Treasuries and the dollar gain as donald trump valves to disentangle the u. S. From china. The president also suggests heavy taxes for American Companies that create jobs overseas. Of realism. The pound slides as Boris Johnson says he is prepared to walk away from the eu without a brexit deal. The you the u. K. Top negotiator meets Michel Barnier today. And Angela Merkels team refuses to rule out linking the state of novalnyeam 2 to the investigation. An hour away from the start of cash trading. At what futures are showing in europe. Gains of about 0. 4 across the board this morning on the euro stock my widely traded contracts as well as ftse and dax futures. We see u. S. Futures showing a mixed picture with nasdaq futures lower and dow futures higher. You can see nasdaq insurers have leapt up. It looks like we may not have the tech the continuation of the tech slump we saw thursday and friday. Remember, the u. S. Yesterday was lows for labor day closed for labor day. What do you see .
Points the s p which is then up five out of the last six weeks and up the last six sessions in a row is up by 5. 5 this morning and then the nasdaq which has been this incredible out performer for months on end is the other performer this morning its down by 13 points but remember nasdaq was only down friday after being up for several sessions in a row. Setting a new high every one of the closes. The s p is less than 1 from its all time high. Its up back in february the treasury markets youll see right now. The treasury yields are where they have been the ten year is at 0. 556 . Melissa. We have an update on the pandemic the United States surpassed covid cases. It took just six weeks for u. S. Covid cases to double. The growth appears to have leveled off at an average of 54,000 per day over the last week in College Sports news over the weekend the mid american conference scrapped its all football season delaying all fall sports until the spring of 2021 the logistics were too complicate
Conversation that is going on right now. But were definitely monitoring that and well try and plug into that process when the opportunity presents itself. President tsen okay. Thank you. Okay. So the next item, please. Its adjourned. President tsen all right. Thank you. Director richardson before we adjourn. Yes. Director richardson i have two statements to make. Just to acknowledge mr. Jim smith for helping us out through the technical glitches today. And i would love to with your permission to adjourn this meeting in the memory of the late congressman john lewis and it was put eloquently, some thoughtful recognition of this great man. And we are all in gratitude to mr. John lewis for his life long fight in systemic racism and injustice. So he was a leader by all measures. And may his soul rest in peace. And thank you. President tsen thank you very much. With that, well adjourn. Thank you, all, for a great meeting. Thank you. [roll call] we have a quorum. You may begin the meeting. Th
All report Record Numbers of daily deaths. We are getting set for samsung results. We will find out how the pandemic has hit south korea smartphone makers later in the show. A look at how we are shaping up this thursday session. We will start with u. S. Futures. All eyes really looking at the fed, looking at jay powell. He said this is particularly the biggest economic shock in memory for the u. S. Prospects for further monetary stimulus, just incremental progress when it comes to negotiations, more fiscal stimulus, i should say. Chicago nikkei futures looking unchanged. It is a massive earnings day in japan, expecting results from hitachi, panasonic, as well as waiting on japanese retail sales. Retail sales coming out of hong kong later on. That is expected to be another grim picture. The yen, wonderful 97 is where we are. Steady below that one of five handle, the dollar coming under pressure from that super dovish fed and the dovish comment from fed chair powell. 41. 37, getting that
The auto sector. Ford and nikkola news coming your way just about to flat line with 59 minutes left in the session. We have a big lineup of ceos coming up on todays show. Dan rosensweig on the back of cheggs earnings it is a moon shot. Then the head oof another stock that has been on a terror, henry ji, ceo of Sorrento Therapeutics and its a huge earnings news, disney, nikola and well speak with the ceo of ww right after the numbers hit. We have 58 minutes left of trade. Mike san totoli is tracking act and phil lebeau. B mike, start us off with the Broader Market it is flat. We alternate the days between when the indices look better than the majority of stocks and days like today when the indices are doing nothing but holding near the highs take a look at the s p 500 here we are on a year basis. You have the pop and turn pattern. You pop above the highs and then chops around right now were above that june high 3350 or so would be a 50 rally off the closing low for from 23rd that is 19