Take a hit. The covid consumer, walmart, home depot and kohls among retailers reporting earnings today. Walmart says ecommerce sales up 79 . And elon musks billions, tesla getting a spot in the s p 500. It is among the highest valued companies to ever enter the benchmark index and musk is on top to become number three, that is the third richest person in the world. Indeed, guys. Well start with the retail picture this morning, jim, youve been vocal as to the investor response on home depot and walmart. I guess thats related to the news out of amazon. Look, by the way, those stocks do tend to run up in the quarter and sell off thats nothing new a more aggressive amazon is always something we have to Pay Attention to i remember when amazon bought pill packs, the drug stores got killed i also point out that walmarts online david, thats not going to go away you can argue someone is going to argue thats the peak i would argue that amazon and walmart have taken so much share in this country,
Shares of pharmacy giants are under pressure after amazon said it was jumping into the Prescription Drug business bowe is off a little pour than 100 points nasdaq and s p clinging on the gains. Coming on todays show, retail earnings season full swing. Shares of coles are higher after topping eps estimates this morning. We will talk with the ceo. Plus, as the u. S. Is seth coronavirus records we will talk with dr. Eric gooseby. All of that still to come. First lets focus on the big stories today. Mike santoli is tracking the market phil lebeau has more on teslas spree into the s p 500 and we will talk about the pharmacy space and amendss move into it. Mike santoli lets start with you. It was the morning was off the lows a mild pullback. Market seemed like it needed to cool off and rest for a day. Right now riding the upper rail here we close at a record yesterday remember that. Above 3600 working below week ago mondays high hard to tell whether thats going the matter or not. Thats about
Tom good morning, everyone. Bloomberg surveillance. And keep her being with us on Bloomberg Radio and bloomberg television. Thisan important our is an important hour. Will join us later, carmen and Vincent Reinhart. Morning,at we see this the only thing that matters. Dollar out to new weakness. Jonathan dxy taking out the lows of early september. That is the dollar index, heavily weighted towards this goal currency. The eurodollar nicely through 1. 19. Another monday with a cyclical tilt. Small caps outperform big tech, largely off of some positive vaccine news. Haddownside surprises weve in the Economic Data over the last week, we need to Pay Attention to that. Im excited to hear what david has to say about that. Tom lets frame that right now. I look at the 55year forwards. The answer is ive got disinflation in the united kingdom, a little bit of a rolling over of disinflation trend in the united states, and is some noland right now. Kind of the wrong upside surprise. That is the labo
Reported yesterday and a top Infectious Disease expert says its about to get worse. Power lunch starts right now and welcome to power lunch everybody, the election shifting towards joe biden today. He took the lead in the counts in georgia and pennsylvania. Lets go to eamon javers to break down where we stand right now. Were stel loill looking at e same list of uncalled races. Joe bidens lead is increasing weve had more vote now coming in today from pennsylvania, moe are vote out from nevada in pennsylvania bidens lead over trump has grown to more than 13,000 votes. Take a look at the state of pennsylvania we are about 96 complete. Too close to call there. The difference there 13,220. Thats the whole ball game if joe biden wins there, this race is over because thats 20 electoral votes. Biden only needs 17 at this point to go over the top in nevada, press conference just wrapped up in clark county, home to Las Vegas Biden expanded his lead there and is up to 20,000 overall in the state.
Exchanges. Regulators criticize the lack of access. Goldman sachs is set to be preparing a second round of job cuts in three months as a moratorium on firing amid covid19 comes to an end. Howi lets take a look at we are setting up in the first couple minutes of sydni trading. We have had a pretty cautious trading session this week ever since we had a Technical Glitch that essentially put the asx out of action for monday. We are seeing a little bit of a flight back to the opening session as we get more clarity in terms of the ongoing trade tensions between camera and beijing. Still on the back foot trading at the moment. We are seeing outside of half a percent trading in new zealand stocks. Shery we continue to see pressure in the futures markets. U. S. Futures down. 1 after stocks pulled back from record highs. We are seeing nikkei futures down 0. 4 , coming down from the highest level since 1991. The japanese yen unchanged, although one of the biggest gainers. Virus concerns. And wti