Lets break it down with mike mckee. Is a it is michael it little bit odd. On the headline, 100. 9 is lower than it was in the month of august or september, rather, when it was 101. 8. You would expect that maybe the present situation would be causing people concern because of the coming closures of some businesses as covid cases spike but the number comes in at 98. 9 at up from 104. 6, up from 98. 9. Turnabouting quite a in the way people are looking at the economy. The interesting thing here is this bemay see is reasonably good news for donald trump because if you are looking at the economy, stupid, as the old saying goes, you are looking at the economy as it is right now, and the economy as it is right now is better. The employment number is something Everyone Wants to look at in the set up to next week. Jobs number is an improvement, so those who think we are going to have a dismal jobs report next week might be in for a surprise, at least according to the underlying Consumer Sentim
The Political Panel weighs in on that plus a new poll showing a real conundrum for voters in the story that blew me away, we will introduce you to a 15yearold business owner, a 15yearold business owner. All that and so much more on making money. Charles washington spending trillions of dollars again to help the economy, a lot of the economy has already come worrying back and in the process the rich have gotten even richer, everyone else seems to get more better and moreover blaming capitalism saying it did not curve the debt and come up with solution needed in the age of coronavirus. Affords headline says capitalism is failing us just when we need it most. In ap news headline, from the pope, marking capitalism has failed and pandemics means reform. Many of the critics of capitalism have never been fans but the jobs disappearing in 2020 is giving them a much bigger soapbox, is capitalism fading and how does the narrative change, lets ask a champion of capitalism, steve moore, they are c
Years. And lots to come on the show. Two big ceo interviews on the back of earnings in a few minutes well speck to the owner of Outback Steakhouse blooking brands and later the ceo of boston beer will join us that stock surging after the truly hard seltzer brand helped boost sales. Looking forward to both of those interviews were down. 6 lets get to the big stories were watching meg tirell has more on the signing. And mike san totoli is joining s meg, let aers start with youen that executive order news. Hi. Drug pricing hasnt been in the conversation as much this year as the drug industry has been racing to develop vaccines and drugs for covid19 but the president reportedly planning to sign an executive order with a few different aspects on drug price this is afternoon. One could be allowing importation of drugs from canada where theyre price moored cheaply. Another could focus on tying prices to basket of prices from other wealthy countries. And a third could focus on providing free i
800743cnbc or jimcramer i love billy paul, but only the strong survive is the wrong anthem for age of covid19, but i do think thats where were headed and even after a good day like this one, and the s p climbed 1. 91 s and thing is the average is dominated by the fittest stocks and the ones with the strongest Balance Sheets and they will do so where most commerce when most commerce is on hiatus, and theyll still be there, but other companies lesser known, but still in the s p 500 need credit to make it through, not because theyre reckless and poorly managed, but because its impossible to plan for this economic catastrophe and including, of course, all of the small and midsized businesses that are not even public im worried that theyre doomed. Doomed ive said endlessly that we dont trade in nail salons and gyms although we do have Planet Fitness on the show later tent, and there are plenty companies that i supply midsized businesses and more important if we keep seeing jobless numbers a
Holding onto those gains. The s p 500 up. The nasdaq is up 2. 4 . The dow is up 1. 8 . Chipotle is at the top but like many other companies it beat estimates. The dollar continues to strengthen. Standing by with a deeper dive into the action we have taylor riggs. Taylor you mentioned crude on your board and i wanted to start with oil prices. They were up 20 or so after six days of losses. Theyre trying to rebound but still down where the 50 . It is unbelievable the price action. U. S. Oil inventories have risen for a 13th straight week but there is potential positive news. Yesterday, they were shortselling on a stock and if it plunges more than 10 that would apply to the largest etf. Some of the reasons we are seeing some stability. We need to talk about the largest oil etf. It is tracking crude prices pretty closely on a yeartodate basis. We know that yesterday there was a premium to the shares given that they ran out of what to sell investors. Theyre trying to take advantage of low o