Down days for the markets. Right now s p down by about 11, dow by 96, nasdaq off by about 47 we were so close to you dow 30,000 earlier in the week, but that seems to be slipping away a little bit 29,400 and change is where the dow is right now and again, down two days in a row, down again this morning and after yesterdays declines, all three of the major averages are in negative territory for the week a lot of things happening with covid and well talk more about that in a moment, but some of those concerns creeping back into what you see in the markets. If you are looking at the treasury market, the yield on the ten year right now is sitting just at about 0. 852 and the vix also spiking yesterday, probably a little bit on concerns about what happens as we go back into some of the lockdowns. The seesaw of good and bad news on covid. And well give you a bit of good news that happened overnight in the vaccine wars developed by the university of oxford and astrazeneca found to be safe. An
Work and no relief in sight. Speaking of relief, the top democrat in the Senate Chuck Schumer has republican Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell agreed the rekindle talks about a stimulus package the senate is on recess through next week. We will speak with Colorado Governor Jared Polis who just moved 15 counties including denver into level red restrictions he is also part of a group of governors speaking with president elect biden this weekend. Plus we will talk with the ceo of the National Association of manufacturers who is working with bidens team to help fight the pandemic today we have with us mike santoli, steer liesman mike, the broader markets are well off the lows as we speak. They are. Kind of a little bit of an aimless back and forth type day. Absorbed a little bit of a morning selloff. Didnt do any real damage it has been firmly bid, especially with son of the bigger nasdaq stocks coming back. Holding the indexes together relatively well. As we speak, the s p around 3,580. Tha
Leventhal. We are basically at the highs of the day, call it a 500point gain, the s p 500 good for 1. 5 . Nasdaq which was negative very early today is back above 12,000, thats a gain of 1 . The small caps have had a tremendous run of their own. The russell 2000 is up by better than 2 . Josh brown, if i told up that the dow on march 23rd hit a low of 18,213 and we have had a 12,000point rally since then, you would say what i would say this is why people who are not only invested for long term by continually adding to their investments, 401 k s or automated advisers, et cetera, have done themselves a huge favor people on the other side of that debate who think their job is to wake up every morning and make in our out decisions have not done themselves a favor. Im 43 years old im pretty sure ill see dow 100,000 someday. Is he you have to orient your mentality in order to get to days like today. If your mentality is oriented toward trying to outsmart everybody all the time, you dont get t
Republican leader Mitch Mcconnell says President Trump is right to protest the vote cap. The u. S. Sanctions more people in hong kong over chinas increasing control. Washington has suspended its treaty with hong kong and ended reciprocal treatments on shipping. Haidi lets take a look at this market situation we are setting up for. It is firmly risk on after all the really bullish view overnight on account of the high efficacy from the biotech vaccine. Asx 200 trading higher by 1 10 of 1 . It is a handful of asiapacific markets there is or going into overboard territory. One of those is new zealand. We are seeing kiwi stocks of about 9 10 of 1 . We have the rbnz decision ahead of us this week but that market is up now for six consecutive sessions. Nikkei futures reversing pretty dramatically at the moment. Above looking at opening 25,000 for the first time in 30 years. Trading at thell highest since november 1991. A quick look when it comes to u. S. Futures as well. S p active futures u
Television worldwide, good morning. 11 days to go on the election. What are we trying to do . We are trying to get through friday. This is a serious time, a serious debate last night. This pandemic has worsened worldwide. The challenge of a 3 trillion deficits. The civility of last night was noted. Jonathan it was civil. It was muted. But stark differences on the outlook, particularly over covid. The president promising a vaccine within weeks, and biden focusing on the failures of the administration and the winter ahead of us. The Vice President talking about winning hope over fear. That really goes to one of the themes this week we havent talked about, which is the partition of economic america. Lisa the idea that the jobless rate perhaps is going down, but stagnant at one rate. We got those initial jobless claims. The number of permanently unemployed americans, frankly those around the world, is increasing. It is going to take a long time to remedy some of the scarring taking place.