The strongest week since back to april. However, you have to put that in context. Two weeks ago was a lousy week in fact, two weeks ago the dow lost just over 1800 points, down by 1833 points last week the dow was up by 1821 points so that was a giveback for the dow kind of starting things over if you look at the other major averages, they got back much more ground than they had lost the previous week. Last week the s p was up 329 points after being down 195 the week before and the nasdaq was up by 983 points last week after losing 636 points the week before but again these gains this morning are significant ones they are adding to what we saw last week. Also, take a look at whats happening in the treasury market youll see that right now the treasury, the tenyear, is yielding 0. 812 so its stabilized after bouncing around quite a bit during the election and the election counting last week stabilized at 0. 812 andrew thanks, becky our top story this morning, president elect biden wastin
Thats something to behold. Its hadding the lowest level since march of 1999. Right now well take a quick look at my board, which is current. I can see it down 4. 13 i say that because ive been practicing waiting 12 seconds to get a quote on something that im trying to give you instantaneously. Now im back on the nasdaq and i can actually see it. The coronavirus pandemic has sapped demand for oil and global storage is rapidly proefing capacity the world is running out of room on ships anchored at sea the may futures contract for wti expires tomorrow looking out to june, the situation isnt quite as dire. Its back to more of what were used to, kind of, at least in the last couple of weeks as you can see there, june delivery under 23 a share meantime, an update now on the pandemic as we bring you the numbers as we do every single morning. Here are the latest numbers. Global cases topping 2. 4 million now with 165,000 deaths. Now, the u. S. Cases nearing 760,000 with more than 40,000 deaths
Yeah. Didnt scrooge send over a turkey at the end . He did something. He sent over dinner. And tiny tim was like, wow, its the best christmas. I dont know if that was the book version or the movie version. Im getting a little wait a minute there was a book huh . Yes, charles dickens. I know you know this we had this discussion there was a book it wasnt just a movie some people we know get all their news in tv which we hope is you at home. We hope you are getting your news here today. Look at the u. S. Equity futures. This is after major averages closed at record highs the s p 500 closed above 2600 for the first time as we saw this technology rally. This morning things are mixed. Dow futures up by 12 s p is down by a point and nasdaq down by 3 points. The major averages have been up three of the last four sessions. The dow had its 60th record close of 2017. The s p 500 saw its 54th record close of the year. Guess how many times, if you want to get to the record, 54 so far this year. The
Lets see what happened overnight in asia. The flnikkeiclosed down. Hang seng down by 5 points the shanghai composite up by a third of a percentage point. In europe in some early trading, looks like the dax is up by a third of a percentage point. The cac is up bay half py a half percentage point finally check out crude Oil Prices Crude Oil yesterday down by 1. 4 on some questions about u. S. Supply and also doubts about whether russia is going to be cutting output whether it will stick with that. This morning down 1 couple big stories were watching japans softbank offering to purchase shares of uber at a valuation of only 28 billio 4 . Thats a huge drop of the most recent valuation of 68 billion. Ubers board approved the investment in october. It would expand the board and cut the influence of founder travis kalanick. Big question about whether people will tend near this offer. The consortium is led by softbank, and they plan to take a stake of 14 in uber if they dont get it at this pri
60 points after the dow closed at a record level yesterday. The s p closed lower yesterday all the major averages moved off the highs of the session this morning the s p is indicated up by 5 points the nasdaq up by 10. This came after the feds decision and after if looked clear that Republican Leaders reached an agreement, at least in principle, on where theyre headed with the tax bill well talk more about that green arrows across the board this morning in asia, the nikkei looked like it was down by a quarter percentage point similar declines for the hang seng and shanghai. This morning in europe, with some of the early trading, you will see that there are some declines across the board. The biggest loser is the dax down by a half percentage point. Cac in france is down by 0. 4 . We have the bank of england and the ecb going to be releasing some policy statements today check out crude oil prices which were lower yesterday crude oil at 56. 59 couple of big economic reports on the agenda