for a september quarter. there are also concerns about the ant ipo fallout. and america awaits the outcome of the presidential election, seven states now holding the keys to the white house. wisconsin heads to a recount and others face challenges in court. foropen here in sydney friday trading in asian markets, we have seen an eerie calm and trading across equity markets, and globally, on expectations that policy gridlock will me know extreme measures when it comes to the tax front being taken and more status quote when it comes to the visible markets. we are up .2% when it comes to sydney, the in aussie dollar and commodities-linked currencies it particularly well. we have the u.s. dollar fall to its lowest in two years. the nikkei 225, we expect weakness going into the open but we have japanese stocks trading in the green every day of the week. also watching the yen, but interestingly, as an election respirometer, we continue to watch price action in china as well as volati
more deaths from the coronavirus as cases approach 5.5 million. the u.s. bans entry from brazil. violence returns to hong kong as protesters announced china s new security law. washington said it could be the death knell for asia s leading financial center. david: quite a stark and dramatic drop. we will talk about that more. risk off, a lot of markets are closed today. we are off a few points for the s&p, nasdaq and dow. whiteutes or so, the house saying trump is restricting entry from brazil. there is a 1% retracement in the bloomberg dollar index, higher as we go through. you can see downside following the 2% less drop we had on friday. indi: and given is holidays the u.s. and singapore, trading for the futures session in asia. we are seeing modest upside going into the start of trading in tokyo, korea and australian richard looking higher after closing out the week down ralia after ofther easing of lockdown restrictions in new south wales and victoria states. this is
good thursday morning. welcome to squawk alley. i m carl quintanilla with morgan brennan and jon fortt at post 9 of the new york stock exchange a bit of a sell-off at the open, but answered a little to the upside down 100 bob pisani we bounced, drifted back down and now we re down about 100 points on the dow. this is a pretty modest response considering if number of coronavirus cases has expanded dramatically, not surprisingly the china etf weaker, industrials as well, bank stocks negative initially, now positive still a pretty modest response to the news. coronavirus, a lot of different stories. alibaba said it s possible we could have a significant impact on china s economy potentially affect the global economy. ralph lauren talked about store closures, two-thirds of stores are closed nestle says operations have resumed but with a lower amount of operations overall. nu skin talked about significant decline, 20% to 25% decline, down 15% some ups and downs here. retailers
squawk alley is live. good thursday morning. welcome to squawk alley. i m carl quintanilla at post nine facebook is up 4% after reporting the earnings beat as revenue and price per ad increase mark zuckerberg says people are spending less time on facebook and that s not a bad thing take a listen. i want to be clear. the most important driver of our business is never been time spent by itself. it s the quality of the conversations and connections. and that s why i believe this focus on meaningful social interaction is the right one joining us this morning, henry blodgett and mark may, an analyst at citi. good to see you both good to be here mark, it s looking past these quarter on quarter declines. and assuming ad buyers will say this is better for the product it should be. i anecdotally, i don t like to invest in anecdotes, but i m seeing a better news feed myself in recent weeks. more friends and family content, more content that s less controversial. you
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