Stimulus and higher bonld yields as well which reversed and went the other way. Dows down almost 300 points is this art of the deal or do traders really need to pare back their bets over stimulus lets get right to maike santol for the market reaction. What stands out to you right now . First of all, its an incredibly clean test of where the market was and what it was trying to bake in over the course of this rally which as will fred said was whats really fascinating too is the news came as the s p 500 was just hitting these levels that everyone has been saying oh were going to give room to this rally to get to 3425 and then well see what happens we were just above that in the afternoon and then we had this little reflex. I would caution everybody to keep in mind that we dropped to where we were trading yesterday morning right after the close. So there has been a little bit of a head of steam and builtup gains in this market this doesnt necessarily completely alter the premise of what w
Cash trade. Here are your top headlines from the bloomberg terminal. Trumpa on the defensive. The president stands by his handling of the coronavirus on day one of the Republican National convention. Says democrats are still blaming America First Nikki Haley Says democrats are still blaming America First. The chinese arrives in europe today. Demandsla merkel answers from russia after it was putin critict the was likely poisoned. We have figures crossing the wire right now. The German Economy shrank 9. 7 in the second quarter. The initial estimate was for a drop of 10 point 1 . This is a second look here, and so it looks like it is a little better than expected. Still, of course, a massive drop , the quarter over quarter figure. The yearoveryear figure is a drop of 11. 3 , so a big drop in the german gdp. That the bloomberg economists expect a rebound in the second half, and of fullyear drop of about 6 for 2020. Lets take a look at what futures are telling us after the new record highs
Treasury secretary digging in his heels on the topic of reopening saying, we cant shut down the economy again, sarah. Gary he cou gary cohn joins us and last month there were more bubbles to come hell join us to weigh in on todays down turn. And the black swan of 020, thats what sequoia labelled the pandemic in march. Well talk to partner roelof botha about how he views the startup landscape right now lets get to the selloff and our team of reporters to break it down mike santoli tracking the plunge Brian Sullivan on energy stocks. Meg terrell covering one big area of the market for the market, the rise in covid19 cases in some states mike, start us off with the broader ugly action that youre seeing in the final hour of trade. There was an easy way to deal with that and hard way we took the hard way a sharp and violent flush, maybe the start of something deeper. I want to point out stops along the way. The easy way is to flatten out the rally and go side ways were below a 5 pullback. T
David i dont consider myself a journalist. Nobody else would consider myself a journalist. I began to take on the life of being an interviewer even though i have a day job of running a private equity firm. How do you define leadership . What is it that makes somebody tick . Before we get into blackstone, i would like to talk about a couple of other things. You grew up in a middleclass environment in philadelphia, and now you are one of the wealthiest men in the world and one of the biggest philanthropists in the world. You are an advisor to president s. The last three president s have asked your advice on things. And you are very close to President Trump. When you were growing up in philadelphia, did you ever in your wildest dreams imagine this could happen . Steve no. Dave do you pinch yourself every day when you think about where you have achieved your status in life . Steve every day is an adventure, and every day is a privilege. David you have come to know President Trump quite wel
David i do not consider myself a journalist. And nobody else would consider myself a journalist. I began to take on the life of being an interviewer, even though i have a day job of running a private equity firm. How do you define leadership . What is it that makes somebody tick . People say running an airline is not an easy thing to do. You have weather to deal with, Energy Prices to deal with, lots of employees and so forth but , you grew up in a family of nine children, so what is easier . [laughter] growing up in a family of nine children, or running an airline . Ed running an airline, certainly. [laughter] our family was great. I am the oldest of nine. And i was sharing with david earlier that when i was five years old, we already had six kids in the house, nine kids sharing three bedrooms. 1. 5 baths. My dad was a dentist, he had his practice inside our house. And my mom worked for him. David wasnt that busy a practice at times, i guess [laughter] ed he must have had some gaps in