Pandemic. Todyman continue if we start open up the economy . Can that continue with we start to open up the economy . And what is the recourse if you wake up in your robinhood account has been drained . Good news, Abigail Doolittle is here with us. Her account has not been drained, but she has been here with us all day. Risk on we had a nether that day. Not just a risk on week, but a second in a row. For the nasdaq, third. That september felt so bearish, and it was, but we seem to have really recovered from that. Today and this week after so many whipsaws around stimulus on and off, right now there is hope among investors that stimulus is on and a big deal could be agreed on. Nearly on the week up 4 . Nasdaq having its third up week time we have first seen that since august. A big driver for both of these indexes, amazon, up 5. 2 . There could be quite a bit of upside there. Nextf course prime day is week. Thats something investors are looking forward to. Wererming risk on, bonds down
Another bipartisan spending bill. The battle to replace Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg will be anything but bipartisan. The president said he will announce his pick on saturday. Joining us to talk about how the markets are digesting this news, bloombergs abigail doolittle. This is not what investors to hear. We got that big 200,000 number in the united states. 200,000 americans have died due to covid19. Talk to us about how investors are handling these continued mixed signals. Abigail that is a tragedy in the u. S. In terms of impact on the market, probably not so much. We are looking at the volatility on the backside of the huge rally in august. August was the best month ever going back to 2014. At this point, the nasdaq 100 where it was at the beginning of august. That slump that never deserved to happen according to some strategists has now been erased. Perhaps we are on a level Playing Field that on the day has taken the nasdaq and s p 500 down. You were mentioning the big drop for ap
Comes to the treasury market. The dollar taking it on the chin. Safe haven bid for the yen. Out yettting taken again after yesterdays slide, dragging Energy Equities with that uncertainty rains in the commodity. President trumps positive covid test and what is going on behind the scenes not the white house. Joining us is mario parker, Bloomberg White house reporter. What do we know at this moment . Mario everything is kind of unclear, given that the white house was taken by surprise with the president and first lady testing positive last night. We are starting to get some inckle sin some trickles in terms of who has negative results. We know that Jared Kushner and ivanka trump, two of the aides,nts other closest have negative tests, as well as his son barron. Right now we know that theres negative tests that have come in. We are not sure just yet how many other white house staff will be quarantined. Guy thank you very much, indeed. How on earth was the white house cut by surprise by th
Coronavirus. San francisco has kept cases and deaths below the rest of the state by aggressive sheltering in place. Forr london breed joins me an exclusive interview as restaurants and places of worship start to reopen him and her outlook of the citys new normal. Tiktokk, twitter, and continue to crackdown on death wishes for the president. Our interview with the star of netflixs hit documentary the social dilemma. Markets soaring into the green amid optimism that President Trump will make a recovery and prospects of a stimulus deal. Investors liking what they are seeing despite the president s doctor questioning and saying that he may still not be out of the woods. Abigail certainly a risk on tone out of the gate. Investors, whether they are reassured by President Trumps health status, the earnings season coming up, whatever the risk onas we had this appetite. Technical, those are the fundamentals given the selloff we saw on friday. A panic selloff since it was never can never confirm
Wearing, sanitation, ventilation, separation, we are not going to get a handle on this to be able to fully open our economy and our schools in our society. That is what has been ignored by the administration. That is what we must insist upon in this package. It has been another bills but they have not acted upon the resources in a way science would demand. That said come on the subject of the airlines, ive made the case to my colleagues this is a special case because in order for airline employees to return to the workforce, there are National Security concerns, there are concerns about certification and all the rest of that, not somebody leaving a job and coming back to a job, but having to qualified could take a couple of years for a pilot, six months for a flight attendant, six i think we should pay special attention to that. We should not do that and lose all leverage to do Everything Else we have in the bill, which is to crush the virus, honor our heroes, put money in the pockets