Wisconsin protests. World Central Bank Leaders coming together virtually, Federal Reserve chair jay powell speaking at key economic conference and investors closely watching what he has to say. Ahead of the speech, few hours are lower. We are taking a look at decline at start of trading. S p and nasdaq hit record highs again yesterday. This morning dow futures down 88 points. Mornings with maria live right now. Global markets this morning are red across the board. Take a look at european indices, the cac quarante down 31 and the dax index lower by 52. In asia overnight markets mostly lower, worst performer was korea down more than 1 . Top stories that we are watching this morning. Night 3 of the Republican National convention honoring americas bravest, devoting their lives defending our freedom. Since 9 11 ive seen americas heros up close. Some of them saved my life. Service, its more a word to me, its a way of life. Maria meanwhile mike pence touting President Trumps economic success
Of the surge in new cases. Ill have more on that in a moment. We are getting new information on the twitter hack. It wasnt just a handful of celebrities. 130 accounts were targeted and it appears to have been an inside job. That is serious stuff. Im not sure that Twitter Twitter is up, thats right. Im thinking of another stock. Okay, twitter is up just a fraction. It is serious stuff about twitter. Weve got an analyst on the show who says it might have been a test run for something much bigger. Time to drop your twitter account . We will ask the question and get an answer. More on that coming up, too. Lets get to the market. This week we have seen a shift away from big tech and towards smaller companies. The russell index of small cap stocks, for example, up 3 this week. The dow industrials, down just over 2 . This morning, we will open with a nice gain for the dow, up maybe 100 points, 26,600. Look at the nasdaq. Theres a bounceback for you, up 100 points at the opening bell. All righ
That. Right i think that the shock value of that is maybe more, lets say, the bark versus the bite i think that theres a belief that we could get a lot a much better picture of what the Health Situation is going to be like in november so its a little premature to be able to say what the president is saying and its certainly contrary to what he was saying about the idea that we do have a vaccine very soon. If we have a vaccine very soon why do we have to delay the election and why does it have to be crooked i think you cant have it both ways you can have the vaccine come out and have a gd election or you must know that the vaccine is not going to come out and you will have what he just tweeted but whatever it sows chaos and chaos is bad for the stock market. We did get some promising vaccine news out of j j as they move to human trials in the u. S. And belgium the earnings which we will talk a lot about this morning are basically shaming the analysts, virtually surpassing the entire ran
Just might pay off big time. We start with an earnings load on netflix, moving sharply lower in the afterhours session down by more than 10 . Netflix plummeting after it reported a miss on the bottom line in fact, its biggest earnings miss in 16 years netflix also giving far lower than expected guidance for the Third Quarter subscriber editions, forecasting the edition of 2. 5 million new subscribers in the Third Quarter, less than half the number analysts anticipated. As expected, growth is slowing as consumers get through the initial shock of covid and social restrictions. Now the chief content officer has been appointed coceo and is joining netflixs board of directors, saying in terms of the day to day running of netflix, i do not expect much to change our key executive Leadership Groups are unchanged think of teds well deserved promotion formalizing how we already run the Business Today when the call starts in an hour, well be listening for more on the impact of competition, name c
Good morning welcome to squawk box. Im becky quick with joe kernen and Andrew Ross Sorkin weve been on a bit of a winning streak up four days in a row. Yesterday the dow was up this morning, you are seeing a little pull back dow down s p down and nasdaq off by 172 yesterday, Goldman Sachs helped. Good news from moderna godm goldman came out with much better numbers than anticipated. Also looking at the trezy yield. The 10year is sitting about 0. 622 good morning. As joe mentioned earlier the twitter shares are lower after the company showed dozens of users were part of a twitter hack targeting some employees who had access to systems and tools. Among those hacked joe biden, jeff bezos, bill gates, elon musk all telling users to send massive amounts of bit koip to an address they are diagnosing the problem and will share everything once the picture becomes more clear if they got in through employees with tools and access to accounts that raises questions about security procedures at tho