We are monitoring his comments right now for any news that breaks. We are on this event for you. Meanwhile, got to look at the markets. Kicking off the first trading day of september with new records for the s p 500 and the nasdaq, and the dow is back in positive territory for the year. We shall see if these numbers hold through the rest of the hour. You know, septembers traditionally the worst month of the year for the stock market. But we are going to ask our floor show traders if they expect september 2020 to follow the usual pattern, because nothing about 2020 has been usual, to be clear. And we will get a view from the farm as harvest season is fast approaching. We will talk to one soybean and corn farmer about how he sees the phase one trade deal playing out in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic. Plus, the state of spacs. A giant in the Media Industry is turning to the world of 3d printing to tell us why he is now taking desktop metal public. Less than an hour to the closing
The nasdaq off 95. The dow off its session lows but still taking a hit today. The uncertainty boosting gold prices above 1900 an ounce. Take a look at gold as well. 1900. Okay. We will also take a look at johnson johnson, merck, fiedzer and fiedz pfizer and regeneron, on pins and needles awaiting the president s announcement. Lets go straight to Edward Lawrence for a preview of what we are expecting to hear. Reporter exactly, the president signing any minute an executive order that in one way will get departments the look at ways they can further reduce drug prices going forward. Also, we have heard it may include the provision that connects the prices the u. S. Pays with foreign prices. The prices Drug Companies charge Foreign Countries. That is the deal exactly the president worked out between gilead in the United States where the United States will basically buy the entire supply of remdesivir. Remdesivir is a drug that helps coronavirus patients. The president puitched a simila ide
Taking new steps to address income and equality and Environmental Issues and apples tarring 2 trillion stock getting a downgrade to fight through that record valuation. This is Worldwide Exchange here on cnbc good morning, good afternoon, good evening im Brian Sullivan you are watching cnbc. Futures are flat should pick up the next couple of hours well call it flat groundhog day for stocks on wednesday. Another day, another record. Six Straight Days of gains they went above 11,000 for the first time ever. Not to be outdone, your first session in a row this could be your rbi we have 17 s p 500 stocks up 50 this year. Lots have done that. This is up 50 on the year the single best performing stock is dexcom, a wearable device to track glucose. That stock has nearly doubled year to date lets get you trade to the top stories from the show that just ended moments ago. Amazing how quickly you do the turn around. Anything to make it on to wex. Looking at sterling. Rallied to a fivemonth high v
Prices double the last couple of months. We have seen demand picking up. Taking a look at other markets, the focus is on chinese equities. They have been fluctuating between gains and losses. The shanghai cob is lower. They are largely flat after what we saw on friday. State funds trimming their holdings. There was the big news of the haltingetf in china trading until 10 30 a. M. This morning. They are saying the warning of thiss involved here tracks some of the largest stocks in shanghai. Take a look at singapore. This is reopening after the singapore election. Retaining the firm grip on power. When he 89 of seats. That is considered the weakest showing ever. Good. Be for stocks some analysts say a de a diverse up three quarters of 1 . We are taking a look at bonds and currencies. We watched the dollar posting the second weekly loss. It comes toing when the belly of the curve for u. S. Treasuries. Reversing some of the gains after we sell yields touch a record low on friday. Lower by
Florida sees its biggest oneday rise, some of hollywoods biggest names test positive. And chinasotest crackdown in hong kong seem to have spurred a reaction at the ballot box, voters have turned out in the hundreds of thousands. Lets look at how the week is setting up in asia. A pretty positive lead, asian stocks will keep the rally going. About half a percent after the u. S. Stock rally extended that weekly gain on friday. The s p 500 outperforming the nasdaq for the first time in two weeks. That bifurcation will continue. Nikkei futures up 0. 3 . Trading in chicago after a three i Third Straight weekly decline, continued concerns about another wave of virus cases in tokyo and elsewhere in japan. 1 ney futures setting up for 1. 6 higher. New zealand, blue signals when it comes to trading kiwi stocks after that threeday selloff, up 0. 7 . The level of Foreign Investors piling into the kiwi market suggests we will see further outside with that golden cross, crossing the 200 day dma patt