Consumer in this covid economy and a ventilator boost from medtronic, but sales for other medical devices remain lower medtronics ceo will join us exclusively later this hour. Carl, jims shaking his head already. I dont know speculative market ive ever seen i was going to say, jim, i mean, what a confluence of headlines and then to layer on what you were talking about with becky, this seemingly endless generational bid for stocks in general. You know, look at these plug power did a deal last week, 38 million shares of 22. 25, norwegian did a deal of 40 million shares at 20. 80, carnival did a huge deal at 17. 59, up huge on that, American Airlines did a deal, huge amount of stock, and about price that is a dollar below where this it is trading. Ive never seen anything like it where are the profit takers . Where are they i dont know. This is listen, we have been talking about this new cohort in the market, theyre for real, man. They are real it is not just ev stocks that are ev Companie
Pizza. One stock serving up serious game thanks to leftovers the dow was up over 500 points the rally, driven in part by President Trump who made an about face on stimulus, putting aid back in play before the november election. So, can we expect this rally to continue you know what struck me about todays rally is that we what is that, mel that we closed nine points higher than when we closed yesterday. We are better off today hoping for piecemeal parts to the stimulus plan than yesterday i made it a point, albeit clumsy, that President Trump, in my opinion, is extraordinarily focused on the stock market. The administration has said it for years, the stock market is a report how well hes doing so for him to tweet something and then watch the dow jones g straight line, it had to be upsetting. I thoughi didnt think it wouldn six hours later, but we are here i think they have learned how to speak the language of the stock market to your point, nothing has changed, but here we are increment
New details on a possible Coronavirus Vaccine. Edward. Reporter connell that is what is propelling the markets today. We have positive news out of two vaccine makers. The first one pfizer. The ceo of pfizer says they will have enough Critical Data in october to be able to submit for approval should everything go as expected. He has said this before but this is a little different because it comes as astrazeneca saw a minor setback of trials in their vaccine. The pfizer ceo says he sees americans start being vaccinated before the end of 2020. The u. S. Government secured 100 million doses from pfizer this year with an option to get 500 million more next year. As of today, more than 29,000 people are in a phase three trial for pfizer. The fda hopes to have 30,000 volunteers and pfizer says it will be there next week on the way to 44,000 people. Of those, 24 in the study are minorities. That is something that the fda wants to see. They want to make sure this works among a Diverse Group of
Points and the s p is relatively flat weve been watching what is happening in the treasury market and we take a look now, well see the 10year yield, at this point, seems to be sitting at 0. 655 andrew, over to you. Just out in the last half hour, the Biden Campaign releasing a new jobs plan. Kayla joins us with more its 700 billion, kayla yes it is stemming from a 110page policy document that is essentially emerging of the left and moderate ring priorities inside the Democratic Party. It was produced. I the Campaign Said it will create millions of goodpaying jobs and reinforces some policy commitments as well as jot lining new programs that a Democratic Administration would push for including a 15 federal minimum wage, mandate for 12 weeks paid family leave, universal prek for 3 and 4yearolds and payment platforms for lowincome americans run by the federal reserve. Democrats say a Public Credit Reporting Agency is needed to provide transparent alternatives to the private sector. There
Nasdaq is leading the way again. 9,996. Will we get to 10,000 again before the quarter and the half year are over . Its a 1. 25 gain today. Its the only of three majors to be positive year to date ill start that there, josh brown. The nasdaq is reminding everybody how we got here in first place. Thats right. It continues to be a tale of two markets despite those days where it looks like were about to have this massive mean reversion for the rest of the market it really is these names that are getting the job done day in and day out. Ive highlighted the fact the nasdaq equal weight is doing as well or better on some days than the regular market cap weighted triple qs. Thats indicative of broad strength not just five stocks dragging the whole market higher. Then the coronavirus losers are doing what think have been doing for quite a while. Each day were getting new names added to the list. This is just another casualty of this two speed economy that were going to have. If you focus on wh