Next hour ill speak to the ceo of Johnson Johnson, on the companys earnings and news of the halt in vaccine trials after one participant became sick, helping to drag futures this morning. Take a look at markets, the dow industrials are down 133 points, the nasdaq is holding onto gains, up 97 points right now fo. The s p 500 is down 6 and a quarter points. Yesterday, Big Technology led a big rally and at the close the dow was up 250 points, the nasdaq up 296, almost two and two thirds percent on the nasdaq, the s p 500 yesterday up 57 points at 4 00 on wall street. Amazons prime day kicking off today, how the shopping giant can expect some stiff competition from other retailers this time around. High expectations, apple is unveiling its 5g ready iphone 12 today, everything you need to know before the big event, mornings with maria is live right now. European markets are flat this morning. Take a look, fq100 down 23, cac down 19, dax index in germany lower by 53 points. Retail sales in t
New and all electric hummer to the world, but you got to hear the price tag. And it is once again time for you to speak out, this time on the election. And which matters more to your money . The white house or the senate . It is wednesday, october 21, and this is Worldwide Exchange on cn cnbc welcome from wherever in the world you may be watching. Happy wednesday. Im Brian Sullivan here is how your money in the Global Markets are setting up. Stock futures are down, dow and s p trying to post back to back days of gains, but dow futuresf about 100, nasdaq iabout 70 mtum is the cute ticker, coming off its fifth straight down day. Its longest losing streak since late february. That etf tracks names like te a tesla, apple, microsoft and more, all the names that really control the entire market. Same story with the faang stocks First Trust Dow jones, the fdn, also seeing 2350five down days row now, first time that has happened since february. So you have to watch tech, some of the big name e
Yields, even fiveyear yields at the highest level for more than a month. We are looking ahead to a few fed president s who will be speaking later today. The picture where policy will be in the months and days ahead. Seems like there is some optimism on some kind of stimulus. You can also argue that investors are looking past what happens in congress are looking more towards what happens for this election right now because the polls into a suggest, are in favor of biden. Not sure this price president ial debate will change the dynamics of that but certainly we are seeing most risk assets are outperforming with the exception of hong kong which is down 0. 8 . The kospi gaining. The Third Quarter was a surprising beat there. Nifty futures also higher by a touch. The dollar has been pretty steady. That is helping some of the asia fxes here today. In terms of movers, samsung electronics. We mention that surprise beat there. It seems like the stock is been lower by 0. 5 . Alibaba and tencent
Open. The cash trade an hour away. Here are your top headlines from the bloomberg terminal. Brussels shuts the bar as early as the virus resurgence accelerates in europe. France reports a record daily number. Emmanuel macron warns of further restrictions to come. Kamala harris slams the president s Pandemic Response in a largely eventempered debate with mike pence. Polls show joe biden widening his lead in battleground states. Futures push higher amid signs nancy pelosi is open to an somene relief will, but warned a bite and win would be modestly negative for u. S. Starks. We are an hour away from the start of u. S. Equity cash trading. We do have green arrows. In terms, modest gains of futures contract with ftse 100 futures basically unchanged right now. Percentook at the mispriced, you do see gains indicated at this point. Take a look at u. S. Futures, also showing gains this morning, a little bit stronger, the gains. About. 4 across s p, dow jones, nasdaq. Anna breaking news coming
Still at home, eating out less, working less then before covid19. The economic fallout is putting pressure on lawmakers to get a new stimulus deal done, but so far no agreement has come from d. C. Europe still feeling the pain. Now it is a new hotspot for coronavirus cases, surpassing the u. S. Six months into the pandemic the recovery feels so far off. On an objective level standpoint, we are a long wait from the employment way from the employment levels we were at precrisis. The pace of job growth in particular, more evidence that is slowing down. This is every week of unemployment claims since the crisis began. If you look at the last five aeks, we stopped improving on sequential basis. These are high numbers. Over 800,000 per week, well higher than the precrisis level. We want to see them come down. Evidence that people are suddenly going back to work. Not showing up by this measure. This feeds into the general idea of consumer sentiment. That Bloomberg Consumer comfort index comin