Jimmy li will join me this hour in this exclusive interview. Markets on the upswing to begin futures. Take a look at dow industrials 344 points. Nasdaq up 109. Thats almost 1 . S p higher by 9 points. The dow posting best month since 1987 with gain of almost 12 , other averages also higher by 12 and 11 all this as we await key testimony from federal jay powell and jimmy mnuchin today and unused covid relief funding. Return to high seas, we are taking you on a port on how they are getting ready. Another missing monolith moved. Making a buzz this morning. Mornings with maria live right now. Maria all right, european markets meanwhile look like this as rally is underway on wall street. European markets higher across the board. Ftse up 123 points. Almost 2 , cac quarante up 62 and dax index up 135. British factories reporting fastest growth in 3 years. Purchasing Managers Index rising to 55. 6 in the month of november. In asia overnight green across the board. Chinas manufacturing pmi54. 9
How retailers are shifting Sales Strategies online this Holiday Season then, questions over astrazenecas vaccine trial, what the ceo is saying this morning. And finally what a salesforce acquisition of slack means at this hour. Right back at you in terms of this market action, we have seen it a lot, mike in terms of the dows performance this month there has been some rotation lets start there. Somebody this morning saying aerospace is up 40 . Which frankly i did not necessarily know it has been that strong in that short amount of time does it continue in this rotation or do we have to watch this in last day, day and a half of trading there has been a stutter step in that rotation. We had a couple of these since march. One of them peaked in june now it has been very, very aggressive aerospace is part of the industrials group. Industrials fully kind of got back to precovid levels and the valuations of industrial stocks are well above where they were based on expected earnings eight month
Town halls. Who came out on top . I will ask. Also coming up, pfizer announcing it will hopefully be able to move forward with its vaccine next month as americans try to hold out hope. We have the very latest on the trials and how they impact the investing. Of course, its all about your bottom line. We will talk about that at the bottom of the hour. All that and so much more on making money. Charles all right, folks. The markets bolted out of the gate initially powered by higher than expected retail sales through september. Huge number, crushing wall street. In fact, overall, up 1. 9 . The street was looking for up. 7 . More than 300 more above the 0. 4 in consensus and the control group which goes into the gdp report, up 1. 4 . Department stores, they saw a huge rebound, clothing popped as well. Even the internet, its interesting, though, because it had a more pedestrian move. Meanwhile, restaurants, they picked up really nicely as Grocery Stores seemed to have plateaued. Auto sales w
Gained 160 points, but the nasdaq dipped 3. 4 we still care about the federal reserve. They know nothing just kidding. Or the president s speech tonight at the Republican National convention. But the core question is very simple, do you think we can beat covid19 sometime soon or are you expecting it to plague us into next year that can be difficult to see today, we were obsessed with fed chief jay powells big speech at jackson hole we parsed every word, and it wasnt worth parsing he was a prisoner of the flimsy orthodoxy, but these days he doesnt want to be the reason the economy falls apart. Hes saying forget the foolish ways of the past 40 years of fed chiefs his goal is to help the economy, period, until the pandemic lifts. Its joyful. Hes really smart and good guy thats a stock market like a supermarket. There are some aisles we want to go to when the virus is raging, and theres others we want to go to when its on the ropes. We dont know when well beat this thing ive been telling y
Harvesting. Have you gotten your ballot . Are you going to sign it . If you want, i will sign it. Here it is, get out of here. That is the most honest way of doing it, and that is unfair. Now they are taking all of that enthusiasm that our party has, and we have tremendous enthusiasm. I think we have record enthusiasm. [applause] whiche a base alexa nobody has ever seen including these people, wall street journal, fantastic story this weekend, fantastic cover story on the base, an incredible base. Everyone here will vote. We have a tremendous base. They dont. They have no enthusiasm for their candidate. Bernie, they had more enthusiasm for him. Bernie sanders, he is the greatest loser i have ever seen. This guy can lose and be so happy. [laughter] Hillary Clinton, i want to use nice language. I dont want to use a certain word but it starts with sc they will say he used foul language. Bernie sanders got taken advantage of by Hillary Clinton. Worse. By the democrats this time. Warren,as,