Workers of an annual cost of a billion dollars and thats why the stock is down. Down 1. 6 . Tesla, the stock thats going straight up and it has nothing to do with the virus. Tesla, 500 index meaning a lot of Money Managers have to buy the stock so up it goes and by the way the gain of 53 13 makes elon musk the third richest person in the world. Overall, the market is in a mild selloff mode. Dow jones closing and 29950. Its retreating a bit. S p down about 25, nasdaq a slight gain. A big tech is doing okay. We are in creeping lockdown mode and thats the problem for the markets as many states and cities imposing new restrictions as virus cases arise. Wear a mask in north dakota, utah. No Indoor Dining in california, michigan and in philadelphia, no indoor football watching parties. My opinion, thanksgiving next week, confrontation is coming. Who will enforce limits on your thanksgiving celebration . Where does president elect joe biden the stand, lockdown joe, where does he stand . Hes n
We got a boost from the bank of england a little early around. We will hear from the governor in just a moment. The cable rate, 1. 31. Keep an eye on the critical lines in the sand as we come through tomorrows session. We are starting to see yields a little bit higher here in europe today. A little bit of stabilization may be in the bond market after yesterdays big move, but a much flatter curve. Lets dive into the bank of england decision to boost its bond buying program. 150 billion, a little bit of a surprise. The market was expected 100 billion to be added to the program. Why the bigger number . That was the question i put to the governor. Gov. Bailey i think that was what we learn from our earlier experiences with covid. It is important that we act both quickly and that we act clearly in scale. That was an important consideration for us. The second thing is that we have to meet the inflation target sustainably over time. So a lot of work we did on our forecasts, employing the pers
Point 46 overnight. Political posturing is taking place with taking place between london and brussels. Checking in with some of the other little asset of the other asset classes. Gold pulling back in tandem with ,. 10 lower. Tom lets get you the first word news and an update on the continued spread of covid19. Have surged past 40 million and show no signs of slowing. U. S. Infection rates rising in 48 states while europe is inosing tighter restrictions london, paris, and other cities under strict curves with ireland enacting some of the toughest restrictions yet seen. The World Health Organization says failure to control quarantine rules has led to the resurgence. I stocks hit a six month low amid fears continuing street protests will drive investors away and further hurt the weakening economy. The benchmark index closed at its lowest level since april 16 as demonstrators bow to keep up pressure for constitutional reform and curbs on the monarchy. The index has lost more than 5 of its
Call it a 25 million what if why new comments from President Trump have the media folks getting social media on their side over exxon. And later on, steal a xwas gebaa taco why fans have a new reason to tune into the world series and why prices are sky high for the seats. It is thus, octobuesday, octobe this is boais worldwide exchan got too much time on my hands all right, good morning, good afternoon, good evening from wherever you may be im Brian Sullivan throwing out a little styx and here is another song quote see if you get it. 2020 24 hours to go and maybe the markets want to be sedated that after yesterdays 400 point haircut for the dow and 1. 5 drop on the nasdaq the markets nervous about the nancy pelosi imposed stimulus deadline in 24 hours and maybe also starting to think about much higher taxes if we see a blue sweep but right now, the futures are reversing just a bit not indicating that they will gain back what we lost, but dow futures are up 150 and of course context alw
Cfo about why all the m a is going on and how billionsof dollars vanished in hollywood as the screening giant shuts down completely it is thursday, october 22, and this is Worldwide Exchange. I think video killed the video star, answer that the anyway, welcome from wherever in the world you may be watching. Thank you for joining us well get to that squibby story in a few minutes but right now here is how the Global Markets are setting up their day. Stock market, well call them done to maybe flat nasdaq a little bit in the green, all this after stocks closed down yesterday, dow slipping 100 Investors Holding out hope for a stimulus deal and also starting to worry more about the election more on that in a few minutes. Major indexes all on pace to snap their multiweek win streaks. Nasdaq down slightly more. And today well get jobless claims number out at 8 30 as they always are on a thursday. For the first Time Applications may be coming in at 875,000 like they did in the latest week. Las