Shares of pharmacy giants are under pressure after amazon said it was jumping into the Prescription Drug business bowe is off a little pour than 100 points nasdaq and s p clinging on the gains. Coming on todays show, retail earnings season full swing. Shares of coles are higher after topping eps estimates this morning. We will talk with the ceo. Plus, as the u. S. Is seth coronavirus records we will talk with dr. Eric gooseby. All of that still to come. First lets focus on the big stories today. Mike santoli is tracking the market phil lebeau has more on teslas spree into the s p 500 and we will talk about the pharmacy space and amendss move into it. Mike santoli lets start with you. It was the morning was off the lows a mild pullback. Market seemed like it needed to cool off and rest for a day. Right now riding the upper rail here we close at a record yesterday remember that. Above 3600 working below week ago mondays high hard to tell whether thats going the matter or not. Thats about
Go from tech giants to taxi giants air travel slowly comes back the its a administrator will be here and the billionaire tilman. Hell tell us how the economy could get worse before it gets better welcome, everybody power lunch starts right now money cant coming out of the bond market. Those yields remaining pretty low. Rick has the bond picture. Well go to him on that. Bob has more on this market. The important thing is were at new highs intraday bp well see if we close there. We have our old Friend Technology stocks pushing the market forward tech, Consumer Discretionary but thats largely because of amazon and maybe sochl the ame of the s people the s p is going to have a hard time going down big. Kohls down. Gap down you see these declines this is not about the second quarter. This is about comments being made about whats going on in the third quarter. Look at walmart ceo. He said consumers are spending money but not at the pace they were in the middle of the quarter. Its off to a sl
Remodeling bigtime during the lockdown. Profits went straight up, sales straight up. Those tools, wallboard and paint, just ran off the shelves. These two companies are economic indicators. They are doing well. The economy apparently recovering nicely. As for the overall market, well, the dow, thats close to the 28,000 level this morning, up about 40 points at the opening bell. The s p, thats just a couple of points away from an alltime high. The nasdaq, already there. By the way, apple is only, what, 10 shy of a 2 trillion valuation. All right. Lets get to it. The Virtual Convention. If it wasnt clear before, it should be clear now. This is Bernie Sanders Democrat Party. He laid out a far left platform and its been adopted by joe biden and kamala harris. Socialists wrote the party platform. Im calling it the Biden Harris Sanders ticket. Its the most progressive t campaign of any Political Party in recent history. Tonight, alexandria ocasiocortez will be a featured speaker. We heard fr
President. His support among independents gone straight up despite the intense opposition of the media and the democrats. More positives. At the president ial town hall, mr. Trump suggested a vaccine is possible by december. Dr. Fauci says january, if everything goes well. That would be a major step towards a fullscale return to work. However, the president also said he could impose fresh tariffs on china. He called that the ultimate punishment. We should point out that there is a new report this morning suggesting china deliberately manipulated the virus for its own advantage. Lets get to the market. It will be opening lower this morning. In part because of the threat of tariffs. Look at the dow, down maybe 200 points. Nasdaq down about 55. S p down about 20. And then theres Warren Buffett. Big news there. He has sold all his Airline Stocks, all of them. He no longer has any money in that industry. However, he did lay out a big positive. He said this economy will come back, quote, not
President s infamous phone call were live with the latest. Breaking overnight, a saudi court finds eight people guilty in the killing of Washington Post journalist jamal khashoggi. Five of them sentenced to death. So did the u. S. Play any role in helping bring them to justice. All that plus murder mystery, more questions in the killing of that texas mother and the kidnapping of her baby as the victims friend remains in jail. Cruise ship collision, new details on what caused those Carnival Cruise liners to slam into each other injuring passengers both ships returning to u. S. Ports overnight. And triumphant return, eddie murphy delivers huge ratings in his snl return after 35 long years. The classic characters he brought back and the one person who wasnt thrilled about being the target of eddies jokes. Today, monday, december 23rd, 2019 from nbc news, this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And welcome to today on this monday morning,