Nationwide. And tonight a key model is predicting covid will kill nearly 300,000 americans by december 1st, currently 160,000 americans have died from covid19. But if the data from the institute for Health Metrics and evaluation plays out that would mean an additional 136,000 people will lose their lives to this virus over the next 4 months. In a statement, researchers at the institute say consistent maskwearing could save about 70,000 lives a message that was echoed by the nations top Infectious Disease expert. Now is the time. To accelerate the fundamental preventive measures that we will talk about masks social distancing avoiding crowds out to his grade than indoors, washing hands, et cetera. Those kind of simple things can actually prevent that uptick from becoming a surge. Earlier this week doctor deborah birx warned of an uptick in the covid19 test Positivity Rate in several cities as well as in californias central valley. But the severity of the pandemic in california is now mu
Will see the 2020 democratic ticket on stage, together for the very first time. What well do then is take you live to wilmington delaware where former Vice President joe biden will kickoff his campaign with his new president ial runningmate, as Vice President , california senator Kamala Harris each step of the way, what were going to do for you in this final hour is watch the markets, sectors, stocks, commodities for tick by tick reaction. Check it here markets in rally mode for the most instant reaction right now while its tempting to focus on the really huge jump for the nasdac look at this were up 235. Folks the index to watch is the s p. It is now within lets call it just under two points from its first record close since february, the number to watch, 3,386 were at 3,384 and change right now. All right, for months wall street has been gaming just who joe biden might pick as a runningmate and kind of fretting over you who the markets would react. Lets get to one of the top voices o
Whatsoever theyre pure slight of hand. Do i have more pencil . Stocks are also exactly what we need to help keep this market moving higher like we did today with the dow gaining 290, s p jumping and the nasdaq 2. 13 because apple and tesla gave you fantastic news about what it should be a 4 for 1 and 5 for 1 stock split respectively again, no new value but boy, do people love it theres a reason we have to feed the bull with more nourishing stock blitz and ill tell you why. Years ago individual investors deserted the stock market with the implosion of 2000, 2001 and financial crisis of 2007, 2009 they gave up on the asset class and started tiptoeing back, looked enticing and something would go wrong 2015 mini crashes. But in the past few years, beaten down individual investors, a lot of younger investors intrigued by low to no commissions. Finally started buying stocks again. Despite all the gray beards telling you its impossible to beat the market, despite the supposedly brilliant Mone
Euphoria and in disappointment. And the child is creating monster swings like ive never seen before. The cramer covid19 index on the news the astrazeneca vaccine, the trial didnt produce something that would save us immediate immediately. The stock got hammered and the stocks that benefit from the pandemic surged. The dow advanced nine points and the s p gained 4 but the tech heavy nasdaq filled with cramer c covid names. Amazon went up tesla up 142 shopfy 81. Yeah, i didnt make up thats real thats real money. Or it can be in an x fund. Childish buying behavior but that doesnt mean its wrong there is a lot of money put to work every day based on coronavirus and that made the action binary and the vaccines take so long so it doesnt go by at home stock, go buy amazon like everybody else. What happened today . Consider the news about the as t as tra seven astrazeneca vaccine. Safety phase one it created a positive immune response meriting further study. These larger trials are happening n
Without some sellers coming out of the woodwork which is why the dow shed now tepid nasdaq lost 3. 4 twee have to use this moment to regroup and figure out the markets. I think todays action was pure profit taking. But the sellers had a lot of excuses. I any its worth going over them in detail. Its forearmed rail recovery thesis really moderating. It might be right. Its certainly a possibility if you dont get stimulus. Second, the reopening has clearly been stalled by the outbreaks. Its trying to get the mortality rate substantially lower than the original outbreak in new york some of that is because weve gotten better treating covid as we learn more about it, it is novel if you were on a vent lator in new york, you only had a 20 chance of surviving. Youre now at 70 . You have a host of treatments you didnt have before steroids, remdesivir, blood plasma i dont want to doubt it even if more people survive, complications are horrifying nobody wants to spend weeks in the hospital nobody w