But you were talking about the dow being in positive territory for the First Time Since september 2nd. Stocks in china reopened after a week long Public Holiday they both jumped by more than 2 the shanghai composite was up by 2. 6 lets take a look at where things stand right now in europe where there is some trading taking place you can see the markets are open there and theres a bit of a mixed picture. Its actually a little bit higher ftse 100 is right around the flat line, andrew. Hey, becky. Weve got so much going on this morning. Weve got this is squawk planner, two major tech events first amazon sales day it begins after it was postponed, if you remember, back in july. Now running two days, starting at midnight tonight eastern time so watch out for that. Ive already scheduled it and then Apple Holding the big event tomorrow the launch event expected to unveil the new iphone. Everybody looking for the new 5g iphone it will include the first major exterior redesign since 2017 and we
Along with kelly evans, im Tyler Mathisen stimulus hopes, the s p reviving overnight. But what about investors are their hopes a little too high this deal is going to get done well discuss that one plus, check out chip maker xilinx upping 14 . Well look into what could be a Seismic Shift for the semis. And jim cramer will lay out his seven sectors of opportunity, including his best picks in the restaurant space as power lunch begins right now. Tyler, thanks. We begin with new developments on stimulus negotiations a short while ago the president tweeted that covid relief negotiations are moving along, go big and reportedly raising his offer and maybe even raising it again ylan nmui, give us the latest. The question is is it big enough they will present a 1. 8 trillion offer to nancy pelosi this afternoon thats still 400 billion less than where democrats are at. Economic adviser larry kudlow said that would include aid for the airlines, direct checks and ppe and mentioned extending hanes
Vaccine. And we start out with breaking news on disney, putting distribution in the center part of its business. Julia. Thats right. Disneys reorganizing its Media Entertainment business to accelerate its direct to consumer strategy. It says this is in light of the success of disney plus the move divides content and creation and content distribution, creating a new median entertainment distribution group, this group will be responsible for monetizing all content including ad sales and digital platforms liking disney plus the new division will also oversover see operations of the streaming service. I would not characterize it as a response to covid i might say that covid accelerated the rate at which we made this transition, but this transition was going to happen anyway because essentially what we want to do is separate out the folks who make our wonderful content based on tremendous franchises from the Decision Making in terms of where the prioritization is in terms of how it gets com
Reportedly uncovering Quality Control concerns at eli lilly plant set to manufacture its covid antibody treatment and apple debuts the new 5g phone line speedier devices, also coming with an even heftier price tag carl, back over to you. All right jim, on the banks this morning, conversation once again about loss provisions. Also about bond trading at goldman. I dont think it is just bond trading. I think goldman did a remarkable job taking some share, which i say remarkable because imagine youre at home, zooming and taking sharefrom others. I do believe that goldmans back to its old ways which is that it is a dry cleaner it doesnt have any risk remember, dry cleaner, what do we do with the dry cleaner give them our clothes and pick them up and they make money. That has been the goldman way until a couple of years where i think it got wayward where it became much more about, hey, lets invest in this, invest in that, no, to me, what theyre investing in, that i really like, theyre invest
Gain of more than 500 points the day before that and right now dow futures indicated up another 113 points this comes after the dow closed at its highest level in a month yesterday. Oil prices picking up by about 3 more of a supply picture but the s p 500 indicated up by about 13, nasdaq up by 31. And treasureky my market, te yielding 0. 765 . Andrew lets talk about stimulus this morning because house he Speaker Nancy Pelosi and treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin spoke about a broad stimulus plan yesterday and Speakers Office says that the treasury secretary made it clear that President Trump had interest now in finding an agreement on a comprehensive relief plan, that conflicted with comments from the White House Communications director who said that the white house wants to address stimulus checks, Small Business loans and the airline, but not anticipating a larger package. Nancy pelosi said that the white house is open to something bigger but not on the scale that democrats have prop