The dow industrials this wednesday morning are going to go up about 170 odd points at the opening bell. S p, modest gain. A fractional loss, though, for the nasdaq which is at the 11,000 level. Stocks overall getting help from the virus relief talks. Mitch mcconnell talking compromise. Senator schumer talking concessions from both sides. Theyre looking for a deal by the end of this week. My opinion, there is no way Congress Leaves Town friday without spending at least a trillion dollars. I think a deal is coming and the market likes it. Two stocks in the news and moving. Disney, up sharply despite losing 5 billion during the pandemic lockdown. Disney plus has 60. 5 million paid subscribers, 100 million overall and they are starting another streaming service next year. All of that helps. Disney is up seven. Novavax, their phase one trial showed their vaccine to be safe and created an immune response. That stock is way up, 30 bucks a share on the upside. All right. Something different. L
Still a dollars story. Bloomberg dollar index looking like the u. S. Dollar is steady in the last 12 hours, but on course for potentially its worse july in a decade. The dollar index is flat essentially. U. S. Dollar, yes, i want to focus on this because 103. 50 is a key line. Modest upside for the u. S. Dollar. Japan downgraded from fitch to negative outlook. But you could see further upside. 103. 50 is a line to watch. In terms of offshore currency in the mainland, or in china, 7. 0 is what we are looking at. The euro is modestly stronger against the u. S. Dollar. Gold and silver and the yield story in the u. S. , gold started to modestly moderate. At. 6 is what we are looking silver also taking a bit of profit. Basiseld story, just 14 points for the twoyear and under 60 for the 10 year. We will see what jay powell says on whether yield control is a discussion they are ready to bring forward for the fed. A look atets have what is going on first word news wise as we look at the u. S.
Donald trump orders in and to hong kongs special status well signing legislation to sanction chinese officials. Beijing vows to take strong countermeasures. Earnings season continues. In the united states, Goldman Sachs reports after jp morgan, citigroup, and wells fargo set aside almost 28 billion for bad loans in the Second Quarter. Welcome to the program. Just under an hour away from the start of the cash equity trading day, lets have a look at futures. We do have a lot to talk about when it comes to the Banking Sector and the bad debt story in the u. S. All of that was quite dominant in yesterdays session, but we do have some catch up to play in the europe in europe. Plus, we work in the latest trial data from moderna over in the u. S. That particular vaccine getting some headlines. As a result of that, we see that lifting stocks in asia and futures in europe and the united states. Lets get to some breaking news. Some numbers coming through from burberry. Lets get to those in the f
Coming up, in a few moments, Global Investor mark mobius will join us. Chinese equities see a big week of gains they slipped a bit this morning. Shares of carnival jumping after they gave an update on the state of its business. Well speak with the Ceo Arnold Donald in a cnbc exclusive and Major League Season starting the season in florida. Well speak with the leagues commissioner about the risks and reward of taking to the field. We look forward to all that. Sara, up 0. 7 on the s p 500 lets start right there with the markets. The we have seen a big swing intraday futures starting off in the red. Hopeful signals then coming from gilead about the coronavirus treatment. Helping turn things around early. The company saying it was associated with an improvement in clinical recovery and 62 reduction in the risk of mortality compared with the standard care. Lets get to mike santoli tracking the moves in the names and sectors today. Yeah. Sturdy Performance Today solid week you would have tho
Record high today, up more than 17 this year. Check out the big tech names hitting fresh alltime highs in todays session, apple, microsoft, facebook, amazon, netflix all marking new highs. Is this headed straight for a giant iceberg, guy [ laughter ] when you read that, you hesitated reading that this is the bubble in my head literally said should i read this or should i skip over it, titanic tech run headed straight for a giant iceberg. I went with it lets go with the metaphor. I am a fan of leo i know you might find this propostrous but leo is a huge fast money fan we should collectively give a shoutout so i was talking to the great dan nathan earlier today and we were just talking about the move in amazon. Amazon is up 3 today. Amazon has added this month which i think today is the 9th of july. Just this month its added almost a quarter of a trillion dollars to its market cap. I think there are only 22 companies in the s p 500 that have a market cap of a quarter of a trillion dollar