And as millions of americans continue to stay home amid the coronavirus, we run down some of the hottest holiday tech peoples of their, all as swarmed online sites. Speaking of staying home, what streaming companies are doing. First, lets get a check on u. S. Markets, where we have been talking about the rotation out of tech shares on corona vaccine news. Reversed courseon wednesday amid data showing a possible slowdown in economic growth. Ed ludlow joins me with my. What are you seeing . Ed im calling it the unwinding of the rotation trade, taylor. The s p 500 coming off this record high, dow coming up 30,000 points that we saw yesterday, and then the technology stocks, the nasdaq 100 index up. 6 . Data wise, this is the first backtoback rise in weekly u. S. Jobless claims since july. Investors are reassessing what is going on with the economic recovery as it relates to covid19. The story, as you say, has been a move into value and smallcap stocks, those kinds of companies that would
World . And another heatwave in the northwest. Wildfires continue to rage in california and colorado. How technology can battle the blaze. But first, stocks ending the week mixed. We saw a tech slide. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi saying the divide still persisting in stimulus talks with the white house. Lets get the latest from bloombergs abigail doolittle. Abigail another bumpy one. Had decentay we gains for stocks. Options Expiration Date tends to bring volatility. We saw that into the close. Often you have traders that need to hedge on different positions around the options to the underlying security. The nasdaq 100 earlier today up pretty sharply, then closing down about 4 10 of 1 . A bit of a bearish reversal for the nasdaq 100. One of the big drags was amazon giving up big gains on the day. Ay may not have been as inspired as it was last year. Something we talked about earlier this week, since the stock was down both days of the event. Traders for whatever reason, you will see that
We saw a poll coming out of the weekend on sunday, a couple polls, actually, saying a majority of americans that were surveyed had very strong feelings about the fact that the president himself managed to contract this virus. Emily to a certain extent, it has served as a little bit of a wakeup call, if you will, that the president , with all of his security, testing, and the people that have been around him, even the most powerful man in the world can contract this virus. Can contract the virus. You see republicans. They have been sort of pushing forward and saying we are going to go ahead, continue with the debate, continue from what they can do with campaigning. Look over in the senate, where there is a huge debate going on right now about filling the Supreme Court vacancy. We have not seen any changes to that schedule despite the fact that we have three republicans who currently have the coronavirus and a couple of them sit on the committee that is going to be responsible for having
As big as apple and starbucks and shut down a major form of personal communication between the u. S. And china. Doubtsre increasing about an agreement on another round of stimulus. The president now expected to bypass congress with more executive orders. Microsoft leading some of the declines today. Scarlet fu has been following the market action. Talk to us about the trading moves on the back of all this tension rising between the u. S. And china. Scarlet fridays in august are not usually known to be heavy news days, but we had a jobs report today and we had President Trump stepping up his campaign against chinese Tech Companies. The stock market closed mixed with the s p and dow little changed. Between a huge contrast small caps and the nasdaq. Focus really on gold. The relentless rally in gold prices and the selloff in the dollar, the better than expected jobs report reverse that trade. Gold still finishing the week up. The dollar finished up 0. 5 . There is concern that that jobs r
Now. Broader markets also higher. Take a look at futures, dow futures currently up 250 points, thats about 1 , nasdaq futures up 92 and s p futures up 25. Stimulus standoff leading to the nasdaq lower by 185. Gold losing some of its shine. Tumbling 4 and a half percent yesterday. More tiktok security concerns this morning. The popular chinese app reportedly tracking user data for millions of people in violation of google policies. Plus College Football taking time out, the big ten and pack 12 postponing the fall season due to coronavirus. Mornings with maria is live right now. Maria and global marks this morning are mixed. Ftse 100 in london is up 48 points and uk economy falling into a recession after shrinking more than 20 in the Second Quarter, largest contraction reported by any major economy so far. The cac quarante in paris up 12 and dax index in germany lower by 18 points this morning. Check asian markets mostly higher on the session. Kospi index was higher as well as hang seng,