News cribber john solomon are here, joining me in the you 8 0. Earnings season rolling of on. Big banks on deck this morning. All the numbers as soon as they hit the tape and impact on markets. Broader markets pointing to a gain at the start of trading, dow industrials up 84, nasdaq up 28, the s p 500 up 10 o 10 poin. Yesterday stocks were sluggish over weak Quarterly Earnings and halted covid19 vaccine trials. At the end of the day, the s p 500 was lower by 22. Shiny now apple, the Technology Giant unveiling four new iphone 12s ss for your convenience. Coping tips from outer space, astronauts have isolation advice for the weary public and its making a buzz this morning. Mornings with maria is live right now. European markets in the green, take a look. The fq100 up 14, the cac is up 1 andahalf and the dax index higher by 15, fractional moves this morning in europe but to the upside. A mixed story overnight in asia, as chinese president xi jinping is calling for young People Living in h
About the blockbuster revelations about hunter biden, biden got a pass, the network fix was in, beat up trump, give biden a pass. We do have news on the stimulus. A little give on the part of the white house, Speaker Pelosi and secretary mnuchin have agreed on the democrats Virus Testing strategy. It is not much, a strong report on retail sales just came out, a halfhour ago, big loss for the stocks yesterday but a rebound today in part on the back of the retail sales report. The dow is up triple digits 130 points, the nasdaq, 93 94 points higher. Censorship are very much in the news, social media may be in trouble after blocking coverage of the bombshell allegations against hunter biden, the authorities are taking a close look at facebook, twitter and other social media liability immunity after four years of obvious media biased in social media censorships and is there any doubt that you are blocked so frequently from seeing or hearing conservative opinion. We will get more on that com
September retail sales, nice beat there, the srt up 102 from march lows, thats a new high, Dick Sporting goods, best buy, dollar general, costcos and lowes, bed, bath and beyond on its best pace ever is it time to buy retail there are still select names you can buy at retail and some names that have absolutely exploded the up side you just went through a list some of these are at alltime highs. The consumer is strong, the consumer return, the consumer has gotten out there the september numbers were well above what the expectations were these numbers are very, very impressive it does go to show you just how strong these guys are in terms of everybody getting out and about and getting into different retail its not just about the essentials anymore you just went through the laundry list the reality is, it is about people going out and getting clothing, shoes, yoga material whatever it is we might be, we are seeing an absolute run towards that area and a nice spring board were seeing a lot
I care about the product. Lemonis and dad greg pursues his own ideas. And what is your role . Jennifer not listening. Lemonis . Without consulting anybody. Greg they accuse me all the time, marcus, of going rogue. Lemonis and the further they drift apart. Jennifer you want things a certain way. Chandler do you think i just like to fight . Lemonis . The more the business suffers. Greg weve hustled, man, you know, and we aint got a pot to piss in to show for it. Lemonis if i cant help lyles understand where they want to go and how theyre gonna get there. Jennifer dont tell me that its because of me that were not out there. Lemonis . Their Bright Future will go up in smoke. Chandler leaving would be bailing on them, and i cant do that. I dont know how im gonna get to where im going. That breaks my heart. I dont know what to do. Lemonis my name is marcus lemonis, and i risk my own money to save struggling businesses. Were not gonna wake up every morning wondering if we have a job. Were gon
On china. Sources say curbs on jack mas group over concerns on National Security. Shery we are getting south koreas current account balance numbers and the surplus right now narrowing the month of august from july, coming in at 6. 56 billion. This is a little bit of a narrowing from that 7. 5 billion we saw in the month of july. The balance widening. The surplus coming in at 7. 0 2 7. 02on dollars and billion dollars and this is widening from the previous month. When it comes to export numbers, we have seen the plunge easing a little bit and in september, south koreas exports rising for the first time in seven months and we are seeing the goods balance surplus widening a little bit, haidi. Haidi take a look at the open we are setting up in the first few minutes of trade here in australia. We have seen that bounce following the super expansionary budget that was delivered this week by the federal government. The asx in the previous session closing at a one month high on those budget exp