Markets. Dow is up 181, 30,150, all three of the averages setting record highs today. Shannon, you have made some very interesting moves in your portfolio, both what you have trimmed and what you have added to first to what you have trimmed apple and microsoft. T tell me why. So really two different stories here, scott. First of all, ill start with microsoft. As i talked about on the show, this is our Largest Holding and remains a very high convince for us we still have a lot of confidence in azure and the endtoend software it offers but from a portfolio perspective, it was time to trim apple, weve seen a significant runup, 75 in the last year and we really feel like a lot of that has come on multiple expansion. Weve gone from about 15 times to about 27 times. Although we do believe in the services storyand the mo monetization, we think there are better opportunities we trimmed back from a market weight to an underweight were going to continue to hold the stock and maybe look for oppor
World. India is expected to become the pandemics worst hit country in the coming weeks, surpassing the u. S. , where more than 7 million cases have been reported. A lack of social distancing and mask wearing is hampering containment efforts. According to a new book from a former staffer, President Trump considered naming his daughter ivanka as his 2016 running mate before nominating mike pence. Revelation comes from rick gates, who in the summer of 2016, was the Deputy Campaign chairman and later became a star witness in the collusion investigation. Global news 24 hours a day, onair, and on quicktake by 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 are higher around the world as we approach months and. After
Around these companies, whether that means private ownership or state involvement. Dagen much more of marias interview throughout the show. Rallying again, President Trump officially restarts his 2020 campaign with the rally in tulsa, oklahoma over the weekend, what he said about his opponent and the controversy over crowd size ahead. Speaking of rally futures back on the rise this morning, 216 point gain after fridays disappointing downturn led by apples decision to close stores over fear of coronavirus, but look at the markets go last week, gains across the board. The nasdaq is up 45 from the bear market low. Dining in sunshine, new york city allowing restaurants to reopen with customers taking a seat outside, restaurant ur lady gagas father. Mornings with maria is live right now. Dagen european stocks, good morning, european stocks largely flat after losses, slight gain in ftse 100 in england. Wire cart shares plummeting overnight. Resurgence of coronavirus around the world. World H
Now. Thats a gain of better than 800 points, 2950 a key level for the s p, were slightly above that with a gain of 3 . And the nasdaq, where so much strength has been of late, 2. 3 higher, 9230, russell 2,000 having a big day as well kevin oleary, 2950, key level on the s p were all the way back to where we were in early march and you, my friend, you say youre growing more bullish. Yes, i am i listened to what the fed says and they have an unlimited pocketbook they made it clear they are going to overcompensate, scott, and youre starting to see it happen right now. The beneficiary of this will be issues of credit, we issued a trillion dollars worth of investment rate credit so far this year. Spreads have tightened you know i watch the etf market like a hawk. The fed has only done a few hundred Million Dollars of purchasing it is job owning that is getting it going this is an extraordinary time. If youre an investor and missed days like today, youre mitts g i missing 30 , 40 , 50 of the
Treasuries. Over widening its lead china as being the top foreign holder of u. S. Treasuries. That is the main headline crossing the bloomberg terminal. We are talking about a total amount not quite sure what the total amount is. The headline is that japan continues to widen its lead as top foreign order of u. S. Treasuries. Scarlet chinas share dropped even more. Both of them decreased their stakes. Reporters toour check in with them to see what they are monitoring. Abigail i am watching the tech shares you all were talking about after yesterdays small pullback. The bigger public for the stocks perhaps on the signing of the phase i trade deal. Lots of dreams of green on the screen. We have macron trading strong. Inductors big in on these tech dreams. This is one of the scary charts to take a look at. 500 tech index going back a few years. The yellow line is the 200 Day Moving Average. Investors buying technology. There are periods of time where the s p 500 has been well above the movi