1000 miles apart. Donald trump and joe biden fight for air in competing town halls. Americans had to the polls and 18 days. Boris johnson said to decide whether to ditch brexit trade talks. And daimler gets in gear. The carmaker reports a 3 billion 3 billion euro profit as cost cuts filter through. Just under an hour away from the start of cash trading. Car sales european out. They gained 1. 1 for the first nine months. Sales, upropean car for the first three quarters of the year. 1. 1 . Lets take a look at what is going on. European car registration, clearly 20 20 has been a tough year. One a look at what is going we have ftseutures filler cheers futures up 0. 8 . Tax futures gaining about 0. 5 . Futures the picture is more mixed. Showing a lot less sized. Futures are. Ractionally down futures flat. We have been more negative. Asian equity markets look seen looking mixed. Are we in a consolidation phase for setting ourselves up for some selling . You have the election coming. That is
Still prefer Online Shopping in the time of covid. Aus, facebook, historically staunch free speech supporter, they have cracked down on holocaust deniers and and have asked ads. Is it part of a trend . Recent gains have outpaced prospects for a quick end to the stalemate over fresh economic stimulus. Lets bring in abigail doolittle, following all the back and forth. Not good news for future stimulus. Also, bad news about some of the vaccine trials. Abigail there was a lot of back and forth. A topsyturvy day for stocks. Especially the nasdaq 100, down half a percent, up half a percent. To break a fourday winning streak, for the nasdaq, that was true for the s and p alsos s p 500 that index also. Disappointment that we dont have news on stimulus. Pfizer not continuing right now. A temporary pause for their covid19 vaccine study, as somebody fell unexpectedly sick. The story we have seen all year on a microlevel, uncertainty causing some really choppy trading. Wass p 500, the decline more
Lets milk this and go back and forth. We dont even finish each others sent answers it will be awesome this is the first time you are back at the nasdaq in a while. I go away and then im quarantined. I went away in july and finally got back here. I went away again and came back and been quarantined another two weeks. You got to start going away whachlt are you doing . I wish these states would drop off there is 57 states on the list no there are a lot of states on the list not all states i was in a county that was like an island, nobody was there i am glad to be back there is a big krispy kreme thing. Most lights ever i was looking and i was thinking about you. I got to stop thinking about you when im not at work thats not what i want in my life you may draw me back to time square but so will crispy cream. We were talking about this the last couple of weeks i havent been in there in ea while. He said there is no one around nobody on the streets. Is that the case there is people here. A
Reporting drizzle. There are pockets of thick fog. Keep that in mind. Santa rosa is the only location with reduced visibility. The southwest tabriz is not strong. Fog and the morning, then it will disappear and temperatures are on their way up. It will be near average, we will have more on that in about 10 minutes. It is 5 00 and the morning. It is friday. Sal is here now and he will tell us this time. We are in decent shape to start of the commute. Good morning. Traffic is moving along nicely if you are driving around the bay area, i like what i see so far. You can see the the bay bridge looks good with no major issues. Hopefully, this friday we will get later conditions and then we usually do on the first four days of the week of the pandemic. However, there is roadwork. Check this out if you are looking at your screen. They are trying to pick up the cone, there might be a temporary backup. We will see how long this lasts. Lets go to the headlines. There is a flex alert for the Labor
A closer look is coming up. And at the live desk, im tracking the flex alert for the Labor Day Holiday weekend. The heat could put a strain on the power grid, so there is a possibility of rolling blackouts. Utility companies will focus on conservation during peak hours. Pg e is putting all hands on deck in these areas where were expecting the triple digit temperatures. Things that could be by the heat, were stocking up for this weekend. And Governor Newsom has signed an emergency proclamation to free up additional capacity. And doctors say that Labor Day Weekend could be make or break against the fight of coronavirus. They urge americans to follow social distancing guidelines. And in southern california, some companies hired private security guards to enforce face masks at beaches. College towns are closing bars to keep students from gathering. At least eight universities have reported homore than 1,000 case on campus. Not sure that being facetoface is helpful or necessary at this int.