Reporter no matter where you live the ballot will include a set of instructions, its fill out the ballot and tear off the receipt. And then the step that is most likely to get your vote disqualified if you do not sign your envelope your ballot will be rejected. Last election we had over 4000 challenged ballots, of those 4000, 2000 were no signature on the balance. Reporter said three is mail the ballot in but people are not taking chances this year. Ive always voted by mail for the last 10 years but with all the controversy i debated between voting in person and dropping it off personally. Seems pretty safe to drop it off. Reporter one after the other people told us they were longtime million voters now opting for personal delivery. I decided that i was going to bring it in this year, to make sure it got into the right hands. Because every vote matters. People have to vote. Its important. A missing signature is set to be the biggest problem, what else gets ballots challenged . We heard
High. It is still heading toward its Third Straight winning streak, up 65 points. S p better by 22. The nasdaq up 148. You could argue that the dow and the s p are hamstrung by some serious weakness in financials, particularly regarding citigroup. That stock is taking a hit right now. Its down about 4. 7 . We are watching all the financials. Goldmans down i believe we also have Morgan Stanley down and some of the other big names. Tempest fugit when unveiling more than a dozen new offerings. Apple time flies event just ended with multiple bangs. We will start with the sizzle but theres a lot of steak here. Lets get with the apple watch to begin with. You got to do the colors, right . This is sort of the lighthearted stuff. Blue, a new blue, a new, i dont know, kind of rose gold watch, theres a bright ferrari red, you can see that right there. Then sticking with the sizzle, they hired an artist who came up with customizable faces for the new sixth generation apple watch face. It is calle
We will be joined to talk more about that. But first, lets talk about the market. Abigail doolittle is with us. On the back of a big speech by joe biden last night that has been largely wellreceived, even some republicans saying it was successful. Abigail indeed. Probably not too much influence in the markets today because earlier today on the open, really small moves. It was as the day got going that the gains continued, especially for the tech stocks on the day. A real head scratcher because we have a they were we do not have any positive macro data on economic front, and we also dont have any negative data relative to the macro either except for the further out uncertainty around the election and u. S. And china relations. Here we have the big tech stocks you were talking about once again climbing to the nasdaq 100 and faang index both at record highs. The faang index now up 115 since its march low. Apple is just incredible, up more than 5 today. Split does notck create value. Inter
Americans and ongoing battle of stimulus this morning. Heavy haters, walmart, home depot and kohls reporting Quarterly Earnings, we have all the numbers and impact. Lets check numbers, we are looking at a firmer tone, futures indicating a gain at start of trading, about 55 points nasdaq with record close yesterday adding to it this morning with another gain of 35 points. S p 500 ending the day yesterday less than 5 points away from a new record high close when the dow was down 86 but the nasdaq was up 110, the race to acquire tiktok, stock is surging this morning after reportedly throwing its hat to the ring and what it means to microsoft and ongoing battle this morning. Oracle shares up 2 and a half percent. Men being told not to have one alcoholic drink a day. Whats behind the warning . Mornings with maria is live right now. Ftse 100 up 11, cac quarante up 17 and dax index in germany higher by 66 points. European Central Bank President warning banks arent likely to fullery recover fr
We ta retail sales were lower than expected autos adding to the pain with biggest names if the group or deck for earnings next week, well tell you which stocks could be set to take off later, it is apples epic battle both apple now and google kicking out fortnite out of their app stores well explain why they are doing it the fight it could spark and the crackdown on big tech that could be in the cards. Power lunch starts right now happy friday to you. Check out the transports out performing this week up 4 those moves are thanks to fedex and avis budget up double digits for the week with all the major averages up more than 50 from the march lows, its the question being heard around wall street is the market rebound getting too far ahead of the economic rebound. Were digging into the data. The stock market could recover its all time highs we went back to 1973 and looked at how stocks behaved. It takes 2. 7 years to get even this recovery probably will be measured in months the fed and co