Hey, edward. Major backlash and threats from u. S. Republican senators possible regulation over big tech giant
Is really iffy. Jonathan for the Federal Reserve, it is the shift from the realization to accommodation. Everyone has spoken about this, that today is too early to announce forward that to announce Forward Guidance. Tom i totally agree. A giant of the richmond fed made very clear, steady as they go is what we will hear from chair powell. Jonathan what an agenda this wednesday down in washington. Lisa we are talking about the big four tech companies, all of the ceos testifying in front of an antitrust committee of the house. Republicans on one side questioning them about stifling republican voices. On the others, questions about stifling competition. The president is traveling to texas to talk about energy dominance, with just three days left until the federal Unemployment Benefits go out of effect. Jonathan look forward to full coverage on bloomberg tv and bloomberg radio. Lets get the price action this morning. Equity futures up five points on the s p 500. In the bond market, improvin
Higher by 35 after the s p snapped a fourday winning streak yesterday, the dow, nasdaq and s p 500 still on track for third week on gains this week, boosting the American Economy, the white house working on another round of stimulus reportedly to the tune of 1 trillion. We will talk about it. Meanwhile protestors taking to the streets for a tenth day in a row, mostly Peaceful Demonstrations happening from coast to coast as memorials are held for george floyd, clash of tech titans, elon musk is calling for the breakup of amazon. Meanwhile slack and amazon are joining forces to take on microsoft. Joining me at 8 50 eastern on powerful alliance. Getting make back to work, universal orlando opening gates to public and nba has plan to return july 31st. Mornings with maria begins right now. Global markets this morning with firmer tone, take a look at european indices right now, the cac quarante in paris is up 106, better than 2 and dax index in germany 213 points. European markets closing ou
So apple will capitulate on privacy in china. In ways that it would not dream of doing in the us. It is certainly subject to political pressure, differences in ways Different Companies regulated and will not fight beijing on these things. There are a couple other problems with apple that overlap problems with google and facebook. One is in terms of who gets what part of the innovation pie. One of the arguments when regulators say these companies are too big, we need to bring them to heal, make him smaller, break them up, they say this is a battle between regulation and innovation. I would argue these companies, apple is foremost among them, are implementers, not innovators. They are implementers of pretty much other peoples technology. You can see this playing out, there is a great story and headlines, the google battle and so now has a the to pick with a small innovator, a guy came up with a way to make smart speakers, very innovative company, came up a lot of technologies adapted by