And technology outperforming in todays trade. Theyre all up more than 1 hers at the moment weve got 59 minutes left to go in another wild session. Green across the screen once again. The company now pivoting to very different space. Well speak with the ceo about the strategy shift plus, former ceo getting in on the spac craze with a Blank Check Company. Lets get straight to the big stories were watching mike santoli tracking the market on this first day of the Fourth Quarter. Steve leezmiesman has a look ate Economic Data and we have the latest on the stimulus notions its been a little jumpy. A little fitful action it is shuttling up and down within that range. It seems as if the market is trying to shake out the people or the al go riridg al algoriths the year to date chart, we remain here. We keep pointing out its kind of this, you know, upper range above the year to date break even level it is about 1 , 1. 5 up from this level in the 3400s. People say maybe represent an upside break
Be risk on. The cash trade, less than an hour away. Here are your headlines. Big attack its even bigger. Alphabetacebook, and tune to techsumers to solve the problems of a global lockdown. The French Economy shrinks 13. 8 or after an increase in jobless claims shows the recovery is in shaky ground. Ibar, bnp arab are par beats all but one of the big wall street banks. Just an hour from cash trading. Lets look at futures. Futures futures, u. K. Are down but only slight moves. Nothing material. Nothing to show us what kind of direction we can expect. Futures right ww, if you take a look at the eif screen, also slightly mixed this morning. Of working slew earnings news. I will kick it off right now with natwest. Impairment charge of 3. 54. 5 billion pounds. Expecting less than one billion. In the Second Quarter, more than doubled the impairment charge for the full year. The company expecting at least possibly up to 4. 5 billion. The operating lost was 770 million pounds. Have iag asyou we
Even more retaliation. Weve got the latest. Markets this morning pointing to rally at start of trading upbeat news on Moderna Vaccine. Dow industrials up 556 points and nasdaq up 97 and the s p up 42. New covid warning, though, for expected mothers as baby contracts the baby in the womb. Everything you need to know coming up. Big win for apple this morning, European Union court ruled in favor of the Technology Giant over multibillion dollar antitrust tax bill. The stock is up on the news, up 1 and a quarter percent. Goldman sachs among big banks reporting today along with dow component and United Health, mornings with maria is live right now. Maria and european markets like the Investor Sentiment of vaccine trials and london better consumer data. The cac quarante in paris up 63 and dax index up 122. In asia overnight, mix story, take a look, asian indices finishing like this overnight with shanghai composite down, japan was up one and two third and the others fractionally moving. Some
Economic update so professor the market has just kind of shrugged off this entire conflict between iran and the u. S. Its now hitting all time highs and essentially concluding that honor has been served in the middle east and everyone can move along now what do you think is this really over or is merely a teaser and the other shoe just hasnt dropped yet. You know its a complicated story on the one hand the markets are right of course this was see it or it was see it or on new years to assassinate a foreign general when he is leave it in his own country a person who has that an adversary for a long a person carrying a diplomatic passport which means you can give his car a ticket let alone kill him a very bizarre action and the world looks at this as a kind of roll Good Behavior which is the truth everywhere except in the media. Year on the other hand the iranians having to look like theyre doing something in response send missiles that dont get to the target theyre ostensibly aimed at s
A board on the ground to catch us up on the floor of the shield and just how far a i have were filled to the brim with some very important stories so lets dive right in. Following irans missile strike on the bases in iraq that house u. S. And u. K. Troops markets initially dropped while oil spite but quickly retraced back to even as details emerged the pentagon later confirmed that iran launch more than a dozen missiles against u. S. Military forces in iraq but so far there were no reports of casualties the attack did not target any Oil Infrastructure which was a major point of concern for Global Markets in fact the nasdaq rallied to new record highs wednesday following the attack as it was highly asian was less than feared while crude oil retreated down 2 percent President Trump addressed the spikes wednesday morning in washington our Great American forces are prepared for anything iran appears to be standing down. Which is a good thing for all parties concerned and a very good thing