It is the 32nd time this year the nasdaq has set a record close again. This morning, we are looking at a negative picture this morning, you are looking at red ar owes. S p indicated down by about 16 points everybody is waiting to see. At least right now, 10year looks like it is narrowing to 2. 5 jobs friday today. Forecasters will expect payroll to climb 1. 48 million after june gains shattered expectations a huge number this time around unemployment is expected to drop 10. 6 from 11. 1 from june well take you through 8 30 a. M. When those numbers actually hit. News breaking this morning for those of us in new york city who woke up and thought what just happened. Con edison investigating widespread outages. As an upper westsider, no power there. You lost power . A true black out. We are in 2020, what could go wrong . I looked around and thought, it is so dark what is going on is the nasdaq going to have power. What am i going to do . Here we are middown. You left connecticut to come to
Considers a plan to order a for tiktok. Nership microsoft is in talks to buy tiktoks u. S. Operations. Of covid19 rising, but at a slower pace. Florida reporting record deaths. As of today, the 600 unemployment checks millions have been getting will expire. Next week, 200. To break down how investors are digesting this, abigail doolittle. We have to talk about this tech rally. Buteveryone, it seems, google. Abigail yes, a big rally for apple, amazon, facebook. Google the odd stock out. You and i were talking about quarters forblowup most companies. Apple, in particular, the stock had been up 5 , then in the afternoon around that news came reversed, and that is when apple took off, as though there was an invisible hand behind apple surging. It is hard to believe institutional money is buying the stock at a fiveyear high. They havent provided in outlook, but nonetheless, great results, each beating estimates. Apple and amazon beating, meeting or beating the adjusted earnings estimate pri
Pointing upward the wall street journal is calling the last four months a melt up and thats what it looks like. Dow up by 83 points. S p 500 looking to open 12 points higher. Treasury yields as well. Were at. 572. Theres a mix of what theyre thinking and what the equity markets think, right melissa okay we have a we will work on the audio and hopefully get that a busy week ahead. A twoday fed meeting with a policy announcement. No major change is expected. That will tell you that but investors will watch for clues about what the central bank might do next and then on the corporate front earnings season kicks into overdrive 167 of the s p 500 companies will report. Well hear from 12 dow components and among the names likely to get a lot of attention, apple, amazon, boeing, mcdonalds, 3m, exxon and many others. This is if you like earnings, if youre excited by earnings this is going to be a big week. So far this season we heard from 128 of the s p 500 companies so well more than double t
Meanwhile Federal Reserve not even thinking about raising rates now. Fed chair jay powell saying the current economic down torn is the most severe in our lifetime. Warning containing covid is essential to protecting our health and the economy. Big tech in focus all reporting today, their earnings after the bell, ceos grilled on capitol hill yesterday about anticonservative bias, Business Practices, privacy and china. Highlights from the fiery hearing coming up. Markets this morning pointing to selloff at the start of trading. Take a look at futures indicating decline 216 points right out of the gate, s p lower by 28. Marks rallied yesterday following Federal Reserve decision. The market was up 160 points don oh dow. The nasdaq up 140 and s p up 40 points yesterday. Unrest in america with violence in major cities. And the nba tipping off today, players taking to court in bubble at disney world with empty stands, we will check it out. The ceo of fanduel is here on how the virus is impact
Well be getting tomorrow. The nasdaq, as i just mentioned, outperforming once again those big names, netflix up 5 1 2 , tesla, amazon seeing strong gains as well with just 59 minutes left of trade. We are higher still on the s p but not on the dow anymore the nasdaq remains in the lead up to 0. 9 coming up on the show, shares of draft kings have doubled since they began trading in april. Today they announced a new way to bet on one of americas most celebrated fourth of july events well discuss with ceo jason robins coming up dennys, new effort to raise cash whats facing the Restaurant Industry in these uncertain times. But lets focus on the big stories were watching today first of all mike santoli, meg tirrell, pfizers encouraging vaccine news and highlights from the fed news minutes ago. Breaking news on apple josh has it for us hey, josh. So wilf, more apple Stores Closing as covid19 cases rise specifically apple saying its going to reclose 30 Additional Stores in the United States t