From Home Software stocks. And tech continues to lead, apple, netflix up 4 it is walmart the top performer in the s p 500 were going to dig into that one. Record close watch 59 minutes left to trade. That meat and potato and delicious gravy joke from tyler. A bit of an inside conversation between the two of us today. Of so apologies for that lets have a look at what is coming up along with the meat, potatoes and gravy the ceo of labcorp joins us. Florida is severing ties with quest diagnosics and walmart upping the stakes with amazon announcing the launch of the prime competitor well discuss with the former head of walmart u. S. And a food giant bets into the biotech game well speak with the ceo of nest nestle bet with a peanut allergy treatment. Mike santoli is tracking the action on this first day of september. Josh lipton is focusing in on apple and what could be the next catalyst for that stock. And phil lebeau has details on teslas Share Offering we have another tack on rally. A l
A coronavirus polls deemed to be misinformation the same post has been removed by facebook the disappearance of hundreds of women and girls in her rule raises more concern about Domestic Violence during the coronavirus pandemic. Flu. 75 years after hiroshima the threat of covert 1000 forces japan to scale back ceremonies commemorating the victims. Levanon government has declared a 2 week state of emergency in beirut a day after a massive explosion devastated launch areas of the capital at least 135 people are dead more than 5000 are injured and about 300000 have been left without a home investigations are focusing on. Negligence with the officials believed to be responsible now under house arrest as in a harder report somebody. The people of this disaster stricken city are starting to assess and comprehend the extent of the damage of a blast that was far more destructive than any explosion lebanon has ever seen just before sunset on tuesday highly explosive material stored at a warehou
Last roughly 12 years or so. Relative to today, stocks are sharply higher. We have crude oil, another risk asset recovering at 21 a barrel. There are some folks thinking that the demand picture is improving, sending the Energy Sector to the top of the list, and that is also helping small cap up 3 from outperformance. A lot of the Energy Companies are on the smaller topside. Itfor the bonds and the fed, has been about the news of more issuance from the treasury. We have the yield curve again steepening, i think four out of the last five days, rising by about 11 bits this week. The is healthy, that is yield curve normalizing, something that the fed wants to see. If it continues to steepen, it will put volatility to the markets to the downside or the notways chop way, that is happening today. Keep an eye on the yield curve. We have the long end selling off in the two year call carving out a record low. David extraordinary, thank you. 20. 5 million jobs were eliminated in the United States
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
A result we cannot lose ourselves in the darkness we have to remind ourselves that there is still an amazing amount of good in this world and that there is still hope there is always hope so today let us celebrate some of the good that has come from all of this bad starting with the tremendously fantastic news that since us humans across the globe been spending more time indoors the outdoors has had the time to start healing itself yes the guardian other outlets are are now reporting that according to satellite imagery from the European Space agency the coronavirus pandemic is shutting down industrial activity and temporarily slashing air proo pollution levels around the world and that levels of nitrogen dioxide over cities and industrial clusters in asia and europe were markedly lower than the same period last year. Meanwhile another bit of great news for both the environment and remind us of our ability to change the world the Standing Rock sioux tribe just won a major victory in cou