Good wednesday morning welcome to squawk alley. Im Caro Quintanilla with jon fortt. Deirdre is with us for the hour. Nasdaq is trying to come back after a couple of days of losses as we turn our attention once again to covid levels in the United States. Were going to start the hour, though, with alibaba, a big drop for the stock despite these new sales records on this singles day. Hi, eunice hey, carl live streamers in china are wrapping up whats been a very long day pitching to Chinese Consumers and it seems as though the efforts have paid off. For alibaba, the value of the orders that crossed the site have just come in at just shy of a 500 billion, about 75 billion u. S. Dollars these numbers cap an extended 11day campaign thats a little different this time around not the usual 24hour singles day shopping extravaganza. There were some interesting trends that we saw that were generally pandemic related, where consumers were looking to buy goods that they probably would be buying if th
The show. A oneday day holiday on monday. We have seen initial gains of 85 , but still a healthy debut. A big ipo in hong kong. Smic is picking up 3 despite reports earlier. Gaining and alibaba is also up, close to four points. Currencies it onto in terms of cnh. It is around the level that it was fixed at. Pound, between brussels and london, increasingly concerned. It is currently down. 4 . 39, 1. 7 . Yvonne how they are going to reopen is still the key question. More than 4 incline. A rallyting a blip for reversal. Thisrine, we have seen text selloff just for a bit. Thisthat it can lead market at the moment or i looking too tired at the moment . On one side, you see the market really being driven with a lot of liquidity and strong retail participation, also in the u. S. , so i know it is contrarian, but when you look at the sectors, some of these companies are delivering on earnings. Fundamentalsat the and these companies that can achieve earnings growths. What kind of correlation ar
Fallout falling far beyond the economy. Is too early to get bullish on energy prices. Lets take a look at how markets are shaping up this tuesday. Take a look at asian stock futures. The japanese gdp is expect it to be revised of the second quarter. Futures moving higher. Chinese bought a water maker starts trading, kicking off another wave of ipos in. Sydney, as we go to overweight by j. P. Morgan. On u. S. Futures this morning, Goldman Peter oppenheimer betting that tech will continue to drive returns in the bull market. Jp morgan saying overweight tech and pharma. Nasdaq futures are under pressure. Check out wti. As the demandrrel recovery is coming and flatter than expected. Suggesting ongoing concerns when it comes to the supply and demand dynamic. Lets check in on the offshore yuan. Nomura cautions against chasing further gains as the appreciation has been driven by dollar weakness. The u. S. Could slow export growth and stimulate imports, which may be against the goal of becomin
Tumlin will talk about this, but last week we did have a press event with supervisors peskin and preston announcing that we will be delaying our fare increases. Obviously when we were voting upon that fare increase, we could not have understood the magnitude of what was before us and not to mention we didnt really have a path forward in being able to fund the operations, so i want to thank you supervisors peskin and preston for working with us to come up with solutions which i cannot tell you what they are today. But to look at how we can fill those funding gaps which primarily effect us in year two of the budget cycle, not so much in year one. That will be coming back to us in the future. And also with that we will not be having a Charter Amendment related to sfmta. Thank director tumlin for his work in working with the supervisors, and just say it was a pleasure to be there to represent the board last week at kirkland lard. And with that, i will turn it on to the next item. All right
That the hefed puts out, down severely. We will tell you the sectors suffering the most and no, it is not travel and leisure. As the Dow Jones Industrials fall to about 323 points, that percentage is a loss of about 1. 33 but look at the russell 2000 small and midcaps losing near double that amount. This selloff comes as the u. S. Sees the highest number of coronavirus deaths in a single day, 2405. At the same time, President Trump threatening to pull funding from the world health organization. Coming up, one allamerican fortune 500 company is doing the complete opposite. Colgate palmolive teaming up to get its soap to a world absolutely desperate for safe hands. But its the virus antibodies everybody really wants. Coming up, this is the Silicon Valley disruptor that is speeding up plans to launch its lifesaving drones in america. The cofounder and ceo is about to show you, youve got to see this, how they have been delivering blood, plasma and medicine to remote regions in africa for y