S p up 42 at 4 00 oclock on wall street. Getting tough on china, acceptable or the tom cotton is here, introducing a bill to revoke chinas nation status and whether tiktok and oracle will keep your data safe. Ken cuccinelli on actions to block chinese products made with forced labor. Wild fires raging on the west coast as the gulf coast is feeling the power of Hurricane Sally, we have the latest on the deadly threats. One soda company has a new drink that could help you sleep. Mornings with maria is live right now. Maria lets check european markets, rising from may to july, cac quarante is up 20 and dax index in germany higher by almost 40 points right now. In asia markets mostly higher signs of make recovery in china. Up half of 1 in the month of august. Months are released by the communist party as we always like to remind people, shanghai up half percent. Some of the top stories that we are watching this morning. President trump headed to philadelphia this morning after pushing the
Switch the dow around would we be looking at essentially the same falloff . Essentially we would. This is taking nine of 12 key sectors down. Financials are holding up pretty well today but a lot of this was driven right now by concerns, comments made by dr. An any fauci. I believe he was doing interview on cnn he expressed doubts having a vaccine ready by october. I think there was leaping on that as excuse to sell, just as it could be a leap on Mitch Mcconnells comments that we might not get a deal together, spending measure, virus, stimulus deal together anytime soon. And that he doubts they will be on the same page, republicans and democrats anytime soon. Add to that that weve got new u. S. China tensions. This didnt get as much attention. It has nothing to do with trade per se but with the administration move to impose restrictions on chinese diplomats already here. I do think when you get a selloff going, people collect all of this together, say, sell, sell. It is not that neat a
You are seeing some signs that suggest broadens breadth you had this move in hold builders and transports. Its not a reason to discount that action. Forget about all of that those things are not the tech trade. Its not its clearly happening. Stephanie and pete have been right all along throughout the course of the summer they have said things are Getting Better things are broadening out. I have been a nay sayer but Market Action is telling me they have been correct and i have been incorrect for as long as thats going on, i think theres a reason to be encouraged that we could see continued new highs. As you know, the viewers know. One of the things i want to talk about is the three leading sectors today are low rates plays. Utilities are ripping. Reits look incredible. I added Simon Properties group which we talked about spg. That thing looks like it wants to break out right now of course, youve got communication stocks being the best performers. Im in verizon and that group. Nike hitti
It Just Announced two new watches, two new ipads and a work out service we got all those details for you and later, weve got two big ceo interviews billionaire tilman joins us on state of business and whole foods ceo will discuss how covid has changed the consumer and the grocery business he says forever. Power lunch starts right now yes, it does thank you. As we mentioned, were one day from the fed decision. Another big event looming, 49 days from now is the president ial election. What do our fed survey respondents think of the candidates policies steve is here with those details. Steve. Thanks very much. Some very surprising results from this survey as to the attitudes towards candidates really split along a will the of interesting different lines here we asked who has the best policies for the nation, the stock market and the economy here are the ruesults 60 of our 37 respondents said joe buyiden has the best policy maybe you can find that the reasons for those differences in some
Lets get straight to steve liesman. Jay powell testimony before the House Services committee will note improvement in the economy saying Household Spending has recovered three quarters of the decline and say this is in part response to federal spending and higher Unemployment Benefits which is running down he said housing has rebounded and Business Investment showing signs of improvement but overall employment and Business Activity with well below the prepandemic levels an the out light is uncertain. He makes special mention of the feds main Street Lending program, a 600 billion program with a backstop from the troo z treasury hell be speaking tomorrow before the house financial Services Committee with treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin and this is required testimony about the cares act where they have to quarterly appear before congress and discuss progress with the lending programs. The terminology, highly uncertain, is that different from what the clair has used in the past. This is t