Rose. Microsoft saw a better First Quarter revenue, helped by demand for Cloud Services as more people work remotely. Sales through september topping 37 billion. Melbourne, the merge from a melbourne emerges from a strict lockdown. Ours and restaurants are reopening, even home visits are allowed. Shery lets get you started with a check of the markets. U. S. Futures opening lower, down. 4 . This after stocks fell to a three week low in the regular session. We had cyclical stocks taking the brunt as virus cases continued to climb globally. We have the nasdaq composite pulling back of yesterdays losses on the deal around amd. Durable goods orders coming in better than expected. Lets see how things are shaping up for the asian markets. Here is Sophie Kamaruddin in hong kong. Sophie we are seeing losses continue here in asia. Chip stocks very much a focus after amds deal to buy. Earnings. We have results from sony, zte, as well as budweiser asia to name a few. And a straley or, we have had
279,701 customer accounts were affected in the thefts. Lets say these were largely american customers who were calling spanish or Foreign Language call centers overseas. They say that at t will be required to notify all customers who have been affected in this scam. Guys were so used to seeing Cyber Threats and cyber data braechz now, heres an example of just good oldfashioned insider employees allegedly frc. It doesnt seem too worrisome for the stock. Barely moving on the news. Eamon, well continue to follow it. Thank you. Major deals and potential deals. First, this morning we learn that shell bought bg. A major deal in natural gas space. Then milan, this afternoon, announcing it was offering to parago to buy it for 28. 6 billion. Nearly 30 billion deal. Jackie deangeles covering the energy deal. First, though to meg terrell who is here at hq on this breaking announcement in the middle of the afternoon. It was kind of unusual coming out right in the middle of the trading day that mil