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
Becky is off we have a lot to get to. The s p 500 flirting with the new record high. Closing seven points lower futures pointing to a pull back the dow looks like it is off nasdaq off about nine points showing you stocks in europe also under pressure talking about why this would be. Closer to 2 in britain. And treasury yields look at the note looking at. 696. We are starting to see in covid cases pick back up in europe, which may impact here. Well try to talk to dr. Scott gottlieb about that. Fortnite maker epic games taking on apple and google over what it calls anticompetitive behavior giving users a discount and cutting out the e map services which cuts out the ability to take a 30 cut from sales. New users will not be able to download the game and existing users wont be able to download any updates. Google followed the lead and removed the game from the app store and was also hit with a lawsuit. The feature was not reviewed they did it with the express intent of violating the guide
The nasdaq by 173. There are reports of a new vaccine in the works word of anything setting back the virus is great news. Over the long weekend, people were out summer is around the corner. People are starting to feel that and that is showing up in the market again some big gains the last week of may treasury gains pushing up. 10year up 0. 7 . Right now sitting at 0. 695 . The big news is whats coming from that Biotech Company weve been talking more about. Absolutely. Hope everybody had a great weekend. U. S. Biotech company novavax said it started the first human study. The initial results they are saying in july the marylandbased firm saying upon completion of phase one, phase two will be conducted in several countries include ug the United States. That stock up more than 20 premarket but really giving rise to markets across the board as well as to what becky was saying all of the folk fols out and ab this weekend giving some optimism at least for a period well see. Maybe there is so
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
Serving. Watch booktv this weekend on cspan2. So welcome. The scheduling of this book and panel is certainly timely given the rising crisis with iran. Look into that subject eventually, but the point of the book, entitled seven pillars, and the discussion is to look more broadly and more deeply at the drivers of instability in the middle east. From yemen to syria to iraq, and now with iran, the region more than ever seems in a permanent state of turmoil. Its become a land of endless wars. Tragically, despite decades of intense and often wellmeaning american attention and the expenditure billions of dollars, u. S. Policy has more often than not been a failure. Maybe the caveat more often than not is, its been absolute failure, if one accepts the basic aim was to foster stability and better life for the people of the region. Of course the ones ultimately responsible for a countries success or failure of the people who live there, but the catastrophe in todays middle east raises questions