Nasdaq. Now, here are the negative for stocks today. Dr. Fauci suggesting a lockdown christmas. Why . With all the traveling and celebrating we did over thanksgiving, its expected to produce a new round of infections that will in turn require a new round of restrictions. Well have more on this throughout the show. I get the impression were being treated like children, punished for celebrating our national holiday, but dont get me started. One more item. The biden team takes shape, very similar to the Obama Biden Team that left Washington Four years ago. Neera tanden could go to the budget office, Jared Bernstein expected to become a president ial adviser, he was Vice President bidens chief economist, and back to the future . Sure looks like it, doesnt it . On the show today, the priceline ceo offering deals to get people back to travel. The waffle house ceo, hes pounding the table, keep dining rooms open, hes pleading. And mrs. Fields cookies, their ceo somehow has to replace the reven
Workers of an annual cost of a billion dollars and thats why the stock is down. Down 1. 6 . Tesla, the stock thats going straight up and it has nothing to do with the virus. Tesla, 500 index meaning a lot of Money Managers have to buy the stock so up it goes and by the way the gain of 53 13 makes elon musk the third richest person in the world. Overall, the market is in a mild selloff mode. Dow jones closing and 29950. Its retreating a bit. S p down about 25, nasdaq a slight gain. A big tech is doing okay. We are in creeping lockdown mode and thats the problem for the markets as many states and cities imposing new restrictions as virus cases arise. Wear a mask in north dakota, utah. No Indoor Dining in california, michigan and in philadelphia, no indoor football watching parties. My opinion, thanksgiving next week, confrontation is coming. Who will enforce limits on your thanksgiving celebration . Where does president elect joe biden the stand, lockdown joe, where does he stand . Hes n
The election conversation right now. Speaker pelosi calling the house back into session for urgent action, she says, on the matter. So urgent they are not coming back until later this week. Meanwhile, the market shrugging off any possible chaos from the election. The s p, in fact, could hit an alltime high today. Goldman sachs is raising its forecast on the s p to 3600 by years end. Its also a big week for retail as well. Several Big Companies reporting profits starting with walmart and home depot tomorrow. Lots to talk about. Im Ashley Webster. Yes, stuart is back tomorrow. Varney company is about to begin. Its been run horribly and were going to make it good. Now, what am i supposed to do, let it continue to run badly so if you fix it they say oh, hes tampering with the election. Were not tampering. This is a con game by pelosi and schumer. Look, the post office, theres 25 billion sitting there but they really want 1 trillion to bail out their badly run states. Ashley yeah, that was
For 72 hours before anybody else can try it on. Were there any items you guys decided probably need to put this on hold or were not selling this . We started a fewonths ahead of us in this. There hasnt been any specific merchandise thats been problematic. I think mostly through services, we think in our Beauty Department we do a lot of make overs. Youre telling the customer we cant do that right now. We do say lot of tayloring. Reporter the retail brought in nearly 4 trillion last year employing roughly 52 million americans. Matt shea is president and c. E. O. Of the National Retail federation. The Group Estimates 7 million retail jobs could be lost due to the pandemic. As the Retail Industry goes, so goes the economy. And we need those businesses, large and small, to support those communities and to deliver products and services. But also to create Employment Opportunities for those millions of americans who will be impacted if we dont. Reporter the Retail Industry supports more than
Basket size and looks at the issue of what happens when you are able to open and a lot of your competitors are not right i think Doug Mcmillan has the four stages of, lets say, the opposite of grief and acceptance its more like acceptance and euphoria at the beginning theyre stocking up. By the end theyre buying tvs. He laid out a course that i felt was very, very optimistic. But not that optimistic for anybody who competes with him. When you hear what hes winning in, its every category that the Small Business guys do its the bicycles. They have the good tvs going boutique games owns all of that now he owns video games now. There wasnt anything that i heard that did indicate that you go to walmart instead of a Small Business david, doug was very interested in the fact that you bought your pullup bar there, that you might have gone to a gym, but you took that order from a Small Business guy and you gave it to the king yes, i guess that is true the power tower, it wasnt cheap. But its di