Chairman of the Federal Reserve Jerome Powell is right now explaining why his committee has left near zero rates untouched. Our fed panel is monitoring every single word of what he sees and says as far as stresses on the economic system. Speaking of stress, tensions are still running high from arizona to pennsylvania. This video just in as crowds form in two states, where the administration is launching vigorous challenges. All right, heres the current electoral picture vote. Weve got four states, the key to the presidency. Nevada, pennsylvania, georgia and north carolina. They are still up for grabs on the path to 270. Biden leading 264 to President Trumps 214. Weve got new numbers in nevada showing that joe bidens lead has expanded to 12,000 as team trump seeks legal action there. But keep your eye on the dow and on the markets here because weve got team fox business standing by with up to the minute developments inside both the trump and Biden Campaigns. Blake burman live at the whi
Welcome to closing bell, everyone im wilfred frost along leslie picket in for sara isen today. Nasdaq holding on to some gains ahead of the holiday tomorrow. Pain in the labor market as new Employment Data underlines how tenuous the economy is nasdaq higher, growth out performed value. Energy under some pressure for a change after a huge surge in november and weve seen strong numbers from Corporate America mastercard said spending remains steady gap the counterpoint that stock is down 20 today alone. 59 minutes and oneday holiday coming up, of course, tomorrow the dow is down 0. 6 . Coming up on todays show, Website Security Company Cloud flair shares are up. Well speak to the ceo plus, riding with unicorns well talk to Founders Fund keith rabois Steve Liesman has a look at todays economic data. Mike santoli is tracking the market action. Deir deirdre bowsa has details. Steve, start us off with the economy. A busy day today. Yeah. The Federal Reserve earlier this month at its meeting d
A little hard. It looked to me like it was twitter. Like watching twitter for 90 minutes. I did not stick to my original plan. Baseball and bed the two bs i stayed up. I want my time back. I didnt stay up for that long you can play this game with me i felt dissed. How much words can you come up with disappointing, disturbing, disspiriting, distracting, disheartening. Disgusting. You can probably go there disspiriting i looked it up thats exactly what i wanted to say. After all those disses, i wound up with disinteresting thats when i was gone right . It was a let down ly say that. Some people like to watch the fighting it is hard to turn around from it if you were somebody who was tuning in. In my core pin of both candidates, nothing really changed. Mike Wallace Chris wallace had a tough job. I guess he did okay. Im not going to nominate him why do you bother having rules for a debate if nobody is going to bother to follow them kill the rules or give the moderator a kill switch. Both s
You are seeing some signs that suggest broadens breadth you had this move in hold builders and transports. Its not a reason to discount that action. Forget about all of that those things are not the tech trade. Its not its clearly happening. Stephanie and pete have been right all along throughout the course of the summer they have said things are Getting Better things are broadening out. I have been a nay sayer but Market Action is telling me they have been correct and i have been incorrect for as long as thats going on, i think theres a reason to be encouraged that we could see continued new highs. As you know, the viewers know. One of the things i want to talk about is the three leading sectors today are low rates plays. Utilities are ripping. Reits look incredible. I added Simon Properties group which we talked about spg. That thing looks like it wants to break out right now of course, youve got communication stocks being the best performers. Im in verizon and that group. Nike hitti
Previous peak on february 19th and all i heard is its because were having a v shaped recovery wrong, wrong, wrong. Not just wrong but laughable in a v shaped recovery the Dow Jones Industrial average would be hitting highs but this move is led by the nasdaq and s p including today the dow lost 67 points as the s p advanced 2. 3 , the nasdaq gained 7. 3 you dont need to be a Rocket Scientist to figure this out look at the stocks that have brought us to these levels they are not the recovery plays. In fact, they are the opposite they are stocks that tend to do well because of what we call secular considerations, not secular like nonreligious but secular as in they are doing well because of trends in their own industries, not the economy. Far from it. Allow me to explain. We had a magnificent v shaped recovery in the stock market, but the stock market is not a great reflection of the voter economy anymore. If anything, the actual economy is in precarious shape now that the government stim