Deal. No let up in germany. Angela merkel ruled out further loosening of measures after europes largest economy records the biggest spike in cases in four months. Asian stocks trade mixed following a fresh record on wall street. European futures point to a positive open. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to the program this wednesday morning. Lets have a look at terms of breaking news. Notes coming through mace maersk. The fullyear numbers, 6,000,000,0007,000,000,000. This is new guidance coming through. That is interesting in itself. The guidance we previously had in the year had been withdrawn by this business which operates 20 of the world container fleet. They are giving us this new guidance here. Looking at the underlying profit numbers for the second quarter. This is the backward looking part of it. The underlying profit data is 359 million dollars. They have done better than the estimates. We will be speaking into the management of maersk later on in programming. We have u. K. Ct
Today. So much smoke and haze. A lot of fire shop on the infrared satellite and a lot will continue. My satellite may not move. I will have to toss it. The system is stuck. Cordelia junction and 238 and bay bridge, where would you like to start . The Cordelia Junction because we have a truck accident on interstate 80 at 680 and that has made a slow traffic coming from fairfield and vacaville mostly fairfield and the backup is not that long and not quite into vacaville pick a big back up there. Slow traffic on highway 4 this morning because of earlier wrecks from pittsburgh into concord. The big 80 at industry pick look at all this slow traffic. This is not typical because of an injury crash there clear at industry. You may want to consider using an alternate route. Get on the freeway in union city and avoid heyward on 880 s. We will begin with breaking news where fastmoving flames near vacaville have burned homes or loose money. There is some injuries as well. The fire vacaville is par
Colleges are told to offload holdings of mainland companies. Australia signs a deal to make any covid19 vaccine for all. The government will distribute should it prove successful. More vaccine optimism playing out in australia. Lets look at how we are shaping up in terms of the u. S. Future session. Another renewed push of momentum in u. S. Markets overnight, hitting the record, propelled again by the same names. Also betterthanexpected u. S. Housing data. 2016 helping out sentiment, as well. We have positivity when it comes to the active futures trading at the moment. The nikkei 225 trading in chicago, looking flat at the moment ahead of a trade balance numbers, as well as machinery orders. We do have the topix, best performer in terms of Global Markets so far in this month of august. We are looking at broad weakness when it comes to the u. S. Dollar. The dollar sinking to his lowest levels since may of 2018. Im worried about the u. S. Economy with yet no relief package, stimulus pack
Carpet with the stock winners and losers ahead of hollywoods big weekend. Im melissa lee coming to you live from studio b at the nasdaq, tim seymour, and rebecca patterson, former chief strategist at bridgewater. We start off with the markets gold rush, the precious metal soaring to a record high today, topping the 2,200 mark for the first time ever. It just notched its best week since october and is up 20 over the past year. The latest rally coming alongside bitcoin which topped 70,000 during todays session. Ethereum also hitting a record. Stock market ending on a down note. The nasdaq shedding a percent while the dow shed. What does this tell you about the strength of this market rally . Rebecca, happy International Womens day. You too. What do you make of this gold move . I think what were seeing with bitcoin, gold and stocks today, theyre skpleetly separate. There isnt one big macro factor driving this. In the case of gold, id highlight two main things. China and china. Chinas Cent
Maria good monday morning, everybody. Thanks very much for joining us this morning. Im maria bartiromo. Im is monday, march 4th. I top stories right now, 6 00 a. M. On the east coast. Today stocks are indicated lower, take a look at futures, on the downside, dow industrials down 88, nasdaq down 12, s p 500 lower by 6 andahalf ahead of the first full trading week of march. Nasdaq on a tear this year, thanks to the power and promise of a. I. Take a look. The nasdaq up 8 andahalf percent yeartodate. But now one senator says its time to break up tech giants like google. Hear what jd vance told me about that coming up. More retail earnings on tap ahead of fridays jobs report and the february adp report ons wednesday. The labor departments job report coming out on friday, we have the preview on jobs coming up. European markets are mixed. The ft 100 in london is lower by 28, the dax index is lower by 9 in germany but the cac quarante in paris yo is up a fraction. Take a look at the asian indi