Pointing upward the wall street journal is calling the last four months a melt up and thats what it looks like. Dow up by 83 points. S p 500 looking to open 12 points higher. Treasury yields as well. Were at. 572. Theres a mix of what theyre thinking and what the equity markets think, right melissa okay we have a we will work on the audio and hopefully get that a busy week ahead. A twoday fed meeting with a policy announcement. No major change is expected. That will tell you that but investors will watch for clues about what the central bank might do next and then on the corporate front earnings season kicks into overdrive 167 of the s p 500 companies will report. Well hear from 12 dow components and among the names likely to get a lot of attention, apple, amazon, boeing, mcdonalds, 3m, exxon and many others. This is if you like earnings, if youre excited by earnings this is going to be a big week. So far this season we heard from 128 of the s p 500 companies so well more than double t
Seen of me on twitter. Yes, thats me. And, yes, thats an unarmed protester in a cage. But in my defense, he was resisting. And delicious. Remember, only you are responsible for what i do with dr. Stick here. Im just following orders now, if youll excuse me, curfews coming up, and i need to go season a few protesters. Announcer its a late show with Stephen Colbert. Tonight more quiet than riot. Plus, stephen welcomes congresswoman karen bass. Andrew ross sorkin. And musical guests grace potter with jackson browne, marcus king, and lucius. Featuring jon batiste and stay homin. And now, live on tape from a safe distance, its Stephen Colbert stephen you ready over there . Yeah. Stephen what, are you ordering dinner . I was just checking my emails, babe. Stephen youre checking your emails . Were doing a show. Welcome to a late show. Im your host, Stephen Colbert. Its friday. America made it to the end of the week. So, tgif, by which, of course, now stands for this government is fascist. Im
Hold on. This is a tease. Stealing the thunder already this thats right, we are going to talk about this in just a moment anybody still on radio has to wait a second. Take a look at the futures this hour dow futures down about 170, s p off by 2 and nasdaq down by 81. Yesterday, nasdaq down about 1 . Crude oil prices, lets check that quickly we had been watching that contract build up. The july contract build up to just over 34 yesterday. Lets call it even at 32. Then there is the treasury market weve been watching youll see the 10year note has been yielding 0. 64 . A little pressure there too. Take away. With that tease, it feems like months now, weve had really big guests and corporations a big interview at 8 00 a. M. Eastern. Well talk all things economy with former Vice President joe biden about the pandemic, the race for the white house and so much more. Well do that at 8 00 a. M. Live with him a big interview to look forward to on this friday. Tgif i know all the days roll togethe
S p up by a point. Nasdaq down by about 4 points. Overnight in asia, the nikkei up 0. 2 the hang seng up by a quarter percent. The shanghai up by a half percent. This is all ahead of those talks expected to resume next week between china and the United States when it comes to trade. This morning on the continent, in europe we will see equities for the major averages, the dax is flat. The cac is up by 0. 6 . The ftse is up by a quarter percent. In the treasury market, you can see at this point the tenyear is yielding 2. 031 well be getting a lot of earnings, big earnings movers in just a minute. First a developing story, the embattled governor of puerto rico will be stepping down on august 2nd the announcement coming late yesterday. He had been under pressure from protester force ne he had been under pressure from protester force ne for proteste nearly two weeks after chat messages were released crowds of demonstrators erupted into cheers after that announcement were looking at some ima
The real story has been Energy Prices lets look at what is happening with wti right now it is at 92. 50. Yesterday, it closed at the highest level in ten months. Check it out right now highest level since november 7th of last year there is bitcoin which is back above 27,000 we noticed this yesterday toward the end of the show. It was trading at these levels higher this morning at 27,319. Lets get you updated on the uaw strike shawn fain looking to expand the strikes if the deal is not reached. Here is the video he posted on x. If we dont make serious progress by noon on friday, september 22nd, more locals will be called on to stand up and join the strike. That will mark more than a week since our first members walked out and that will mark more than a week of the big three failing to make progress in negotiations toward reaching a deal that does right by our members auto workers have waited long enough to make things right at the big three. We are not waiting around and we are not mess