The s p up 11 the dow up nearly 13 on pace for its best month since january of 1987. The nasdaq up about 12 . Check out the small caps because the russell 2,000 is up almost 21 in november alone. Thats the stock world but, melissa, our other favorite topic, bitcoin thats been moving a lot, too. Maybe joes favorite topic, at least bitcoin after recently hitting 16,000 were seeing it recoop some of those losses in recent days its up by almost 2 today, above 18,000, 18,540 guggenheim is reserving right for 5. 3 billion Macro Opportunities Fund to invest up to 10 in the Gray Scale Bitcoin Trust which is only invested in bitcoin and of course this follows many large investors including stanley drunken miller voiced support for this krip cro currency, joe. Yes, it has been getting traction interesting recent trading and good to see you, melissa and andrew its tough to come back from vacation, but having you here, melissa, i dont know, it just makes me feel very, very comfortable, happy my he
Ive taken this quarantine times to update a couple of bathrooms. Not. Light bulbs i have always wanted to be handy. These numbers are expected to be insane i did change a couple of light bulbs. They are all different so finding the right one for all the Different Things my wife has, it is not easy. I have changed a couple of them but thats about it. Rising to the challenge, im sure before we get those numbers from home depot, lets start with the overall markets. The s p 500 finished the session just shy of the high just shy, we are talking 4. 15 points away from the record it is sitting at at this point. 3,386. 15 is where it closed. The record from february is 3,393. 52 the record close of 2020 up another 1 to 11,129. Looking at record futures. Two dow components reporting home depot and walmart big numbers expected from both of those dow futures up by 64, nasdaq up by 40 and s p up by 7. Dow component reported 4. 02 a share. Consensus was 3. 71. I noted revenue gain was over 23 . Com
Weve seen for the dow in a row, the first time thats happened since february this is all happening despite crude oil prices the treasury shows you the tenyear is yielding 0. 627 . There are crude oil prices, generally when weve seen pressure on crude oil, thats put pressure on equities as well thats not the case this morning. Wti is indicated down by over 15 . Thats a decline of 2. 66 to 14. 28 a barrel. Brent crude down by just 3. 3 . Its now trading at 20. 73 andrew meantime, an update on the pandemic and the numbers we bring you every morning about where we stand heres where we do stand global cases now are at 2. 9 million. In perspective, cases in the United States are at 965,000, closing in on 1 million. 288,000 of those cases are from new york state with another 109,000 of them in the neighboring new jersey yesterday new York Governor Andrew Cuomo outlined the states plans to reopen the economy in phases beginning on may 15th now, the first phase involves construction and manufac
All the major f. A. N. G. Companies. They are set to release their numbers and guidance. Thank you for joining us im Brian Sullivan lets talk more about your market setup you have dow futures indicating a gain of about 100 plus points at the upside. 200, as a matter of fact, stock futures are well in the green despite the fact that oil has come down significantly. The price of oil down again right now. Remember, we are in that june contract it is off about 13 this morning, down to under 15 and change so, watch oil. There is a story in the oil patch to Pay Attention to as well that is Diamond Offshore Diamond Offshore, a major oildrilling contractor, obviously like the name immris, off the coast. An offshore company has, indeed, filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection the Company Simply not able to meet its obligations so Diamond Offshore has filed for bankruptcy protection. Keep an eye there on that story as well. Also you want to watch the stock of loews, ticker l, not the Home Imp
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