Washington, do something, and do something on this august 7. Jonathan 1 away from alltime highs on the s p 500 coming into this one. Equity futures off by 0. 4 . The data 90 minutes away. Lisa we are getting the u. S. July jobs report. This is backward looking, and only goes back to the first half before the virus started to reshutter businesses. How much urgency is there for negotiations about the fiscal second round of support . I hear someone will be speaking on bloomberg television, national akamai Council Director larry kudlow, speaking with some guy that is on at that point. Tom oh really . Jonathan thank you for the promo. [laughter] lisa then tomorrow, Berkshire Hathaway reporting earnings. Really interesting to see what they are going to do with their 137 billion cash pile. This is a microcosm if the u. S. Economy. Interesting to see any guidance about how some of them are weathering this period. Jonathan the price action shaping up as follows. In the bond market, treasury yie
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Will a driverless fleet give truckers more time at rest stops . First, to our top story. Start says job cuts will this week. They said cuts will improve efficiency and accountability. Bloomberg has learned that about 2000 jobs have been eliminated s global 60 of wework workforce. Ellen huet joins us with more. What do we know about these layoffs and their broader strategy of slimming down, if you will . Ellen it seems, based on this new memo that the executive chairman sent this morning, it going to start in ernest going to start in earnest in the u. S. This week. It seems like maybe this week is going to be the big time. They had originally scheduled an all hands meeting for tuesday and another part of the memo says the meeting will be moved to friday. On friday, we expect a fiveyear plan of the company. Taylor do we have any indication of what that fiveyear plan will look like . Ellen if it is anything like what is talked about in the memos, it will be similar to that path that is tr
Give truckers more time at rest stops . First, to our top story. Wework says job cuts will start this week. The struggling Office Sharing startup said that cuts will improve efficiency and accountability. Bloomberg has learned that about 2000 jobs will be eliminated, some 16 of weworks global workforce. Ellen huet joins us with more. What do we know about these layoffs and where it fits into their broader strategy of slimming down, if you will . Effort that has been going on in bits and pieces but it sounds like based on this new memo that the executive chairman sent this morning, it is going to start in earnest in the u. S. This week. They had already been starting to have some layoffs overseas and there have been some cuts in side businesses like meetup and other side businesses they owned, but it seems like maybe this week is going to be the big time. They had originally scheduled an all hands meeting for tuesday and another part of the memo says the meeting will be moved to friday.
Compare it to. Reality check for the real real what a cnbc investigation uncovered sending the stock tumbling come on in the water fine. Dow and nasdaq soaring to alltime highs as treasury spreads hit the highest level since july is the bond market signaling its time to take off life jackets, jumping back into the record rally we mentioned the yield curve if you look to it 10year yield 1 the. 86 . German bunds back to alltime highs. Jp morgan to 130 all across the financials great gains we talked about it yesterday but ill say it again. Earning season a better than expected volatility is getting sucked out of the market right now. We were talking about 18s, 19s a couple weeks ago here we are in the 13 and a half to 14 and a half call at its you amazing how quick people digested whats going on in the options mechanic one area that i see more and more is Energy People going after some of these areas if you are looking at volatile names in there thats where we have seen it. Weve had 40 di