The 27,700 level. Remember, it was 18,000 on march 23rd. The s p, what, nearly 3400. New alltime high. The nasdaq well over the 11,000 mark. Who would have thought of that. Add it all up and yes, we are now in a brand new bull market. Heres another reason for the rally. Terrific performance from major retailers, target, out today with a blowout report. Online sales nearly tripled. It was targets best overall growth rate ever. That stock is going straight up. Add this to the numbers from walmart, home depot and its clear the major retailers won big by staying open in the lockdown. Really, though, kind of tough on the smaller operators. Got to get to it. The convention, boring in my judgment. Tv ratings way down. Wheres the excitement . Everything is on tape and the whole thing lacks the spontaneity of a live crowd. The performance of the old guard, bill clinton, john kerry and a grim chuck schumer. The bright spot was aocs oneminute appearance. She nominated Bernie Sanders. The democrat
Lect senator Bernie Sanders. [cheers and applause] while im standing up here i would be remiss to think about other black women from South Carolina that have paved road like september clark, who fought bethune tion and marry cookman. Some of the same issues that concerned them back then are presented in front of us now. As i sit back to reflect on the time we have had in South Carolina and the things we have done to elect Bernie Sanders, i stand in front of you asking one last favor of you, im asking just one more time to dig down to call your friends, to talk to your neighbors, to meet somebody that you dont even know and tell them about this one opportunity, because in 2016, we had an opportunity, but we fell a little short, and thats ok. But in 2020, we will elect senator Bernie Sanders [cheers and applause] so again, reach out to your neighbors, look to your left and to your right and ask them are we going to bring South Carolina home for senator sanders . [cheers and applause] aft
And applause] thank you. Whoa. Thank you. [cheers] thank you, Virginia Beach and norfolk. Off by thinking for herb jones. Her too long, we have taken veterans in this country for granted. We have sent them off to wars and too often, those wars were wars that should never have been fought. [cheers] and then after they put their lives on the line, they come home sometimes injured in body and sometimes injured in spirit. We have forgotten about them. And allomise to herb the other veterans of this country him and i say this as the former chairman of the u. S. Senate committee on veterans our administration will never forget the veterans. [cheers] our sanders and administration will never put the men and women in the armed forces in wars that should not be fought. [cheers] we are here we are because determined that donald trump will be a oneterm president. [cheers] sen. Sanders of the American People, no matter what their political views may be, do not want a president in office who is a p
Week for the nasdaq. That is the first time youll see stocks down for the major averages in three weeks. This morning, we are still near alltime highs for both the s p 500 and the nasdaq looking at the treasury market, right now, 10year at 1. 486 some additional pressure concerns about Global Growth and what it will mean for the economy. S p was out saying for the year, you could see chinese growth at 4. 4 for the full year that concern if they see a peak to the virus in march. All these new highs and goldman talking potential correction i can see how the case could be made right now is there anything more than a possible Global Pandemic i think about it it is hard to buy any stock that wouldnt be impacted by a bad outcome in this. Right people assume it will be a vshaped recovery and that it will happen sooner rather than later. With coronavirus. After it going away. But we dont know if it goes away and we still dont know what kind of numbers we are getting. It appears it is slowing a
Reaction to the results. Live coverage saturday evening starting at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan, on demand it cspan. Org or listen free to the cspan radio app. Senator Bernie Sanders speaks in South Carolina ahead of tomorrows primary. 54 pledged delegates are at stake. This is before the super tuesday primary next week. Senator sanders thank, colombia. This is our last event in South Carolina. Statee been all over this and small towns and small cities. We are so appreciative of the hospitality and the support weve been getting, so thank you, South Carolina. [cheers and applause] and im very proud to have some outstanding members of the legislature here right now. I want to thank representative wendall gilliard. Representative justin. Representative terry alexander. And a number of other members of the legislature who are not here. Let me also thank blackalack for their band, for their music. Let me thank representative thigpin for all the work he does. Thank travis washington for his