but those hopes may be short-lived. democrats proposed a new plan but republicans worn a wide gap remains. mitch mcconnell says the plan contains poison pills. and australia s plan to have women hold at least 40% of leadership roles in asx 200 companies. aberdeen has already signed up. shery: here s a look at how markets are trading. we are seeing u.s. futures coming online, down .2%. this, after u.s. stocks ended the session higher wednesday. also the last trading day of the quarter for u.s. stocks. haidi mentioned talks and hopes for a stimulus package in the u.s. the house has delayed the vote on that bill, trying to get more time to reach an agreement with the white house and treasury secretary. the s&p 500 s on nine sectors out of 11 higher. health care and financials led the gains. showingitive eco-data, u.s. companies added more than 700,000 jobs in september. the dollar weakness, a third consecutive session of losses. not to mention before the quarter, just posted its
infections heading towards 16 million. hong kong says the situation is increasingly severe. has extended the wage subsidy program beyond september to protect the economy from fallout from coronavirus. shery: a quick check of how the markets are trading. we are seeing u.s. futures kicking off unchanged. this after we saw u.s. stocks rally amid encouraging vaccine news, this time from the university of oxford and astrazeneca. the s&p 500 finished at the highest since february, turning positive for the year. tech and discretionary stocks outperforming. the vaccine optimism sort of faded. we have a very competitive landscape that failed to impress. risk was revived in the afternoon session following improved u.s. infection numbers. california and arizona reporting a slow down infections. we still have that stay-at-home defense rate being back with strength. the underperformance from the russell 2000 very pronounced, while the nasdaq also finished at another record high. take a lo
dutch police are saying today they arrested a 24-year-old man in rotterdam on suspicion of involvement in what they are calling a terrorist crime. the case saw dutch and german police combine to make five arrests over the weekend. global news, 24 hours a day, on-air, online at tictoc on twitter, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. i m uma pemmaraju, this is bloomberg. it s 1:00 in new york in 2:00 a.m. in hong kong, i m vonnie quinn. welcome to bloomberg markets. vonnie: from bloomberg world headquarters in new york, here are the top stories. we are following this last day of 2019. of 2018. we break down the year that was in the year that could be as investors say goodbye to one volatile 2018. d.c. drama, week two. president trump repairs for a split congress as the year ends on the 10th day of a partial government shutdown. mge s tumultuous year. ulp will ceo larry c turn things around in 2019? abigail doolittle, stocks are st
let s look at what else you talked about, retail. it is black friday. the holiday shopping season for 2017 is officially off. reports are suggesting it is very strong. macy s, kohl s, gap seeing gains for all retailers. reports relative to yesterday, strong as of 5:00 p.m. yesterday. spending on a year-over-year basis of 17%. $1.52 billionght, has been spent ahead of black friday even starting. a very solid start for the holiday shopping season. some are saying the best in three years. now taking into the weekly moves, let s look at a chart in the bloomberg. 5917.are we are looking at the weekly moves to the major averages, and an orange the russell 2000. we had a long stretch of weekly gains for the dow and the s&p 500, eight in a row. russell 2000, small-cap index and awards have been down a little bit. thinly actually have the major averages down on a weekly basis for two weeks in a row. the dow and s&p 500, the first time that happened since august. we have a tech heavy n
high for the day. we should not get too complacent. we have continued to see swings. if you look at the gains, they are pretty broad-based. only energy is lower. that has been the weakest group throughout the day. utilities recovering as we see a little bit of a back up and yields today. tech shares also strong s. also strong. if you take a look at the weekly performance, we are setting up for the best week for stocks overall in quite some time. for tech specifically, and the xlk, it could be the best week going back to 2011 with a 5% gain this week. that would be even bigger if you counted the rally which began last friday. cisco is helping lead the technology gains. that company is trading at a 17-year high. the company came up with revenue that rose for the first time in eight quarters. the forecast was also positive and the company said revenue in the current period will climb as much as 5%. we have seen other companies and related businesses also on the rise. on the ca