Entered a new wave of cases. Europes twin battles. E. U. Leaders make no progress. Chancellor merkel says finding compromise will be difficult as france and belgium are said to have urged e. U. Leaders to step up contingency plans for a nodeal brexit. Very good morning to you and happy friday. What a week it has been. Witharted the week off optimism and euphoria with markets on a high into vaccine news and we will be ending the week on a much more sobering tone. The news coming out in the United States, california imposing a new curfew, with pressure on officials. We wake up to a public clash between Steven Mnuchin and jay powell on unused lending funds and we saw that hit the futures market. S p 500 futures paring some of those losses. We have nasdaq futures relatively flat this morning. Treasury yields steady. In the pound, north of 132. We do have sources telling bloombergs that Emmanuel Macron is urging his e. U. Counterparts to start drawing up contingency plans for a nodeal brexi
Has confidentially filed to go despite the pandemic bringing travel to a near standstill earlier this year. Meantime, it is another story sending shockwaves through Silicon Valley. Later this hour the former ceo all of pinterest, Francoise Brougher, will join me for a discussion after suing the company for gender discrimination. But dan ives joins me now. Obviously a big day for apple today. We knew what is coming, but what is the significance of this to trillion dollar milestone . Dan it is a monumental achievement for apple. And i think it just shows these skeptics that three or four years ago that thought growth was over in cupertino, it proved them wrong again. Especially them hitting it before apple and amazon and others. I still think more bullishness ahead. Is up the only way to go . We are still facing a lot of Economic Uncertainty the second half of the year. Consumers not necessarily going to have stimulus checks in their pocket for discretionary spending. What does that mean
We will be joined to talk more about that. But first, lets talk about the market. Abigail doolittle is with us. On the back of a big speech by joe biden last night that has been largely wellreceived, even some republicans saying it was successful. Abigail indeed. Probably not too much influence in the markets today because earlier today on the open, really small moves. It was as the day got going that the gains continued, especially for the tech stocks on the day. A real head scratcher because we have a they were we do not have any positive macro data on economic front, and we also dont have any negative data relative to the macro either except for the further out uncertainty around the election and u. S. And china relations. Here we have the big tech stocks you were talking about once again climbing to the nasdaq 100 and faang index both at record highs. The faang index now up 115 since its march low. Apple is just incredible, up more than 5 today. Split does notck create value. Inter
And he will join us in the questions and answers. As power lunch begins right now. Welcome to power lunch, everybody. Im Contessa Brewer and just admit it you dont know which day it is either after the markets were closed yesterday, it feels like a monday weve got stocks falls from record highs today the dow down triple digits well, were off the lows of the day. Were at lows of the day right now. Breaking that fiveday winning streak take a look at boeing. That stock is moving lower as sources tell us the Aerospace Company does not expect regulators to sign off on the 737 max until june or july thats thats months later than anticipateded and with the markets at or near record highs seemingly every day, does it make stocks vulnerable to a pullback on any negative news . Bob b pisani at the New York Stock Exchange with more we have got a one two punch here today first late in the day, we have the nuews about boeings planes, the 737 max maybe not available until the summer that hit us then
This is bloomberg surveillance. These are your markets. Quite a lot going on in terms of brexit. Hopefully there is a lot going on when it comes to trade. That is what the markets are putting their hopes on. Lets get that board up for you so we look at what european equities are doing and a little bit of weakness. Stocks in general higher. U. S. Futures higher. Bonds. S in we are expecting a lot of news out of companies such as amazon. Com. 1. 2 957, all eyes on westminster and a possible vote in the house of commons behind me. That is coming up. More from our interview with mark carney at the imf meeting in washington over the weekend. First, lets get straight to super saturday. That was last saturday. Indian lawmakers voted to withhold approval from oris Johnsons Brexit deal until all the legislation had passed. The Prime Minister was then forced to send a letter to brussels asking for another extension. Later today the government is expected to make a fresh bid to get the agreement