Good morning, everybody. Im becky quick and welcome friyay were watching the equity futures. Three down days in a row, but the dow did make a pretty stunning recovery, down actually over 300 points after the numbers at 8 30 yesterday that showed that initial jobless claims were higher than anticipated. Ended down by 20 points at the end of the session this morning dow futures down about 13, s p s p are flat lining, nasdaq basically flat lining too well be watching this closely to see how people shoring things up you as we head into this weekend. And also take a look at what is happening in the treasury market the ten year which yesterday fell back below 7. 0 and now is 7. 26 . Lets talk about what happened last night. President trump and former Vice President biden making their case to the American People on dueling town halls i was sitting there with my remote going back and forth, both events focusing on the Trump Administrations handling of tGlobal Pandemic. Do you support herd immu
Truckers or some other area of transsport that are really the hot spot and the pandemics have been a game changer for video games and have taken upstage 70 over the past year and we have those details. Power lunch starts now thank you, ty the clock is stiticking on what nancy pelosi is the last chance to get a stimulus package now. Ylan democrats are holding a Conference Call right now before she talks to the treasury secretary at 3 p. M he said conversations have been encouraging but there is still a lot of work to be done a few of the issues, testing and its impact on minority community, Child Tax Credit, state and local funding, the census, workers liability and Health Care Providers and thats not even an exhaustive list. Meanwhile, Senate Republicans are balking at all of this majorityleader Mitch Mcconnell said it is heartless for democrats to continue their total blockade unless Speaker Pelosi gets her way. The president has expressed confidence he could bring republicans on boar
12, maybe. And jpmorgan says dont give up on nikola. Thats ahead we start with the markets. Dom chu has that for us. Weve been on either side of the unchanged line well call these markets stable. Weve seen some fractional gains and losses fractionally to the down side. A quarter percent to the down side for the dow the s p off a third of a percent. Similar moving for the nasdaq composite. Key level to watch for the nasdaq, 3401 at the highs of the day, we were up 19 in the s p and down 18 at the lows a good amount of symmetry with regard to the trading range today. A hot part of the market is the Cloud Computing industry this etf, ticker clou, has been a massive upside mover up another 1 today. Record highs for this etf and again since the pant lows wep lows, were talking about a 116 gain one other place to watch in terms of the stock, l brands, price target upgrade by analysts at jpmorgan, that stock was given up for dead quite a time ago. Up 87 almost a twoyear high this is victorias
Out of 5 segs laeout of 5 segs s out of 5 segs laessions last we. A lot of that potentially around the possibility of vaccines. Well talk to dr. Scott gottlieb about that pfizer already saying that its made several hundred thousand doses of its vaccine they could have 100 million ready by the end of the year if they receive approval. Lets look at whats been happening in the treasury market this morning as well last week you did see those treasury yields under some pressure this morning back a little higher yielding 0. 774 . Thanks, becky busy day ahead lets look at the squawk planner. A group of Oil Ministers are meeting today. Theyll be talking about the weakening demand and increased output by some members immediate action is expected on the economic front, fed chairman jay powell will be speaking at the International Monetary fund meeting at 8 00 eastern time then we have some earnings news. Ibm, the big name to watch its going to be reporting Quarterly Results after the bell of cou
1. 8 trillion. And jobless claims disappointed the street coming in at 898,000. It was the highest rating since mid august. Rising coronavirus cases in europe and the u. S. Affecting sentiment. 59 minutes left of trade down only 23 on the dow. The european measures definitely weighed on european markets. We have improved since the european close coming up, we will speak with gregg lemkau about how the pandemic changed the m a landscape. Plus the ceo of zoom will talk about the companys efforts to branch out beyond video meetings and the stocks run thissier. Fir mike, lets start with you the Broader Markets well off the session lows. A resilient showing throughout the last few years. You mentioned the market lows in the u. S. Were just before the european close perhaps that was one of the bigger pressure points, the overseas action. Where it has taken us though is really hasnt disturbed much of the trend. This is this area. Last week we broke above this range we have been in for a while