We start with an Epic Battle Raging On Wall Street that has seen small time Amateur Investors take on the titans of the hedge fund industry. Its all centred around this company the struggling us computer Game Retailer gamestop. It shares have soared at much as 1700 after a group of private investors used online forums to drive up their price. And that has raised serious questions about how Financial Markets operate in the era of social media, as paul hawkins reports. This is a story of david versus goliath, of the amateur online investor beating the Big Traditional Wall Street traders. At the centre of it, gamestop, a struggling American Retailer Selling dvds and video games. A number of the Wall Street Traders picked up on its problems and bet money that its share price would fall, known in the business as shorting a stock. Only for this particular stock, Amateur Investors swapping tips on the social media site reddit saw it as an opportunity. They bought shares, which actually drove
Introducing the world of paint mixing. The Company Repays him by firing him. That employee joins us live today. All that and more on making money. Charles even though shares are slightly lower, my stock of the day is deere. Regular watchers of this show know i have talked about this company, i have great affection for it in the past and one of the reasons i love this company, it was born when a farmer saw a void and decided to fix it himself. That was 182 years ago. This morning, the stock reported earnings that was all about the american farmer, the Agricultural Equipment sales increased from last year, operating margins soared to 13. 9 from 9. 2 . Management credited a shift in sentiment, market access, government actions and prices, in addition to a mon centster government actions and prices, in addition to a mon centste be management gave strong guidance. If you are in the stock, hold it. I was also thrilled we did not allow our farmers to be destroyed by the Chinese Government in
The dow coming off its first close ever above 30,000. Still down 180 a lot of focus continues to be on the socalled cyclical trade, energy, banks, airlines all pacing for their best month ever rob, its good to see you again. I come to you first because your note to our producer today really piqued my interest. The last three weeks, you say, were transformational. How so i think going into this, scott, we did not have a prospect for a stimulus plan it pivoted focus to the virus and the virus count really, really increasing. Since then youve had three months of very, very positive news on the virus front. Youve had an election outcome that appears to be more and more benign with the actions of the with the actions of our president elect. Specifically nominating janet yellen it looks like it was an outcome that was squarely middle of the fairway that was not too far left, not too far right. Really goldilocks like from my perspective. Now youre at a place where when you look at major pivot
National intelligence John Ratcliffe as we are learning the country is doing human testing to genetically enhance military. Focus on stimulus this morning, Speaker Nancy Pelosi says it will be done by christmas, we will hear from former nyc barrasso and Mick Mulvaney. Marks are lower. We will start the week in the red, dow industrials down 145 points, nasdaq lower by 15 and s p 500 weaker by 16 and 3 quarters. All three major indices up out of the last 5 weeks, last week we are up 1 on the dow and 2 on the nasdaq. Mornings with maria right now. Maria european markets look like this, dax index in germany lower by 63. In asia overnight, markets finish mostly shower. We had Economic Data, that is the fastest pace of exports since february 2018. The growth also helping to generate a 75. 4 surplus. The data, of course, coming from the Chinese Communist party and this has been the big fight between china and the u. S. , the fact that we are buying more products than china is buying from the
The start of the week, a huge. Otation towards value the s p up by 0. 6 . The pound is positive. The departure of dominic ,ummings at 10 downing street going at the end of the year, setting up expeditions that may be a brexit reset and a deal as possible. Interestingly enough, we are seeing a continuing move in what we are seeing in the bond market. Bonds are bid today. He was there moving back down, unsurprising and what we heard from Christine Lagarde yesterday. More broadly, the virus definitely back in charge. The vaccine news at the beginning of the week, the virus news at the end of the week. Alix such a great way of framing that. Lets break down the virus issues more. The global coronavirus case is now topping 52. 9 million, deaths climbing to 1. 3 million. Focus is on europe and how it is addressing the virus. Joining us is Bloomberg Opinion columnist ferdinando juliano. The story in the u. S. Is that you guys are doing targeted lockdowns, and it is working, and the cases are l