Getting tangled in a luxury car seat belt. Early today starts right now. Good friday morning. Im phillip mena im frances rivera. The pandemic is front and center in the race for the white house. Last night President Trump defended his Coronavirus Response after joe biden went on the attack in a town hall. And joe biden picking up an endorsement from a member of the Coronavirus Task force. Reporter the biden harris ticket picking up an endorsement from a former aide shes now blasting President Trumps leadership shfs shocking to see the president saying that the virus was a hoax, seeing that everything is okay when we know that its not. The truth is, he doesnt actually care about anyone else but himself. I have no idea who she is she doesnt know me and its just another person that leaves. Reporter the white house digging in against cdc director Robert Redfield whcoronavirus ve widely available for most americans until the middle of next year. While dr. Redfield may have a timeline in min
Next the director of the federal Housing Finance agency testifying on housing and mortgages during the coronavirus pandemic. House Financial Services Committee Members asked him how his agency is handling the rice in foreclosures and forbearances as well as the operations of fannie mae and freddie mac. The hearing runs over three hours. The committee will come to order. Before we begin, i want to remind members of a few matters including some required by the regulations accompanying House Resolution 965, which established a framework for Remote Committee proceedings. First, i would ask all members to keep themselves muted when theyre not being recognized. It will minimize disturbances while members are asking questions of our witnesses. Members are responsible for muting and unmuting themselves. The staff have been instructed not to mute members except when theyre not being recognized and theres background noise. Members are reminded that they may only attend one remote hearing at a ti
There and that continues, at least. No rally 37 bucks. So many different stories to choose from. Lets start with oracle. Those shares are jumping ahead of the bell. Apparently beat out microsoft and walmart in a deal for tiktok and jim and i will go over this and find out what represents a deal nvidia arm holdings. Jensen huang will join us later this and verizon ceo, yeah, why not. Talk to us about that deal, as well verizon buying track phone maybe as much as 7 billion with certain targets met. Jim, no shortage of m a and didnt even get to the gilead deal give me your take on where we stand on the markets before we Start Talking specifically about this tiktok transaction. I can argue i want older people who keep saying the market is too high to cover their ears i could argue that all these deals this morning add up to a market that some people think is too cheap. The amount of money that is going into stocks that i think many people felt were overvalued is astonishing, david. And i t
Installed within a whisker of februarys alltime high. The cash trade is less than one hour away. Your are your headlines. Germany extends its Job Support Team until the end of next year, spains or rules out another National Lockdown as cases rise. Britains vaccine bet, the u. K. Backs a plan for a dnabased maxine. We look at a 50 million rates for a solution. And caveat emptor, u. S. Consumer confidence drops to the lowest level in six years. We will get the latest french figures out this hour. Just under one hour away from the start of cash equity trading in europe. Lets look at how futures are trading. Right now across europe, we are seeing slight green arrows. And i mean slight. You can call dax futures and euro stoxx 50 futures unchanged. In the u. S. , we see most futures contracts falling this morning, although also very slight drops. S p futures are unchanged after another record high yesterday. Nasdaq futures gained about 1 10 of 1 . Anna, what do you see on the gmm . Anna feel
We were talking about it with some of the smaller and midcap names. We saw some of the cruise line stocks, the casinos. The restaurants were on fire. Cracker barrel up 9 , 10 . Dont you like that . Caroline i have not been to a cracker barrel. Romaine exit through the gift store. Taylor this really all comes back to the data that we got this morning. June Industrial Production and july early numbers out of manufacturing all betterthanexpected. Are hearing from dances of the of Richard Bernstein advisors. Thank you for being with us. You take a look at the positive economic numbers. The big outperformance in the russell 2000 today. You said you were a little overweight on u. S. Versus the rest of the world. How do you think about that Going Forward . Smallcap producers getting a big win . Dan i think modest overweight on the u. S. Still makes sense, but i think moving that angry mental dollar outside the u. S. Makes more sense. Clear thatis very the data is Getting Better in the u. S. ,