Texas. Meantime, covid19 cases continuing to rise with 4 million reported across america. But today, the u. S. Centers for Disease Control that is control is advising schools to open, after originally highlighting the risks. It added up to another down day for stocks. Joining us, abigail doolittle. Abigail a lot to digest, and you nailed all the issues. A big piece of it has to do with the big xl off, but the rising tensions with china have been the backdrop for the past two years, but really coming into the forefront here. And economic data, frankly, not right. Investors are paying attention to that. You put it together, nasdaq 100 down. 9 , down on the week for the second week in a row. Stocks hit even harder, down 1. 6 . What intel really disappointing, at lowes down 18 per soient, worst day at that point since 2000 to one Third Quarter guidance for that chip to let you talked about, and also the idea that manufacturing of their trips could be changed. We had investors going into a
Record close and we know why. I have to tell you this was just a parade of both American Ingenuity and strength there was a time when i was listening to brian i shouldnt just limit it to amazon every Conference Call last night with the exception of google was incredible the power of these companies is extraordinary and i dont think that we can actually brian ol staff ski when he talks he is the cfo of amazon, when he talks about the idea that basically we didnt know we were going to make billions of dollars more than we did. Not tens of millions, not hundreds of millions, but builds what a juggernaut. Most impressive of last night. David, i have a lot of good things to say about the others and good things to say about google, but amazon thankly is a company that basically has no idea how much money it can make. Ive never seen a company like this theres never been a company like this. Well, and the market agrees with you and investors have for a long time, jim, but they have delivered o
China sea. Coronavirus cases are in the u. S. Florida passes new york is the second highest state after california. Gold futures had a record, beating levels last seen in 2011. Sasol are plunges. Lets take a look at how export thesis shaking up when it comes to the start of trading here in asia. This is what we are seeing when we are seeing futures. U. S. Stocks fell for a second day on friday. There is a faltering sense of recovery in the u. S. This is expected to focus on unemployment insurance. Pelosi has called that passage contracted the futures is down by a 10th of 1 . Japanese stocks coming back online. Mildly positive. Sydney futures extending losses down about a half percent. A flat start to the cash trading session. Lets take a look at gold. That is always the been the story. Gold prices are not looking too far behind. General concerns about where the Global Recovery goes from here. Global virus cases have exceeded team. 1 million while there are signs the virus spread is slo
60,000 new cases in a single day for the first time oil is holding 40, gold topping 1800 for the First Time Since 2011 david, it was a quiet calendar already going into this week, but it does seem like today in terms of looking for inputs traders are really on their own this morning they are. I mean, you know, the only calendar, carl, that really seems to be getting busy and staying busy is the ipo calendar which we should mention as well just because it is some sort of reflection of demand in certain parts of this market the latest of course Rocket Mortgage, thats going to be an enormous ipo, we can talk a bit about that later if you want other than that not that much to key off of clearly, mike, this is not a market that seems to be particularly concerned in terms of keying off of the rising cases of covid that were seeing around the country and the reversal of reopenings, the slowdown in business, certainly in travel, leisure, restaurants, that is resulting from the rising caseload.
With the dow gaining 6. 8 there has been some controversy about that too explain whats going on behind the numbers. In terms of how many jobs have been lost during the pandemic. Its fifth positive session. Its been up five sessions in a row. Its indicated higher and the 6th day of the week. That was up by 6. 8 . S p was up by 82 points. And then the nasdaq was up by 2 almost 200 points. The s p indicated up by 6. 5. And treasury yields and did see quite a bit of activity there too. The ten year yield picking up substantially last week and this morning its back at 0. 91 i cant remember the last time we had a ten year above 0. 8 let alone 0. 9. It could be a round number some day not that far 1 maybe cross your fingers. Oil too is almost 40. Oil looks like a bad break looks like it went down and it is such a quick one right back up and almost to the levels where it was almost prior to this the journal has the piece when the spiggots are opening here today. We have a huge show again today