Well, my view is that were coming into this election and were expecting uncertainty. Youre seeing Institutional Investors hedge against a longer period of volatility following this election. Theres clearly an expectation that perhaps tomorrow night we will not have a decision on who is going to be the president of the United States. With that being said, i think, you know, if you look at positioning into the next six to eight weeks, i think its going to be consistent with what were expecting for next year, which is an improvement in economic growth, perhaps an end or an improvement to the covid19 situation and likely stimulus from either the republicans or the democrats. It will look different depending on whos sitting in the white house and if we get a Democratic Senate but for the most part i think that investors are anticipating some stimulus coming out of this the next two to three weeks could be very choppy if we tonight hadon have that decision but i think investors are instituti
Veterans day as we thank those who served us in the past and continue to serve us today im becky quick along with joe kernen along with Andrew Ross Sorkin things are in the green once again. Looks like the dow is indicated up by about 181 points and if we were to open at these levels and hold it through the session, you would be looking at the dow closing at a record high it has been up six out of the last seven sessions. Up another 626 points yesterday. Dow futures are up, s p futures up by about 26 and then the nasdaq, which has been the weaker part over the last several sessions, down more 1 , actually indicated higher today as well. Up by about 130. The bond market today the is closed in ob sservance of veters day. Well talk with David Petraeus later this morning andrew thanks. And an important day in the United States of course. But there is also a holiday going on in china, very different kind of holiday, made up of a shopping a made up shopping holiday i should say called single
Manufacturing index hitting its best level since november 2018 but tech stocks as we mentioned lagging. The nasdaq is in the med as apple, amazon, microsoft all trade lower 59 minutes left in the session. Back off the lows. Coming up on todays show, ever corps founder roger altman on how the outcome of the election could affect your machine. Plus mond leez and paypal report earnings after the bell we will bring you all of those nbc first on cnbc with mond leezs ceo as soon as those numbers come out. We start off the month of november with gains after a down ep to october. Bob pisani is tracking some of the action. It is turning out to be a fairly simple narrative to understand today that is investors are choosing stimulus over stayathome plays. Let me show you what i mean. There is a belief there ises going to be very gig stimulus coming somewhere down the road again. Thats taken hold here look at the s p 500, up. Wait look at the small caps, up almost twice as much generally the bep y
President Trump Holding rallies in four of them today. North carolina, michigan, wisconsin and mustwin pennsylvania Vice President biden making time in pa. A live look in pittsburgh where the former Vice President is about to get some celebrity backup from lady gaga at a drivein rally while biden focuses on pennsylvania. Former president obama is on the ground in georgia and florida. Both states voted for candidate trump in 2016 but the polls now show very tight races. President trump firing up a crowd in travers city, michigan, before heading to wisconsin for another rally. Were covering all the angles in both campaigns ali vitali following the biden camp but lets begin with jeff bennett, hi, jeff. The Trump Campaign counting on an election day surge tomorrow to help fuel his path to reelection the Trump Campaign is drawing some confidence in these large crowds the president has been pulling as he campaigns across the country despite the polls showing him behind people spent seven or
Good thursday morning im Carl Quintanilla with jon fortt and Julia Boorstin is with us for the hour. Stocks in a whipsaw range, down a couple hundred up 100 here. S p 500 up 25 or so after the dows near 1,000 point loss yesterday. Worst day since june on pace for the worst month since march. But then you get a stock like pinterest. Good guide coming up, going against the grain. Julia, remarkable price target increases. Basically doubling what some analysts saw the stock trading to yeah. A lot of positive responses to those numbers there. Really a beat across the board, carl what is so interesting to me is what we saw in this quarter from pinterest is last quarters results were not just a blip but that this is a company that could stand to benefit over the long term from some of these trends were seeing during covid19 there is some surprising, funny Little Things like the fact that pinterest grabbed four million new users due to the fact that people are going to pinterest to find inspir