All the fast moving developments. The back to improving trend here but the markets are chewing on that, i guess assessing not improving fluff. What is your take . I agree with you. If you look at continuing claims, they have fallen pretty dramatically. The weekly claims there is sense by the market to keep the momentum going. Maybe that is a stimulus package. We dont know. Obviously the market takes it as a slight negative. We have had in the economy last couple months is housing boom, explosion in building. It has driven up commodity prices. Lumber prices. Multiyear highs. Multidecade highs. There is a concern that may cool off a little bit. Housing starts slowed down a little bit in august. There is a little bit of concern, that maybe that bright spot in the economy is starting to go down a little bit but not so much if you look at the oil market. Look at the oil market it is kind of signaling Better Things ahead. Weve seen a big jump up in oil prices, the last couple of days, a big
The nasdaq is testing the lows hit during last weeks threeday selloff that sent it into a 10 correction. Any more than a 206point loss for the nasdaq and we right now are down 212, so yes, we are now deeper into that correction territory. We knew the pandemic absolutely crushed the travel industry but now booking holdings, forced to take a draconian step ahead of the Holiday Travel season in order to stay alive. The ceo of booking is here to tell us if hes at least starting to see a shred of light at the end of a very long lockdown tunnel. Plus we are on the ground in florida after the aftermath of Hurricane Sally. A money manager to sports star shares his covid stock picks. And new evidence of a coming coronavirus foreclosure disaster. Less than an hour to the closing bell, lets start the claman countdown. Liz weve got to get to the hottest software ipo of all time. It is now getting iced over, with about 59 minutes left to trade, take a look at snowflake, falling hard after yesterday
Here all three of them in the red today. As you just saw the dow finishing down 130. The s p down 28, the nasdaq down 140. We were concerned it was going to slip further into correction territory. Did not do that but not by a lot, my friends. What was going on there . Big tech, momentum stocks having the most trouble here today as we start to think about the recovery, is it real, whats going on with the concerns that the improvement in the economy may not be what we need . The momentum stocks, apple, amazon, youre seeing them here on your screen, microsoft, google, facebook, all down more than 2 . There are big concerns about valuation. Are the stocks too rich. They led the downturn today. They are extending declines from yesterday. I should mention here tesla snapping a five day winning streak. That is not nothing. What was at the roots of concerns . Concerns about the recovery. Weekly jobless claims coming in. 860,000 workers filing unemployment claims. That is below one million for
Blake burman at the white house. We have Lauren Simonetti watching the market action. Edward lawrence reporting from washington at the but on this up and down day, lauren, we start with you. Lauren lauren its with up and down day. I had to look over to see if stocks finished the green. It is changing constantly. This is the new normal. Investors are totally unsure how to price in politics. Not just the expected turbulence around the election, but the future of stimulus. Stocks got a major stimulus from comments on treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin he and House Speaker nancy pelosi theyre going to keep talking about a new relief bill as House Democrats reportedly are ready to scale down a package of their own. Doesnt mean it is going to happen up investors like they are talking. We call it the mnuchin maybe, maybe. The s p 500 avoiding falling into correction territory, up, after the closing bell by just nine points. Yes, it is positive on the year by a whole 16 points, guys. Take a look
Melissa francis. Hey, connell. Connell im connell mcshane. Hey, melissa, we start instead of focusing on markets and wall street and with blake burman as we come out of that announcement at the white house. He is there live and, you know, it was interesting, blake, because the president was asked right off the bat as we were joining it whether he misled the public and essentially he said yes, i did but it was, as melissa points out in his view to prevent panic. Take it from there. Reporter 18 different interviews President Trump gave on the record taped to bob woodward. Absolutely no dispute what was said on the tapes. President said it. Some have been published. Well get to see and hear potentially more of it in coming days as Bob Woodwards book is soon to be released. In one of those interviews on march 19th, is talking to bob woodward about the preeminent issue of that issue at that time, covid19 and everything going on then. The president in that interview acknowledged he was purpo