I think you need about 25 points to get back to the previous record that was set, were about 25. 68 points below it. The s p futures indicated up by 21 s p has now been on a sevenday winning streak, and youre looking at the longest winning streak its seen since april of 2019 nasdaq was down yesterday, but it is indicated up by close to 60 points this morning the dow was up by over 350 points yesterday to kick off the week treasury market this morning, right now youre looking at the tenyear yielding right about where it has been. 0. 599 that yields a little higher than we have been sitting. Brian, this news about putin and this potential vaccine is huge, but i think we do need to take it with a grain of salt. Youve been all over this already this morning. Well, trying to make sense of it, becky. Good morning as well you have what you think are the markets sort of key points, right . Trillions of dollars in stimulus, potential for payroll tax cuts, all the market themes weve been talking
Action from jay powell call it a pandemic breakthrough, the fda clears a near instant testing kit that could change the tide in washington, d. C. , lawmakers looking to make a deal over a skinny stimulus package. It is thursday, august 27, 2020 you are watching Worldwide Exchange on cnbc. Top of the morning to you. Im Brian Chu Dominic chu in Brian Sullivan this morning. S p lower by about two points, the nasdaq off by about six. Monitor day for the nasdaq yesterday. Coming off fresh alltime highs. The dow did end higher yesterday and is now less than 1 away from the break even level for 2020 that is 28,539 digging deeper, it is not just the big names keeping the rally alive. Looking at the semiconductors, both of those coming off intraday alltime highs. Up more than 2 this week alone. Cloud computing getting a boost. Three etfs tracking the space. Coming off the fresh high with a huge move, a massive move. Salesforce goes into the dow next week. That stock higher by 26 for its second
S p 500 few you ares up 15 the nasdaq with a gain of about 1. 7 all because of what is happening with four big horseman check out shares of apple, facebook, alphabet and amazon. They went before congress two days ago and came out with earnings that knocked it out of the park on every one of those counts three of the four are trading sharply higher apple up 6. 1 , facebook up 5. 8 , amazon up 5. 4 alphabet did beat earnings estimate did post the first revenue decline and is down 0. 67 . More on those in a second. Lets kick it over to wi will everyone wilford. Good to be back extraordinary numbers, as you said well discuss those in a moment. First check out this mornings agenda as we are closing out the week well bring you results from cat, chevron, exxon and merck. Kol gate, underarmor and others. The late day of july lets check out the market score card owl three major indices on track for the fourth straight gains. Nasdaq the big oner up 18 month to date up 5. 2 . This past week, back
After an unexpected spike in jobless claims. New fears that the u. S. Economy will not recover any time soon. Amazon, alphabet all dropping more than 3 . Microsoft falling on the back of its Earnings Results after reporting a slowdown in the cloud and even tesla dropping, despite beating earnings. For more on the selloff, i want to bring in Abigail Doolittle who has been covering the back and forth. Investors see reacting to the bad news, which honestly we see week after week. What drove the pessimism today . Reporter its funny you should say that because we finally have something to talk about. Instead of all these choppy little intraday volatility days, it has finally translated into closing volatility. The s p 500 down more than 1 , its worst day in about a month. The nasdaq 100 down more than 2. 5 . Its worst day in almost two months. Index chip index also lower. And behind it, all those mega cap numbers. Even though the selloff hit midday, that was the first rise or move in the wr
Doesnt hurt that they beat on the top and bottom lines, earnings per share at 86 cents versus 71, but the real big deal here was the settlement with hauwai is this the end of qualcomms Business Model they faced problems with apple refusing to pay them telling them that their suppliers refused to pay qualcomm. I will, some people say i hate to say i told you so no one hates to say that i did tell you so, qualcomm is really good at this legal stuff. They have been fighting the legal battles throughout their career tom brady, Fourth Quarter in the super bowl, you cant count them out. That is why the stock is up catching a lot of people by surprise, julia. That is right, just looking at the opportunities they see in 5g as that continues to roll out and the idea that maybe the regulatory hurdles are behind them they have the ftc case they won that is under appeal, but really notable looking at those two Business Models looking at the sale of the chips and the licensing. Yeah, the pressure t