With a new show on cnbc, highlighting Small Businesses and the people behind them across the country power lunch starts right now welcome to power lunch. Im john fortt take a look at whats driving the Market Health care stocks the biggest laggards while industrials and financials lead the way. Check out the bank names all higher tesla, the big winner. At the highs of the session, helping to turn the nasdaq almost positive, close to break even midday. Morgan stanley final upgrading the stock to a buy after a 500 gain this year lets get to bob pisani for more on these markets bob, you got me . Maybe not. Kelly, do you see what is happening with these markets i mean, were showing the sector snapshot here. Weve got s p retail is higher ahead of a Holiday Season we expect to be really strong for ecommerce and weve seen strong results this week from walmart and target yes, we do. By the way, i want to point out well, i want to point out that the dow turned negative only in the past hour or s
Markets sort of whipsawed by the tweets last night from the president trying to figure out exactly where we are how are investors supposed to take this today . Well, you know, i truly do believe, scott, even after the president s tweet yesterday that sent the markets down almost 500 points in a very short period of time, the last hour and 15 minutes of the day, i still belief theres the possibility we have out there, and i brought this up last time i was on with you guys, the idea i thought we would get one done by the weekend or through the weekend obviously with some of the tweets and so forth, but then the president immediately seemed to have flipped back around and be a part of this whole thing. I do think we will see a stimulus at some point in the not too distant future because of that, i think it gives you a great opportunity on that dip yesterday, and obviously youre seeing a pretty nice rise today. We know what the temperature is of the markets and what people want to hear and
Leventhal and liz young. Liz, is this all about stimulus or are were genuinely concerned about these cases were seeing in europe . And, by the way, were doing a lot of cases here every day, too. I dont think its all about stimulus but were in the middle of a really heavyweight news cycle and its not allowing us to look out any further than about 30 days at a time. Ultimately in 30 days time the market is lower than today just on monday the s p was up 5 month to date. That didnt make common sense. Were in the middle of a highly c contentious market season and were still waiting for stimulus in the short term i think we should see a pull back here but in the longer term and even in the next three to four months, some of the fear around a blue wave has been a little overblown and the market has to weigh the two sides. On one side we might see higher tax ees and stronger regulation and on the other side some of the tariffs may be rolled back as an investor, even if we have a pullback in th
Thank you very much. I was just talking about a thawing for the markets. Yes, earlier today, we did hear that of course, stimulus talks would be in play and that we started to hear some Smoke Signals between nancy pelosi and of course, we were talking about trillions of dollars could possibly be pouring into the economy. Shes speaking with treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin. But apparently now Mitch Mcconnell as he just heard is pouring cold water on that, or maybe hot water because we were starting to see some real action here. Now, movement on a spending deal quickly erasing at least the bad taste in some of the mouths of some investors after last nights debate performances by President Trump and joe biden. Fox businesss lou dobbs calling it the worst debate hes ever seen. Lou is about to in join us live. Hes been crafting his unique debate analysis. He will give it to you even before he gives it on his own show tonight. Stay tuned. Hes coming right up. Meanwhile, this latest Silicon
But those hopes may be shortlived. Democrats proposed a new plan but republicans worn a wide gap remains. Mitch mcconnell says the plan contains poison pills. And australias plan to have women hold at least 40 of leadership roles in asx 200 companies. Aberdeen has already signed up. Shery heres a look at how markets are trading. We are seeing u. S. Futures coming online, down. 2 . This, after u. S. Stocks ended the session higher wednesday. Also the last trading day of the quarter for u. S. Stocks. Haidi mentioned talks and hopes for a stimulus package in the u. S. The house has delayed the vote on that bill, trying to get more time to reach an agreement with the white house and treasury secretary. The s p 500s on nine sectors out of 11 higher. Health care and financials led the gains. Showingitive ecodata, u. S. Companies added more than 700,000 jobs in september. The dollar weakness, a third consecutive session of losses. Not to mention before the quarter, just posted its biggest qua