Todays action dow gaining 140 and nasdaq surging 1. 71 the market reflected everything going right, but totally obscured everything going wrong. Its a tale of two cities. It was the best at times and worst at times but on up days, we focus d on the best and ignoe the rest what do i mean lets start by going over the winners today to see what they are trying to say. You have to define them. They speak to you. The stars of reteail tell the story. The most important winner is amazon this morning, analysts who missed nearly the whole rally here took the recent pull back as an opportunity to upgrade it was very significant. I liked everything in the support from approval to the patience you see, he waited for a double digit decline before he pounced. Most people were flying. Not him. I like that. In recognition of the incredible strength with rapid delivery and the fly wheel approach he says buy amazon is there anything in this note actually, yes. You can make the same arguments about amazon
The u. S. Cases approaching seven million. A new round of stimulus remains a major question mark in washington weve got 59 minutes left of trade for this week. Were up 2 for the nasdaq its been a roller coaster of a day. Coming up, well ask the billionaire investor where he is finding opportunities amid the renewed volatility on wall street well get his thoughts on the red hot ipo market and, of course, the spac craze the plus, former National Security adviser mcmaster will join us to discuss the latest news on tiktok and simmering tech cold war with china well talk about the many battlegrounds for the United States and to mcmasters new book which is out this week. Lets get straight to the big stories. Mike santoli is tracking all of the market action. Julia has new developments in the tiktok saga. Josh lipton is covering more on the facebook fight mike, start us off on the Broader Market thank you very much we have a little bit of follow on rally here in the afternoon we have a little
The u. S. And china clash again, this time at the virtual u. N. Meeting. U. S. Futures are flat the moment. This after another volatile session. We had stocks rising. One mega cap rebounding. The s p 500 recovering from an early dip prompted by some comments coming from jay powell. Mnuchin spokery in congress today. The dollar touched a one month high. Look at what oil is doing at the moment. Wti is below 40. We are also looking ahead to the asian section. We are suspecting policy changes to come in the november Monetary Policy statement. Large parts of the market expecting the negative rate to take place in the First Quarter of next year. It looks like a modest start to the trading day. Cindy futures are looking positive. Watching the aussie and kiwi dollars. We saw the u. S. Dollar strengthening to the highest in five weeks in the overnight session. Repeating that the u. S. Economy needs more support and has a long road to travel before it will fully recover from the coronavirus fall
Runs out and shares of Bed Bath Beyond are surging, the retailer reports comps of 6 , online sales soaring 89 , jim so earlier in the week, jim, and even last week you seem to be pessimistic about the prospect of a compromise coming together. Do you feel any different this morning . Look, i think the Airline Layoffs are looming large because with layoffs come a cut in roots, with a cut in roots is a pain point, but i think its the senate, we keep talking about mnuchin and we keep talking about speaker pelosi, but i think the senate is buying into the president s vshaped recovery and i think Mitch Mcconnell is buying into it which says why do we need more we have a v shape, its just Certain Industries that can be triaged. I know that the industries represent small and mediumsized business so im against that, but i would say in favor of the mcconnell position, at least if you are looking at the stock market, this set of earnings, now, that is not what they care about and i dont want to m
Yesterday. It ended with new records for the s p 500 and the nasdaq, check out this nasdaq, up 86 points, three quarters of a percent, s p 500 up 12 points at 34, 43, unchartered territory. Violence erupting in wisconsin for a third night in a row, the gun battle in the streets leaving two people dead. Weve got the latest. Hurricane laura a category 2 storm, it is gaining strength, barreling towards texas and louisiana. Well take you live to the gulf coast this morning. How far did it go . New details in mcdonalds investigation into steve easterbrook, examining if he and other employees covered up misconduct. Peloton ready for the ipo, giving investors a look at its finances. Finding your happy place, the surprising spot more americans are going to relax. Mornings with maria is live right now. European markets this morning are mixed, take a look at the fq100, down 9 points, the cac is up 8, the dax in germany up 60 right now, about one half of 1 . In asia overnight markets were split,