Welcome to closing bell, everyone im wilfred frost along leslie picket in for sara isen today. Nasdaq holding on to some gains ahead of the holiday tomorrow. Pain in the labor market as new Employment Data underlines how tenuous the economy is nasdaq higher, growth out performed value. Energy under some pressure for a change after a huge surge in november and weve seen strong numbers from Corporate America mastercard said spending remains steady gap the counterpoint that stock is down 20 today alone. 59 minutes and oneday holiday coming up, of course, tomorrow the dow is down 0. 6 . Coming up on todays show, Website Security Company Cloud flair shares are up. Well speak to the ceo plus, riding with unicorns well talk to Founders Fund keith rabois Steve Liesman has a look at todays economic data. Mike santoli is tracking the market action. Deir deirdre bowsa has details. Steve, start us off with the economy. A busy day today. Yeah. The Federal Reserve earlier this month at its meeting d
Services committee and how the markets may react. Then we will talk a bit about this try yant stake in our Parent Company comcast, what is the behind the thinking at triant and what if anything may owe dur as a result. Teslas battery day, where that stock is trying to recover this morning after yet another tweet from elon musk which is part of the discussion today, jim. Whether or not hes setting expectations in a different way saying that some of this high volume production is a phenomenon still a couple years away. Hes giving us an underpromise, overdeliver, i think, which is highly unlike him, but it could make more a little more pizzazz. Theres been so much talk about battery day, maybe he lowers expectations an blow them out. People come out and want to buy tesla, want to buy amazon, positive notes about apple, positive note about facebook its just become the pattern youre waiting and waiting for when the selling is over and then, david, they cannot resist. Theyre down 15 and 17 p
Billionaire tilman will tell us how he is preparing. What hes telling his teams for what could be a cold winter for the economy. Power lunch starts right now day after the huge sell off, stocks have turned higher this afternoon as they try to avoid a fifth straight day of losses the s p and nasdaq are at session highs right now. Lets go to bob for more on these markets. Bob. Chop it around a little bit i listened to the powellmnuchin testimony. I didnt see any narrative around fiscal or Monetary Policy stay at home stocks are back theres this narrative if we get more break outs in the u. S. Like we got if europe, they will be ben faeficiarie beneficiaries. All these stay at home names are doing well amazon is having great day not so the banks second day in a row they are getting clobbered. Some of the banks are down 7, 8, 9 in two days this is another serious down trend in the banks the big thing im worried about is valuations. We cant figure out what tech stocks are worth look at appl
The nasdaq gaining 1. 7 . There could be a big threat bubbling underneath this market. President trump and chinese president xi jinping both dialing up the rhetoric today at the u. N. General assembly. Reporter President Trump has often used his annual speeches at the u. N. General assembly to challenge his adversaries, whether its the Nuclear Regimes in iran and north korea or for the second year running china, which he took direct aim at in his speech this year that was prerecorded despite consummating a trade deal with china in january. At this years virtual diplomatic gathering, the speeches were prerecorded and shorter than usual, but President Trump pulled no punches against china, which he accused of letting citizens leave the country and infect others and accused it of withholding information about the virus. The Chinese Government and the world health organization, which is virtually controlled by china falsely declared that there was no evidence of humantohuman transmission.
Markets slump as warnings from the fed on the need for more stimulus ignites fresh jitters. Powell and mnuchin take the stage again today. Partial measures. France cracks down on gatherings and bars but will not impose a full lockdown to stem a surge in virus cases. Do it like the germans. Richie soon act will set out a new crisis plan to protect jobs today. One proposal is for a wage top up scheme for workers who return parttime. Otherwise known here as we are under no an hour away from the start of cash trading in europe. Big drops anticipated for european stocks. You can see ftse futures down 9 10 of 1 . Dax futures down 1 . Down even futures more. U. S. Futures dont look as bad. Remember, u. S. Stocks took a big hit yesterday. Europe escaped losses. Europe has catch up play on the way down. Set, at least in the s p and dow, to stabilize. Anna absolutely. Thats a crucial transatlantic difference in time. We ended in very different places yesterday. Lets have a look at the gmm. You c