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
Said 7,000 jobs will go. Sending shares higher. Oracle takes on microsoft taking on tiktok working with groups to go up against microsofts offer. Democrats and some republicans take aim at President Trump in the Democratic Convention with a headline speech from former first Lady Michelle obama. Donald trump is the wrong president for our country. He has had more than enough time to prove he can do the job but he is clearly in over his head we have about an hour of trade under our belt here. Lets give you a sense of how the european markets are moving. I have to say there has been some improvement in the tone here we are about seven tens of one percent. We break that down, that gives you a sense of where weve seen some improvement the ibex 35, the spanish market in positive territory with the german dax a little under two 10s of one percent and the ftse and the cac trailing in their wake thank you, geoff. Travel and leisure underperformed up about half a percentage point overall. In cou
Good morning, what a friday morning. No lack of news today. Home sales, the biggest quarterly jump in history. Management changing for some of jeff bezoss and it is a 4 gain today. They added nearly half a trillion in the market cap this month. It is staggering, because apple right now is about 62 billion plus above the 2 princip trillion mark. That is like adding vm wear. That is your oef raj over the two tril mark. I dont know how history will judge that when skail has taken on new meaning im crashing my ahead because im not wrong, right it is remarkable but it raises questions about the breadth of this rally, right . We continue to see the big tech mega cap names push higher and investors saying can it continue, youre leaving a lot of names in the s p especially behind, karl. Thats right, something to watch as more and more people are looking for signs of a bubble now we have a piece that just crossed regarding facebook laying out contingency plans should the president try to delegi
Ive taken this quarantine times to update a couple of bathrooms. Not. Light bulbs i have always wanted to be handy. These numbers are expected to be insane i did change a couple of light bulbs. They are all different so finding the right one for all the Different Things my wife has, it is not easy. I have changed a couple of them but thats about it. Rising to the challenge, im sure before we get those numbers from home depot, lets start with the overall markets. The s p 500 finished the session just shy of the high just shy, we are talking 4. 15 points away from the record it is sitting at at this point. 3,386. 15 is where it closed. The record from february is 3,393. 52 the record close of 2020 up another 1 to 11,129. Looking at record futures. Two dow components reporting home depot and walmart big numbers expected from both of those dow futures up by 64, nasdaq up by 40 and s p up by 7. Dow component reported 4. 02 a share. Consensus was 3. 71. I noted revenue gain was over 23 . Com
The flames that consumed forests and entire residential areas. Cut. Rising temperatures water shortages land clearance theres an abundance of flammable material once again i did most of the stuff in the 1st. Summer going to snow. Mobile concentration the world on fire starts aug 12th on t. W. Teenagers in the u. S. Might be able to keep that to talk account softer all u. S. President over trump seems open to microsoft buying the chinese run social media site about they could be conditions attached empty offices a spooky sign of the pandemic but could it become the norm Companies Make big savings and we get to work from home. And Japanese Firm comes up with one way of dealing with the nations labor shortages allowing employees to keep working until their right seat. I mean physical and lets do business white house trade advisor Peter Navarro suggests microsoft to vest its holdings in china or if it buys the popular chinese app to talk the u. S. Tech giant has over 6000 stuff in china wi