Local drycleaner. How that industry is trying to get back on its feet it is wednesday, june 24 this is Worldwide Exchange here on cnbc good morning and welcome wherever in the world you may be watching here is how the markets and stock futures are setting up they are downright now about 186 points remember, futures at this hour can move around rapidly. Well keep checking in the question of the morning or month, quarter or year is whether stocks can continue their remarkable run the nasdaq their eighth session low. The dow up 19 up 31 on the nasdaq 100 just this quarter continuing to focus on technology and the runup to increased investor concentration to fewer and fewer names stocks like amazon, microsoft, google, facebook counting for 22 of the s p 500 total market cap that is the biggest, smallest slice in the history of the markets. The fewest Companies Account for the greatest weight in the history of the modern American Market four of those names are trading once again at alltime
The reopening of america. Take a look. Dow futures turning negative down 19 points but the nasdaq is up 9 and s p 500 is also negative down about 1 point, mixed story this morning, dow and s p 500 snapped 3day winning street yesterday turning negative by the close, dow down 170 points, nasdaq was up 14 but s p down 11 and a quarter. Secretary mike pompeo meeting with chinese top diplomats as issue on trade, human rights and coronavirus heat up, john boltons new bookmaking claims about President Trumps relationship and xi jinping. Protests in atlanta to report. Meanwhile an Capitol Hill Senate republicans unveiled Police Reform bill as House Democrats call for more action. Coming up at 7 00 a. M. Eastern this morning new york city mayor Rudy Giuliani will join me with his valuable insight on policing in america, the former mayor today telling us his reaction to all of this. Then cracking down on big tech, Justice Department looks to limit protections enjoyed by Technology Companies as c
Nonfarm payrolls surprised to the upside but continuing jobless claims show maybe market weakness persists. However, asian stocks are higher. U. S. Equities of course will not trade on this fourth of july holiday. Today is the third of july but this is the holiday, the bank holiday, as you would say, for tomorrows Independence Day celebration. And case closed. Thean lawmakers end nations illegal standoff with the bank voting to accept that the qe measures taken were proportionate. Western one hour away now from the start of cash equity trading in europe. Lets take a look at how futures are shaping up. We had a mixed picture earlier. Now, we are looking at green arrows for the most part in terms of european futures. Actually, very Little Movement there. And if you look at a broader board, you would see a more andrse picture with cac ibex 35 futures down but also not by very much. Still sort of searching for direction. Lets get the berlin burger the bloomberg first word news. Top stories
The nasdaq hitting a new record high and amazon shares crossing 3,000 bucks a piece for the first time ever. Shannon, well start with you on this one what the you make of the rally is it legit and why is it happening now given everything we know negatively about the coronavirus virus . Were just continuing to see investors look at the sentiment thats coming out of the surveys and anticipating this continued v shape recovery we have seen the v shape recovery in the stocks already were anticipating a v shape recovery in the economy. I think that really rests on the fact that despite the fact were seeing this pick up in cases, theres not a widespread expectation that we go back to the lockdown that we saw in march and april. They really anchor themselves to the most recent period which was a very difficult period from an economic standpoint. Investors are continuing to look forward. They are continuing to see the Second Quarter being the earnings trough from this particular recession look
Ceos. We have industrials in housing covered. The initial jobs claims yesterday as well as a second potential wave of the virus in the u. S. , lets get to the unemployment claims continuing their decline. Jay powell said yesterday there may be millions of people who do not get back to their jobs and it may be a while before they find jobs again. Joining us is Michael Mckee. If we had gotten this jobless claims number a few days ago the market would have said, it is not as bad as we thought, and today the narrative is different. Michael i would not try to put what the market will say into my words because we will wait and find out, but if you want to trade on disappointing news it will be the jobless claims. They declined for six straight weeks but they are still at 1. 5 million. Watching, iyone is non numbers because we are not comparing it to last year, we are comparing it to last week and the continuing claims have plateaued but are still high, suggesting that what jay powell said wi