The u. K. Does a uturn and bans huawei the u. K. Does a uturn and bans huawei from its 5g network. Shery breaking news out of south korea. We are getting the Unemployment Rate for the month of june coming in at 4. 3 . Now, this is lower than the estimate of 4. 5 . The Unemployment Rate falling from the previous month. We have seen a little bit of strength in the south korean economy with more positivity coming from that ramp up in government job creation efforts. Still, we have those negative effects from the pandemic with the hardhit hospitality and Retail Sectors continuing to reel. South korea losing jobs. Those removed in june from a year earlier. Still, the Unemployment Rate falling to 4. 3 . Lets get a quick check on how markets are trading at the moment. U. S. Futures rallying. We have after the market closed more positive news when it comes to the vaccine front from motor and a. In the regular session, we saw u. S. Stocks posting their biggest gains in more than a week. 7 . Thi
Of security at facebook, about the next big hurdle that the company is facing. As coronaviruses spike, loews longtime ceo Jonathan Tisch will talk to us about his belief about the governments role too revive the travel industry, but also all business in the United States power lunch is right now its agreed to see ygreat tl the s p 500 is lower by about 2 bob pisani has more on all the market moves. Hello, melissa. Were near the lows for the day. I want to emphasize what melissa was just saying, because the outperformance is truly extraordinary. What you want to focus on is the nasdaq 100 while up 16, the nasdaq 100, which consists of the top five five, up 21 this is an unusual dispersion. Were also seeing the equal weight down, the average stock on the s p is down 12 thats a good way to look at it. Meantime the russell 2000 small cap is down 16 . To show you the outperformance, remember these numbers these are the top five these five stocks are 6 trillion in market capitalization, almo
Headlines. Fang with all the headlines in the greens, apple, amazon, netflix up 1. 5 . Tech remains hot, hot, hot. Still to come, definitely coming on todays show, coronavirus cases climb and states continue to rethink their opening plans. Well speak with fed chair James Bullard, what it means for the economy. Shares of Taylor Morrison posted record sales well speak to the ceo about whats driving the strength in the housing mark up a third of the percent. Lets start focusing on the big stories. Mike santoli tracking the markets, meg tirrell with the rising case count and courtney watching flags in the Retail Sector mike, lets kick things off with you. Market idling right here, holding above the flat line for the moment it seems like stealth pullback consolidation weve had last few weeks, s p 500, talking about a summer trading range this is what we had last summer. It looked like that on a narrow basis. Scares in both directions. Were not there in terms of prolonged sideways action. Th
Something positive, right, with that rising case count hitting new records, it seems virtually every day, and deaths also starting to move up in knows hardhit states as well with hospitalizations thats certainly been a focus for Market Participants as you guys well know Scott Gottlieb who we follow closely tweeting about the remdesivir news, very encouraged but needs to be confirmed in a prospective trial, appears to be a receipt peck testify analysis of the face three data suggesting a survival benefit in severe Covid Patients. We have made the point many times it is only good news on remdesivir, but lets remember its an infused therapy in the hospital typically for people who are severely ill what we are hoping for and waiting for are significant antivirals that will have an affect on the virus far earlier in its course so that people will feel much more comfortable in resuming behavior because if they were to get it and these were to be available they could immediately take an oral
Resee recovery in retail sales dow down 271 session lows 59 minutes left of trade the nasdaq has been the underperformer is actually off its lows were kind of moving around, as we speak, in the final hour. All the major indexes are lows ahead on todays show, well speak to mike sievert. Well get an upgraciointergrac sprint and the president of the university of arizona will outline his plan for the fall semester as cases and hospitalizations rise in that state. Well focus on the big stories were watching at this hour Steve Liesman with details on todays jobless claims will is digging into Big Bank Earnings and meg has details on johnson and johnsons results. But, steve, start us off with the jobs picture. You know, were getting two different stories from the jobless claims one of improvement and one where the improvement has kind of flat lined. Well take a look at the numbers. Claiming coming in at 1. 3 million. Above expectations dow just 10,000 on the weekly jobless claims thats kind