Now at breaking point. [bell ringing] norah major news for the economy. The fed cutting Interest Rates for the first time in four years. What it means for your wallet. Its a huge problem, and its getting worse and worse. Norah and Tonights Eye on america. Mortgage rates are coming down, but what about the Supply Shortage of homes . We look at one solution. Im the first person in my family to be a homeowner. Norah the Cbs Evening news starts now. Good evening. Im norah odonnell, and Thank You for being with us on this wednesday night. Theres a lot of news at home and around the world, and we want to start with the number one issue for americans the economy. The federal reserve made a big move today, cutting rates by half a percentage point. Thats more than expected, and it is the first Rate Cut since the Covid Pandemic in 2020 and the largest since the 2008 financial crisis. So tonight the big question is, what does it mean for your Credit Card bills, your mortgage, your auto loans, and
Consumer in this covid economy and a ventilator boost from medtronic, but sales for other medical devices remain lower medtronics ceo will join us exclusively later this hour. Carl, jims shaking his head already. I dont know speculative market ive ever seen i was going to say, jim, i mean, what a confluence of headlines and then to layer on what you were talking about with becky, this seemingly endless generational bid for stocks in general. You know, look at these plug power did a deal last week, 38 million shares of 22. 25, norwegian did a deal of 40 million shares at 20. 80, carnival did a huge deal at 17. 59, up huge on that, American Airlines did a deal, huge amount of stock, and about price that is a dollar below where this it is trading. Ive never seen anything like it where are the profit takers . Where are they i dont know. This is listen, we have been talking about this new cohort in the market, theyre for real, man. They are real it is not just ev stocks that are ev Companie
Expected treasury secretary nominee janet yellen. Americans expectations for the future even grimmer. With no fresh round of stimulus and covid cases surging, many people are not feeling so optimistic as we head into the holidays. One Positive Side of the economy is housing. Joe it was one of the early strong parts of the economy this summer and continues to show incredible momentum. The speed of Housing Price growth through multiple measures. Month over month, i think that is the fastest pace of home price growth ever. Sincet sequential growth 2013. I dont even know if that is a good thing. If you own a home, i guess that is good. If you are looking to buy a home, not great. Caroline there is always the haves and havenots in any story. Consumer confidence, we know that the u. S. Economy is determined by the strength of our desire to spend here. Consumer confidence was not looking so pretty. We had dana talking about the worry that there is in peoples minds, that they do not see the ma
Manufacturing index hitting its best level since november 2018 but tech stocks as we mentioned lagging. The nasdaq is in the med as apple, amazon, microsoft all trade lower 59 minutes left in the session. Back off the lows. Coming up on todays show, ever corps founder roger altman on how the outcome of the election could affect your machine. Plus mond leez and paypal report earnings after the bell we will bring you all of those nbc first on cnbc with mond leezs ceo as soon as those numbers come out. We start off the month of november with gains after a down ep to october. Bob pisani is tracking some of the action. It is turning out to be a fairly simple narrative to understand today that is investors are choosing stimulus over stayathome plays. Let me show you what i mean. There is a belief there ises going to be very gig stimulus coming somewhere down the road again. Thats taken hold here look at the s p 500, up. Wait look at the small caps, up almost twice as much generally the bep y
Potts and, tracie, the president seems to be all over the place when it comes to getting americans another stimulus check. Where do we stand on it this morning . Reporter so the latest is the president says im ready to sign off on the stimulus check but not the other that comes with it. The more popular parts he wants to take care of the election. The other stuff theyre still trying to negotiate the president wants to push those negotiations until after november 3rd. Stimulus deliberations shut down by a president recovering from covid19. He first tweeted negotiations are off until after the election. The stock market took a nose dive. Clearly a huge shock to the system. Millions are out of work. Reporter in an apparent reversal the president said hes ready to sign off on stimulus checks and billions for airlines and Small Business loans. The white house explaining the big deal is off but the president wants to deal with each issue separately. Still contagious he says hes planning on a