I see london, i see france, i see you in your underpants i always hated that diddy when i was a kid but you know what . It perfectly describes todays actions. Sellers caught with their pants down tipping just. 15 . Yep, this morning investors saw london and they saw france, not to mention milan and madrid. Specifically the europeans getting hammered as covid back on the continent they figured wed import those losses from europe so they furiously sold their stocks to get out ahead of the weakness. Many of these jokers probably trading in their pajamas the feet with the dr. Dentons. Panic pretenders here dumped shares at a 10 1 ratio, meaning there were 10 shares for sale or down for every 1 share someone was trying to buy. Now the late, great mark haines, one of cnbcs finest, always used that 10 1 ratio to call bottoms, including the generational bottom that he nailed in march of 2009. When the ratio sellers to buyers is 10 1 hed say you have to hold your nose and buy because that kind
You have that poll in the wall stre street journal and maybe the stock market considering maybe we wont have a contested lebs if the polling tells you anything accurate about where this race truly is what do you think investors should be taking from this move . I think thats correct. I think the two primary drivers for the higher market today are certainly the fiscal spending and what it equates to in the near term and the dynamic in the market for a trade and investors to extap larapolate is a rise i yields were finally seeing a welcome rise in yields and that is certainly on the belief of both of those actions i mentioned previously you have that to consider and how you want to trade that it has a direct impact perhaps on growth versus value, the polling on the upcoming election and were thinking about the president s health and what all of this means for the Campaign Going forward. So youve got a number of things in there. Lets start with yields. Rates being 0. 74 as a new high or r
We will begin, though, this morning with of course stocks, futures indicate an additional testing of that 3220 level on the s p. Were also talking about the possibility, however remote it might seem, of a relief package coming out of congress,given some conversation, jim, between secretary mnuchin and Speaker Pelosi do you think there is a chance i know that they both care passionately about Small Business if you look at the testimony yesterday by secretary mnuchin, he mentioned restaurants a couple of times. Thats where the yelp numbers that we get, yelp yikes is our vc, where the real damage s youre starting to talk about 50 of the bars and nightlife being closed in this country, thats way too big and i think that the secretary is really alluding to that david, do i think there will be a deal i think there is a sense that both sides feel a deal is bad for them, in other words, if they give if theres a stalemate, they will somehow do better at the election i dont think thats true, but
Jason snipe is here as well. Lets get a check on the markets. Stocks are still deep in the red. The nasdaq, the biggest losers by far today on pace for its worst day since june 11th. The s p on pace for its worst day since june big tech names like apple, microsoft, facebook. There you see the index and some of the names amazon, alphabet they are the ones that are dragging the markets lower look at apple. Down nearly 6 microsoft, 5 . Facebook, 5 amazon almost 5 and alphabet 4 whats going up . Only the bond, the tenyear note at. 62 . Lets kick it around a bit is this the beginning of something bad or maybe not i dont think it is when i was on the show last week, i said, hey, all of us on the show today are greedy. Greed has a way of biting you at some point and you have to decide is it a flesh wound or is it drawing real blood. I think its more of a flesh wound. Its taking the weak handed traders buying things like zoom and now selling. That lets others as well were saying amazon will be
It feels like a long week but second week of september. European stocks are prep flat. We had a mixed week overall. There have been concerns over evaluations in some pockets of the market, global and technology stuff and then the other big question is what happens to euro . Christine lagarde delivered relatively mild comments on the currency surge. And headed for the biggest weekly drop since march. Lets get to bloomberg first word. Europe has overtaken the u. S. In terms of coronavirus infections. The e. U. , norway, iceland and lichtenstein reported more than 27,000 cases on wednesday compared to 26,000 in the u. S. The region has remerged as a global hot spot after bringing the pandemic under control earlier in the year. The odds of another round of u. S. Fiscal stimulus has dropped. Senators dropped a republican proposal for slimmed down support in the region of 500 billion to 700 billion dollars. Temperatures are looking for temperatures are looking or 2. 2 trillion. The u. K. Eco