Point 46 overnight. Political posturing is taking place with taking place between london and brussels. Checking in with some of the other little asset of the other asset classes. Gold pulling back in tandem with ,. 10 lower. Tom lets get you the first word news and an update on the continued spread of covid19. Have surged past 40 million and show no signs of slowing. U. S. Infection rates rising in 48 states while europe is inosing tighter restrictions london, paris, and other cities under strict curves with ireland enacting some of the toughest restrictions yet seen. The World Health Organization says failure to control quarantine rules has led to the resurgence. I stocks hit a six month low amid fears continuing street protests will drive investors away and further hurt the weakening economy. The benchmark index closed at its lowest level since april 16 as demonstrators bow to keep up pressure for constitutional reform and curbs on the monarchy. The index has lost more than 5 of its
Demand. Ryan, it is always a pleasure to talk to you. It was long in coming. Everyone asking, what are you going to buy . Tell us how you came up with this deal. It is great to be with you again today. We have been talking about the need for consolidation in business for quite some time. We need to put a Value Proposition together that offers investors a different way to think. We have done this with a transformative acquisition with concho resources. This brings in a bunch of lowcost supply resources government 23 billion barrels into the company. It is about a super strong Balance Sheet to manage the volatility we have seen in this business. It is about how you allocate capital for value, not for growth. It is distributions we were going to give back to the shareholder. It is about having a sustainable business. The deal takes an Energy Transition that we know is coming for our planet. Alix can you give us insight into how competitive it was . If you look at the Shell Companies that
And technology outperforming in todays trade. Theyre all up more than 1 hers at the moment weve got 59 minutes left to go in another wild session. Green across the screen once again. The company now pivoting to very different space. Well speak with the ceo about the strategy shift plus, former ceo getting in on the spac craze with a Blank Check Company. Lets get straight to the big stories were watching mike santoli tracking the market on this first day of the Fourth Quarter. Steve leezmiesman has a look ate Economic Data and we have the latest on the stimulus notions its been a little jumpy. A little fitful action it is shuttling up and down within that range. It seems as if the market is trying to shake out the people or the al go riridg al algoriths the year to date chart, we remain here. We keep pointing out its kind of this, you know, upper range above the year to date break even level it is about 1 , 1. 5 up from this level in the 3400s. People say maybe represent an upside break
Chairman resigned cnbc sources say an internal replacement has been considered. Warren buffets Berkshire Hathaway makes a 10 billion bet on dominion in the first major deal since the on set of the outbreak markets in europe have been open for one hour. Now markets friday here in europe are a little bit soggy. Without the u. S. Direction but futures state side this morning marching higher. You can see the groan een on the board here todayment thats just over 1. 5 . We saw about 1. 75 on the overall bempnchmark but very sml gains for some of the markets. Look at that in the stock market and then geography and this morning the ftse is one of the better performers. Just over 2. 1 and so this has been real versus gains a lot for the French Market and german stocks in particular so its slightly outpacing the other markets. Youre saying almost 1. 9 on the French Market. Sprain has been strong from the outset 2. 6 higher. This has been one market that gained a lot of attention since the start
Was up by better than 5. 7 also watching whats been happening here with the treasury market in the United States. Keeping an eye on those things and youll see that right now at least it looks like a ten year is yielding 0. 689 just below that 0. 7 that we had the last couple of weeks. What was that i dont know. Im trying to explain this. I could make up a bunch of reasons. Because were reopening its the same thing over the weekend. New records were hitting the states where they were talking about more than 10,000 cases a day coming in and here you are watching the markets this morning saying yeah, okay. I was just listening to Worldwide Exchange and by the time he got done talking we should be at 10,000 on the dow look at whats happening and this, that, gaps here that are it can all end badly. At this point, this is really serious when you got this many people obviously that have passed away from the disease remember at one point i said we need a reality check i think that overall, may