Well also hear from thom tillis, rick gates and arkansas senator tom cotton. Markets this morning look like this. Futures indicating this morning a decline at the start of trading. The dow industrials down right now 276 points, the nasdaq down almost 201, as you see, and the s p lower by 38. Markets finished near session lows wednesday on fading stimulus hopes of. Earnings season meanwhile rolling on. This morning we hear from walgreens, Morgan Stanley and Charles Schwab among others. All the numbers as soon as they hit the tape this morning. The nfl is back in business, you can watch the biggest games on fox, fox nfl lead analyst and three time hall of Famer Troy Aikman is here previewing whats next for the super bowl and beyond. Mornings with maria is live right now. European markets this morning look like this. Weve got a negative showing there as well. The fq100 down 133, the cac down 107 and dax index lower by 363. This as we learned covid cases in europe have surpassed those in t
5, 6, seven major stories, are driving us forward. Simply an open question with all that is going on, what has your eye this morning . Jonathan the italian bond market. I know that feels a bit off the beaten road, but right now rallying aggressively over the less capital weeks. Look at the spread of btps to german debt at the moment. It is about 20 basis point. That was about 280 earlier in the year. That is one to watch in the debt markets. Tom bond price up, yield down. What is the why . Is it a flight to quality . Jonathan reduced redenomination risk, i am not sure we are completely there yet where we can say that this market now trades like a proper sovereign. What that means, we used to question how long some of these countries would play into the euro zone. The risk of redenomination, moving out of the euro and being repriced in a different currency. The fiscal backstop of a couple of months ago, even though it has not been fully implement it, i think that gave people some confid
Finalizing a blank check operation around the frenzy. Haidi trying to take that winning streak into a seventh straight session. Retrading pretty optimistically. We are seeing gains about. 25 when it comes out the gate. The aussie dollar trading on the back. We are seeing gains for almost two weeks straight now ahead of the federal election. At kiwi dollar is sitting 37. We are seeing almost no change through the open. Have nikkei futures not doing much at the moment. Is at a oneweek high the u. S. Dollar dollar. 15 on year. E than from those that we saw in session. Operations restarting. Speak, theng, as we morning training trading has been lead due to the storm. We are talking about the Tropical Storm being upgraded to a storm signal eight. Options have been delayed. They will make a further later, but there will be no morning a warning isuch lowered. Dominating across the markets. Lets turn to tom mackenzie. We have been talking about trade tensions when it comes to australia. Haidi
Sales and the stock is hitting new highs. And finally teslas tumble, why the street is mixed on what actually came out of the companys battery day event yesterday. J j, though, jim, going to be the lead and you just called it maybe the best company we have in this country. Yeah, look, i think that i like triple a balance sheet, i like a company that continues to make the numbers, i like a company that pays a good dividend, has the best pipeline, most robust pipeline in pharmaceuticals and i like a company thats not a hype company. The fact that they are ready to do their vaccine now, full disclosure i am attempting to get into the trial, i think its everybodys duty to get into the trial they are the only one emphasizing the atrisk people they want people who we view as people who we need to protect. I dont hear that from any of the other companies. I like the fact they are willing to give it to their whole employee base. This is the way i think it should be done and i know people are c
China the stock set to add 100 points to the dow in todays session. There is a countdown to election day 41 days to go, former Vice President joe biden heading to North Carolina today, meanwhile President Trump also getting ready to announce his pick for Justice Ginsburg Supreme Court seat, democrats threatening for pack the court if it is filled before election day. Justice ginsburg will lie in her pose at the Supreme Court building and then on friday she will become the first women in history to lie in state at the u. S. Capitol building, also happening on capitol hill, dr. Fauci will testify before the senate at 10 00 a. M. Eastern and Jerome Powell will testify before the house select subcommittee on the pandemic. And the president expected to speak to veterans and their love and a coward. It is a live action show today and Varney Company starts right now. With your help, your devotion and your drive, we will keep on working, we are going to keep on fighting and we are going to kee