We start with an Epic Battle Raging On Wall Street that has seen small time Amateur Investors take on the titans of the hedge fund industry. Its all centred around this company the struggling us computer Game Retailer gamestop. It shares have soared at much as 1700 after a group of private investors used online forums to drive up their price. And that has raised serious questions about how Financial Markets operate in the era of social media, as paul hawkins reports. This is a story of david versus goliath, of the amateur online investor beating the Big Traditional Wall Street traders. At the centre of it, gamestop, a struggling American Retailer Selling dvds and video games. A number of the Wall Street Traders picked up on its problems and bet money that its share price would fall, known in the business as shorting a stock. Only for this particular stock, Amateur Investors swapping tips on the social media site reddit saw it as an opportunity. They bought shares, which actually drove
Stock hitting what . An alltime high ahead of its investor day next week, despite all the obstacles that face its parks and movie businesses weve got those details. Look at disney run and later the director of National Intelligence says china is the greatest threat to the United States and wall street may be getting stuff in the middle of the war of words we will explain as power lunch begins right now thank you, ty. Record highs across the board including the russell small cap two 2000 lets go to dom chu. The composite index is still up on the yeartodate basis offer the last few months, the gap or difference between the dow and s p has stayed relatively constant. Still, though, the s p up 14, the dow up 5 to 6 on that yeartodate basis looking at other trends in the markets today, look at shares of caterpillar. One of the bigbigg egebiggest ie biggest contributor. Caterpillar shares up 4. 5 we put a gold star up there as well one of the other things that were watching right now is what
On a covered relief package, is congress truly ready to drop the politics and throw the financial lifeline to millions of americans, Peter Navarro is about to join me live from the white house the president s top trade advisor helplessly demanding more from billions and coronavirus aid to form what he calls a physical bridge between the terrifying covid spike were seen today and widespread vaccine distribution, why hes breaking with cop senators who are resisting the relief package. How do salesforce is 28 billion acquisition of work from home darling slack really go down, slack cofounder and ceo Stuart Butterfield who grew up in a cabin with no Running Water in canada. What a story, he will take us inside the room to tell us how he got a price for his work from anywhere in prior that has some on wall street raising eyebrows but not salesforce. We begin with the fox business alert, could we be days away from a covid relief bill, House Speaker nancy pelosi holding a News Conference a co
Open, but the dow currently having its best monthly gain since january of 1987. That ev revolution, it is rolling on in the stock market tesla tops half a trillion dollars in market value for the first time shares of nikola sinking this morning. Covid surge, cases and hospitalizations at record levels why experts fear thanksgiving could be a socalled accelerator event. Lets get your take on where you think sentiment is now i saw you writing yesterday about the fear and greed, pointing more to the greed. People are there is a belief phase in this rally that has probably started this comeback from march, eight months ago, ishas fed on disbelief. Between the seasonal forces being strong and the clearance toward this post covid moment with the vaccines, it all did come together. Also, though, with the grab for cyclicals, laggards, anything that moves fast, anything that seems like it was really dented up by this whole phase, now, sentiment, it is not a moment in time people say, all too bu
But also goes to deminion and other thicks. I would like to file one nice beautiful lawsuit, talks about this and many other things with tremendous proof. We have affidavits, we have hundreds and ups of affidavits. Maria we will be talking about this all morning. Hear from georgia congressman doug collins and carter payment who filed a lawsuit against fbi on friday and scott terry all coming up this morning. Markets pointing to a down day on the final day of trading day for november. The dow industrials showing a decline of 160 points. We are wrapping up a great month for markets in the month of november. Sea of green. Dow industrials up 1 3 . Retailers to give you the best deals of Holiday Shopping season. Everything that you need to know coming up. Plus legends of rock for a price, items from the worlds greatest musicians going up for auction. We have a look at them. Mornings with maria is right now. Maria check european markets this morning. Dax index in germany higher by 47, third