Consumer in this covid economy and a ventilator boost from medtronic, but sales for other medical devices remain lower medtronics ceo will join us exclusively later this hour. Carl, jims shaking his head already. I dont know speculative market ive ever seen i was going to say, jim, i mean, what a confluence of headlines and then to layer on what you were talking about with becky, this seemingly endless generational bid for stocks in general. You know, look at these plug power did a deal last week, 38 million shares of 22. 25, norwegian did a deal of 40 million shares at 20. 80, carnival did a huge deal at 17. 59, up huge on that, American Airlines did a deal, huge amount of stock, and about price that is a dollar below where this it is trading. Ive never seen anything like it where are the profit takers . Where are they i dont know. This is listen, we have been talking about this new cohort in the market, theyre for real, man. They are real it is not just ev stocks that are ev Companie
Struggle just to keep up. Look. I think that all of these have one thing in common. They all believe that the future is a little bit better and a little bit faster to come than many of us believe it is rather remarkable to see a consensus overnight from companies that basically say, you know what . Darn covid full speed ahead that includes boeing boeing has what i regard as being a very bullish scenario involving good cash, involving the possibility of returning to much more flight in, lets say, the next year. And even after 1,600 flights of the 737 i dont think theyre going to call it maxx anymore i dont know i think were growing to have a hard time keeping us down today unless faang keep us us down because the hearings go badly. We have a couple of guidance. Ebay the other one that raised guidance. Starbucks had a lot of things to say analysts recommend stocks its an exciting time. In a lot of ways, youre with a tesla call it turns out tell la sla is goi be a big car company thats no
Damage assessment economists expected payroll reports to show 22 million job losses, taking unemployment levels to their highest since the 1940s. Neel kashkari says the impact will be devastating. And customer orders slump. We speak to the ceo. Lots still ahead in the trading day. We will talk about siemens numbers and the lack of visibility. We also get plenty of analysis for the jobs report which we expect to see later today. With that in mind, lets take a look at futures. It seems we have found plenty of reason to be cheerful this friday. We will not have any trading in london because it is a Public Holiday, but we have plenty of positive trading coming in from the Asian Session and indeed, in the futures, we see that reflected. Futures point higher by around 1. 3 while european futures, where we see moves to the upside. Euro stocks futures up by a similar amount. Of focus on reopening, which seems to be taking place or being planned for in various parts of europe and in some cases
Where we bring you todays market moving news from around the world. From hong kong to beijing to london to washington our bloomberg voices are on the ground with this mornings top stories. Start right now with hong kong with the citys financial chief said the economys set to contract in fourth quarter. Jeff joins us from hong kong on the telephonement welcome. Give us an update where we are. And how the economys doing there. Jeff good morning to you. The economy is hoping to see some kind of stabilization in the coming weeks. But the damage has already been done in the third and fourth quarters this year. We have only just seen a relative easing in the protests. But we are a long way from having an all clear or any kind of resolution to the political standoff. That means that the tourists and the spending that are the core of this economy, they are not going to return soon. We may see stabilization but it will be lower levels. David thank you so much. Jeff black reporting from hong kon
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