Today in some of the comments out of retailers like burlington, anf, dollar tree, and Dollar General yes, if you look at the Dollar General, the numbers are just extraordinary i actually have never seen a Comp Store Sales number this good 21 versus 7 estimate. Dollar tree is going to be the one, david knows this well, people look like, you know what, now the dollar tree Family Dollar merger which had been so on the rocks, the judgment is its working and that stock could power much higher. Dollar tree. The opening trade is sapping the money out of tech. I dont know how much longer it can last thats such a great book in gary because he knows so much about what people are spending theyre essential because they have food, and i look at this market and i think how long with the dow up 4 can we actually say, hey, the reopening trade is just starting . Its already maybe too far too fast its very hard to figure, particularly because faang is being distorted by the president s tweets, facebook
Business closures as well as layoffs. We will show you how markets are reacting as well. Eugene scalia and richard will join with me about the jobs picture, what they have to say about the jobs market, stimulus package and what lies ahead for the u. S. Economy. Twoday rally for the dow and s p 500 poise to come to an end today, future pointing to losses, down 200 points. Down 93 on the nasdaq after gains of wall street yesterday but markets did close off of the highs of the day, in fact, the nasdaq as you could see finished negative. Dow industrials yesterday up 409 points at the close and the s p was up 28. President trump says parts of the u. S. Could be going back to work in a few weeks participating in a Virtual Conference with g20 leaders today working on a coordinated response for the coronavirus pandemic. Plus americas biggest music star coming together for iheart living concert for america. Special feature includes elton john and alicia keys. Mornings with maria is live right n
Courscourse jim cramer right now the stock market and the bond market are like two heavy weight champions duking it out. And todays stocks had a very good round dow surging 1,173 points, the s p 500 skyrocketing, the nasdaq soaring 3. 85 . Hallelujah. Who are these two boxers . In one corner you had a stock market that had gotten viciously oversold thanks to the coronavirus outbreak and wall streets existential fear of a Bernie Sanders presidency. In the other corner, well, youve got the bond market specifically u. S. Treasuries every time they go up in price, we go down in yield. Lately their yields have been plummeting sending chill through the spine of all investors who follow both markets. Now this is a vicious and i will tell you somewhat scary for us, but bond yields so frightening low theyve been decking the much smaller stock market, as surely as muhammad ali sent so many challengers to the canvas the bond markets still screaming that were not out of the woods, that were being
Renewed china trade optimism set to fuel further gains of the open retails big week and the tariff impact into the holidays. Best buy, dicks, dollar tree, abercrombie among the retailers reporting today. And ford challenging tesla to a apples to apples tug of war between pickups and elon musk says bring it on three major indices saw record closes, top trade negotiators from the u. S. And China Holding a phone call earlier this morning the two sides continue to work toward a phase one trade agreement. Trade rep lighthizer, mnuchin, both participated in that call and both sides agree to remain in contact over remaining issues on twitter, you said the phone call last night was very important in terms of furthering a deal yeah. It is real ive been skeptical. This was a real call phase one probably happens Financial Services get opened up president may believe that intellectual property is for real that instead of just a soybean buy, a promise to they would respect intellectual property. Do
Underneath we saw a radical devaluation of all sorts of stocks we were forced to reconsider how much well pay for a certain amount of stocks now and certain amount of growth now and how much we will pay in the future or do we sell . Most dramatic example. This morning an activist group Elliott Management took a 3. 2 billion stake in at t, gigantic, and sent a letter to the board of directors stock trading at just under 37 they think they can get it to 60 plus by the end of 2021 if the changes are made that will be huge. At t has been a real lager at t blames ill advised decisions by management, like overpaying for directv what would the failed acquisition of tmobile which ended up jump starting their competitor with a gigantic breakup. With some changes elliott argues at t can be worth a great deal more than its selling for they want the company to distract itself from side businesses cut the fat. Emphasize changes. Stop doing willynilly acquisitions at every turn put it altogether and