Fed governor saying the fed is likely going to need to shift its Monetary Policy from a policy of stabilization to a policy of accommodation which means helping the economy achieve the level of growth that it has previously. Remaining low until certain Employment Outcomes are hit. A thick fog of uncertainty now surrounds the United States. She goes onto say the Downside Risk dominates the strength will depend on Additional Support along with Monetary Policy. She urges fed emergency facile tills to be as broadly accessible as possible perhaps a concern on her part that maybe some of the current facilities are not. Melissa. Does she sound much more pessimistic compared to other Federal Reserve Board Members . She does sound somewhat more pessimistic but the fed overall has been more pessimistic than the market this continues that concern. The concern about uncertainty that really has been a consistent note from fed chair jay powell but perhaps youre right, shes more pessimistic especiall
In terms of an after hours session for us it certainly is so many Earnings Reports coming out. And four giant Tech Companies among them coming up on this massive show, fresh off earnings this morning, an exclusive interview with david taylor shares hitting a new record high today. The company saw consumers stock up on Household Goods amid the pandemic and then at the close, well get earnings as sara mentioned from names like apple, amazon, facebook, and alphabet those companies represent some 40 of the nasdaq 100s total market cap that is all coming up today on closing bell. Lets start with the markets the dow more than 500 points intraday swings today. Now at the moment down by 200 points mike, an intraday recovery inspired by the european close this was soft. Once we got that behind us, allowed us to bounce a bit it is true. The markets absorbed that weakness in europe as well as, of course, the ugly economic numbers before the open. Also i tested the recent lows in treasury yields w
Sanctions and claims to the South China Sea take center stage today. Stocks are shrugging it off. The dow up more than 400 points but the big tech is struggling faang, internet names that have been on fire are seeing weakness today. Were following it all 59 minutes left of trade. Certainly weve been all over the place in markets but were up as we stand with the major indexes we have a big line up of guests. In a few moments well speak with shrewsberry, cfo of wells fargo. And Robert Kaplan will join us and well speak with Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer an earlier biden endorser as biden lays out more details of his economic plan. Lets focus in on the big stories were watching at this hour wilfred has the highlights ph wilfred, start off with the banks here. The key focus, sara, as we expected it to be on provisions for potential bad loans. They rose from all the banks from q 1 to q 2 and rose more than expected. Wells fargos more than doubling quarter over quarter the big question
Of security at facebook, about the next big hurdle that the company is facing. As coronaviruses spike, loews longtime ceo Jonathan Tisch will talk to us about his belief about the governments role too revive the travel industry, but also all business in the United States power lunch is right now its agreed to see ygreat tl the s p 500 is lower by about 2 bob pisani has more on all the market moves. Hello, melissa. Were near the lows for the day. I want to emphasize what melissa was just saying, because the outperformance is truly extraordinary. What you want to focus on is the nasdaq 100 while up 16, the nasdaq 100, which consists of the top five five, up 21 this is an unusual dispersion. Were also seeing the equal weight down, the average stock on the s p is down 12 thats a good way to look at it. Meantime the russell 2000 small cap is down 16 . To show you the outperformance, remember these numbers these are the top five these five stocks are 6 trillion in market capitalization, almo
Today. Tech stocks continue to lag. Lets get to bob for more on todays Market Action. Bob. Hello, melissa. Were near the highs for the day but have not been able to get into positive territory. Sec cyclicals tend to lead banks are having a pretty good week strong trading revenues. Jpmorgan, same thing there important thing here is banks tend to drop in the week of their first earnings report. Thats when jpmorgan reports this week not so bank of america strong you saw there kbe, theres a bank index almost up 5 for the week banks have been terrible under performers megacap, theyre down this week. Some of them are down. Amazon is down about 6 for the week apple is flattish. Most of the others are down 2, 3, 4 . How about netflix, which is a faang name out there its been all over the place 500 to 570 back down to 500 the important thing here Social Security moved in a 5 range today. Lot of volume. Three times normal volume. Thats typical for netflix well get the earnings soon here finally