Senator ted cruz will join us on why he thinks there should be more backlash for tech power lunch starts right now welcome to power lunch. Im dominic chu. Real estate, financials in the green as well. Technology stocks, though, the worst performing sector in the s p 500. On the dow youve got walgreens, the best performer after its Earnings Report this morning the company expecting 2021 Profit Growth despite the pandemic worst performer, it is vertech pharmaceutical kelly, ill send things back over to you. Thank you very much stocks well off their worst levels of the day. No stimulus, jobless claims higher so are covid cases earnings may be the only hope. To bob pisani for more on that bob. And, kelly, were near the highs for the day but there are reopening worries out there if you look at the markets you can see thats all the travel stocks are weak again so the airlines, expedia, weak, even work from home stuff like ebay, salesforce, same thing mastercard and visa and American Express
Washington as the next stimulus bill hangs in the balance, airlines are taking a hit as that october 1 deadline to avoid massive layoffs is fast approaching. Weve got the details and the very latest on that. Shares of the chinese electric car maker nio, i thought he was a singer they are up 400 this year. Power lunch begins right now got to play some neo now thank you, tyler the market vs thes have their en washington as the stimulus plan is being worked out. Will it pass lets get check with ylan. Reporter the conversations do continue. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is scheduled to speak tomorrow with the treasury secretary they already spent 50 minutes on the phone this morning talking about the democrats new 2. 2 trillion proposal. The bill does include some white house priorities, including 25 billion in aids to the airlines and extension of ppp for the hardest hit businesses and 182 billion for k through 12 education. There are al some democratic must haves such as 436 billion in stat
U. K. Sounds a note of optimism. Make my day. Tough words from saudi arabias oil minister. Whoever gambles on this market will be quote ouching like hell. The under an hour away from start of cash Equities Trading in europe. Lets look what we have. Futures not all that convinced in any direction. Weakness in markets yesterday and equity markets, and nasdaq. Ar in u. S. Futures flat and mixed. We do see nasdaq futures heading to the upside. Because ofnificant the selling we have seen. Concerns about concentration and previous gains in the tech sector. We are digesting what we have heard from the fed. In assessments of weaknesses the u. S. Economy. The fiscal boost that will be needed. Lots of questions over the fiscal side of things. Modest gains coming through in asia. Asian stocks of around 0. 4 . The south korean market up a fraction of a percent. Elsewhere, fairly flat markets. Won up to anean eight month high. Dollar weakness part of the story. Keep an eye in oil prices. We mention
Any new stimulus in sight. And that tiktok trade, you cant really trade it, can you, because its not a public company, but bytedance is formally seeking chinas approval for a deal with oracle and walmart, those are two publiclytraded companies. Yes, they are, jim lets talk markets lets start with that. You know, its funny, i dont know what you make of the pull back today, to the extent we are going to have one or what weve been seeing in apple lately. I keep wondering coming back to that softbank option purchase that we kind of we talked about it for a day or two and then we moved on. Right. You know, a number of people have come back on it with me, jim, and sort of said maybe it had a bigger impact than we realized in terms of the run up of some of these names. It did jack the market up in 1999 fashion which, you know, you know, led to 20002001 which was a disaster and it was frankly unnatural other than zoom almost every one of those stocks that they took up have been crushed apple t
Challenges theyre facing in q2 from a production standpoint we think it might there may be a few things at work here. The pain from having production shutdown is clearly, you know, probably more than an annoyance. I think people signing up to the tesla dream longer term dont doubt tesla has the liquidity to ride it out and could access more without a problem but i think elon, part of his part of his style has been kind of lets play to win, a play to win strategy, a play to dominant with, how can i say it, wanton disregard for traditional business communication norms and while that will ruffle some feathers along the way, many investors absolutely adore that and see that as a strength so investors, in a way, the starting up earlier and mitigating the cash burn with the potential liability that all auto makers face by maybe starting too early and contributing to some persontoperson contagion so it sounds like i mean, absolutely i think everybody agrees with you that his ability to play t