The country without Serious Health consequence where does the confidence come from i mean, havent lets see, we adopted universal testing yet . I dont think so we dont have contact tracing. We dont have enough gloves and mask to keep everybody protected. Lucky me yet the markets have an incredibly strong month. Even with todays mild dip, dow slipping 32 points, s p edging 5. 2 , nasdaq climbed 1. 4 , they crushed fang put it out there are we whistling past the graveyard here not so fast. Theres a ton of confidence in the safety net, the one that covers Large Companies even it as it fails to protect a lot of Small Businesses and doesnt do nearly enough for individuals. Remember we dont trade hair salons here. Theres no ticker for diner, no barber shop, gyms, no. We trade Big Companies companies that have more access to funding than i have ever seen in my life courtesy of the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department who know that the stakes are high. But you also got a lot of hope driv
S p shed 8. 3 . Although we were down a lot more earlier in the session you say i got to say its about darn time hallelujah things have gotten too easy. How do i know . Because the uber driver was make together much on tesla because the shoe shine men have finally picked a winner, and that winner was amd. Because these moves have gotten way to too crazy, and they had to stop. In end, even the saint Virgin Galactic, it was felled. Yep, they even got to space, symbol spce. Or spice, as i like to call it look, all selloffs are not created equal. Some are a lot worse than others this is not a slash and burn selloff its more like the kind of pruning you do to trees that are too new the power lines. Sure it looks ghastly chen theyre done with the wood chipper, but it beats the alternative which is a california style wildfire. I like the market because when trees grow back, hopefully they grow back stronger, slower, steadier still was an odd day for the market to take a dive. There was a lot
Q were relatively flat up slightly, up about 2. 5 points in europe we saw the active trading taking place all of this ahead of the fed meeting starting today the cac is the biggest gainer of the three major averages its up by q . You see gains of a half percent across the board and then if you want to seee1 whats happening in the treasur market here in the United States o0. 042 theres no way bad news is good Morgan Stanley is soenearish yesterday was the mostx boring day i watched ine the markets seeing the bug here and there at thee1 gym or whatever. I would look up. I have to check. E 46 i have to check. Up 46. Is it dog days yet it may be market breaking news. Facebook officially unveiling its cryptocurrency currency plans. Julia boorstin has more on that. Facebook announcing its new Digital Currency called libra. It will make it easy to send money around the world the currency is set to launch the first half of next year. It will be run by a nonprofit in switzerland up like
I mean, up or down. Lets just see. The european markets have been open for some time. There we can give you some actual answers. Also, well, largely down other than the ftse in the uk which is up. But no great moves there. Thank you for italy and spain in the control room. I like to see a broader picture other than the big three. As for crude oil which we go to next, 2. 276. Wti back above well above its kind of a stealth move there a little bit. Thats all talk ahead of the opec meeting. Hot air . Yeah. The saudis have cut back by 500,000 barrels because the u. S. Is increasing by that much in if next four months. So interesting. Well talk oil during the show but lets start with retailer. Two are falling sharply. Tiffany with a surprise drop in samestore sales and lowes also missed on its top line. Plus, were awaiting a new outlook from the fed. The u. S. Futures are more or less flat after the longest winning streak is extended. Over in china, a downgrade. Moodys lowers its rating on
Oil inventories tonight. The market, futures higher as stocks break their losing streak glimmers of a plan macys adds a Top Executive and announces a further restructuring, how the new ceo is talking about those changes. Forecast in decline in teen anl u usage. Stocks are poised to open higher playing a big role politico, jim, says the big six as they call them, has a lot more than they had in july when it was just six paragraphs. I thought mcconnell saying there is going to be a debt ceiling not an issue was really important. And i think that can be an underpinning for a potential rally, given the fact that until he said that, i think that it was just well cast there may be organizational principles here. Im not saying that i think anything can get done necessarily on taxes im also saying were not going to suffer from a debt downgrader. You believe mcconnell i do. I think mcconnell is trustworthy on this issue. I really do. I know im out there on that. Politico at the same time as a p