Infections heading towards 16 million. Hong kong says the situation is increasingly severe. Has extended the Wage Subsidy Program beyond september to protect the economy from fallout from coronavirus. Shery a quick check of how the markets are trading. We are seeing u. S. Futures kicking off unchanged. This after we saw u. S. Stocks rally amid encouraging vaccine news, this time from the university of oxford and astrazeneca. The s p 500 finished at the highest since february, turning positive for the year. Tech and discretionary stocks outperforming. The vaccine optimism sort of faded. We have a very Competitive Landscape that failed to impress. Risk was revived in the afternoon session following improved u. S. Infection numbers. California and arizona reporting a slow down infections. We still have that stayathome defense rate being back with strength. The underperformance from the russell 2000 very pronounced, while the nasdaq also finished at another record high. Take a look at what
Care names among those moving higher, mckesson, amer source better again, centene, seen some of them on a tear following news theyre in talks for possible 50 billion or thereabouts settlement related to Opioid Lawsuits Health care versus technology and whats happening with other names, it is an interesting proving point as markets are near record high levels whether theres more momentum. In the past week or so, more trade headlines, not just between the u. S. And china, and brexit this morning, moves more sensitive sectors in the economy. Semiconductors, home builder Stocks Health care you want to keep an eye on, carl back to you at the New York Stock Exchange to everybody, good morning it is 8 00 a. M. At netflix headquarters in california, 11 00 a. M. On wall street. Squawk alley is live. I am Carl Quintanilla with Morgan Brennan and jon fortt at the post nine. We start with netflix, another miss on subs well off session highs mark mahaney joins us to talk about that with Julia Boors
Good thursday morning, welcome to squawk on the street. Im carl canton . Eua. News is solid and question is can johnson sell that to parliament as early as this weekend. Sterling has had a big mix Housing Starts disappoint. Our road map begins with netflix soaring despite the miss, the streaming giant warning that increasing competitive head winds could weigh on growth. It shows Morgan Stanley to be rallying, this on what looks like a strong quarterly result the banks cfo will join us this morning. As we said, futures rallying on new brexit hopes, uks parliament, approval, though, remains uncertain. Lets start with netflix subgrowth did mix. Rebounded to almost 6. 8 million thanks to International Strength on the earnings call, Reed Hastings did talk about the competition with disney and apple, set to launch their own services next month. Fundamentally there is not a big change here. It is interesting we see both apple and disney launching basically in the same week after 12 years of n
Concerns over software and tech stocks lower weve been up, down, all around for the markets today. As we stand, though, with 59 minutes, were higher on the dow, lower on the s p. Joining us for the full hour, from capital usa, keith, good afternoon to you. Thank you, wilf. Earnings been Strong Enough so far or have they been resoundingly strong this week . Theyve been strong so far. I think the markets have been less than vigorous, shall we say, the last couple of months i think well enter a period less vigorous than it was before thats going to be a key component for how we evaluate the economy and market Going Forward. Lets check in on the markets. S p 500 down by about 0. 1 and the dow higher by four points so far. Retail sales, and eamon javers has the latest on trade lets start with wilf on the banks. Bank of america reported this morning. They continue to feed from yesterday, the impact of low rates, while negative, has been less bad than feared that interest margin was down only
Been. Ban. A federal judge will consider the request at a hearing in honolulu. Global news 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2600 journalists around the world. Im mark crumpton. Bloomberg technology, is next. Cory im cory johnson. This is bloomberg technology. Coming up, we go live to las vegas, nevada for the ibm internet conference. We talk about everything from the cloud to ibms partnership with wanda. Marc benioff says the window for acquisition is posing. Firstll ubers board Travis Kalanick to resign . First, lets turn to the market selloff for u. S. Equities. It biggest slide since october. Lets bring in stocks reporter abigail doolittle. A big fella today. Cap down a big selloff today. Tech down 1. 5 . Reporter indeed. It was a pretty bad selloff for major averages today. A dayw down the most from standpoint, the worst selloff since the beginning of september. Some are saying this is a reversal of the reflation trade. Now is the worst sector for the major averages, including