On that. Charles, thank you. Whatever the answer, right, the markets are showing extreme optimism as we head into the final hour of trade. New vaccine hopes are adding to the mix and yes, right now, the dow is topping 28,000 by a single point. The nasdaq, back above 11,000. We are at 11,044. The s p is moving higher by 1. 33 after two straight weeks of selling. Oracle says its won its tech battle against microsoft to partner up with the chinese social media superstar tiktok but at this hour, Chinese Media saying yeah, but you didnt win the war. Top tech analyst colin gillis on whether oracle is getting snookered and Charlie Gasparino on those now crying crony capitalism. What does the latest Covid Vaccine progress mean to some of the pandemic stock superstars . The ceo and cofounder of okta is here on whether a return to work will cut into all the business hes done in the lockdown era. And the nfl is back and with it comes an explosion of gambling apps. One of the biggest digital sport
Tthe eamon javers is in washington, deidra, and julia boorstin, and josh lipton on apple we were just seeing a shot of the hearing room as well eamon, we may lack some of the visual drama given the remote locations of the ceos, however there will still be plenty of theater given the star power we expect. Yeah, look, scott, this is scuff iconic moments in business history. Starting with big to bako, the big banks, the pharmaceuticals, theyve all been through this big moment where all of the leaders of those industries are on the capitol hill raising their hands in the air testifying before congress this one wont have quite the sting of that for a couple reasons. I dont think you can say the Technology Industry is as unpopular as the industries were and that huge user base i think will go a long way also, you have this idea which you were talking about these guys are going to be testifying remotely. Theres a bit of distance thats going to go a long way here, in terms of softening some of
Lots of earnings coming out. Ups is the latest. They are withdrawing their 2020 forecast for revenue, as well as eps, as we have seen from Many Companies trying to estimate the impact. Theirre withdrawing forecast. They are suspending the Share Buyback for 2020. We want to get you all of todays top moving news from new york and our london team. We want to begin with the volatility in the u. S. Oil market. Wti at one point falling below 11 a barrel. Bps ceo, after the Company Released firstquarter results which showed a 2 3 drop in profit. We have a situation where we have excess supply, and storage is filling up. Cushing is 70 full. People think we will reach completely full sometime in may. We are very fortunate to have a large trading organization, and they have been able to find a physical home for our crude, but not everyone is that fortunate. What is happening here is a very simple case of supply and demand, and the market really isnt going to find some stability until that comes
Increasingly concerned. It is the economy. Jay powell fed chief jay powell holds where facetoface talks with President Trump. Warnings from within the fed. Rosengren eric morning policymakers against putting financial policy at risk. We will hear exclusively from him. And now, back to sophie for a look at australian markets. Higher. 6 200 is opening a2 milk leading the pack. Aining 17 after reporting better margin outlook. Checking in on the aussie dollar. Ahead of the rba. Still clearly and a focus for the currency. 1 ancks are adding on hour into cash trade. Futures Holding Steady in chicago. Lets see how we are sitting up in hong kong. Hans sang futures are under pressure after the rebound. Speculation that chinese funds are providing support for the market. Even so, there is some investor caution given they are rethinking their positions with the increasing violence in hong kong. We did have the hans sang in the hong kong index regain their 50 day moving averages. Lets jump to the
What your technology does. It only matter who uses it, whos the customer thats what i keep thinking. Today another sedate session, s p inched up. Nasdaq. 04 need a microscope here we keep learning this same lesson about technology over and over and over again in this elongated earnings season, and its pretty jarring, because normally we care about what technologies actually does, if its helpful, if it increases speed or accuracy or power or productivity, well, it tends to be a suchls. Buy, buy, buy if its clunky and dead on arrival sell, sell, sell not these days, though. These days wall street only cares about who your customers are. Good, bad, as long as youve got the right end markets, your stock is going to be worded. Lets use roku, okay, and cisco. Roku sells to the consumer, sells to you their Technology Helps you stream videos directly to your tv cisco is a networking company, a colossus that sells to what is known as the enterprise, giant complex companies that need to connect