Lows the ceo will be here to tell us how he and his company delivered. Plus the university of arizona claiming it has found a new way to prevent covid outbreaks, testing the sewage coming from dorm rooms president Robert Robbins will join us, as power lunch begins right now. I cannot wait for that story. We wait for the beige book from the fed. Dom chu has more on the markets. So the dow is up almost 300 points at this stage, the highs of the session more importantly were keeping close to dow reclaiming record territory. Anybody who has tuned into power lunch or cnbc in general the last several months knows we continue to make these record highs with the s p 500 gold star there. The nasdaq always creeping higher here. Believe it or not, that 12,000 market was hit early today it open up at 12,050, roughly that level just to put things in perspecti perspective, if you look at the nasdaq over the last year, from the lows we saw up until where we are right here, were talking north of 80 ga
Harvesting. Have you gotten your ballot . Are you going to sign it . If you want, i will sign it. Here it is, get out of here. That is the most honest way of doing it, and that is unfair. Now they are taking all of that enthusiasm that our party has, and we have tremendous enthusiasm. I think we have record enthusiasm. [applause] whiche a base alexa nobody has ever seen including these people, wall street journal, fantastic story this weekend, fantastic cover story on the base, an incredible base. Everyone here will vote. We have a tremendous base. They dont. They have no enthusiasm for their candidate. Bernie, they had more enthusiasm for him. Bernie sanders, he is the greatest loser i have ever seen. This guy can lose and be so happy. [laughter] Hillary Clinton, i want to use nice language. I dont want to use a certain word but it starts with sc they will say he used foul language. Bernie sanders got taken advantage of by Hillary Clinton. Worse. By the democrats this time. Warren,as,
Tiktok launches a legal bid to stop President Trump from imposing a ban in america. He says the app is a threat to National Security and tiktok says the bands peer politics. The president marks the official nomination at the Republican National convention by criticizing mailin voting and saying the opponents his opponents want to steal the election. Shery u. S. Futures are opening flat after solid gains for u. S. Stocks in the new york session. Record highs for the s p and the nasdaq. We had optimism over vaccines and treatments for coronavirus. The s p 500 saw most of the sectors in the green. Small cap biotech got big moves from the authorization of convalescent plasma for treating covid19. Vaccine developers tumbled on this new focus on plasma treatment. The dollar weakness we saw earlier in the session did pervak. Did pare back. Look at what oil is doing. It rallied and gasoline surged to a fivemonth high at the moment under pressure headed to the 42 a barrel level. Laurae storms m
Government the talks right now on ice and well hear what leadership from both sides of the aisle is saying without that stimulus money, major cities in the United States are kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place and a new report lays out how bad things could get power lunch starts right now it does welcome the power lunch. Tech continues power ahead with the nasdaq leading the way near its record high which it hit on august 7th one tech stock not joining the party. That would be cisco having its worst day since 2011 even though the s p isnt there yet, its pretty close but not there yet. Check out the names hitting record highs tyler, back to you the stimulus stalemate in washington continues today threatening to further delay payments to struggling americans and failing to provide much of a boost to the u. S. Economy. Lots of big names on cnbc talking about the issue today. Lets go to eamon for more. Reporter its a total stand still. While theres not a lot of real negotiations
The plus column and big tech really help the nasdaq today but for most of the session weve kept in check after congress failed to agree on the next stimulus package. Nasdaq of 1. 5 in the doubt up about half 8 and that stinky gaining three quarters of 1 . Lets look at the month all three up, up four months in a row, the big winner was the nasdaq almost 7 , look at the s p up five and half percent and the dow up 2. 4 . Apple, new alltime high, worth more than any other company in the world including the oil, facebook hitting a new record height, apple as well as alphabet reported earnings yesterday and investors still cheering the first two, also but shares are down and the Company Reported the first annual revenue decline. Google under a little bit of pressure today. Finally we know who hacked twitter about two weeks ago, a florida teenager accused of being the mastermind of a bitcoin hack on prominent news users that negative 100,000, he did not act alone, to others charged in the sch