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Trillions from washington, more printing by the fed, that is a shot in the arm for stocks. Look at this, the dow industrial is going up maybe 300 points plus at the opening bill. The s p up 33, nasdaq up close to 100 points. Investors are really shrugging off the new round of stay at home and lockdown orders. And restrictions, were new ones in new jersey, ohio and california. And, yes, another case of lawmaker hypocrisy. L. A. County supervisor sheila are cool voted to ban Outdoor Dining at rest...

Of the vaccine and the test helping stock prices. Dow jones up about a hundred points at the open, seven for the s p and eight for the nasdaq more retailers reporting this morning and target looks good work samestore sales up 20 , another measure of the strength of Consumer Spending, just like walmart, target stock up 2 at the moment. Look at this, bitcoin crossed 18000 per coin and has backed off to 17855, about a thousand dollars or shy of its alltime high 19640. I was a skeptic, maybe its Som...

And s p 500, nas in six weeks. Yeah. Well start with tech. More broadly, ipos and big tech valuations have been surging culture questions continue to brew in Silicon Valley as well i want to talk about that and a lot more with long time venture capitalist whose newest venture is a private and middle school with entrepreneurship baked into the curriculum Draper Associates founder tim draper joins us now. Tim, good to see you i want to start with your take on these markets i was talking just yeste...

Or highs just yesterday alone. Bit of a pullback today. As for the nasdaq, yeah, it closed above 12,000. There was a massive runup in tech stocks again, a pullback is to be expected, and take a look at that, thats what weve got. Got it. Next, vaccine news. Very positive. The centers for Disease Control is telling states to get ready for Vaccine Distribution on a large scale come november the 1st. Which vaccine . Dont know, but this is a firm date and, of course, its right before the election. An...

Reaches a milestone. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to bloomberg surveillance. Im Francine Lacqua in london. We have breaking news the last 20 minutes. China says that the u. S. Has abruptly closed its consulate in houston. That is having an impact on the market. Lets get the markets. Risk sentiment looks a lot shakier after china says the u. S. Abruptly ordered the closure of its consulate. Most european indices have extended declines to session lows. S p futures accelerating their dissent...

The nasdaq up about four points. Yields firmed up a little. You can see the 10year, as equities came up, the 10year about 0. 624 all of this as Energy Prices got stronger the june contract up about 13 now trading at 15. 68. Hard to believe that is a strong level. 15 a barrel is pretty strong for oil when they were paying people to take it from them earlier this week. Time for the squawk planner is it . It is yours, joe. Getting to closely watched jobless numbers. More than 4. 3 million americans...

Billion in a targeted way somehow, but none of that has been deployed yet. There seems to be a willingness to wait and see, and wait for Pharma Companies to come up with solutions to the coronavirus testing and so on. Meantime, markets are selling off in terms of equities, and all that money seems to be flowing into bonds. Then we have the opec story as well on the side. ,ight now we are off our lows but down on the s p 500. No solace in the fact that we seem to be seeing deaths and cases decrea...

And we have executives at davos falling over themselves to take action against Climate Change, something that will hurt their earnings per share even if it may save the environment. Yet, none of that seemed to matter until midday and then ultimately, the dow dropped 152 points s p. After we learned that the coronavirus has reached our stores and boeing told us that the 737 max wont resume service until june or july causing its stock to crumble and taking the average down with it. The coronavirus...

That statement. Iranian leaders, they have made statements. They have largely avoided the bellicose language we have seen in the past. Overnight, leader ali khamenei says it was a slap in the face to america. They say they do not seek escalation or war. Obvious question this morning, was the attack deliberately proportionate, a oneoff that makes a point but doesnt risk a devastating american response . Can the iranians risk taking action that results in allout war . Their economy is collapsing. ...

Last night iran launched Ballistic Missiles at iraqi air bases that housed u. S. Troops and none hurt, nasdaq was higher about an hour before the close so is this market being resilient or are investors being complacent sell sell sell. Why not both. Thats what it needs a combination of these two forces first lets cover complacency. Few days ago the president of the United States ordered the killing of an extremely bad iranian general who has been major architect of state sponsorship in the regio...