Recovery strengthening, thanks in part to a pickup in Consumer Spending. Has fresh hotp bind moves against beijing in the final weeks of his term. Eu are inks with the a crucial week. The u. K. Prime minister will have to amend his busy schedule. He is not isolated he is now isolating from coming into contact with a lawmaker who tested positive for covid19. Are at a juxtaposed moment. I concede nothing. There were many tweets, but that was the conclusion. The president concedes nothing versus the virus raging in the United States of america. But the president elect has a message for now. Lockdown, and thats critically important to sentiment. You look at michigan going into a partial lockdown. To that agenda . I will turn to the right camera. Trust thenley says recovery. Thats what they want you to do. Sell the dollar. Get all in. They want you to be overweight equity, corporate bond. The message is there, you should read the Bloomberg Intelligence narrative, it is not a v it is far fro
Good tuesday morning. Welcome to squawk alley. Im Carl Quintanilla with jon fortt and Julia Boorstin on this election day markets are continuing the rally we got on monday were close to session highs right now. Dow is up 665. Best day since june 5th for the dow and s p 500. Best breadth since april 8th nasdaq and s p 500 erased their october loss, jon, as were seeing things like yields go higher as well and the dollar weaken which is another sign that some of the imbedding on emerging markets going out of this election. Yeah, carl. Looking at tech overall and particularly big tech, its interesting the gap between microsoft and amazon lagging behind apple, thats narrowing a bit. Remember, you had apple above 2 trillion in market cap and around 1. 5 trillion now thats come down apple is below 2 trillion those two are still around 1. 5 alphabet lagging all of those year to date so what is surging today tesla is up 5. 5 sales force, cisco, micron, dell, if you look at enterprise space, tho
World is a good investment lets get straight to julia who has all of the details on this news. The big question of what content social media giants should allow users to share is in the spotlight as facebook and twitter limited the distribution of a New York Post story that claims to show smoking guns and video related to President Biden and his son. A story the Biden Campaign refute saying it wasnt asked about key items in the article twitter blocked the story on wednesday saying it violated its policy of distributing material with hacked material with personal and private information. This comes after President Trump filed an order that the scope does not permit companies to editorialize activity. Today it was said that he intends to move forward with a rule making. Now following this announcement, two democrat fcc commissioners have come out in opposition they say he should not do the president s bidding. This seems different in that twitter and facebook have sensored the distributi
Boris johnson sparked outrage. News out ofing south korea. We are getting the jobless rate falling to 3. 2 percent. The expectation was that the jobless rate would come in at 4. 2 percent so this is much better than expected. We are also talking about the sixth straight month of decline in jobless rates. That 270 4000ring jobs were removed in august from a year earlier. We know that south korea has seen its government really boost those job creation efforts not to mention we could have seen domestic demand being held by the Summer Holiday season and more jobs being available. The government pushing for a fourth extra budget. This is of course helping workers and businesses who lost income due to the latest restrictions and jobless rates. 3. 2 . In for august at watch out for what happens later in the following months given we have seen this flare up in virus cases towards the end of august, haiti. Haidi. Haidi pretty dire numbers coming out and we continue to watch what happens when it
Measures of the Federal Reserve is leading the way, after spending trillions buying Mortgage Backed securities, corn rat securities, Treasury Bonds all that sort of thing this is another arrow in its quiver that is not really been explored or to my ive been following these bites here, even explain what a main Street Lending facility will be, but the very talk of it did bring us off our lows. Again, just throwing that out there as one of the reasons why we dipped from down about 280 points to now down about 180 points. Lets get the read in the meantime about the worries for the Market Going Forward here, and that will be in another couple of hours or so, the president outlining his plans to respond to china, presumably on this crackdown going on in hong kong and throwing in their concerns the president has about how the chinese handled the coronavirus, something is up which has a lot of stocks that depend on trade with china down. Blake burman with the latest. Hey, blake. Reporter hi th