Yesterday. It ended with new records for the s p 500 and the nasdaq, check out this nasdaq, up 86 points, three quarters of a percent, s p 500 up 12 points at 34, 43, unchartered territory. Violence erupting in wisconsin for a third night in a row, the gun battle in the streets leaving two people dead. Weve got the latest. Hurricane laura a category 2 storm, it is gaining strength, barreling towards texas and louisiana. Well take you live to the gulf coast this morning. How far did it go . New details in mcdonalds investigation into steve easterbrook, examining if he and other employees covered up misconduct. Peloton ready for the ipo, giving investors a look at its finances. Finding your happy place, the surprising spot more americans are going to relax. Mornings with maria is live right now. European markets this morning are mixed, take a look at the fq100, down 9 points, the cac is up 8, the dax in germany up 60 right now, about one half of 1 . In asia overnight markets were split,
Or is Something Else to play. We will get into it but as i can see the major indexes down in the nasdaq up 3 . Following reports of the november surprise on a vaccine bio pharmacy ceo pledged to take the over speed when it comes to treatment. Tesla feeling a little dented this morning after getting snubbed by the s p 500 despite four straight quarters of profit the benchmark index says no thank you very much, we will discuss the implications of that. In Washington Congress returns as a stimulus stalemate continues, white house chief of staff mark meadows kelli Maria Bartiromo in the last hour he thinks the deal will get done and soon. We are 56 days away from the election for the battle of the swing state and definitely heating up. President trump touting a rebounding economy as a hits florida and North Carolina today and we will see him leave later this morning. The president is threatening to cut ties with china and issues of stock morning if joe biden wins. And how about this, the h
Talk about a uturn, we had a swing from high to low, 875 points on the Dow Jones Industrial average and it closed at about 160. The nasdaq at one point down 582 and at the close the nasdaq is off of about 140 points. It is down maybe 702 days which is pretty intense and you can finally see the s p 500 down not even 8 or 28 points. Why the selloff, why the rally back, as for the cello question the wall street journal was reporting a jump in trading volumes and options that are linked to Technology Companies and as for the uturn major rent from the record that we had on wednesday and that mightve been overdone with that technology. Delete they come back mainly apple, it was down over 8 at the lot but in did hire a bit and it averted a threeday losing streak, other tech names, the work from home stuff, they did continue to get humbled suggesting that investors are betting on the economy reopening a little bit. Look at that down about 5 tod today, with the economy reopening you have airlin
More Domestic Travel to a little more overseas travel now. Theaad lets get to markets and have a look at what is going on. Nikkei, in with the leading japanese shares, just seeing stocks drifting to the upside. We did see jobless numbers come out. Slightly better than expected, looking for a 3 jobless rate, but 2. 9 . Looking elsewhere, retail sales out of hong kong, looking also at the futures for the u. S. , pretty much flat. Asian equities drifting slightly to the upside. Looking at the shanghai composite, lets look at how the gpi is behaving as well. Just about flat. The shanghai comp, 0. 2 lower. Chinese Economic Activity continued to rebound. Expansion in manufacturing activity, just slowing slightly there. A Rate Decision out of australia later on. Expecting the rba to keep rates. And the singapore market 0. 6 lower. Quick check on the currency is, weve got a fifth straight monthly drop for the dollar. Bloomberg dollar index down by 0. 25 . The yen, a tad weaker. Euro currently
The cash trade here in europe is less than an hour away. Lets get your top headlines. Softbank plummets on reports it made big bets on derivatives linked to u. S. Tech. A selloff looks set to continue, although u. S. Stocks are shut today for the labor day holiday. Johnson plays hardball. U. K. Officials say britain is not scared of walking away from brexit negotiations emptyhanded. Talks restart on that note in london this week. And cracks in the pipeline. Germanys board member former minister links nord stream 2 to the poisoning of alexey navalny. We are less than an hour away from the start of european trading. There will be no u. S. Equities trade today. You can see european futures are gaining. We are getting more german data out now, economic data. Up 1. 2 . Strial output the estimate was for a gain of 4. 5 percent, so a mess in terms of Industrial Production so a miss in terms of Industrial Production. Yearoveryear, there was a drop. The actual drop was 10 . The estimate had bee