Or highs just yesterday alone. Bit of a pullback today. As for the nasdaq, yeah, it closed above 12,000. There was a massive runup in tech stocks again, a pullback is to be expected, and take a look at that, thats what weve got. Got it. Next, vaccine news. Very positive. The centers for Disease Control is telling states to get ready for Vaccine Distribution on a large scale come november the 1st. Which vaccine . Dont know, but this is a firm date and, of course, its right before the election. And it is exactly two months to the election, and the two campaigns are in high gear. Joe biden has reversed himself. He will travel to kenosha today. He said he wouldnt go, now he is going to be the comforter in chief. What will he say to the burnedout Business Owners . President trump goes to pennsylvania. Hell speak at Arnold Palmer airport just east of pittsburgh. Ive got a feeling hell talk about fracking. Stay with us, please. Youve got to say what Speaker Pelosi is saying about her break th
The company is hoping this will spark more adoption, but it will only work if Health Officials offer an app to utilize the technology. Covid cases are dropping in many states but rising in the midwest. The u. S. Grappling with how and when to reopen safely. New York Public Schools just postponed in person return for three more weeks. Lets get back to the markets with Abigail Doolittle in new york. Generally another up day driven by apple. Abigail that summarizes it. It feels as though that is every day. Apple, a big driver for sure. In charge of the fed liquidity, driven rally continuing into september. We now have five up months in around and september starting up with more record highs. 75 , the0 gaining by nasdaq 100 up 1. 5 . Apple really helping out the chip space as well because there is indications they could have a strong season relative to selling iphones. You see the stock is up 2 . And ais one tell possibility investors are cautious. We are seeing a rally for haven bonds, th
Concerns over production of the 737 max jet. And positive news on the housing front, as home builder confidence jumps to its highest level in two decades coming up next hour, former treasury secretary jack lew will join us to discuss trade and the economy. You do not want to miss that and with us for the whole first hour of theshow, dan nathan from risk reversal advisers. Dan, good afternoon. Thanks for joining us. Great to be here. More optimism on trade or whatever you want to put it down to is a lot of this news not already out there . Are you surprised to see ongoing rallies to new highs yet again at the end of the day, you like to see followthroughs. So friday, we had a muted react. A lot of investors expected some kind of surge, similar to what we had at the end of 2017 after the big tax cut. A lot of this was priced in. I think the continuation of last weeks rally into this week is obviously pretty establibullish. Also fairly seasonal as we are looking down the barrel of a week
Wednesday. Closing the day up by 123 points still on track for major indices to see the third week in a row looking at dow futures s p 500 down by 10, nasdaq down by 25. What happened . Stocks took a dive it was more a product of the percentages were going up for powell to have another cut all but factored in. Bad news has become good news. Good news has become good news if you look at the december percentage cut, it doubled 30 to 60 . October, yes december, yes. Sort of. The market took that as a positive well see what happens today the jobs report is the all important one that hits in 2. 5 hours time. Looking at what happened overnight in asia. The nikkei ended up by about a third a percentage point the hang seng is up just over 1 you are looking at a mixed picture. Not Much Movement for the dax or the ftse a little weakness in italy and spain. Looking at treasury yields coming under pressure on this data in terms of the ism manufacturing numbers and the nonmanufacturing ism we got y
Google doesnt want employees talking about politics, but federal regulators that you can prevent that. , we talked to two innovators changing the fertility and baby tech industries. But first, our top story. The Trump Administration is considering a new tactic in its trade war with china that would be a limited trade deal. On the u. S. Side, that would be delaying or rolling back tariffs, and in return, commitments from beijing on ip and agricultural purchases. ,o discuss, is Sarah Mcgregor covering all things trade war for us. The markets on thursday seem to like the idea of a limited trade deal. What does it involve . Mark one of the biggest breakthroughs in the impasse since may when the two sides had a deal in the u. S. Accused china that reneging on those agreements. The u. S. Would stop the escalation or rollback tariffs if china agrees to some fundamental reforms on ip, buying more u. S. Farming goods. ,his could meet chinas needs because their number one demand is the u. S. Rol