Down days for the markets. Right now s p down by about 11, dow by 96, nasdaq off by about 47 we were so close to you dow 30,000 earlier in the week, but that seems to be slipping away a little bit 29,400 and change is where the dow is right now and again, down two days in a row, down again this morning and after yesterdays declines, all three of the major averages are in negative territory for the week a lot of things happening with covid and well talk more about that in a moment, but some of those concerns creeping back into what you see in the markets. If you are looking at the treasury market, the yield on the ten year right now is sitting just at about 0. 852 and the vix also spiking yesterday, probably a little bit on concerns about what happens as we go back into some of the lockdowns. The seesaw of good and bad news on covid. And well give you a bit of good news that happened overnight in the vaccine wars developed by the university of oxford and astrazeneca found to be safe. An
You should have a box on your screen that shows how much time is remaining. Some trouble and ive had senators tell me they just cant find that box or they dont see it. Last hearing one of the senators asked me to give them a reminder. I will do that this time for everybody. So at 30 seconds left on your clock, there will be a tone, a bell ring to remind senators and witnesses that their time is a most expired, then at the end of five minutes, another bell will ring. That way we can all know how the clock is working even though we dont find it on our screens. Today we will receive testimony from the securities and Exchange Commission chairman jay clayton regarding the work and the. Genda of the sec thank you for your appearance before the committee today which is essential to our oversight of the sec. And welcome. You last appeared before this committee in december of last year. The covid19 pandemic hit the United States shortly after that hearing and thesec has taken many important ste
Plan to shake up the fed before he leaves office. Theres a lot going on in the markets. Of course we have to focus on u. S. Politics, Central Banks here. We seem to be inching closer to a deal with u. K. And the eu. That is filtering through an optimism in terms of pound, and the other thing i am watching is bitcoin. Bitcoin is something i do not watch very often. It is something we need to watch out for. It has always been there, but a huge rise above 17,000, and a parabolic ascent, surging past 18,000 for the First Time Since december 2017. The mania and cryptocurrency everyone has said has reached a fever pitch, including fidelity investments. European stocks overall unchanged, slipping just moments ago again on these new virus cases as they continue to mount, and that is worrying investors across the world. To the bloomberg first word news in london with leighann gerrans. Ighann. Leighann with two senators and quarantine, the republicans fell short of the votes needed. Republicans
Forecast. We will bring you that interview with the ecb president. And the ax falls again at goldman. The bank prepares to cut jobs for the second time in three months as the focus returned cost cutting. Very good morning, everybody. Welcome to the program. Lots of breaking news to get to. Lets have a look at some of these numbers coming through. Have the numbers coming through from the shipping business which transports 1 5 of the worlds containers so really interesting insight into the way the Global Economy is spinning and the shipping industry in particular. We are getting the numbers through. We already heard from them last night about how they were upgrading their guidance, raising their fullyear guidance so that already sets a positive tone. They said they will initiate a new Share Buyback around 10 billion danish krone. That program will run for 15 months. E will be speaking to the ceo that is the conversation at 7 30 u. K. Time, so in around 25 minutes time. Let me get to some
Materials, industrials hitting new intradays. The small caps doing well. The russell 2,000 at the far right side of your screen. Jim, i want to know where you think we are now you have great vaccine news. Its consistently great. Were not that far from 30,000 on either day we have headwind tailwind. Each day you can make a tailwind case i can make a tailwind case that you have to buy the airlines right now. This norwegian cruise deal is done, you want to buy that group. I can make a case that you have to buy the stay at homes, the deep cyclicals, a case for the technology stocks. This is what weve looked for. Thats why i came in gunning for the armageddonists theres a fabulous piece out that covid did not rescue the armageddonists from underperformance and purgatory its time to call them out im asking all the panelists to call out the people who said it was the end of the world call them out. Well, weve gotten great vaccine news it sounds like to me youre saying you can still buy the cr