And the u. S. Keep talking trade, we dont know when this thing ends or how much further it goes. Sit back and enjoy the ride, today is august 25, the dow of 378, yesterday up another 150th opening bell today, the s p record high close up some more this morning. The nasdaq looks like its going to be down a few points. Were going to show you apple, premarket trading worth 2. 15 trillion and there is speculation that there is iphone production to mexico, more of that in a moment. At the convention the republicans attacked the biden harris ticket as a looming disaster. Dynamic speeches from tim scott and nikki haley and the president as surprise appearance and a vocal audience preview will see it. Day two, melania speaks tonight, rand paul, eric and tiffany trump, you will see that too. I gotta say this, our heart goes out to louisiana, mississippi, texas and neighboring states. Marco faded but here comes laura. Landfall probably tomorrow, could be a cat two or three storm the people of ga
A similar loss on the s p. Big loss on the nasdaq composite. Why the nasdaq down so much . Well, just look at this. Big tech being taken to the cleaners this morning. Start with apple. Look at that. Its still a trillion dollar company, way down this morning after its Financial Report late yesterday. Ive got more on all this. Amazon, huge drop, down 120. They are plowing their profit into coping with the virus. Microsoft, not much impact from the virus but its caught in the downdraft. Microsoft is down nearly 2 , 3. 46. Next case, the political news. Topping that this morning is joe biden. He has denied a Sexual Assault allegation. He says quote, this never happened. Ive got more on that in a moment, too. Got a big weekend coming up. Texas opens up a lot of businesses. Who will go to the store, the barbershop, the restaurant . Thats going to be a pretty good indicator of the urge to get out of the house. In california, the governor has relocked down the beaches. How will that go down .
War with china i would love to tell you it doesnt matter for the stock market when a clueless day with the dow gaining 38 points and. 30 and nasdaq. We care about the future, not the past, the fact that the Federal Reserve is set to lower Interest Rates because of the slowdown is huge we get enough hints in the feds Statement Today that the next rate for moves is down and when its down what do you want to do lower stocks the rates translate into a better economy and borrowing is cheaper and more money flows into the system via credit and commerce picks up. At the same time short term is just as attractive and earnings are boosted and highdividend earning stocks are more valuable so welcome to the rate cut cycle here we go ive been through this so many times, i have my own playbook. History says you should buy, buy, buy we could get a rate cut as soon as july. Well get a rate cut i thought there would be a rate hike in july four months ago when the president was thinking things the fed
we start with the soaring cost of living because prices here in the uk are now rising at the fastest rate in a0 years. the annual rate of inflation hit 9% in april up from 7% in march, driven bya bigjump in energy bills. britain s finance minister, chancellor of the exchequer, rishi sunak is warning of tougher times ahead as pressure grows on him to take action. our economics editor faisal islam has more. when prices rise this fast it hits everyone, the fracture seen on every street, office and household in the country, including in lancashire. she recently ran her business, after the pandemic she finds money running out as bills get more expensive and even essential things become too expensive. essential things become too “pensive- expensive. gas and electric because i expensive. gas and electric because i got expensive. gas and electric because i got in expensive. gas and electric because i got in arrears - because i got in arrears because i got in arrears beca
The United States and mexico have agreed to extend the upcoming round of nafta negotiations in montreal by one 29. To january the mexican ambassador to the u. S. Told bloomberg today there is general agreement among the free nations on about 40 of topics being negotiated. British Prime Minister theresa may met with french president Emmanuel Macron outside lunday london today. This was to strengthen security and intelligence between the nations. Hoping to help with brexit negotiations. Global news 24 hours a day powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. Im Alisa Parenti and this is bloomberg. Selina im selina wang in for emily chang, and this is bloomberg technology. Coming up, ibm ends its 20 two quarter streak of declining revenue. Report card, up next. Plus, amazon narrows its list of top locations to build its Second Headquarters with thousands of jobs and billions of dollars at stake. And the fall of Travis Kalanick was darker than you thought.