The nasdaq on track for a 5th week worth of gains here and the dow is erasing its losses for all the year at its highest level since late february, its also having its bests august since 1984. We turn to the Investment Committee for this we have just been seeing green, green, green for it seems like weeks, if not nonts months at this point it is surprising the markets have marched higher the way they have over the last several months since the pandemic lows its not all surprising all the factors were looking at from the fiscal side, the monetary side and the virus side are lining up in support of equity just think about what happened with chair powell yesterday and the historic announcement he made about departure from the prior inflation targeting regimes to this averaging inflation concept. What does that mean . That means rate will be low, low, low for the foreseeable future we think thats two years from now. That is very support ifr five f valuations then you have this fiscal stimu
Port a week after the deadly blast. With anrnment resigns outraged public demanding accountability. Lcome back to france 24 thank you so much for joining us again this afternoon. We start with unrest in belarus thisis tuesday, where the main challenger has fled the country, this after a second night of street clashes between police and opposition supporters. The cocountry has been rocked by violence since Election Results gave president Alexander Lukashenko 80 , and Svetlana Tikhanouskaya has refused to accept it. Lukashenko has been president since 1994 and is being dubbed europes last dictator. Refusing to concede defeat, former belarusian president ial candidate Svetlana Tikhanouskaya is now in lithuania, according to the countrys foreign minister. The lithuanian president on metaexpressssed doubts about te Election Results that precipitated her departure. [speaking foreign language] tikhanouskaya had been a newcomer to politics, launching her campaign only after authorities jailed
Volatilityews will be the name of the game for the foreseeable future. Perhaps also low volume. I want to bring in Abigail Doolittle who has been following all the action, or lack thereof. Walk us through the theme of today. Abigail lack of action was the theme on this slow summer friday trading day. There was some fluctuating between gains and losses on the s p 500, the dow, and the nasdaq, but this is the first few the first time in quite a has been true,at but this is the first day in quite some time where it did not file shoot might drop or we did see a true bump. There is reason to think that could be ahead, but today, the s p 500 up, the nasdaq managing to pull out a gain it seemed like the nasdaq might put up its first two day decline, which would be the first time in two months. Part of that having to do with biotech. Goldman had constructive comments on modernity. On the week, the worst week going back since march, the nasdaq down on the week, the s p 500, the first time weve
Giving a lot of insight well be bringing you results apple, amazon, alphabet and facebook all report their earnings coincidence those four Companies Make up about 16 of the s p 500. Worth about 5 trillion combined and come a day after the heated antitrust hearing. Wolf, this is a good read in for you. For sure. There was meant to be three of those. Facebook got moved from yesterday to today after that hearing. After the close, we are waiting for two economic reports it is thursday, that means weekly jobless claims. Another 1. 4 million filed for the first time last week the first read on Second Quarter gdp. The economy likely contracted by 34. 7 . Both jobless and gdp due at 8 30 eastern time you look at those numbers down 34. 7 from the estimate we know it, weve been hearing from companies and what has been happening. Thats a lot of news to digest ahead of all of these reports. You are watching futures under a little pressure. Lets look at where things stand now. Dow down 206 points,
Five day winning streak. Dom chu has more. And it has been the outperformer the nasdaq again up about onethird of 1 , so well off the lows of the session so far all those lows by the way, the dow industrials down roughly 271 points and weve gained back a lot of ground, but a lot of waiting and seeing with the s p just about flat. Lets take a look at some of the sector movements since the covid lows that we saw back in march over the last three months, the real standouts have been energy, up about 68 , consumer discretionary, retail names up 47 . And Technology Names up about 37 . Are more sensitive names playing on a recovery or hopes of one driving those particular gains so something to watch. And then the stock of the day is spotify hitting a record high up 13 off the highs of the day after it inked an exclusive deal with Kim Kardashian west to host a new exclusive podcast centering around kriccriminal Justice Reform and remember a lot of headlines, dwrenkt listin direct listing, not