Call for urgent action. President trump enters the conversation, indicating he may now support a wider stimulus bill. Debates joe biden refuses to push back his next meeting with the president. The white house rules out a virtual clash due to covid19. We have an update from President Trumps physician, dr. Sean conley, about the president s covid19 treatment, saying that the president has been responding extremely well, that his exam has remained stable while at home. President trump has completed the course of therapy for covid, saying the president can return safely to Public Engagements on saturday. The president was just released from hospital on monday evening and his health had risen controversy given the white house was saying the timing of President Trumps last negative test was regarded as private. We are finally getting an update on the president s health and dr. Sean conley saying the president can return to Public Engagement on saturday. Lets turn to the markets with Sophie
Its season in orlando despite record coronavirus outbreaks in that state power lunch starts right now thanks the banks and the energy are out performing today as tech takes a breather the nasdaq still up 5 in two weeks. Bob has more on todays market were at the highs for the day. Were close to a bit of a break out. Mondays close, which was the high was 31. 79 were five or six points away from that. Why would it be significant if we get over that thats highest level since the june highs we had. Were looking for a modest little break its a good way the close the week out if we can do that banks are out performing havent heard that in a long time, have you its not going to reverse the down trend for the banks but its nice to see a bit of out performance today. Citigroup, jpmorgan and wells fargo reporting on tuesday its not going to reverse the trends thats good reason for the bank woes out there weve been talking about them a lot in the last couple of weeks. We had capital conconstraints
Coronavirus in new york, Governor Andrew Cuomo saying there have been 481 deaths in the last 24 hours, holding below 500. Also some stabilization to hospitalizations. They are once again basically flat. We had about 1800 yesterday. Governor cuomo saying the curve is on the way down, but at the same time, we need to keep ourselves very vigilant. About 1300 people hospitalized with coronavirus yesterday. Hospitalizations basically flat. Overall virus deaths in new york , now 14,828. Meantime, the markets are registering losses today as well. The s p 500 down 2. 7 right now. Energy companies not doing so well. Neither our travel Companies Like expedia. Crude oil is in a category of its own right now. 3. 31 is what the current months contract is trading at. The dollar index might be more interesting to look at in some sense, at 100. 18. Some strengthening, including the hong kong dollar, which had to defend its peg because it reached the upper bound today. Above 47. The vix bpi ont months
Coronavirus case fails to improve overnight. The u. K. Prime minister is still conscious but has received oxygen treatment dominic raab is deputized. Equities heading for their first backtoback games in two weeks. Futures pointing higher in the u. S. While oil rises ahead of thursdays opecplus meeting. Coronavirusthe maybe reaching a plateau in europe as cases slow across the continent. Italy could start ending its. Ockdown on a gradual basis just under an hour away from the start of cash trading in europe. A quick look at futures here. A gain in futures at the cash trade closed higher yesterday. Gains in u. S. Futures with the 0. 4 the dow s p up 0. 4 . Anna everybody still focused on what is going on with coronavirus globally. Cases are being handled and death rates. We need to get to the first word news update. Prime minister Boris Johnson is in intensive care. His Coronavirus Infection worsened. He had been selfisolating for 10 days, struggling to shake off covid19. Dominic raab is
Is there more pain to come or a real bottom anywhere in sight . Trade tensions still in focus as the Chinese Central Bank does something it has not done in more than ten years. Well tell you what that is on this thursday, augustth as Worldwide Exchange begins right now. Good morning, good afternoon, good evening and welcome from wherever in the world you may be watching. Im Brian Sullivan you are watching Worldwide Exchange. Thanks for joining us. These crazy, volatile markets have shown no signs of slowing down yesterday at this hour we were calm then stocks began to sink when trading began. The dow continued to fall, at one point off 550 points but then the buyers, they came in in the afternoon. The dow ended the day dow 22 points, posting one of its greatest point turnarounds of all time what will happen today lets look here is how your money and investments look futures are mildly higher. Dow futures up 21 points but this time yesterday futures were basically flat. All of a sudden