Good thursday morning im Carl Quintanilla with jon fortt and Julia Boorstin is with us for the hour. Stocks in a whipsaw range, down a couple hundred up 100 here. S p 500 up 25 or so after the dows near 1,000 point loss yesterday. Worst day since june on pace for the worst month since march. But then you get a stock like pinterest. Good guide coming up, going against the grain. Julia, remarkable price target increases. Basically doubling what some analysts saw the stock trading to yeah. A lot of positive responses to those numbers there. Really a beat across the board, carl what is so interesting to me is what we saw in this quarter from pinterest is last quarters results were not just a blip but that this is a company that could stand to benefit over the long term from some of these trends were seeing during covid19 there is some surprising, funny Little Things like the fact that pinterest grabbed four million new users due to the fact that people are going to pinterest to find inspir
But the breakdown of oil today on Global Demand is really significant. Under 40, not only but well on to new lows right now, 39. 71 on world oil. It is much more about the pandemic than it is the epsilon off the american election. Jonathan a breakdown on the equity benchmark in frankfurt, germany, the dax suffering. What is new about today . The dollar bid through g10 against e. M. You mentioned the turkish lira this morning as well. The Dollar Strength returns with a bit of a vengeance this wednesday morning. Tom let me triangulate again here triangulate yen here, folks. You throw the dollar out and look at euroyen, and euroyen clearly indicates weak euro. Lisa teladoc a. M. , german chancellor ashtead 00 a. M. ,erman chancellor 10 00 a. M. German chancellor Angela Merkel discussing new restrictions to stave off the rapidly increasing number of cases of covid. Also at 10 00 a. M. , ceos of facebookalphabet, and are testifying to a Senate Committee on restrictions of political messages
We start off with the stimulus slide, stocks sliding off Speaker Pelosi held a phone call with steven mnuchin. Lets get the latest from ylan mui. Whats going on here they have agreed to talk again reporter thats right, melissa. We know the phone call at 3 00 p. M. Lasted for just under an hour pelosis office sounded fairly positive on twitter, her spokesman said they continue to narrow the difference differences. Now, pelosi and the treasury secretary will speak again tomorrow, and by the end of the day, that 48hour deadline that pelosi imposed, they should have clarity on whether a deal is really possible before the election however, over in the senate, republicans are moving on. Theres not a lot of appetite in the chamber for the nearly 1. 9 trillion offers that the white house has been made to democrats. So one measure will be to extend the payroll protection program, and another one on targeted relief neither is expected to go anywhere, either, because democrats remain opposed on t
Gap, all falling very hard as you can see there. Well go shopping for opportunity in that Retail Sector later on, buy gold now thats the message from one top wall street firm we will debate if there is any shine left in that big trade we start first with breaking news out of disney the stock is moving lower in the after hours session as the Company Announces some very, very major job cuts. Lets get to our own Julia Boorstin with the details. These are tens of thousands. Thats right. Disney is laying off 28,000 domestic employees, hourly, sal rye e aried and executive roles. In light of the prolonged impact of covid19 on our business, including limited capacity due to physical distancing requirements and the continued uncertainty regarding the duration of the pandemic exacerbated in california by the states unwillingness to lift restrictions that would allow disneyland to reopen, we have made the difficult decision to begin the process of reducing our workforce at our parks, experiences
The dollar gaining some ground after paring losses after that meeting. Fx sellinging asia off, especially the renminbi after reaching may 2019 highs. There are signs perhaps the currency is being overbought. Expecting boj, boe, and Bank Indonesia today. Those currencies and focus. Watching the bond market as well put it did not get adjustments on qe from the fed. We saw the 10 and 30 yield spike coming off a little now but that did lead to earlier the yield curve steepening and coming off a little. We are watching brent crude as well as wti. Also saw off some of the highs we saw overnight. There is optimism for demand but that is also losing some of those gains right now. Tom lets get you up to speed with some of the first word News Headlines and other stories. President trump says a Coronavirus Vaccine could be just tribute it widely as early as october, contradicting statements by some of his top health officials. The head of the centers for Disease Control and prevention told a Sena