Johnson johnson better than expected, it doesnt matter. Taiwan semi last night fantastic, doesnt matter. Apple price bump doesnt matter. When you get like that that says, let the sellers get their job done, there is some agenda here, theyre obviously not caring about news, not reacting to better retail sales or jobless claims down again. Every time that happens theres usually a great trend up someone is a seller. There is big money that wants out right now, i think a lot of people are confused about whats going on in nasdaq, amazon down 10 since the week began consequently there is no bid underneath no matter what the companies say. That will change probably midday i think its an okay day all right well see, jim obviously we talk about the market looking forward through some of the news flow and, you know, you take some of the Bank Commentary about second half growth versus first half,its not nearly as constructive and we will see whether gorman backs up what citi and wells and jpmorga
Resee recovery in retail sales dow down 271 session lows 59 minutes left of trade the nasdaq has been the underperformer is actually off its lows were kind of moving around, as we speak, in the final hour. All the major indexes are lows ahead on todays show, well speak to mike sievert. Well get an upgraciointergrac sprint and the president of the university of arizona will outline his plan for the fall semester as cases and hospitalizations rise in that state. Well focus on the big stories were watching at this hour Steve Liesman with details on todays jobless claims will is digging into Big Bank Earnings and meg has details on johnson and johnsons results. But, steve, start us off with the jobs picture. You know, were getting two different stories from the jobless claims one of improvement and one where the improvement has kind of flat lined. Well take a look at the numbers. Claiming coming in at 1. 3 million. Above expectations dow just 10,000 on the weekly jobless claims thats kind
Good morning welcome to squawk box. Im becky quick with joe kernen and Andrew Ross Sorkin weve been on a bit of a winning streak up four days in a row. Yesterday the dow was up this morning, you are seeing a little pull back dow down s p down and nasdaq off by 172 yesterday, Goldman Sachs helped. Good news from moderna godm goldman came out with much better numbers than anticipated. Also looking at the trezy yield. The 10year is sitting about 0. 622 good morning. As joe mentioned earlier the twitter shares are lower after the company showed dozens of users were part of a twitter hack targeting some employees who had access to systems and tools. Among those hacked joe biden, jeff bezos, bill gates, elon musk all telling users to send massive amounts of bit koip to an address they are diagnosing the problem and will share everything once the picture becomes more clear if they got in through employees with tools and access to accounts that raises questions about security procedures at tho
Last 400 days is we are finally on dollar support. We will talk about this through the show. On dxy, the blended dollar index , with strong euro contribution, we are really on the support of a signal to a weaker dollar. Jonathan it is the trait everyone would hope would develop it is the trade everyone was hoping would develop. We see that on the screen this morning. It is a tugofwar between pretty negative corporate guidance and the vaccine hopes that started yesterday evening. Lisa i would argue that the vaccine hopes are very much in the front of peoples mind this morning. The question of whether moderna can jack up production, as well as the Regulatory Approval they need to get this out and distributed. Meanwhile, more guidance from the big banks. Goldman reporting in about a half hours time. At 2 00 p. M. , the fed releases their july beige book. Some indication of how businesses are changing their expectations based on the resurgence in virus cases. Also today, opecplus meeting t
And military mystery. The family of a young soldier missing from ft. Hood will tell us why they think its connected to her complaints about being sexually harassed. First, heres todays eye opener. Its your world in 90 seconds. This was not a smart policy to rush reopening. We must hit pause. Next week, our numbers will be worse. The World Health Organization warning this pandemic is not even close to being over. More states rolling back reopenings. What you are seeing in other states should frighten us. It frightens me. The white house is insisting President Trump was never briefed on reports of a russian plot to target americans in afghanistan. Theres something this sensitive was out there. John roberts voting to strike down a controversial louisiana abortion law. He flipflopped. He flipflopped like a banked catfish. Carl reiner died in his Beverly Hills home last night. Im thankful that ive lived the kind of life that allows me to have a family like that and an evening like this. The