Down nine basis points. Europe is jumpy holding onto positive territory. Who knows . Brexit conversations throughout this week. Coming up later in the hour, we are going to speak to gregory poland of the mayo clinic to get his perspective on the latest vaccine trial results from astrazeneca and pfizer. What does it actually mean for the market . Eu leaders are reconvening about premuch now for stimulus negotiations in brussels. The goal to seal the deal signaled that they are ready to agree on 390 billion euros of funding be made available. German chancellor Angela Merkel sounded optimistic earlier. Night, wealks last worked out a framework for possible agreement. Perhaps today an agreement will be made. Is underground for us. You have been covering this from the beginning. We understand there is a lower provision for grant and loan guarantees. Are they going to have people checking . Is there going to be an Advisory Board . What i would say is the mood has changed over the past hour.
Close down 257 points. S p fell, nasdaq lost 1. 87 . I think that rally that took peoples breath away was started with short sellers who were covering or closing out the positions. Theyre getting concerned that the Drug Companies working on the drugs that would lessen the lethality of corona may have had success. Fear is more powerful. But this is driven by a justifiable fear coupled with the fear of catching it yourself its threatening to bring commerce to a full stop. Aside from the pallets of purell passing through the portals of the shaky retail establishments. We got through a roller coaster of a week marked by the emergence of terrifying sector markets. Oil and gas, you know i hate the stocks wow. Justified, travel and leisure, retail, some better than others. Andthe hideous financials, all which are worrisome because the borrowers are numerous in the sectors and are so good they can hurt lenders this market is longp standing gains with breathtaking speed. But those moves pale in
Die. Thats the mantra so many businesses out here. The tsunami of invention disruption reaches far beyond this intense city and the valley that abuts it. The storm clouds darkening the fortunes of others in the inevitable riptide of creative destruction. The reverberations rattle whole industries with a wake so brutal they often determine the direction of stock prices in whole segments on a day where the dow dropped 55 points, s p lost. 16 and the nasdaq decreased. 24 lets just deal with the news. Take the biggest stock news of the day, the possible combination between shop and Td Ameritrade with the former buying the latter in a 26 billion combination that would create what might be an unbeatable 5 trillion online colossus these two companies have been sworn opponents ever since electronic trading became the way of the future more than 25 years ago. They have been in a battle for assets come on, its been incredible. And assets and commissions, the latter knowing no bounds with pervasi
Employee. And shares of under armour under a lot of pressure, a federal probe of the Accounting Practices. And wall streets record rally on the heels of both the s p and nasdaq the dow is on track for new highs at the open. Well start with that stunning news from mcdonalds, the company has fired Ceo Steve Easterbrook after he spent more than 4 1 2 years on the job. Mcdonalds says he violated Company Policy by having a consensual relationship with an employee the new ceo is Chris Kempczinski, president of mcdonalds usa in an email to employees, easterbrook admitted the relationship violated policy, saying this is a mistake, given the values of the company, i agree with the board it is time for me to move on. Already today, jim, one downgrade, piper to neutral, says changes of this magnitude tend to be disruptive. I think thats why i hate to say this, the stock was down badly on friday. I would like to know more about when and how long they have known this this is one where it is pretty
Third, boy, is it ever in the way even with record numbers after a day with the dow losing 79 and s p advancing and nasdaq gaining, the last two both records. You need to understand that the government has become the one wild card in this market and does reek havoc on all sorts of stocks last fall the fed created its only personal bear market because he told us he might need to raise Interest Rates over shooting to stamp out inflation, which at the time was nonexi nonexiste nonexistent totally out of touch and crushed the market powells rookie mistake almost gave us a recession but came to his senses in january and changed course but we never should have been in that position to begin with thats what keeps happening. We never would have gotten in this mess with janet yellen. She was day to driven and understood the power of her words but even though president trumps tweets are about lower Interest Rates and maybe having some effect, i dont know. Remember what he did he sat janet yellen