The Fatal Shooting this past spring of breonna taylor. Two police in her hometown of louisville, kentucky were shot after they were called to an area downtown yesterday. Police announced a curfew for the next two nights. The officers injuries were not lifethreatening. Police say they have made nearly 100 arrests in the city. There were also protests in new york, chicago, atlanta, and seattle. Bloomberg, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. Im Mark Crumpton. This is bloomberg. Vonnie it is 1 00 p. M. In new york, 6 00 p. M. In london, and 1 00 a. M. In hong kong. Im vonnie quinn. Welcome to bloomberg markets. Here are the top stories from around the world we are following. Stocks reversing initial declines. Strong housing dated today and speculation of a new round of economic stimulus. We will discuss with tracy ahearn. It is one of the largest deals yet. United it was via United Wholesale mortgage valued at 15 billion. We will speak with mat ishbia
Texas is making face masks mandatory, while florida yet another record. The u. S. Senate approves sanctions on chinese officials over hong kong, as the u. K. Says it will not back down on a path to citizenship for around 3 million of the citys residents. Shery lets get a look at how markets are trading. We see u. S. Futures coming online down 0. 1 . We had gains across the board. You saw the s p 500 higher by 0. 5 . Materials and energy were up more than 1 . We had more positive Economic Data, betterthanexpected jobs numbers, although the optimism was tempered a bit by concerns about rising weekly jobless claims. To composedid manage again a record high. Take a look at what oil is doing, still above the 40 a barrel level, after seeing its highest finish since march. It was boosted by job Growth Numbers here in the u. S. , but also we have some supply optimism. We saw the biggest weekly decline of u. S. Stockpiles since 2019. Lets see how things are shaping up for the asian markets. We
Board. We are off the lowest levels of the day. The dow is at 25,290 there is the nasdaq. Concerns about the virus and new hot spots around the country are part of the conversation as i look at moves, i see a lot of buys that suggest youre optimistic about the reopening of this country. Yeah, thanks scott. When i look at my portfolio as a whole, i have a heavy bias to the nasdaq 100 the qqqs which have done so well i think that as we are reopening that if you look at technically, a lofts tt of stocks like south six flags, they all look similar. They are starting to make higher lows and higher highs. I think as the reopening happens, this is where theres still risk but we think its compensated risk longer term to own some of these epicenter names that we think as the summer happen, as the reopening is happening, i dont feel comfortable just owning the nasdaq 100 and sitting in apple and microsoft and amazon i want to diversify that this is buying low feels like. Theres a million reasons
Official think lowering to a negative rate will not provoke a backlash. Attention on the trade war. The deficit seen widening last month. Lets get a quick check of asian futures right now. In japan we got the nikkei futures pointing modestly higher. A similar story and south korea. While here in australia we have got futures pointing higher. New zealand been trading for an hour now. Not a great deal of action to report. Paul shery ahn u. S. Futures not doing much of the moment. After stocks drifted throughout the session, and then we had a slight uptick for the s p 500 to gain. 3 . We have consumer shares rounding and Energy Stocks were some of the big losers. Losing a lot of ground after that huge surge we saw a 15 for crude monday and continuing to fall below 60 a barrel. We also have banks underperforming. Ahead of thatll fed Rate Decision on. Wednesday ahead of that, we are now seeing the money markets and turmoil. Take a look at this chart on the bloomberg. We saw the rates surge
Today the dow dropped, and the nasdaq edged down. 04 what does it mean to fit the profile . The company has to be a direct beneficiary of new tax law and it needs to come from a cohert under loved by wall street in order to garner support from todays portfolio. What stocks meet that criteria the craziest ones, thats what let me give you a classic example of crazy consider the stock of newcorp, the steel maker. Newcorp has been tough to handle in 2017 rising 27 for the year, far behind the averages and spending well below that level because the company has performed at a less than optimal rate weve been advising members. It could be a rocky road basically you had to hold your nose and buy it because it will eventually come back in favor of the wall street fashion show last thursday before the open, newcorp gave you an update on its Fourth Quarter telling you it was going to earn between 50 and 55 cents a share now, mind you, newcorp had already forecasted the report slightly down number