Tonight. The reidout has been nominated for outstanding breaking news. Well deserved. Congratulations to joy and the team. Tonight, i m going to be with you for a very special edition of all in two hours. We have an exclusive vp kamala harris. Stephanie ruhle sat down with the vice president in pittsburgh, pennsylvania, for an indepth conversation about the economy. Today vice president harris made her economic pitch to voters ahead of election day also in pittsburgh. I intend to chart a new way forward. And grow america s middle class. Donald trump intends to take america backwards. For donald trump, our economy works best if it works for those who own the big skyscrapers, not those who actually build them. Not those who wire them. Not those who mop the floors. Vice president said more than 100 million americans will get a middle class tax break and vowed to lower housing costs. A sharp contrast to donald trump whose economic policies consist of new tariffs on all imported goods, tax
Take a hit. The covid consumer, walmart, home depot and kohls among retailers reporting earnings today. Walmart says ecommerce sales up 79 . And elon musks billions, tesla getting a spot in the s p 500. It is among the highest valued companies to ever enter the benchmark index and musk is on top to become number three, that is the third richest person in the world. Indeed, guys. Well start with the retail picture this morning, jim, youve been vocal as to the investor response on home depot and walmart. I guess thats related to the news out of amazon. Look, by the way, those stocks do tend to run up in the quarter and sell off thats nothing new a more aggressive amazon is always something we have to Pay Attention to i remember when amazon bought pill packs, the drug stores got killed i also point out that walmarts online david, thats not going to go away you can argue someone is going to argue thats the peak i would argue that amazon and walmart have taken so much share in this country,
To get things started off. The dow is down by 17 points but the s p and the nasdaq is there. Nasdaq is indicated up by 47 points this is after a strong month of july for all three of the averages the dow up by 2. 4 for the month. The s p saw its best july by ten years. It was up by 5. 5 . Thats nothing compared to the nasdaq today is the first trade ding d of august. Thats out at 10 00 a. M. Eastern time today also take a look at treasury yields you did see yields under extreme pressure or ten year closing at its lowest level since all the way back to march 9th. Right now it is a little bit higher 0. 546 stimulus talks in congress. Trump administrations officials and House Speaker nancy pelosi are set to resume negotiations today on their competing visions of a bill. The Sticking Point continues to be a boost set at 600 per week in march that lapsed on friday he and Speaker Pelosi are on the same page about the need of direct Cash Payments of 1,200 to most americans. Andrew. And big co
U. S. Trade representative Robert Lighthizer is making his second appearance on capitol hill today. This morning, he was before a House Committee and was answering questions from the Senate Finance committee on President Trumps trade policy. Ourselves in future crisis, but we have to find a Smart Solution that accepts the realities that trade is fundamental to our survival and prosperity. In the long term, trade is a key part of the solution because it promotes freedom. It provides customers for our best in the class Agricultural Products. It promotes entrepreneurship and independence. And particularly trade empowers Small Businesses that are the backbone of our communities. In fact, 97 of the u. S. Exporters are Small Businesses. A good start to empowering people and fixing our economy is making sure as many people as possible have the option of being their own boss. We owe it to them and their communities to press for even more opportunities. This is especially true because our tradi
Its nearly 4 s p above 2500 thats a loss of 3. 5 . Thats the same loss for the nasdaq theres the russell 2000 which has been a big winner down by more than 4 i want to begin with breaking news regarding General Motors. A significant story is developing as we are learning that new york deaths have topped 500 and the tremendous need that the governor of the state of new york has said remains four ventilators. The president tweeting just moments ago about General Motors a couple of tweets i want to give you some of my own reporting. He says, quote, as usual with this General Motors things never seem to work out they said they were going to give us 40,000 much needed ventilators. Now they are saying it will only be 6,000 in late april they want top dollar always a mess with mary b. Thats mary barr invoke p that means the defense production act he goes onto say General Motors Must Immediately open their stupid ll lly abandoned plant io and start making vent lae iningw ford get going on vent