The shift we saw in washington yesterday about 4 00 p. M. We dont need to be on this all day. Every other network is going to cover it up and sideways come but this this is original actions by a president of the United States, really reminiscent of what we saw in 1876. It is a story our Washington Team will cover. This election of 2020 continues. Jonathan that tuesday night still continues in some ways. The news of the last 15 minutes is on the vexing front. Pfizer on the vaccine front. Pfizer set to file today for emergency other ration emergency authorization use. Think that has been the sequence, and each time there is a lesser market reaction. Jonathan i tugofwar continues. If we think about the tugofwar right now, the tension is phenomenal. On the one side, the darkening near term outlook because of the restrictions in the of the economy, and then the brightening forward outlook it can get vaccinations started in month. In the last 24 hours, the Federal Reserve and the treasury se
Exchanges. Regulators criticize the lack of access. Goldman sachs is set to be preparing a second round of job cuts in three months as a moratorium on firing amid covid19 comes to an end. Howi lets take a look at we are setting up in the first couple minutes of sydni trading. We have had a pretty cautious trading session this week ever since we had a Technical Glitch that essentially put the asx out of action for monday. We are seeing a little bit of a flight back to the opening session as we get more clarity in terms of the ongoing trade tensions between camera and beijing. Still on the back foot trading at the moment. We are seeing outside of half a percent trading in new zealand stocks. Shery we continue to see pressure in the futures markets. U. S. Futures down. 1 after stocks pulled back from record highs. We are seeing nikkei futures down 0. 4 , coming down from the highest level since 1991. The japanese yen unchanged, although one of the biggest gainers. Virus concerns. And wti
Been this year. Atcoin racing ahead, sitting a price level we have not seen since nearly three years ago. But, maybe investors taking a pause is the right thing to do. Sales u. S. Retail reminding us that another round of stimulus has not yet been passed. Sales gained. It is a tugofwar between vaccine boom and virus gloom. Joe things are not great in the short term. In the longterm, the vaccine making people optimistic. A lot of this bullishness reflected in the bank of America Monthly Fund manager survey. This tends to happen. Stocks go up, people get the list. This is the percentage of respondents that say they are overweight equities. 20e is a chart going back years. Half of respondents saying they are overweight. Very bulledlearly up. This past year, so much residual skepticism, lockdowns, election risk. Excuses to stay on the sidelines. One by one, those excuses have fallen. Now, all of a sudden, everyone is bullish. Like the lastems few times we reached this type of enthusiasm, e
Announces an end to the lockdown will not be an end to restrictions. U. N. Member states will take part in a call to end up stalemate on the budget. The United States has announced plans to reduce troop levels in afghanistan and iraq. They will go from 2500 4500 to 2500 in afghanistan. Allies had warned against a quick withdrawal of troops. A chief said a hasty pullout could be a platform for international terrorists. Our correspondent has more from washington. We have very Little Information because the new acting defense secretary gave very few details about this announcement of reduction of troops. He did not answer any questions. What he said was the troops staying there would be doing counterterrorism as well as protecting the u. S. Embassies in both countries. Also protecting local government facilities. There is a question that he did not specify or go into detail about. The fact that there is also a lot of very important equipment in those two countries and a question of whethe
Lashing today over how their companies handled 2020 election. Heck out few hours indicating a decline as we await october retail Sales Numbers out this morning at 8 30 a. M. Dow industrials down 88, nasdaq is up 14 and s p 500 lower by 14. Record day in wall street to start the week yesterday, dow finishing at its first alltime high in 9 months boosted by the positive news on modernas phase 3 vaccine trials. At the close up 471 points, nasdaq up 95, almost 1 and s p higher by 41, better than 1 . Big day for retail earnings, walmart and kohls and home depot all reporting this morning, we will have the numbers as soon as they give hit the tape. Holidays in digital world. Zoom is helping you and your family out if youre planning on a virtual turkey day, its making a buzz, mornings with maria is live right now. Maria home depot earnings hitting the tape right now and european markets are lower, cac quarante down 9, dax index lower by 25, take a look at home depot numbers, revenue above exp