Turning lower. The virus setting new records across the u. S. Californias hospitalizations jumping to a new high. Rates of new cases also hitting new levels. I want to bring in kailey leinz, who has been all over the Market Action today. We were hitting a lot highs yesterday but the selloff seeming to accelerate in the final hours of trading. Snapping eight five day winning streak on the s p 500, as we approach the close today. It seemed to be a story of tech outperformance throughout much of the day. That weakness heading into the end of training. The nasdaq holding up relatively better than some of the other major averages. It was still down by about 0. 9 . But that was not as great as the laws we saw on the nasdaq or s p 500. The russell 2000 down the better part of 2 . Much more sensitive to the Economic Growth story. That seems to be the issue today, that investors are kind of pondering whether or not the recovery will take a lot longer than perhaps previously thought. You saw tha
Crude is rebounding a little bit after a couple of days of a selloff. The euro is weakening against the dollar because the u. S. Dollar has been strengthening so much over the past few days. That yield curve spread is actually widening for a change. Its up a little bit. I have been watching this. The greek has come down. It has gone down about 4. 5 . David that is remarkable. It is jobs day. We are going to get those u. S. Jobs numbers for november. Spacex will be launching a falcon 9 rocket to deliver cargo to the International Space station. When bitcoin day it comes to wall street. Futures contracts on the cryptocurrencies, the banks are figuring out how theyre going to respond to all of this. Its time to our first take. We discussed the top three stories of the morning. Up first is the deal on brexit. Theresa may got the goahead it. The second story, the rise in the u. S. Stock market pointing to more gains through the end of the year. , u. S. G news coming out jobs numbers for nov
In arkansas. And peter cook is on capitol hill monitoring a senate plan to fight cybersecurity breeches. First in ferguson, mizuho two Police Officers are recovering from gunshot wounds. It took place during protests following the resignation of the city police chief. No one is in custody yet. It appears the officers were targeted. This evening the only shots we were aware of were the shots taken from across the street. The Police Officers were standing there and were shot just because they were Police Officers. In a tweet president obama said violence is unacceptable against police. Foot justice is one all of us must travel together. Last summer riots broke out in a town after Police Fatally shot an unarmed teenager. The police chief is the latest to leave after an investigation showed problems in the system. And Customers Bank will pay the bank was ordered to fire four executives as part of the deferred prosecution agreement. We heard from irans Supreme Leader after the letter writte
independent callers, 202-585-3882. you can also find us online. end us a tweet by writing, @cspanwj. or join the conversation on facebook by looking for span spafpble you can also email us, journal@c-span.org. there s a new cnn poll looking at how americans rate congress handling of the controversial issues that have been coming up in the past two weeks. here s from news max, a new poll found that americans by a large margin believe that congress is not overreacting to the burgeoning scandals plaguing the obama administration. a cnn/o.r.c. poll found that 54% of americans do not believe that congress is overreacting to the i.r.s. scrutiny of conservative groups, while 42% said that it is. by an even larger margin, 59% to 37%, respondents said that congress is making the right moves on the administration s actions regarding the benghazi terror attack. while the poll came as white house senior advisor dan pfeiffer made the round of sunday talk shows defending president obama,