R justately ben laidle calls it a q4 melt up to come. Jonathan pointing out that the u. S. Election volatility could fade. The data might continue to improve. The market might grind higher. But the numbers we are seeing from some of the big employers around the world are not pretty. Tom terrible. I am so glad you bring this up. Horrific, but once again, you separate stock market activity from the social cost we are seeing right now. Jonathan 90 minutes away from claims data, lisa. Lisa we will be finding out a backward look at the latest claims. I say backward look even though is a weekly initial claims that i because we will also be getting a backward look at the income people received in the month of august. One thing i will be watching is the copious amount of additional fed speak. I want to know how much stress they are seeing within the banking sector. And then the theater in washington, d. C. Continues. Steve mnuchin and nancy pelosi continue to talk. Is this just theater, or is
Big rally bubbling up. Check out what happened to chinese tech stocks today as Congress Seems to be turning up the heat on china. Lets get to Kayla Tausche for the details. Melissa, the Holding Foreign Companies Accountable act technically applies to any nonu. S. Company listed here and it requires those companies to be subjected by the securities and Exchange Commission and if not to certify that it is not owned and controlled by a Foreign Government any company that cannot prove that would be dislisted. Here is john kennedy, the republican senator from louisiana who sponsored this bill i do not want to get into a new cold war all i want, and i think all the rest of us want is for china to mri by t play by the rules. Antichina sentiment has been gaining steam in recent years and it did not subside after the phase one trade deal was reached in january and this particular issue of transparency has gained new momentum after the fraudulent Financial Disclosures at Luckin Coffee just last
Macys, looting as well. Tension across the city, no question about it. You opened correctly, which is this is not just about new york. It is not just about washington. It is about cities across the nation, the horrific events in buffalo and those tragic deaths in chicago as well. Jonathan for programs like this where we have to cover the markets, you have to stress to the size that this equity market just feels totally removed from the mood of this country right now. We talked about yesterday, and no doubt through this morning as well. Tom i am not going to mince words. Ive witnessed this before i was born with my grandparents. One set of grandparents completely removed from the depression, worried about the stock market. The other set of grandparents going, what are you, nuts . It is true futures are up. It is truly risk on. I would note brent crude get a near a 40 per barrel print. Jonathan a weaker dollar in the mix as well. Lisa, we heard from the president yesterday evening. A lot
This after snap reportedly conjured up a whole chamber of secrets on facebook in a dossier titled project voldemort the document lays out all the ways facebook tried to thwart the competition and prevented snap from trending on instagram. Now snap is hoping the ministry of magic known as the ftc will step in. Will regulators be able to work any real magic here . Guy. That was one of the best openings in the history of the show. He doesnt know what to say anymore. Do you even know what she said im familiar with this harry potter thing there are like eight of these movies. Yes. Theyre its the sack same movie. The kids get older and run a dont spoil the end. It sounds like fast money. Its a scam run around with their wands good job. Back to talking. I want to dislike facebook in the worst way. I want to stand here and say, you know what, the stock is headed sl headed little headed significantly lower we said in july, you know what will happen, it will go back and test that july high from
The day. This is sort of translating over into the equity markets as well. The risk off tone continues after a 3 selloff yesterday. We got some of that tension in the last two hours or so, with china saying we violated the agreement given the 10 tariffs. They are vowing to retaliate. We have a read now on the u. S. Consumer. Walmart earnings are coming out. Let me jump over to that. The risk off sentiment continues. David earningspershare was a beat, 1. 27. Their target comps beat estimates, samestore sales. International sales were down a bit 1. 1 ,. A little bit of a leavening there. Also a beat on the revenues. Good numbers here, and it looks like in the premarket, it is up well, that has it down 3 10. My terminal has it up. Taylor i think it is because they are boosting their fullyear growth target. Analysts were hoping for a beat, hoping for them to shrug off some of the trade concerns and tariff concerns and boost that fullyear adjusted earningspershare growth. Indeed, that is wh