Good Tuesday Morning welcome to squawk alley. Im Carl Quintanilla with jon fortt. Its a mixed fwoog day retail earnings, amazon pharmacy, covid19 restrictions, fed speak. Were going to begin this morning on capitol hill as both Mark Zuckerberg and jack dorsey testify before Senate Judiciary on censorship, suppression, and, of course, the 2020 election our Julia Boorstin is monitoring this and can tell us what happened so far. Julia . Well, carl, senator Lindsey Graham focusing on what he sees as a need to revise section 230, thats the rule that protects social media platforms for legal liability for content. He says facebook and constituenter wetwitter were making editorial decisions and far more transparent standards are necessary. He called out the Mental Health risks associated with social media use. On the other side of the aisle, richard bloomenthal, he is calling for breakup of the platforms. Mark zuckerberg supports change to section 230 dorsey pointing out they need to walk a f
Going to know where we are tuesday night. Lets call it less than likely. Maybe somebody can disagree with me on that. We will go into wednesday and may go into november to get to a successful outcome. Jonathan that is the risk of this market, and it has been for the last couple of months. The other issue this market is grappling with at the moment is the breakdown of traditional correlations. Last week was brutal for the equity work it the equity market. Youve got no comfort for the bond market. Tom bonds really dont move today. It is a higher yield into the weekend. A less than correlated market. I would note the absolute stasis in strong dollar. Dxy, that blended Company Index against the dollar, 94. 03. That is a strong dollar. Jonathan weve got to talk about the weaker euro over last week as well. The Economic Data in europe set. To get worst. We have manufacturing set to get worse. We have manufacturing pmis in europe tomorrow. Lockdowns in france, lockdowns in germany, and the u.
Three months 9 million jobs added after losing 22 million in march and april. Right my fear is that this may make it so that the negotiators for the package drag things out because things are better than expected so it looks like you could make a case lets be more considerate about this that would be bad because this number does not include a lot of reclosing, the biggest increase line item was bars bars and restaurants and we know that that backfired. So i intend to i think that its really important to keep the fire to the feet of these Congress People because, boy, i just dont think i think this is the last good one bloomberg is going with the headline that says the talks last night were rancorous and really no signs brink of collapse is one of the headlines out of bloomberg. Yeah. You dont think that the strength of jobs number today, jim, gives the democrats any incentive to blink ive been debating that all morning and i think that you heard you heard Speaker Pelosi on our show tha
Testifiesller finally but his longawaited appearance falls somewhat short of democrat hopes. Shery we have breaking south korea gdp numbers for the Second Quarter. The preliminary numbers year on year are seeing growth of 2. 1 , which is better than the expected 1. 9 growth. It is also an acceleration from 1. 7 in the First Quarter. Quarter on quarter, those numbers also avoiding a technical recession after contracting 0. 4 in the First Quarter. We are now seeing quarter on quarter growth of 1. 1 , which is better than expected. It seems that we have seen more Government Spending and south korea. The contraction that we saw in deceleration in the First Quarter came from local governments not spending as much. Now we have Government Spending kicking and again. Also consumption being relatively resilient despite the fact we have been getting contracting freddie lacks exports contracting the last seven months. This has been a difficult environment for south korea. Investments have been fa
Alphabet and amazon report. Nejra welcome to daybreak europe. It has just gone 6 00 in london. Earnings onslaught is a great way to describe it. Roche numbers are coming through. At 30. 4lf sales come in 7 billion. The estimate was 30. 53. First half core operating profit. The red headline, let me get to that. View toits sales growth mid to high single digits. Thats very interesting. Raising its sales growth view to mid to high single digit. Thats the red headline on roche. At 11. 1. Comes in the estimate was 10. 65. Thats a beat on first half core eps. Core operating profit for the first half comes in at 12. 36. The estimate was 12. 16. Theres a beat on some of the numbers. The headline you want to focus on is the fact that its raising its sales growth view to mid to high single digits. There were some pressures whether it wouldve raised guidance a second time this year. To the ceowe speak of roast. Dont miss that interview at 7 30 a. M. London time. Dani burger is standing by with th