Rips into Silicon Valley and defends the companys government work and no symptoms, no test. Why the cdc is quietly updating its coronavirus testing guidelines normally, jim, i wouldnt start there, but you were just tweeting a moment ago about how important testing is as the number the sevenday average of new tests in this country is the lowest since early july. I just think that the main gap in the system is you hear people say, well, my daughter just got it from college and weve been all trying to test in the family, its five days, we dont know what to do. I think that that halting nature of what to do has gripped this country and has changed it from a country where you go places to a country where you stay at home its a country where you do not travel overseas, its a country where youre frightened over a five and sevenday period endlessly and we live with the tyranny of it. Testing would end it, but its got to be instant. Cant be a lab a lab is a big, big obstacle. Yeah. We will talk
Profit increase as iron ore holds up amid the pandemic. Relations go even further. China says attacks on tiktok were bullying and rejection of fair competition. Shery lets get you started with a quick check of how the markets are trading. U. S. Futures opening flat after the s p 500 and other major indices ended the session mixed. We had a rally in Technology Companies with the nasdaq gaining 1 . Selling off sos the s p 500 was dragged a little lower. Still closing at the highest level since february. The third time in the past week that the index topped above its february closing record during the session, but ended below it. Still up more than 50 from its march low. We did get more positive ecodata. A gauge of Builder Sentiment jumping to the highest since 1998. Take a look at oil because that positive sentiment over the economy taking oil for a five month high, all the right now under pressure. Wti now headed towards 42 a barrel. See how things are shaping up, here is Sophie Kamarud
Said 7,000 jobs will go. Sending shares higher. Oracle takes on microsoft taking on tiktok working with groups to go up against microsofts offer. Democrats and some republicans take aim at President Trump in the Democratic Convention with a headline speech from former first Lady Michelle obama. Donald trump is the wrong president for our country. He has had more than enough time to prove he can do the job but he is clearly in over his head we have about an hour of trade under our belt here. Lets give you a sense of how the european markets are moving. I have to say there has been some improvement in the tone here we are about seven tens of one percent. We break that down, that gives you a sense of where weve seen some improvement the ibex 35, the spanish market in positive territory with the german dax a little under two 10s of one percent and the ftse and the cac trailing in their wake thank you, geoff. Travel and leisure underperformed up about half a percentage point overall. In cou
South korea, president moon calling the current Economic Situation as an emergency. The rhetoric is not positive even as what we see the beginning of a stabilization for some of these virus cases coming out of china. Certainly, the attention is on what regional economies are going to be able to do to support Economic Growth. Lets take a look at what we are seeing on the markets. A milestone for Chinese Markets in recruiting some of those losses since the Lunar New Year break, but we have seen very little positive price action since then. Absolutely. A little bit of a tempering of the positive tone we had seen. After we made up the post Lunar New Year losses, it is notable that you look at stocks on the mainland and they are trading lower, but off by just 0. 1 , so trying to hold in, trying to higherd continue to move with the cautiously optimistic town. Off slightly to the downside. Where we do see losses leading the way, that is in hong kong and japan. Both the hang seng and the andei
Apple warning that coronavirus will hit revenues. The drop in apple surprisingly small. Flat as investors see little new in this reboot. We are going to get 35,000 job cuts, though. And franklin buying legg mason. L scale project s of protect active Asset Managers from the storm ripping through this industry . From london, im guy johnson, with vonnie quinn in new york. We are counting you down to the european close on bloomberg markets. Vonnie grinding lower, but slowly. We are down zero. 4 on the s p 500 as more and more companies talked about the impact of the coronavirus shortterm and more intermediateterm on their businesses, including the apple, and of course which is what spooked the markets after a possible turnaround day yesterday. Apple said it would tried to china said it would try to shore up its economy. We are also getting some good earnings reports helping shore up some of the market. Gold futures above 1600 an ounce, and that is all just in the last few minutes. It does