The pandemic. Attacks and interruptions. That is what most of the audience remembers from the first president ial debate between President Trump and Vice President joe biden. Now the commission on president ial debates is calling for a new format. Senator blackburn will be my guest. Stocks finishing higher on hopes of a new stimulus bill, but it was a choppy day. Abigail doolittle joins us from new york. Walk us through the ups and downs. Abigail certainly fitting it was a choppy day because it was a choppy quarter. And following the pattern we have seen over the last few months. Redad the premarket in the after that debate, the chaos, investors not liking it. The s p 500, up more than 1. 5 . Afternoon news that a stimulus agreement had not been reached, stocks really nosedived, not into the red, but the s p 500 only up about 3 10 of 1 . Day, windowf the dressing to the third quarter, it was the mega cap stocks that did save the day. Apple and microsoft, both up about 1. 5 , again not
Pandemic. Todyman continue if we start open up the economy . Can that continue with we start to open up the economy . And what is the recourse if you wake up in your robinhood account has been drained . Good news, Abigail Doolittle is here with us. Her account has not been drained, but she has been here with us all day. Risk on we had a nether that day. Not just a risk on week, but a second in a row. For the nasdaq, third. That september felt so bearish, and it was, but we seem to have really recovered from that. Today and this week after so many whipsaws around stimulus on and off, right now there is hope among investors that stimulus is on and a big deal could be agreed on. Nearly on the week up 4 . Nasdaq having its third up week time we have first seen that since august. A big driver for both of these indexes, amazon, up 5. 2 . There could be quite a bit of upside there. Nextf course prime day is week. Thats something investors are looking forward to. Wererming risk on, bonds down
Or rather, which is worse than expected. We had expectations of 0. 1 . Rishaad exactly and thats currently where we have industrial production. Coming inese are pretty much bang in line with what we were expecting. The retail sales and only showing this contraction for july. Lets get over to bank of chief chinarities economist. Headlines pretty much what we were expecting, but tell me, what sort of picture is it painting for you . That atlly, i would say first glance, this set of numbers does not look extremely encouraging. For several, industrial output ip we would have thought it would be somewhere around this in belowt still coming 5 implies that the momentum of continued industrial recovery seems to be moderating. I think that is number one that i got out of the data. Number two, if you think at investment, thats roughly in line, but we need to look at the breakdown for example properties versus infrastructure to know what is going on. More importantly, retail sales i think to a la
Taylor riggs has been diving into all of it. Tech has been the winner of the week. Where do you see the strength . Index the s p 500 tech was the second best performer this week and it was up 6. 5 . You mentioned the dismal economic data. Tech and the markets overall are looking past this, perhaps thinking that the worst is behind us. You hear Companies Like uber seeing green shoots in their demand recovery. Zillow saying people want to buy and sell these homes. It was notable that tech did not leave the gains. Up until this point, the nasdaq is the highest impact since february. Despite underperformance today, i continue to be surprised at the resiliency of the tech sector. Emily what about bonds . Taylor the two year yield hit a record low of 10 basis points at one point today. We ended up coming off that low a little bit. But the bond markets are giving us ominous signs of what is going on. The markets are pricing in a negative federal funds rate. That hell has said doesnt want nega
Chairman and founder after that stubhub cash deal from ebay. Five years ago, alibaba pulled off its biggest ever ipo on wall street today, the biggest share sale in hong kong in years. The listing is being seen as a triumph for a stock exchange. It comes as prodemocracy protest have gripped the city for weeks. Joining us from washington, john freeman, Vice President of Equity Research at cfra. If you look at the company raising an additional 11 dollars, where do you see that use of in terms of that cash . John it will be interesting to see what they do. I think that brings them to about 43 billion in total, 21 in net cash. I would like to see them invest more heavily into the Cloud Business which is a percent of revenue now, it was growing 64 yearoveryear growth in the last quarter. We have seen this movie before, how the Small Business scales with amazon. 12 of revenue, 70 of profit. As it crosses the breakeven point soon and they can offer additional services, i think that would be a