To president elect biden Energy Continues a monster move higher the oil and gas etf up 13 in the last two days. Despite the steady increase in covid cases vaccine developments are continuing to help the likes of the airlines, cruise stocks, retail all surging higher today as we cross that 30,000 level once again, to check it we are still above it will we say that 59 minutes left to trade. 29 points above it. On todays show, two voices to help explain the dows record rise in just a few minutes Jeremy Siegel will join us and later Liz Ann Saunders plus former testry secretary jack lew will discuss president elect biden pick of janet yellen to lead his treasury administration. Lets get the latest from wall street mike santoli is tracking the action to led us to dow 30k. Certainly the story today because of that big round number i am going to keep it consistent, though, and take a fwlims at the s p 500. Similar look in every respect in terms of getting back up pretty much to an alltime hig
Lets get you a live look right now from philadelphia where abc news expects the first drop of the morning there to come any minute now. Between now and 10 00 our time. Joe biden still holds nearly a 29,000 vote lead in pennsylvania. If he holds on, hed be the president elect of the United States. Lets zoom out to show you where the race to 270 currently stands, its been in hold for the past 48 hours, biden still with 253 electoral votes, the president with 214. Both campaigns are taking different approaches to the count. Abc 7 News Reporter matt boone starts us off with why the biden camp is feeling confident. Reporter all eyes were on wilmington, delaware as joe biden took the stage, still confident in his chances. Were going to win this race with a clear majority with the nation behind us. Reporter though he made it clear it was not his call to make. Never forget, the tallies arent numbers. They represent votes and voters. Men and women who exercise their fundamental right to have th
On the year did not deliver perfection, so we have the big tech stocks selling off. That is a big market drag. Looking at the worst week going back to march. David but they are not buying bonds. What is that about . Abigail it is interesting they are not buying bonds, they are not looking for that haven hedge against the stock. It tells you may be investors think the text selling will be a oneweek type of thing, although a second week in a row, or it could be to your point from earlier around the fed, the ultimate buyer so it some point the fed will be back in. Not that big of a deal. Harder to look at bonds as a cross asset tell given the fact you do have the fed in their. You have the yield curve steepening. That could cause stocks to get more jumpy. It is healthy to have the yield curve steepening, but it can create gyrations. We have oil lower. Do your point they are selling everything on this friday. Guy thank you so much for that report david site you thank you so much for that r
Amd to buy xylinx. Is there more room to run on amd . Well explore that one when power lunch begins right now earnings season is supposed to be a report card for companies. Lets go to bob pisani for more on this lack of guidance bob . Kelly, once again, the Fourth Quarter, another quarter with the lack of guidance its a bit of a problem because the analysts again having a hard time figuring out what the right numbers are. Remember, the earnings numbers have been coming in very well, generally weathering but again, big companies, no guidance from caterpillar, 3m, xerox, Stanley Black and decker. Others like Harley Davidson didnt give guidance either. Raytheon, corning. No guidance from companies. Analysts have a tougher time and theyve been very conservative and wrong so far fortunately wrong on the conservative side. Look at all these companies out there. 83 are beating for the Third Quarter and theyve been beating by almost 20 . Its an amazing beat and shows you the analysts have been
Down 1. 6 yesterday, off of session lows. The dow industrials down 650 650 points, that was 2 and a quarter percent lower at 4 00 on wall street. Investors rattled over no progress on stimulus and a rise in covid cases. Its a big day for earnings, dow components merck, 3m. Caterpillar all reporting quarterly numbers this morning. We will get a snapshot of the airlines when jetblue reports and a look at big pharma when pfizer reports. The road to the white house, we hit the one week to go mark, americans are headed th to the polls in seven short days. President trump and joe biden begin the final push before election day. Stimulus negotiations losing momentum, time is running out for lawmakers to make a deal before november 3rd. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she remains opt my particular over talks optimistic over talks. Congressman tom reed told me yesterday if we dont have a deal by election day, we may not have one until february. Todays the day, my new book, the cost, trump, china