As big as apple and starbucks and shut down a major form of personal communication between the u. S. And china. Doubtsre increasing about an agreement on another round of stimulus. The president now expected to bypass congress with more executive orders. Microsoft leading some of the declines today. Scarlet fu has been following the market action. Talk to us about the trading moves on the back of all this tension rising between the u. S. And china. Scarlet fridays in august are not usually known to be heavy news days, but we had a jobs report today and we had President Trump stepping up his campaign against chinese Tech Companies. The stock market closed mixed with the s p and dow little changed. Between a huge contrast small caps and the nasdaq. Focus really on gold. The relentless rally in gold prices and the selloff in the dollar, the better than expected jobs report reverse that trade. Gold still finishing the week up. The dollar finished up 0. 5 . There is concern that that jobs r
Busiest in surveillance is maria tadeo in brussels. She is door stopping. You have done a lot of door stopping. How do you doorstop anxious politicians in brussels . Nejra you call out their name with a big smile, you hold out your mic, and you fire your questions as quickly and ferociously as you can. We certainly have seen that this morning. There has been so much optimism priced into the Recovery Fund in terms of european equities, but also the btb bun spread. Some investors say we have been here before in terms of brussels often taking its time to come to an agreement, so you might not necessarily see a lot of pessimism and markets next week if we dont get agreement straightaway. As investors say, it will come eventually. Tom i am an amateur here. In thes that mr. Rutte netherlands is front and center. Is that how you see it . Never echo yeah, as usual, when you go into these meetings, you may get the ascents that we may not get an agreement straightaway. There is a lot of work tha
Movers was in the s p 500 this week. Tshirt. Ands and your underpants, right . I guess what. When you work at home, you still need your briefs. [laughter] still with us, hopefully, david balin. David, we are heading into the heart of the earnings season next week. Earnings companies next week, that is the real meat of it. What are you looking for to see from these companies . Margin improvement . Revenue growth . Or are you still concerned about the bottom line . Those three, but more importantly we are looking for the trajectory, the information they provide about the trajectory in their business at this point. The Balance Sheet health of the companies and their ability to fund operations, the degree to which they are bringing back employees and we are looking at changes in competitive position, which you touched on several times in the weeks passed to see if companies are actually gaining share in their respective businesses. So, its a lot of data that we think indicates the degree t
Volatilityews will be the name of the game for the foreseeable future. Perhaps also low volume. I want to bring in Abigail Doolittle who has been following all the action, or lack thereof. Walk us through the theme of today. Abigail lack of action was the theme on this slow summer friday trading day. There was some fluctuating between gains and losses on the s p 500, the dow, and the nasdaq, but this is the first few the first time in quite a has been true,at but this is the first day in quite some time where it did not file shoot might drop or we did see a true bump. There is reason to think that could be ahead, but today, the s p 500 up, the nasdaq managing to pull out a gain it seemed like the nasdaq might put up its first two day decline, which would be the first time in two months. Part of that having to do with biotech. Goldman had constructive comments on modernity. On the week, the worst week going back since march, the nasdaq down on the week, the s p 500, the first time weve
In focus with Russian Hackers targeting Companies Working on covid19 vaccine development. This after a massive twitter hack on the accounts of top lyrical and tech leaders. The attackers got access to internal controls. Michael chertoff told bloomberg earlier that twitter must ask itself two big questions. Are they adequately double checking the identity of the people posting on a regular basis . And also get to the bottom of how somebody on the inside was persuaded into turning over the keys to the kingdom. Facebook is also doing some soulsearching after the social net works latest diversity report showing the company is struggling to recruit black engineers. We are going to hear more on that with Maxine Williams. I spoke to her exclusively. She is reporting to sheryl sandberg. Meantime, cases of covid19 continue to rise. California reporting near record new cases and deaths. Florida, arizona, montana also seeing searches. Round ofgton the next stimulus relief could come as early as n