Jones industrial average up 16 points but its the nasdaq thats breaking out of 88 points on the nasdaq this morning and s p futures up 4 and 3 quarters staff largest Economic Contraction in u. S. History yesterday, another uptick on unemployment claims push selloff i didnt do, the dow industrials at the close yesterday still the dow, nasdaq and s p 500 on pace for fourth straight month of gains with industrial up on final day of july. Economic recovery, where is the economic recovery headed and what can the fed do to support it . Coming up at 8 10, chief investment offer rick is here and you dont want to miss valuable insight and commentary stimulus stale meat, still no deal with extra unemployment expiring today. President trump does not want to see election day move but also does not want to see fraud. U. S. Appeals court said to reconsider dismissal of his case. Coming up 8 30 a. M. Congressman jim jordan will weigh on latest moves on flynn, the congressmans fiery take away as well.
Good morning. So this meeting will now come to order. Today the subcommittee is holding a hearing entitled oversight of doe, during covid19 pandemic. Members will be participating in todays hearing finally in person or remotely via video conferences. And just as a reminder weve had some technical difficulties in making sure that our remote video was operating up to standard. As part of this hearing, the microphones of members participating remotely will be set on mute for the purpose of eliminating inadvertent background noise. Members participating remotely will need to unmute their microphones each time you wish to speak. For members and witnesses participating in person, i encourage you to wear your mask whenever you are not speaking. Dr. Monahan, our physician, stressed in attending physician covid19 guidelines that use of face coverings is meant to protect other people in case someone was unknowingly infected and does not have symptoms. But wearing our mask when we are not speakin
Instructed the u. S. Navy to shoot down and destroy iranian gun boats if they harass or ships at sea obviously thats a policy, thats going to make it so that anyone who is short oil theres so many people short oil, might say its worth covering here. I had a big win. Its geopolitical, the fact theres a failed instrument out there called the uso, i say its failed because its not been able to handle the selling yeah. Executing a 1 for 8 reverse. Are they really we talked about the usa more th than we ever have. Some things should have never been created, the uso was blessed when the s. E. C. Not around, people lose money, but theres no constituency that says you cant lose money. What do you make of the general notion that the president s tweet aside that some of the results last night were better than feared. You have a list of companies now that have been able to either sell a stake privately or through secondaries and well get to that in a moment. Plus the Senate Package making progress
Purchases. They remain over odds on that. Apple and nike are leading the dow higher joining us for the hour to talk about all of that stephanie link, a tiaa company relatively quiet day but that doesnt mean that theres nothing going on we had Economic Data and now this headline with u. S. And china still at odds. Here we go again. I thought the data today, the Economic Data was the driver pretty good. Initial claims, the trade data in general thats going to help Fourth Quarter gdp i thought this week ism services was pretty good. Were seeing okay. Overseas were seeing some pretty good data especially the pmis in china, europe, europe gdp today no worse than expected all of this seems to be setting up for better growth for 2020. We just need trade resolution one way or the other german factory orders and retail sales softer than expected i get the trend is less bad in general in the last month. Factory orders actually was revised last month higher. Lets see. Less bad, but i think theres
Now those. Cars are. Max guys and this is the guys report occasionally need to reset everything needs to be reset or waiting for a global reset and even in financial reset we just need to. Reset. Well lets reset this episode of kaiser report. Started again now were actually going to start here again this is a new york city where a kaiser reports we have been here for a few days and i do i do want to say that despite many of the headlines talking about oh possibly on the edge of a recession i see this over and over on twitter many headlines from the Financial News from all sorts of commentators saying that were on the verge of a recession and certainly you could say that perhaps germany and europe might be but if youre Walking Around manhattan and in times square area or bryant park what youll notice is that there is a huge amount of shopping here and a lot of i mean its way more than last year for example it seems like more boom time right now and consumers spending more money that the