Demand under continued pandemic pressure s p global has reportedly put 44 billion on the table to buy londonbased ihs markets and tie up the data giants and mark the largest deal of the year shares jump after the german chip maker confirms advance take over talks with taiwans globwas it could create a leader in the Global Semiconductor space well, good morning, everybody. Welcome to street signs and happy monday it is the start of a new trading week, a week of new possibilities. But before we get into the show, i just want to take you to our main story thats hit overnight, and that is to do with china so, beijing has said that it hopes the u. S. Will not build barriers to cooperation. That was in response to a report that the Trump Administration is preparing to blacklist top chinese chip maker smic and oil major chinook. Washington will restrict access to customers by adding two companies to its list of firms owned or controlled by the Chinese Military according to reuters. Cnooc said
Down 1. 6 yesterday, off of session lows. The dow industrials down 650 650 points, that was 2 and a quarter percent lower at 4 00 on wall street. Investors rattled over no progress on stimulus and a rise in covid cases. Its a big day for earnings, dow components merck, 3m. Caterpillar all reporting quarterly numbers this morning. We will get a snapshot of the airlines when jetblue reports and a look at big pharma when pfizer reports. The road to the white house, we hit the one week to go mark, americans are headed th to the polls in seven short days. President trump and joe biden begin the final push before election day. Stimulus negotiations losing momentum, time is running out for lawmakers to make a deal before november 3rd. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she remains opt my particular over talks optimistic over talks. Congressman tom reed told me yesterday if we dont have a deal by election day, we may not have one until february. Todays the day, my new book, the cost, trump, china
All right, welcome everybody to power lunch. Kevin is with us dominic too. Welcome, dom good to see you. Here is whats on tap. Stocks are at session highs right now after four weeks of losses the dow is up 500 points both the dow and s p on track for their biggest two day gains since june high stakes stimulus how Speaker Pelosi says she thinks, think, republicans and democrats can get a deal done before the election and tom lee says thats just one reason to buy stocks he will join us very shortly later, which president ial candidate could be better for the economy and the markets . Moodys is out with a new report that takes a look at those questions investors need to know power lunch starts right now welcome to power lunch. Looks look at the bigger wins today. You have fedex leading the industrials over at Deutsche Bank raising target price to 318 a share both those stocks up around 2 Virgin Galactic getting two more buy recommendations. Eight wall street analysts say the same thing bu
You mentioned the vaccine trials with astrazeneca. That is not voting well. Boding well. Chinese markets nearly 2 down for the shanghai composite. The hang seng down 303 points, and the kospi also lower. Watching the dollar declined overnight, given some of the risk off moves. The pound down on the sixth the day, the longest losing streak since may. Streak eurodollar slightly lower. , ian hashe aussieyen been boosted by the haven play. G10 higherthe only than the dollar. Yields pretty much flat right now but we saw treasuries up overnight. This is where we are seeing signs of contagion from the tech selloff, the Commodity Markets and oil markets in particular. Below 40 forst the First Time Since june. Thats get more analysis with our strategist. Mark, the u. S. Session came back from the holiday continuing the tech selloff. How is the market readjusting now . Mark it is not a pretty start in asia. The thing thats concerning wayle is it appears to be beyond tech and is affecting other A
S p up 42 at 4 00 oclock on wall street. Getting tough on china, acceptable or the tom cotton is here, introducing a bill to revoke chinas nation status and whether tiktok and oracle will keep your data safe. Ken cuccinelli on actions to block chinese products made with forced labor. Wild fires raging on the west coast as the gulf coast is feeling the power of Hurricane Sally, we have the latest on the deadly threats. One soda company has a new drink that could help you sleep. Mornings with maria is live right now. Maria lets check european markets, rising from may to july, cac quarante is up 20 and dax index in germany higher by almost 40 points right now. In asia markets mostly higher signs of make recovery in china. Up half of 1 in the month of august. Months are released by the communist party as we always like to remind people, shanghai up half percent. Some of the top stories that we are watching this morning. President trump headed to philadelphia this morning after pushing the