7. 44 . As you noted before the yield curve. Steepening and a rally in the financials you mentioned that june 10 was the high that was the day where the markets had their maximum enthusiasm about the strength of the recovery and how fast it would be that was the peak where the come back of value and cyclical sectors. That seems to be the dynamic and the push for which stocks were preferred and the market seven days in a row of records is not to be dismissed guys the intraday record high in this session and well have to see if this continues . Yesterdays high is around 3,500. Coming up, well talk about the abrupt halt to the sports world. We ha we have fed president s and the interim ceo of tiktok. What a story it has been and a soap opera all week long we are learning more in the details in the sale of tiktok after walmart confirmed it has teamed up with microsoft sources tell us that walmart ineshlly wanted to be the lead buyer together with what was alphabet and soft bank coo and ran
Becky is off we have a lot to get to. The s p 500 flirting with the new record high. Closing seven points lower futures pointing to a pull back the dow looks like it is off nasdaq off about nine points showing you stocks in europe also under pressure talking about why this would be. Closer to 2 in britain. And treasury yields look at the note looking at. 696. We are starting to see in covid cases pick back up in europe, which may impact here. Well try to talk to dr. Scott gottlieb about that. Fortnite maker epic games taking on apple and google over what it calls anticompetitive behavior giving users a discount and cutting out the e map services which cuts out the ability to take a 30 cut from sales. New users will not be able to download the game and existing users wont be able to download any updates. Google followed the lead and removed the game from the app store and was also hit with a lawsuit. The feature was not reviewed they did it with the express intent of violating the guide
Was up by better than 5. 7 also watching whats been happening here with the treasury market in the United States. Keeping an eye on those things and youll see that right now at least it looks like a ten year is yielding 0. 689 just below that 0. 7 that we had the last couple of weeks. What was that i dont know. Im trying to explain this. I could make up a bunch of reasons. Because were reopening its the same thing over the weekend. New records were hitting the states where they were talking about more than 10,000 cases a day coming in and here you are watching the markets this morning saying yeah, okay. I was just listening to Worldwide Exchange and by the time he got done talking we should be at 10,000 on the dow look at whats happening and this, that, gaps here that are it can all end badly. At this point, this is really serious when you got this many people obviously that have passed away from the disease remember at one point i said we need a reality check i think that overall, may
Dow indicated up by about 200 points, s p up by about 20 and nasdaq up by about 59. The dow closed above 26,000. S p was actually up about two points ant the nasdaq up about 32 treasury yields about where weve been 10year around 0. 7 . This morning, it is at 0. 715 overnight, twitter adding a warning to a post by President Trump. The tweet is a video of two toddlers running down the side walk that had been altered that said racist baby probably a trump voter. Twitter tagging that as manipulated media with a link that the original was cnbc story about a friendship between two toddlers the continued battle between social media and some of the social Media Companies and President Trump. Facebook removing Trump Campaign ads that used a banned hate group symbol to identify context. It issued a red triangle symbol used by nazis. The campaign used that symbol as it denounced antifa, a group of protesters the president has blamed for vandalism during the protests a lot of back and forth in ter
Weve seen for the dow in a row, the first time thats happened since february this is all happening despite crude oil prices the treasury shows you the tenyear is yielding 0. 627 . There are crude oil prices, generally when weve seen pressure on crude oil, thats put pressure on equities as well thats not the case this morning. Wti is indicated down by over 15 . Thats a decline of 2. 66 to 14. 28 a barrel. Brent crude down by just 3. 3 . Its now trading at 20. 73 andrew meantime, an update on the pandemic and the numbers we bring you every morning about where we stand heres where we do stand global cases now are at 2. 9 million. In perspective, cases in the United States are at 965,000, closing in on 1 million. 288,000 of those cases are from new york state with another 109,000 of them in the neighboring new jersey yesterday new York Governor Andrew Cuomo outlined the states plans to reopen the economy in phases beginning on may 15th now, the first phase involves construction and manufac