Sales and the stock is hitting new highs. And finally teslas tumble, why the street is mixed on what actually came out of the companys battery day event yesterday. J j, though, jim, going to be the lead and you just called it maybe the best company we have in this country. Yeah, look, i think that i like triple a balance sheet, i like a company that continues to make the numbers, i like a company that pays a good dividend, has the best pipeline, most robust pipeline in pharmaceuticals and i like a company thats not a hype company. The fact that they are ready to do their vaccine now, full disclosure i am attempting to get into the trial, i think its everybodys duty to get into the trial they are the only one emphasizing the atrisk people they want people who we view as people who we need to protect. I dont hear that from any of the other companies. I like the fact they are willing to give it to their whole employee base. This is the way i think it should be done and i know people are c
Good morning. Getting right to the top story you can see right now, the dow jones is implied higher by 225 points, nasdaq still showing relative weakness given the technology selloff weve seen. This is coming after that massive selloff from the major averages yesterday the dow closing down more than 800 points slightly off the lows. In this situation, they are all coming off their worst trading day since june 11. Since monday, all are on track from weekly performances since june one sector snaps the heat. Snapping the win streak when it lost nearly 14 apple saw its worst day since the 20th losing that market cap, the largest loss of the biggest oneday record they lost more market cap just yesterday than the individual market caps of 470 of the s p 500 companies. That is how much money was lost by apple microsoft, alphabet, tesla saw market caps sink by 10s of hundreds of dollars. You can see tesla lost millions. Microsoft lost 115 billion. August unemployment report is due out. Expecti
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
15. 7 . Sort of a proxy, this is old data a week older than the other data for the Unemployment Rate looking at the chart you can see it coming down tick by tick but leveling off and well hope it keeps coming down in the weeks ahead. Lets look at the states with most claims. California, 28 , michigan 23 of those who are insured or eligible for Unemployment Insurance getting that insurance there, down to rhode island at 28 . Look at the states with the fewest claims, two stories going on here, one, some states not that hard hit, perhaps nebraska, likely wyoming, but look at the right, florida, again, thats a Big National Story here. The percentage of floridians who are receiving benefits being so small because of their problems with their computer systems, just 5. 2 . Now the fed out with a survey of Household Economic developments and they did a supplement for april just to try to get the recent data. They found 90 of households report either a lost job or reduced hours but 90 on the l
Far, but the lowest number of daily deaths for some time, Governor Cuomo saying 474 people died in new york in the last 24 hours. We have cases surging in italy, singapore, ireland. Treasuryetary of Steven Mnuchin says most of the u. S. Economy will be open by august. I want to bring in our markets reporters taylor riggs. Taylor, what is driving the rebound in particular today . Taylor markets are breathing a sigh of relief. We are waiting for the 480 4 billion stimulus package to go in front of the house. There will be signs of the flattening of the health curve we have been talking about, as well as earnings. Were getting back some of the fundamentals, and Oil Rebounding after six Straight Days of losses, so mark is taking a sigh of relief. Look at the stocks within the chipmakers. Up almost 6 , having one of its best days, the biggest outperformer. A lot of earnings are underway, so getting back to fundamentals of what is driving this market. Two companies in that soft index i want