60,000 new cases in a single day for the first time oil is holding 40, gold topping 1800 for the First Time Since 2011 david, it was a quiet calendar already going into this week, but it does seem like today in terms of looking for inputs traders are really on their own this morning they are. I mean, you know, the only calendar, carl, that really seems to be getting busy and staying busy is the ipo calendar which we should mention as well just because it is some sort of reflection of demand in certain parts of this market the latest of course Rocket Mortgage, thats going to be an enormous ipo, we can talk a bit about that later if you want other than that not that much to key off of clearly, mike, this is not a market that seems to be particularly concerned in terms of keying off of the rising cases of covid that were seeing around the country and the reversal of reopenings, the slowdown in business, certainly in travel, leisure, restaurants, that is resulting from the rising caseload.
Throughout the show. Take a look at tesla up 6 premarket, its going to bust through another alltime high at the open, look at that up to 1277, also a story about red sucking shorts, thats what you call a tease, we will explain, also President Trump tweeting about the markets moments ago saying if you want your 401k and stocks which are getting close to an alltime high, nasdaq already there to disappear, vote for the radical left, donothing democrats and corrupt joe biden, massive tax hikes will make you very poor fast. That is the president tweeting this morning. Speaking of the election, we are for mental weight and joe biden says hes going to transform nation. What does he mean by that, youll guess pretty good as good as ours, he gave no details. Also President Trump will be holding a rally once again this time in New Hampshire this coming saturday and this time it is outdoors, the Trump Campaign is coming up on that shortly and as always a big three hours ahead im Ashley Webster Int
The nasdaq hitting a new record high and amazon shares crossing 3,000 bucks a piece for the first time ever. Shannon, well start with you on this one what the you make of the rally is it legit and why is it happening now given everything we know negatively about the coronavirus virus . Were just continuing to see investors look at the sentiment thats coming out of the surveys and anticipating this continued v shape recovery we have seen the v shape recovery in the stocks already were anticipating a v shape recovery in the economy. I think that really rests on the fact that despite the fact were seeing this pick up in cases, theres not a widespread expectation that we go back to the lockdown that we saw in march and april. They really anchor themselves to the most recent period which was a very difficult period from an economic standpoint. Investors are continuing to look forward. They are continuing to see the Second Quarter being the earnings trough from this particular recession look
Continues to rise significantly in terms of the virus and we talked a lot and well hear from meg again and meg has been following it so closely for us and the market only seems to go up as the cases go up. That is leaving some people scratching their heads and others view it as were going to get to the other side and a view of what the economy will look like and then you come back to the fed, carl, which seems to be the fuel that everybody sort of points to as the key fuel, i should say, for this market. Yeah. Morgan, lots of notes over the long weekend and we hope everybody did have a great, long weekend. More debt and liquidity and asset reflation. That was literally the title of the jpmorgan note on friday. Yeah, for all those folks that were basically still stuck at home or not traveling and getting on airplanes, lots to digest in terms of market commentary over the weekend. I would add to the fed, i would add the expectations that do seem to be baked in around what phase four fisc
Record highs that has the nasdaq setting a record as well better than expected home sales in the u. S strong activity numbers out of europe as well uk, australia to name but a few. Were up, sarah, nearly 1 on the s p 500. Ahead on todays show, a big first on cnbc interview with howard marks fresh off his latest memo. He said the odds are not in investors favor and whether he sees any opportunities right now in the market plushgs connecticut has certainly seen an encouraging dropoff in coronavirus numbers of late. Well ask governor lamont about his advice for states like florida, arizona and texas that are seeing their cases swell and how hes trying to keep those cases out of his state lets focus in on the big stories were watching mike santoli tracking todays rally. Meg terrell has the highlights from Anthony Faucis congressional testimony and phil lebeau is covering another volatile session with the Airlines Start us off with the Broader Market on the three month anniversary of the ma