States to withhold unemployment claims data. It is friday, march 20, 2020 good morning welcome. Im Morgan Brennan live at cnbc headquarters we begin with breaking news. Yesterdays gains. Futures pointing to a higher open with the dow pointing to open up over 844 s p posed to open at 98 and the nasdaq now up 358. This is after the futures market opened last night in the red weve seen a reversal there. It is the first day of a less than 1 move in trading in 14 trading sessions so it gives you an idea of how much volatility has ebbed. The s p ending up about half a percent above 2,400. Similar for the dow, which closed back about 20,000 barring any historic move, the dow does remain on pace for the worst Weekly Performance since the financial crisis when it fell more than 18 in a single week s p and nasdaq tracking for the worse week since february. All three still trading well below 20 from recent 52week highs we reached just last month. Taking a look at the bond market we are seeing inv
And Commerce Committee are going to determine americas leadership in the world. My goal is to make sure that we are leaving on energy and climate and healthcare and technology 5g, Driverless Cars 14 forcing the digital abide major americas leading and the rest of the world is following our leadership. At the Top Republican on the Consumer Protection committee some of the issues is privacy. Yes. Where is your marker . What do you want to have done . The racket is very Important Congress act and that we set a National Standard for privacy in the United States of america. Right now what is happening is we are starting to see a patchwork of laws across the country and california has led with c cpa that what was going into effect right now and other states are introducing their own laws. Washington state, my home state, has introduced legislation and there is nearly 80 separate bills being introduced at the state level that are addressing privacy because congress isnt acting. We need to pas
Citing that as part of the boost. Some of the blue chip peers not getting the same love. Well get to all of it in the premarket. That strong dollar is cutting into pepsicos bottom line. Well speak to the company ceo hugh johnson in a couple of minutes. Facebook has more monthly users than the entire population of china. The mobile ad revenue impressing some on the street. Despite that revenue miss, where will the stock open today . Procter and gamble quarterly profit in line but sales fell for a fifth straight quarter. Currency effects weighing on 3m. Caterpillar beating the street. We saw construction in the u. S. And north america up. Thats the bright spot we have. Its fairly anemic but its growing. Its Getting Better quarter by quarter. We see that. We are happy with that. Everywhere else in the world we are doubledigit decreases in sales year over year regionally. Weve seen a real dichotomy here in the world. They are upping Sales Guidance upping Earnings Guidance as some of these
Country and stiven our resolve to take the fight against these terrorists. Those who make the mistake of harming americans will learn that we will not forget and that our reach is long and that justice will be served. Global markets paying attention to that, but right now, reports of a sear fire whips up stocks and securities. The office of ukraines announced a permanent ceasefire with russia. But then a spokesman for putin denied a ceasefire had been reached, arguing russia is not a party to the conflict. The statement went on to say putin and poroshenko agreed towards steps to peace. Thats when gains were trimmed and europe pulled back, too. U. S. Futures followed suit. But as youll see, theyre still pointing to a higher open this morning. And all the strategists that were going to have, we want to talk geopolitics. Because, you know, there will eventually, you would figure, be some type of effect, whether its a slowdown in europe which affects us or something from all of this. Oil p
Program that was first launched during the crisis. Now the question is just how long janet yellen and company will keep the fed low. Youll see the dow futures are indicated positive, up about 18 points above fair value. Nasdaq futures slightly weaker. If you watch whats been happening in the early trading in the european markets, youll see at least right now there are green arrows across the board with germany up by 0. 8 . The ftse in london up by about 0. 6 . And in terms how how things closed, the shack high, positive territory 1. 5 . Hang seng up 1. 25 . Andrew, its not only the anniversary of the 1929 stock crash, its the two of had Year Anniversary from sandy hitting our shores. That is true. I had not thought about that. Thank you. Thank you for that. Lets tell you a little bit about some stocks that are on the move this morning. Electronic arts posting better than expected results and raising its forecast for a video publisher getting cost controls and strong digital sales. Fall