It is monday october 5th, this is Worldwide Exchange right here on cnbc well, good morning, afternoon and good evening and welcome from where ever in the world you may be watching. Im Brian Sullivan i hope that youre having a good start to your week where ever you may be its a very light data and earnings week on wall street that wouldnt matter much anyway all the attention and focus of the Financial Markets remain firmly on President Trump and the first lady and their help as well thats the key question on wall street right now the help of the president. So that is where were going to have our focus and futures, they are higher by about 141 points the polls right now have swung wildly in joe bidens direction and agree or disagree with the validity of polls and their accuracy, investors see reduced chances of the possibility of a contested election which as we have shown you can send stocks sliding. Theres also more hope for another round of stimulus perhaps closer to the 2 trillion nu
This comes after modest advances you did see gains. The second out of the last three sessions as joe mentioned it has been a rough week we are on track now if we continue on this pace to have the first down month weve seen since march. Looking at all the gains theyve built up on all of this. You are looking at fairly solid gains. It is a matter of days before we get to the end of the quarter. Take a look at the treasury yields now, especially the 10year. 0. 661 hasnt budged. Weve been sitting at these levels for some time weve got developing news right now. President trump asking a u. S. Court to let a ban on the tencent app wechat proceed the judge is giving the president to 2 30 this afternoon to postpone a ban on tiktok downloads. It doesnt pause the ban but says they must defend the policy in a sunday court hearing. The policy is currently set for 11 59 p. M. This sunday so a lot going on with the kvdel saga it was 11 59 last week too. What happens if you cant download it . Did you
Becky is off today all breaking fivemonth win streaks with the dow the big loser. Still a good quarter i should say a very good quarter. The dow gaining 7. 5 take a look at u. S. Equity futures this morning lets show you where things stand as we speak. The dow up triple digits s p looking to open higher nasdaq about 140 points hire overnight, Tokyo Stock Exchange suspended trading after a glitch blaming a hard wear problem followed by a failure to switch over to a backup device. The first fullday closure of the tokyo markets since trading began in 1999. Too much partying like in 1999 also in 1999, the year after was the year 2000. That was the last time the nasdaq had two quarters as good as this. It has been 20 years the nasdaq was up 45 . So it has been pretty unbelievable yesterday, we had worries about coronavirus. Even in new york and elsewhere where there is high infection rates. We had sort of just the aftermath of the debate, which people said was unsettling just watching then
The kids had a ball we loved it. Jersey was great the people of jersey were great to us. The water by the way the water is i mean, the ocean beautiful. Drinking water in jersey still is probably my only complaint. I have to go brita or bottled. But i got this tattoo which i know that you guys showed off last week. I got a lot of neosporin on it right now. Just to keep the bacteria, thats what they say youre supposed to do but at some point well show it off and do the grand reveal. They asked me if we wanted to show it and i said no he never liked it on twitter and im not sure that he really liked it so you brought it up. I wasnt going to bring it up. To be honest with you, i came to it late i was actually trying to not even be on twitter that much and i saw it and it was too late to start retweeting because it was a day after clearly you had shown it off and i didnt realize that i had sent that picture to you but i didnt realize that everybody would get to see it this way. It was fun.
I got some sleep you didnt miss much this last week. Kind of Nothing Happened not really actually. What week so much happened. What week are we in its going to be 52 for 52 at the end of 2020 in terms of crazy weeks. Thats true. S p was almost closing at a high im faking now like you. Im not in new york city do you like my backdrop . What do you think of it . Thats what im saying. You look great you look great you look fabulous. Okay. Is this are you old enough to remember huntly and brinkley what are we . What are we trying to pass our self off as here what do you think . Chancellor and tv people were probably trying all right who knows who knows. Let me tell everybody about the craziness of what happened in yesterdays market because the swings were wild stocks were up, as joe was mentioni mentioning, we flirted with the height of it most of the day but then turned late lower late we closed lower later in the day. At one point we should tell you the s p 500 was within 1 2 a percent fr