Elusive. And suppose he says the house is. Transformed samsung into a global tech giant has died. Paul lets take a look at the markets right now. The asx in australia has just opened for trade at the start of the new week. We do have a staggered open. Pretty hard to get a bead on things. Pretty flat at the moment. We are waiting for cocacola to open on the news of this deal that the European Partners are moving to acquire the Company Valued at 9. 3 billion to underscore some of the consolidation going on. The aussie dollar holding a threeyear gain as the u. S. Stimulus talks continue to drag on. U. S. Futures looking a little weaker as well as nancy pelosi and mark meadows but he might accuse each other of quote, moving the goal post. Nikkei futures are pointing weaker as well. That is going to be a busy earnings week in japan. Starting off with kanaan reporting today with cannon reporting today. Lets start off with china at where the leaders are gathering in beijing to map out the fiv
Guest reporter. Congressman, first off, why are you not running for reelection . I am not running for reelection because im looking forward to continuing to work on topics i care about. There is more than one way to preserve a country and everybody thought i was crazy when i left the cia, a job i loved and was good at in order to run for congress because i thought it could help the Intelligence Community in a different way but im looking forward to staying involved with the National Security, Public Policy and technology and to be able to continue talking about technology, whether that is through the media or working at a cuttingedge company that i am working on art of political intelligence and quantum is super exciting. I also dont believe these positions in congress were designed to be in for 30 years and i have always said that six, seven, eight years is likely the best thing and so i am hitting that time and decided to go off and do other things. Host in fact, you have written a p
And Nobel Peace Prize lets return to the Northern Irish winner, has died. Politician and Nobel Peace Prize winnerjohn hume, who has died at the age of 83. A bbc investigation finds the number of deaths an architect of the northern from coronavirus in iran is nearly ireland Peace Process, he was regarded as one of the most three times higher than important figures in recent the government claims. Irish political history. Earlier, we heard from the bbcs former ireland correspondent Islamic State militants denis murray, who paid tribute in afghanistan say theyre behind an attack on a prison in the city to the life ofjohn hume. In my opinion, he wasntjust a of jalala bad thats left at least 20 dead and hundreds of prisoners giant of irish politics, he was a trying to flee. Nearly two years giant of irish politics, he was a giant of irish politics, he was a giant of uk politics and i think it on from the collapse of genoas morandi bridge, was a giant of World Politics, as killing 43 people,
The week. Vix below 30. We have a stronger euro today. Europe definitely doing better on the coronavirus front. The 10year yield holding at those lows of 64 basis points. Kicking off this week. Investors awaiting report from the largest u. S. Banks. Lets get to brian levitt, invesco Advisors Global strategist. It seems there is more optimism than pessimism on the earnings front. Why should that be . Brian i think it is largely not investors view the Second Quarter as being priced in by the markets. 35 in 20 was down days, pricing in a bad secondquarter, and a big hit to earnings. From there, you assess whether things start to get better as the year progresses. Investors are largely looking out beyond the Second Quarter as there has been resumption in , as mobilityvity has improved, conditions have improved. It is largely a look at things getting better, rather than taking the Second Quarter will be anything but pretty ugly. Vonnie it seems investors will be cheered by anything. If you
Claims and 21 million continuing claims better than the week before. But still incredibly bad on an absolute basis same thing with the stock market we get crushed today sell, sell, sell. Obliterated wrong. Once again, the averages spent most of the day well into the black despite still more hideous macro data either we sold off the end of the session, dow 148 points, s p falling 1. 2 nasdaq easing 4. 6 , again, the market was up most of the day. The climb were about the incredibly weak labor market what happened when we heard the claims numbers right from the oechg . There is fear actions the president might take against tech because of his anger about social media and the president s plans for punishing china over hong kong, punishment that could reverberate to our own companies that do business there so then why did the stock market open up big when those hideous figures at this point its become a cliche to insist that wall streets tote lit disconnected from main street. After all, h