Twitter, defending how they moderate content on their social media platforms. Some senators not buying it at all. Well bring you the latest details. Meantime, kelly. Tyler, thank you very much. Weve got all the big stories covered for you today. Bob pisani is watching this big down day for stocks. Meg is tracking the latest spikes in covid cases and ylan mui on this tech hearing on capitol hill today lets start with you, ylan reporter well, kelly, there was a lot of Political Drama during this hearing today but also an important discussion about election security. With all three ceos acknowledging that other countries are trying to interfere in our election, and theyre trying to do it on their own platforms. We do continue to see interference we recently disclosed actions we took on both russia and actions originating out of iran. We do continue to see coordinated influence operation items. Weve been very vigilant we appreciate the cooperation we get from the intelligence agencies and
Or down . Or up . Professor khouw breaks it down, why rates could be in for a bumpy ride, and how to ride that out with options its time to risk less and make more options action starts right now. Lets get right to it Consumer Staples making a comeback from the march lows and now hovering close to alltime highs. Carter, what are you looking at . I thought wed target proctor here proctor is the biggest weighting we know in the sector, but its just a bit hot to my eye and lets try to figure it out together so first a simple table and you can see it there on your screen and this is just looking at the consumer staple sector versus proctor. The staple up 10 and proctor has doubled that up 24 on a twoyear basis, the sector is up 25 proctor is up 77 on a fiveyear basis, the sector is up 33 and proctor is up 93. Now lets look at a chart of that fiveyear comparative chart and you can see that there on your screen. So to be this ahead of your peers, meaning the sector is composed of names that
Green on wednesday the central bank reiterated it would keep rates steady at least in the near term Consumer Staples and gold miners also lead those gains lets head over to europe in the americas starting in london where the footsie is up for the week well and gas prices hope those gains the index saw some losses though on friday data out of the u. K. Showed that g. D. P. In august grew 2 point one percent which was less than expected the german dax also in the green now german exports rose for the 4th consecutive month by 2. 4 percent in august after a 4. 7 percent rise in july french also in the green closely monitoring about u. S. Stimulus in brazil the evo best buy also seeing another green arrow the main b 3 stocks climbed 2. 21 percent but robust stocks led those gains in line with crude oil which also rose about 6 percent now heading over to mexico the b. M. V. Also up on the week it reached highs that it hasnt seen since june or Oil Prices Also contributing to those gains on ou
On china. Sources say curbs on jack mas group over concerns on National Security. Shery we are getting south koreas current account balance numbers and the surplus right now narrowing the month of august from july, coming in at 6. 56 billion. This is a little bit of a narrowing from that 7. 5 billion we saw in the month of july. The balance widening. The surplus coming in at 7. 0 2 7. 02on dollars and billion dollars and this is widening from the previous month. When it comes to export numbers, we have seen the plunge easing a little bit and in september, south koreas exports rising for the first time in seven months and we are seeing the goods balance surplus widening a little bit, haidi. Haidi take a look at the open we are setting up in the first few minutes of trade here in australia. We have seen that bounce following the super expansionary budget that was delivered this week by the federal government. The asx in the previous session closing at a one month high on those budget exp
States right now in washington, fragile hopes for a stimulus deal remain Speaker Pelosi and secretary treasurer mnuchin are expected to talk this afternoon in hopes of getting a deal done. A full economic recovery has a long way to go and another expert said many lost jobs may not come back. All 11 s p sectors are lower 59 minutes to go we are making new session lows with the dow down 400 points. Lets get to the market downturn we just referenced. Mike santoli is tracking all of the action no trigger but a clear response. The only trigger that seems clear at all is the mark of 2 30 eastern time, when the downturn accelerated. It seems as if it is essentially kind of getting ahead of the close, peeling down exposure we did have that good rebound into last week from the late september lows we had some positioning indicators suggesting people were full up on equity there has been a pattern of strength overnight in equity futures opening up strong and selling throughout the day it seems li