Results for its vaccine, phase one trial in humans. Weve got a lot more on this coming up in just a moment. But this is a very positive development. When this was announced the stock rally that had already been in place gained a lot more ground. One more positive indicator for you. Thats the price of oil. We are back to 32 a barrel. We are driving again, we are emerging from a lockdown, demand for gas and oil up and up goes the price. Key indicator. Now, look at this weekend. All across the country, people were out and about, enjoying the weather and enjoying their freedom, too. There has been some relaxation of lockdown rules in 49 states. Connecticuts the lone holdout. They open up in just a few days. Bottom line, the economy is opening up and in most places, people feel willing to shop, eat out and socialize. Its hard to see how the authorities can reverse course and clamp down all over again. The genie is out of the bottle and the Moderna Vaccine news is the icing on the i can kcak
That macro picture. Consumer prices down. Retail sales flat. Jamie dimon calls on the u. S. To get its fiscal house in order. Plus the intensifying a. I. Race. Google is rolling out its most powerful a. I. Assistant yet. And a Bipartisan Senate group out with a new report on how best to regulate the technology. Sara eisen is live from jerusalem, speaking oneonone with israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Lets get to the cpi print. As we pointed out, 3. 6 core year on year, jim. More than half is gasoline and shelter. Its only going to get better. Gasoline, obviously, oils come down. Iea with some reports saying its not shouldnt even be at this level. Food, were starting to see some things in food that indicate that things are getting better. I mean, for instance, one of the things they said that was bad was cereal, but as we know, david, i told you that kelloggs says theres too much cereal. Were going to see buy one, get one. The things that people are being hurt by, except for s
Amazons Ceo Jeff Bezos dismisses a New York Times article outlining poor working conditions, saying claim did not represent the company he leads. On our radar, at t helps spy for internet traffic for years. Youll get that full story in a couple of minutes. And the fourth is the disney ceo confirming the Star Wars Franchise is getting its own theme land in the largest expansion ever at disney parks. And you are watching Worldwide Exchange on this monday morning. Were indicating a slightly higher open with the dow up 2. 6 points. Nasdaq up about 8 and the s p 500 seeing a marginal gain. Some of the best performing sectors last week, interestingly enough, are the worst performing sectors yeartodate. Kweer talking about materials and industrials gaining about 1 . A lot of focus will be on the economic data. We get a report on employment and manufacturing data will be a part of the story. In the meantime, we see the global 300 index basically flat on the day. A lot of investors reacting to
Setting up for pretty nasty open. At least if youre long at this point. Look at the tenyear. Thats become an important oh, its always important but its become perhaps important again to whats going on in terms of trading and the view of the overall equity markets rising to twoyear highs after weekly jobless claims fell to levels not seen since october of 07. Yes that is a good thing. In fact, you could argue thats even a good thing, too. Lets get to the road map. It starts with the major indices in the red. Investors wondering whether we were in taper territory as two dow components red on the market. One is walmart. Shares rolling back today after the retail giant cuts the fullyear forecast citing tightened Consumer Spending and payroll tax increase. Another dow component deep in the red today as well is going to be cisco. Company cutting 4,000 jobs despite an increase in profits that is sending the stock down sharply in premarket trading. And organic food maker annie is up 40 out per