Down days for the markets. Right now s p down by about 11, dow by 96, nasdaq off by about 47 we were so close to you dow 30,000 earlier in the week, but that seems to be slipping away a little bit 29,400 and change is where the dow is right now and again, down two days in a row, down again this morning and after yesterdays declines, all three of the major averages are in negative territory for the week a lot of things happening with covid and well talk more about that in a moment, but some of those concerns creeping back into what you see in the markets. If you are looking at the treasury market, the yield on the ten year right now is sitting just at about 0. 852 and the vix also spiking yesterday, probably a little bit on concerns about what happens as we go back into some of the lockdowns. The seesaw of good and bad news on covid. And well give you a bit of good news that happened overnight in the vaccine wars developed by the university of oxford and astrazeneca found to be safe. An
Cdc director dr. Robert redfield. He is the Nations Health Protection Agency and defense americans against dangerous threats and the response to inaccurate information on those threats or record of the head of agency data redfield has been one of the nations leading voices. During this pandemic sharing new information, issuing Public Health guidance and advising americans about how to safely return to work, school and daily life. We are glad to have him with us and what has sadly happened as and a sadly Pivotal Moment in this crisis right now as you all know cases are spiking across the country and as a result we are seeing different types of lockdowns like we saw in the initial wave of thekd virus and americans everywhere are hungry for information and guidance about how to navigate the Holiday Season this winter but back to redfield will address thall of these issues and more d well take questions from our audience as well. Without further ado dr. Redfield welcome. What can you tell
Europe struggling economy. Monetary stimulus remains necessary to support the economy create coverage and to safeguard the medium term price stability. No warning from the International Air transport association revealed the delivery of any future product or acting will require some careful planning called it the largest single transport challenge ever we have a lot to get here so lets get started. On thursday the European Central bank announced its plan to keep Interest Rates unchanged e. C. B. President Christine Legarde said they are closely monitoring inflation to reach a level close to but below 2 percent we will keep the key e. C. B. Interest rates unchanged. We expect them to remain at their present in lower levels until we have seen the inflation outlook robustly converge to a level sufficiently close to but below 2 percent weve been a projection. And such convergence has been consistently reflected in underlying inflation dynamics this comes as the euro continues to strengthen
Underlying inflation dynamics this comes as the euro continues to strengthen last week it hit a 2 year high following the meeting the euro jumped point 8 percent since march its risen about 11 percent against the u. S. Dollar while a guard also said the bank will continue its purchase under the pandemic bond buying with the lope of 1350000000000. 00 euros the program is set to continue until june of 2021 well that number is expected to increase before the end of the year. Come on the state of this state of the Global Economy we are joined by boone was cohost chrystia and founder and chief Market Strategist of the technical traders dot com chris for me and chris lets start with you although the e. C. B. Decided against any major policy action this thursday analysts theyre still expecting like i said the increase in the total amount of the program before the end of the year how is this recovery actually tracking and will there be any further monetary easing by the e. C. B. Given the rise
Another one coming in half an hour from now. Lets go through the techs because they are obviously doing well. Apple, you have to share with apple, tens of millions of shareholders, up again 3 bucks higher, 137. Amazon, now well above the 3,500dollar mark, the company is worth over 1. 7 trillion. Microsoft, also worth 1. 7 trillion with another record high. Up another buck today at 228. We will bring you the rest of the tech titans in a moment, just wait till you see zoom and how much its worth. Politics, you are going to see a sharp contrast in Campaign Styles today. The president continues to fly all over the place answering reporters questions whenever possible. Hes off to North Carolina today. Joe biden will not be getting on a plane when he travels to wilmington, delaware. He never goes far and shies away from reporters questions. This is becoming a political issue, favoring President Trump, hes out and about almost every day. Joe seems unwilling to abandon his basement strategy an