Welcome to squawk box. Im becky quick along with joe kernen and Andrew Ross Sorkin. Futures are indicated higher this morning, triple digit gains for the dow up by about 167 points but yesterday was a big down day for the markets. Dow was down by over 400 points, 1. 4 the s p and nasdaq done evz nasy even more. This morning s p indicated up by about 25 and nasdaq looks like it would open up by over 100 points fairly significant obviously everybody watching what will be happening with the stimulus talks with the deadline that nancy pelosi has said for later today. Lets take a look at the treasury markets ahead of that, you will see that the ten year looks like it is yielding 0. 777 so a little stronger yields for the treasury markets right now but andrew, obviously washington is where people are watching and that is exactly where well go because House Speaker nancy pelosi and Steve Mnuchin are saying that they are making progress in their latest stimulus talks with time running short of
Years end after more than 30 years with the chicago pd. All eyes will be on china and madrid. Almost 200 countries will be there for the United Nations climate talks. China is in focus for several reasons as the largest investor of Renewable Power but also the worlds top carbon polluter. Global news 24 hours a day, onair, and tictoc on twitter, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. China is im Mark Crumpton. This is bloomberg. It is 1 00 in new york, 6 00 in london, 2 00 a. M. In hong kong. Im vonnie quinn. Welcome to bloomberg markets. From bloomberg World Headquarters in new york, here are the top stories we are following on the bloomberg and around the world. Checking the pulse of americas factories, manufacturers feeling the pain as ism data contracts for the fourth straight month. U. S. Stocks in the red. The s p 500 heading for its biggest drop in two months, as President Trump says he is resuming steel and aluminum on brazil and argentina. On
Road map begins with this trade stumble for stocks some lingering china trade concerns plus, ecommerce boom alibabas 24 hour shopping extravaganza breaks its single days record of more than 30 billion in sales and still climbing. And goldman facing an investigation over allegations of sexist credit decisions at app apple card stocks are set to open lower this morning on some dampened expectations surrounding u. S. China trade talks as well now as this escalating violence in hong kong meantime, the s p is in the midst of a five week win streak for the First Time Since march 6 if you look at the nasdaq. It has been a nice ride over the past month. It is so amazing because the some of the bigger runs are companies you would expect no trade deal, we would unravel a lot of the companies that do a lot of business in china it continues to happen one thing i would say is that people seem to care more about the fact that Interest Rates are going up than they care about what is going on in china
Now the ceo of juul is out and tobacco giants Philip Morris and altria call off their merger talks. The Political Risk for stocks, futures pointing to a muted open House Democrats move on impeachment and what the turmoil will mean for ongoing u. S. china trade talks. New products driving sales and double digit growth in china. Big news regarding Philip Morris international and altria. The two companies deciding to end merger talks juul is announcing that kevin berns is stepping down as ceo. It will suspend all broadcast, print and Digital Advertising in the United States as regulators have launched this crackdown on vaping products. Meantime, altria tightens their guidance for the year. Reaffirms domestic cigarette volume down 5 to 6 but it does seem like juul is entering a new chapter here as they try to get fda approval. I think if the fda cares about where was gottlieb on this cnbc contributor why didnt he shut this thing down we cant get cannabis passed in this country we let juul
Cofounder ofhe overlap in the future growth of these markets . s stake in juul, apple, Steve Wozniak. He discusses everything from trade to services, privacy on they paid about 12 million. Facebook. Federal officials charming when it comes to the heat not former uber engineer anthony burn product, it is the levandowski from stealing exclusive distributor in the u. S. Technology from the waymo unit. They are both vapor priority for the noncombustible products. They do target separate niches. Juul tends to be a younger fbi. Adult, some even minors trade secrets, these are the unfortunately. Crown jewels of companies. Taylor joining me to discuss is the other product, because it uses finely ground tobacco as bloombergs eric newcomer. Opposed to flavored nicotine, it what a long saga it has been. Targets an older demographic, which really looks to the a total surprise. They settled this a couple of oldfashioned tobacco, almost like a pipe experience, as years ago. There had been a private