Another bipartisan spending bill. The battle to replace Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg will be anything but bipartisan. The president said he will announce his pick on saturday. Joining us to talk about how the markets are digesting this news, bloombergs abigail doolittle. This is not what investors to hear. We got that big 200,000 number in the united states. 200,000 americans have died due to covid19. Talk to us about how investors are handling these continued mixed signals. Abigail that is a tragedy in the u. S. In terms of impact on the market, probably not so much. We are looking at the volatility on the backside of the huge rally in august. August was the best month ever going back to 2014. At this point, the nasdaq 100 where it was at the beginning of august. That slump that never deserved to happen according to some strategists has now been erased. Perhaps we are on a level Playing Field that on the day has taken the nasdaq and s p 500 down. You were mentioning the big drop for ap
Protected tries to of an old law that has protected facebook. The coronavirus takes a toll with tech leading losses. Earlier, apple cut its revenue guidance for the march quarter with the outbreak continuing to impact the iphone maker supply and demand. Impactful,navirus is but not permanently impactful. In other words, it is a temporary blip. On the demand side longer term for apple, i dont see any issues so that gives me a lot of confidence we will see a nice rebound when this is over. 20 of revenue, a huge part of the supply chain. If the virus isnt contained, this will be a problem and longer term, china and the u. S. Are likely to be at loggerheads. I think the virus could be a problem longer market thing. Is no better ceo to handle the current challenges then tim cook and while it is currently concerning, having him at the helm is very reassuring. It is quite hard to shift production in a number of weeks. Emily we got more reaction from the Senior Research analyst at cowan who jo
The coronavirus takes a toll with tech leading losses. Earlier, apple cut its revenue guidance for the march quarter with the outbreak continuing to impact the iphone maker supply and demand. The coronavirus is impactful, but not permanently impactful. In other words, it is a temporary blip. On the demand side longer term for apple, i dont see any issues so that gives me a lot of confidence we will see a nice rebound when this is over. The bad news is, apple made a big bet on china. 20 of revenue, a huge part of the supply chain. If the virus isnt contained, this will continue to be a problem. In longerterm, it china and the was a u. S. Are likely to be at loggerheads. I think the virus could be a problem longer market thing. There is no better ceo to handle the current challenges then tim cook and while it is currently concerning, having him at the helm is very reassuring. It is quite hard to shift production in a number of weeks. Emily we got more reaction from the Senior Research an
Hampered by u. S. China trade tensions. His comments from the Bloomberg New Economy Forum. But we begin this hour with apple. The company made news on two fronts this week. The first president trumps visit wednesday to apples austin, texas factory. Cook met the president to discuss keeping macs and iphones free from tariffs. The other news involved the way apple tests software. It is changing after a series of bugs marred the latest iphone and ipad operating system. Bloombergs mark gurman and d. A. Davidsons tom forte kicked off the conversation thursday. Mark so, basically, apples ios software has been bugging the past few years. This particular release cycle, with ios 13, macos catalina, it has been especially buggy. What apple is doing is going to make it so that engineers, earlier in the process, can determine what is working in order to hopefully come up with a much more stable operating system when they ship each september. Taylor tom, i know that you cover the fundamentals of th
Return of the mac. Apple introduces its 16 inch macbook pro. Starting at 2400. We will rate its function and design. First, to our top story, its all about disney. They signed up 10 million customers in one day of launching their new streaming video platform. Disney plus just became available yesterday in the u. S. And canada. The strong initial interest could lead disney to hit its target at 60 million to 90 Million Worldwide subscribers for its new Service Two Years ahead of the original 2024 goal. To discuss, we are joined by chris palmeri. With the stock trading at a record high, how much more was 10 million than what we expected . Chris a lot more. Hbs now, cbs all access, espn plus, the World Wrestling network, a lot of these guys have been in business for a few years and none of them have hit 10 million. Disney did it in a day. Its an incredible feat. Thats why you are seeing a record high. Going back to 1974, this is peak disney. Taylor we could say that all the technical glitc