To president elect biden Energy Continues a monster move higher the oil and gas etf up 13 in the last two days. Despite the steady increase in covid cases vaccine developments are continuing to help the likes of the airlines, cruise stocks, retail all surging higher today as we cross that 30,000 level once again, to check it we are still above it will we say that 59 minutes left to trade. 29 points above it. On todays show, two voices to help explain the dows record rise in just a few minutes Jeremy Siegel will join us and later Liz Ann Saunders plus former testry secretary jack lew will discuss president elect biden pick of janet yellen to lead his treasury administration. Lets get the latest from wall street mike santoli is tracking the action to led us to dow 30k. Certainly the story today because of that big round number i am going to keep it consistent, though, and take a fwlims at the s p 500. Similar look in every respect in terms of getting back up pretty much to an alltime hig
News on the banks. We were discussing on closing bell the banks finding out this evening what this extra stress tests theyll go through this fall will be there will be two severe recessions it will be tested against as opposed to normally one. Its possible we could interpret those severe recessions as not as bad as they could have been june saw unemployment spiking to 10 . This test has two versions one is that it spikes to 12. 5 and then dips more quickly to 7 7. 5 both of those factors perhaps highlight the severely adverse scenario didnt get that much worse given the year that were in than perhaps it could have got. 10 unemployment to 11 or 12 is not that much worse. That will also include a stock market decline by 30 house prices falling 26 all of course headlinegrabbing changes but not that much worse than they could have been given the fact that we already knew this early set of tests was coming there is one line that stands out at the end of the statement that says, the board re
Alltime high. As you can see, it closed in the red. The dow squandering a 360 gain to close down more than 100 points tesla announcing a five for one stock split. Leading todays tech losses amd, apple, microsoft, amazon all falling more than 2 guy, what is your take on this big turnaround i would have thought Something Like this would have happened weeks ago i think the reversal is interesting. Well see if it holds up tomorrow to your earlier point, i mean you saw a pretty significant reversal right around an alltime high in the s p 500 if theres one thing i would attribute it to, dont discount the fact i think its actually pretty important, the news out of the big ten cancelling their football season. Thats pretty remarkable if you think about how meaningful it is to those schools and the local economies. I think that was part of it today and i think the other part of it is the stocks have been on such a ridiculous run, it was just a matter of time before we saw a move of this magnitu
Fed governor saying the fed is likely going to need to shift its Monetary Policy from a policy of stabilization to a policy of accommodation which means helping the economy achieve the level of growth that it has previously. Remaining low until certain Employment Outcomes are hit. A thick fog of uncertainty now surrounds the United States. She goes onto say the Downside Risk dominates the strength will depend on Additional Support along with Monetary Policy. She urges fed emergency facile tills to be as broadly accessible as possible perhaps a concern on her part that maybe some of the current facilities are not. Melissa. Does she sound much more pessimistic compared to other Federal Reserve Board Members . She does sound somewhat more pessimistic but the fed overall has been more pessimistic than the market this continues that concern. The concern about uncertainty that really has been a consistent note from fed chair jay powell but perhaps youre right, shes more pessimistic especiall
I know youre loathe to lay into fiscal policy but given forecast for Unemployment Rates, do you think its important that congress extend the extra unemployment benefits. I think were trying to keep our comments on fiscal policy at a high level ill come to your specific question let me just say this, this is the biggest economic shock in the u. S. And in the world really in living memory we went from the lowest level of unemployment in 50 years to the highest level in close to 90 years and we did it in two months extraordinary. Appropriately the response there fiscal authorities has been large, forceful, and very quick by the standards of these things roughly 3 trillion congress has authorized, and thats benefiting households, laid off workers, small and medium businesses, hospitals, state and local governments, 14 of gdp, its in a class by itself in terms of both the size and the speed of it. Its also pretty innovative. Both the ppp and Unemployment Insurance are quite innovative in th