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Manufacturing index hitting its best level since november 2018 but tech stocks as we mentioned lagging. The nasdaq is in the med as apple, amazon, microsoft all trade lower 59 minutes left in the session. Back off the lows. Coming up on todays show, ever corps founder roger altman on how the outcome of the election could affect your machine. Plus mond leez and paypal report earnings after the bell we will bring you all of those nbc first on cnbc with mond leezs ceo as soon as those numbers come out. We start off the month of november with gains after a down ep to october. Bob pisani is tracking some of the action. It is turning out to be a fairly simple narrative to understand today that is investors are choosing stimulus over stayathome plays. Let me show you what i mean. There is a belief there ises going to be very gig stimulus coming somewhere down the road again. Thats taken hold here look at the s p 500, up. Wait look at the small caps, up almost twice as much generally the bep y
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On further coronavirus stimulus until after the election the dow, which had been up, turned around and actually closed down by about 375 points. It was down by 1. 3 , s p down by 1. 4 and the nasdaq off by 1. 5 . However, this morning the stock futures are sharply higher this started last night around 10 00 p. M. When President Trump posted a flurry of tweets, one of them calling for airline and Small Business payroll support immediately. And another calling for a standalone bill on stimulus checks he was saying that he would sign these bills immediately. And as a result, take a look at the futures, dow futures indicated up with fair value by close to 200 points. Ylan mui has been following all of this and has more good morning. And just hours after the president walked away from the bargaining table, he appeared to take three steps back calling on democrats to pass targeted relief first it was that 25 billion for the and i remember industries Payroll Support Program and 135 billion fo