It is hip to be square used to be at least. Lets check out u. S. Equity futures. Things are relatively flat and that isa good thing. A bit of a difference after the big swings weve seen. Right now dow futures up about 3, s p 500 up about 2, nasdaq up by 13. Of course this is after a done day for the m down day for the markets yesterday. Treasury yields are something to start paying attention to because we did see a pickup in treasury yields to the highest levels weve seen since june the ten year is yielding 0. 813 . And i know it doesnt seem like a lot, but it is the highest level weve seen in a while and there is so much that rides on that including mortgage pricing which has been a key part of what has been happening in the housing sector, a strong point in the economy so far. Lets get over to washington. Well talk about id call it a soap opera, but really it is a reality show and means a lot to so many millions before nancy pelosi says she is now optimistic that democrats may be abl
Continues to rise significantly in terms of the virus and we talked a lot and well hear from meg again and meg has been following it so closely for us and the market only seems to go up as the cases go up. That is leaving some people scratching their heads and others view it as were going to get to the other side and a view of what the economy will look like and then you come back to the fed, carl, which seems to be the fuel that everybody sort of points to as the key fuel, i should say, for this market. Yeah. Morgan, lots of notes over the long weekend and we hope everybody did have a great, long weekend. More debt and liquidity and asset reflation. That was literally the title of the jpmorgan note on friday. Yeah, for all those folks that were basically still stuck at home or not traveling and getting on airplanes, lots to digest in terms of market commentary over the weekend. I would add to the fed, i would add the expectations that do seem to be baked in around what phase four fisc
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That recession. We are going to talk about it with my guest coming up right now. Im cheryl casone, everybody, in for liz claman today. Were going to start with a fox market alert. The bulls are actually making a bit of a comeback in this final hour of trading. As you can see, the dow up 25. We had been on the fence just a few moments ago. Maybe charles turned it around. Im going to do the cc effect right now here because you do have the the dow at one point down is 88 188 points at session lows. Trying to make this two wins in a row. We shall see if that works out. If the dow can can close up more than 17. 7 points, and its above that right now, it will be back in positive territory for the year. Were closely going to watch this average. Now to the s p 500. As you can see, it is slightly higher, a fraction here, 1. 2 1. 48. Wed been down 38 points on the lower in todays session for the s p, so thats a comeback. And heres the final comeback, the nasdaq. As you can see, up 4 points. At 1