We start with an Epic Battle Raging On Wall Street that has seen small time Amateur Investors take on the titans of the hedge fund industry. Its all centred around this company the struggling us computer Game Retailer gamestop. It shares have soared at much as 1700 after a group of private investors used online forums to drive up their price. And that has raised serious questions about how Financial Markets operate in the era of social media, as paul hawkins reports. This is a story of david versus goliath, of the amateur online investor beating the Big Traditional Wall Street traders. At the centre of it, gamestop, a struggling American Retailer Selling dvds and video games. A number of the Wall Street Traders picked up on its problems and bet money that its share price would fall, known in the business as shorting a stock. Only for this particular stock, Amateur Investors swapping tips on the social media site reddit saw it as an opportunity. They bought shares, which actually drove
Unemployed virus spiking and vaccine is not coming soon enough this warp speed is too slow. As wall street sees it, worse news is better for a stimulus bill the nasdaq has been lagging. 70. Yet, we saw buying in many of the stocks really would benefit. B caterpillar hitting an all time high if you want to be in those, it is chevron or pioneer. The seven conductor stock, they just roar. The opening of america play. Will we get a stimulus bill . It is a Perfect Place to start a game plan next week. I fear that we are going to get hammered when we come in on monday lets be clear the Labor Department reported this morning 8 30 was a disappointment not a surprise if you are paying attention to the spike and covid infections of the death toll whatever reasons these kinds of number dont seem to be impacted by common sense. You have to believe a good chunk of the economy is going to get shutdown it is not the government, people it is going to be shutdown by fearful individuals who dont want to
Now, tents and field hospitals are being set up there to reduce hospital bed capacity. The number of patients in the hospital icu and respite raiders reached an alltime high over the weekend. In el paso, some patients are being airlifted out to make room for the sickest. In addition, six more temporary morgue trucks were being brought in after the first four buildup, for a total of 10. New york state is opposing sweeping new restrictions, as new positive cases and hospital admissions continue to rise. Gatherings will be limited known no more than 10 people starting friday. This is for restaurants, bars, gym people, health clubs, bowling alleys must all close by 10 00 p. M. , starting friday. Governor andrew cuomo said, further steps can be taken, including banning Indoor Dining at restaurants and bars. Here in california, the state is now closing out 1 million cases since the start of this pandemic. New numbers released today so the state has more than 184,000 cases, including more tha
Lashing today over how their companies handled 2020 election. Heck out few hours indicating a decline as we await october retail Sales Numbers out this morning at 8 30 a. M. Dow industrials down 88, nasdaq is up 14 and s p 500 lower by 14. Record day in wall street to start the week yesterday, dow finishing at its first alltime high in 9 months boosted by the positive news on modernas phase 3 vaccine trials. At the close up 471 points, nasdaq up 95, almost 1 and s p higher by 41, better than 1 . Big day for retail earnings, walmart and kohls and home depot all reporting this morning, we will have the numbers as soon as they give hit the tape. Holidays in digital world. Zoom is helping you and your family out if youre planning on a virtual turkey day, its making a buzz, mornings with maria is live right now. Maria home depot earnings hitting the tape right now and european markets are lower, cac quarante down 9, dax index lower by 25, take a look at home depot numbers, revenue above exp
Crucial states. Markets are proceeding very cautiously. They are mixed at this hour after the dows 650point monday meltdown. We are only adding to that right now. Getting a little uncomfortably close to lows of the session. We are down 185. The low is a loss of 196 at the moment. You can see the s p is down seven but the nasdaq is holding on to some green here, up 50 points. No surprise, then, that megatech is powering the markets leaders. Could all that change tomorrow, when the top brass from facebook, twitter and google face the music in what is expected to be a contentious capitol hill hearing . Senator roger wicker is the chairman of the Senate Commerce committee. He will tell us what he needs to hear from Mark Zuckerberg, jack dorsey and sandar pichai. And breaking news out of tmobile. Forget telecom and 5g wars. Tmobile Just Launched a dual attack on cable and streaming leaders. Tmobiles ceo is here to unveil his brand new weaponry of offerings that has the stock moving higher a