President , he has announced hes free of the virus in immune and up dressed in airport crowd in florida today. This is important, the virus and how to deal with are central issues of the election. The president is taking the lead in opening the economy and returning to work in promoting the successful treatment, that is important stuff. Meanwhile joe biden always wearing a mask except for when hes coughing is bogged down with questions about packing the court in fracking, he will hold to events in ohio, lets see if he answers as important questions. Lefthand side of the screen, Supreme Court hearing for Amy Coney Barrett started an Opening Statement the judge said she learned from her mentor, Justice Antonio scully out. A judge must apply the law as written, not as a judge wishes it were. Vice president ial candidate Kamala Harris will participate virtually for safety reasons. Lets get to the market, the dow industrial is up for 50 on point, the s p up 20 thereabout look at the nasdaq,
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
The world. We will talk to the head of a major new jersey hospital that was on the frontier a few months ago and still are. Well find out what theyre seeing there and look at how covid has crushed urban real estate power lunch starts right now thank you, at thtyler. Markets are starting with a nice alley and broad base every sector is higher, except Energy Technology leading the way, up more than 2. 5 hi, bob. Seema, its a rally but look under the hood. Theres a very progrowth bias to this. A lot of the reopening stuff is not doing as well. Were getting what i call a big cap meltup here look at this, facebook, amazon, alphabet, microsoft and the volumes have been on the heavy side for this particular sector, mega caps. But only there lets take a look at some of the other stuff, some of the other what i might call workfromhome beneficiaries. Your costcos, your pay pals, and all of the chips are up here today. This is that pro growth bias you talk about look at stocks that used to benefi
Debate live from cleveland tuesday night on cspan. Stream at cspan. Org or listen live on the cspan radio app. And live now to the Senate Health committee who today will hear from dr. Anthony fauci, dr. Robered redfield and other members of the White House Coronavirus task force. Theyre expected to update lawmakers on the federal response to the pandemic. Live coverage here on cspan 3. Senator ted kennedy used to say our committee had the broadest jurisdiction in the senate. You only have to look around the room at a hearing and see that we also have the broadest range of views in the senate and some of the ablest advocates of those views. But thanks to our Committee Members and to senator murray most of our hearings have been bipartisan which means weve agreed on a broad range of witnesses to present points of view. And while the questioning and statements of senators has been probing, theres always been a high level of courtesy both to the witnesses and to the other senators which im
Powell makes his strongest plea for greater spending. Stocks selloff into the close, and treasury yields slide. Christine lagarde warns of a cliff effect if fiscal aid is ended too soon. France downgrades fourthquarter growth expectations to 0 . On nightlife. Down the german capital joins paris, madrid and london setting a curfew for businesses amid a resurgence in coronavirus cases across europe. Lets look at german industrial output figures. Speaking of the economic engine of europe, august industrial output falling 0. 2 month over month, that is worse than the estimates for a 1. 5 percent gain. In terms of an industrial output, things do not look good. News lets get breaking here in london. Numbers coming through from various corporates including tesco. Up by 7. 2 , the estimate was 7. 3 . They werenting appointing a new cfo, who will join the board. I think we knew the previous incumbent was going to leave the business, and this new cfo interesting to see if they give any comment o