Forces at play. Lets get to kaylee. We are marginally positive on the s p 500. Up. 5 . I want to talk about the best performing stocks. Upex was the best performer, 13 after blowing away expectations in the First Quarter. All of those people shopping, ordering things to their home, boosting revenue by 20 . That stock heading to its best day since 1993. Pfizer getting a nice list after positive results nice lift. Beer and wine sales plus better profitability. I want to talk about technicals for a moment. After the best quarter since 1998 for the s p 500, we start the Third Quarter in a strong position from that standpoint. The index starting july back above that support line. I want to talk about longterm ipo performance for this year. As you mentioned, dun and bradstreet returning to the Public Markets today rallying 17 after raising 1. 72 billion. The other large offerings, warner music and zoom into technology which is up more than 100 . E a nice day for dun and bradstreet. The jobs
Infrastructure bill today. Voting procedures will be in effect. Live coverage here on cspan. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2020] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] the speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. God of us all, thank you for giving us another day. Coronavirus diagnoses and deaths continue to mount throughout our nation. Please bless with healing and comfort those whose lives have been so severely disrupted. Continue to protect and empower those who tend to the sick and those who seek medical solutions to this dangerous pandemic. Unfortunately, there are many other issues pressing upon us. Bless the members of the peoples house whose responsibilities press them to address such seemingly overpowering challenges. Help them and help us all to trust that you have
California and new york become the latest states to backtrack on plans to return to normal as daily virus cases in the u. S. Top 50,000 for the first time. Optimism takes hold of markets again. Asian equities and futures gain after positive vaccine developments and strong u. S. Manufacturing data. The u. K. Offers a home to hong kong citizens after chinas crackdown on prodemocracy protesters. The u. S. House of representatives passes of fresh sanctions bill against china. We are under an hour away from the start of cash equity trading in europe. Lets take a look at futures right now. We see gains across the board after the drops in the cash trade we saw yesterday. A mixed picture in the u. S. But the futures up two thirds of 1 . Dax futures gaining 8 10 of 1 . U. S. Futures are little changed right now. You will see a screen full of green arrows as they are mostly marginally, with the exception of nasdaq futures. It looks like a risk on thursday. What do you see on the dmm . Anna weve
Hong kong are extraordinary, and the Prime Minister says he will take many citizens into the united kingdom. Is that right . Than 3absolutely, more million potentially hong kong citizens are being allowed citizenship in the united kingdom. Extraordinary developments in hong kong. Not a lot of clarity and it is difficult to see where the risks actually lie. Whether it is easy to abuse or difficult to apply. Tom i agree with you, strongly. I think there has been an getting totion of their friday morning, of getting into the weekend and the experience of each and every day. Our team in hong kong is working on that. Working on that 24 7. Now with our continued reports, our first word news, in new york city, here is ritika gupta. Ritika for the first time, u. S. Daily coronavirus cases rose above 50,000. There were increases in big states including texas, florida and california. California halted more reopenings as did new york city. Becoming is increasingly a disease of the young. Todays m
Worlds worst humanitarian crisis as we speak to the un in yemen the cemeteries are overflowing the country bombed with u. K. Weapons from u. K. Warplanes trained by the u. K. s Royal Air Force all the some more coming up in todays going on the ground but 1st once upon a time there was a u. K. Government official who told the truth arguably to the public about a risk to Public Health and i had to resign for it joins me now via skype from. Minutes Edwina Currie and we did thanks for coming on obviously a terrible death toll being announced the highest in the World Capital but everything here is about Dominic Cummings horizontals job advice do you think specially after a tweet from the Civil Service that apparently theres an inquiry into Cummings Johnson theyre all a bit naive in the sense that even after a landslide victory they thought that they could get bricks its done my impression is that everyone in this country has behaved very well would lock down that best. Or at least most peop