You have run one of these. You know what a gargantuan task it is. How difficult is it because we have been delayed getting it started . Valerie needlessly hard. The president elects team has been assembled, they have been working diligently on policy and staffing recommendations for the president elect, both in the white house and in the cabinet. Withe midst of a pandemic, millions of americans losing their jobs, it is more important than ever the agencies be available to the Transition Team. I always say one of the things that surprised me with president obamas transition was the unbelievable degree of cooperation we received from president bush. We may not agree with him on but whathat what president bush believed is a smooth and orderly transition from power. When president obama was leaving, he did the same thing in his direction for President Trump. This is not about politics, is about keeping our country safe and healthy. There is about but a focused on the Daily Briefing the pre
The system . Michael no. He repeated that comment today as his parts of efforts to Tell Congress they need to do more in terms of lending programs, more in terms of fiscal support. Strategy oferall letting inflation run hot or is designed over the longterm to try to help by not cutting off credit to the economy when it starts to reach the lower levels , when Economic Growth starts to help the people he was talking about, which is what they did in the last expansion. Where theill take a long tipecd first 300 billion 300 Million Dollars will go. Andlked with their chairman ceo, brian moynihan, about that program. We have a billion dollars across 1 billion across those programs. One is entrepreneurship, one is educations and job creation, and another is health. You have the healthcare crisis, which affected these communities more than other communities, and that has been statistically proven. We have been doing a lot. Recently, we announced 25 million would go in nearterm health and issue
The dow down by almost 1,000 points the decline of 1. 8 . S p by over 8 the nasdaq a miracle come back after a laydate rally weve been bouncing around positive territory right now, the dow down around 14 points, s p up about seven points and the nasdaq up about 70 points. We are talking about a town month for the markets, we are looked at four sessions in a row. Thats the longest losing streak looking at these numbers, you are talking about these lower numbers. Month after month i think we had april, may, june, july, august are all up. Stocks only go up not in september. In an Election Year it can take on significance. The nasdaq can move. We can see it down 400 or more points can that close higher again today . Thats a good move you could look at it midmorning and then it seems like it is not the tale at this point kind of the log. Faang, tesla and the leadership move. Apple made the rally yesterday too. Gold is supposed to go up bitcoin, supposed to go up weird. Thats where you think
And continues on into the fall campaign, which has started now. That is sort of divide and conquer. He looks at the political equation as those who will support a very clear black and white option. The black and white option for years ago was the border and immigration using almost the same rhetoric that Illegal Immigrants were drug dealers, rapists and murderers. Transitioned has into his description of social unrest around the country. David does that put joe biden in a difficult situation . He is trying to take a tax that is not black and white, basically saying we should allow demonstrations, but we shouldnt be violent. How effective was that speech he gave monday . Rick i think it was an effective speech setting out barriers and boundaries for this debate around donald trump. It is always easier from a political context to make a minds. E stick in voters trump is particularly good at embedding these dark themes. Biden has an additional requirement where he has to convince voters t
Still in the red but a much better picture than it looked this morning. Abigail what a roller coaster on the day and the week. We had big gains from apple and tesla. This week, not so much. Nonetheless, the worst week since june for the s p 500 and the nasdaq 100 since march. The nasdaq down 1. 3 . Pressurehat selling really came off. The new york faang index down 1 at the end of the day. Some of this happened as value money seemed to give a tailwind to the macro sentiment. Yields really backing up on the day. Not confirming the degree of the selloff. I think what we had going on here, technical selling, the moving average, really looking for it in the morning. A very solid test there. The question is, will those nearterm buyers continue to step up . If yes, probably some Choppy Movement to the upside. If not, it could get ugly really fast. On the week, talking about really brutal losses here, the faang index down sharply. However, we do have one bright spot. I was mentioning the cycli