The dow down by almost 1,000 points the decline of 1. 8 . S p by over 8 the nasdaq a miracle come back after a laydate rally weve been bouncing around positive territory right now, the dow down around 14 points, s p up about seven points and the nasdaq up about 70 points. We are talking about a town month for the markets, we are looked at four sessions in a row. Thats the longest losing streak looking at these numbers, you are talking about these lower numbers. Month after month i think we had april, may, june, july, august are all up. Stocks only go up not in september. In an Election Year it can take on significance. The nasdaq can move. We can see it down 400 or more points can that close higher again today . Thats a good move you could look at it midmorning and then it seems like it is not the tale at this point kind of the log. Faang, tesla and the leadership move. Apple made the rally yesterday too. Gold is supposed to go up bitcoin, supposed to go up weird. Thats where you think
Services committee and how the markets may react. Then we will talk a bit about this try yant stake in our Parent Company comcast, what is the behind the thinking at triant and what if anything may owe dur as a result. Teslas battery day, where that stock is trying to recover this morning after yet another tweet from elon musk which is part of the discussion today, jim. Whether or not hes setting expectations in a different way saying that some of this high volume production is a phenomenon still a couple years away. Hes giving us an underpromise, overdeliver, i think, which is highly unlike him, but it could make more a little more pizzazz. Theres been so much talk about battery day, maybe he lowers expectations an blow them out. People come out and want to buy tesla, want to buy amazon, positive notes about apple, positive note about facebook its just become the pattern youre waiting and waiting for when the selling is over and then, david, they cannot resist. Theyre down 15 and 17 p
Becky is off today all breaking fivemonth win streaks with the dow the big loser. Still a good quarter i should say a very good quarter. The dow gaining 7. 5 take a look at u. S. Equity futures this morning lets show you where things stand as we speak. The dow up triple digits s p looking to open higher nasdaq about 140 points hire overnight, Tokyo Stock Exchange suspended trading after a glitch blaming a hard wear problem followed by a failure to switch over to a backup device. The first fullday closure of the tokyo markets since trading began in 1999. Too much partying like in 1999 also in 1999, the year after was the year 2000. That was the last time the nasdaq had two quarters as good as this. It has been 20 years the nasdaq was up 45 . So it has been pretty unbelievable yesterday, we had worries about coronavirus. Even in new york and elsewhere where there is high infection rates. We had sort of just the aftermath of the debate, which people said was unsettling just watching then
That shape which would be very good news. Taking a look at some stocks, apple as you mentioned alltime highs, adobe, amazon, microsoft, all close within 3 of alltime highs. Thats a range of different kinds of stocks. Apple and microsoft are the two most valuable stocks that i track, two of the most valuable companies in existence right now. Adobe had been more of a kind of growth momentum play type stock despite fat k despite fact its big and strong and has strong growth. For that to be as close to high as it is and up nicely this morning as well, serge sacertais something morgan. Weve been talking about it all week, the rotation into the stocks and sectors that are tied to this reopening narrative that were seeing play out across the country and really across the world in general perhaps unsurprising to see airlines, leisure and hospitality, banks and financials, the type of stocks leading the market higher today, even though from a sector standpoint in the s p every sector is in the
Thats something to behold. Its hadding the lowest level since march of 1999. Right now well take a quick look at my board, which is current. I can see it down 4. 13 i say that because ive been practicing waiting 12 seconds to get a quote on something that im trying to give you instantaneously. Now im back on the nasdaq and i can actually see it. The coronavirus pandemic has sapped demand for oil and global storage is rapidly proefing capacity the world is running out of room on ships anchored at sea the may futures contract for wti expires tomorrow looking out to june, the situation isnt quite as dire. Its back to more of what were used to, kind of, at least in the last couple of weeks as you can see there, june delivery under 23 a share meantime, an update now on the pandemic as we bring you the numbers as we do every single morning. Here are the latest numbers. Global cases topping 2. 4 million now with 165,000 deaths. Now, the u. S. Cases nearing 760,000 with more than 40,000 deaths