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
Chipmakers asias chipmakers. And oracle is an talks to purchase tiktok. Reports ap group surge in iron ore. We hear from the ceo this hour. It has just gone 6 00 a. M. And london. Dsia. M. In downtown everything comes back to the price of a bond for me in the United States of america. Stimulus, prevarication what does it do to the dollar, good morning . Annmarie the dollar is in focus. Putting outole research saying the tail wind be the u. S. Election. You and i wake up so early, we got to see some of what is going on in politics. The dnc kicking off its convention. How does this impact the market . That is what we will need to discuss. Will come off the top of the s p. I have get my one favorite line of the day. My quote of the day. Bondholderso says are like boiling frogs. A small kick in rates and they jump out of the pot. Boiling frogs. What an image. There you go. Whoever put that together, high marks on our show. Annmarie we are going to go down this path. My favorite this mornin
August 15 but also continuing down. 7 the nikkei and the futures in the u. S. Are looking lower as well. Data expected out of the u. S. Later today. And in terms of looking at some of the currencies in the region, we talked about the bloomberg dollar index. Down about. 10 . Dollar weakness is essentially beneficial to equities in this part of the world and currencies as well. Aussie, thats what youre looking like, essentially flat and new zealand had jobless numbers that came in less bad than expected. The kiwi dollar up. 2 . Lets move on to some of the commodities, gold again looking strong and well, above 2000 an ounce, a little bit of weakness in the last hour or so, down about. 2 . Terms of oil were looking at the beirut story, the port explosion there and there was concern that have geopolitical tensions emanating from that. Thats the yield picture in the points. St over 10 basis rally washe dollar rather short, and then weve got gold, the inverse correlation back at the moment. T
Trying to bounce back after all of the major indices in the green. The dow struggling most of all just popped into positive territory moments ago. The s p trying to stay above morgan thats right i will note that were on pace for gains for the week including the nasdaq that is currently poised for a 4. 8 gain they pointed out this morning that the Broader Market it means this critical juncture right now and that given the big swings in both directions that we have seen in the s p and the Broader Market in the past two weeks leaves us right at the same level that we were at two weeks ago. There istechnical levels to keep an eye on early june highs, whether or not we break above that or on the flip side, the 200 day moving average, but i think the bottom line is that there continues to be a lot of uncertainty and a lot of headlines driving Investor Sentiment right now in terms of the marks, the tech piece of the markets, the nasdaq continuing a fourday win streak right now. Joining us is
Brent crude hits its lowest price this century as the demand crash hits the Global Benchmark. An impromptu opecplus call reaffirms commitment to cuts but no action. Repeat,see brent, brent. The u. S. Senate passes new Pandemic Relief Funds totaling 500 billion. Treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin says it is likely to be the last roche sees a bump as they work on developing tests for covid19. We will speak with the ceo of roche at 8 00 a. M. U. K. Time, 9 00 a. M. On the continent. Just one hour away from the start of cash equity trading throughout europe. Lets take a look at what futures are doing this morning after that drop in u. S. Stocks yesterday. Euro stocks futures, the benchmark European Index futures. 7 5 . Ts trading at ftse futures up just over. 5 right now. Take a look at what is going on in u. S. Futures. Also seeing green arrows they are. A little bit of a bounce to be expected for sure but we see s p futures up. 5 , nasdaq futures . 6 these are the top stories from the bloo