Evidently investors like what they think they will see. 2. 1 million jobless claims reported about a half hour ago. That means 40,740,000 have been thrown out of work in the last ten weeks. Big number. Yet the economy is contracting at an annual rate now of 5 . Thats a big number. And orders for big ticket items absolutely plunged. Okay. Got all of that. But the dow jones average up nearly 1100 points in the last two days, going up again at the opening bell. Were looking at a gain of over 200 points right now for the dow, and the nasdaq is going to be down, down 80 points. That tells me big techs having another difficult day. Then we have the opening up movement. Its rolling on. Vegas and disney have dates for its partial reopening, but theyve got the dates for reopening soon. Boeing, theyre going to restart, wait for it, max jet production. Were not back to normal but we are clearly well into the reopening phase. Now this. Watch out, social media. The president s going to sign an exec
Significance, that infection rates fall after lockdown orders are lifted. Repeat, thats jpmorgan saying that. Big deal. All right. Now listen to this. Scuffles between probeijing and prodemocracy hong kong legislators. Why are hethey doing that . Thats the wrong tape. Show me the legislators scuffling, please. China just moved to take control. Those freedoms promised to hong kong when the british left are being wiped out. U. S. china relations turning very sour. Initially, that didnt go down well on the market. Futures turned south but then substantially recovered. Right now, were up about 20 points for the dow, modest gain for the s p, tiny, actually, fractional loss for the subpo p. This is a very important day. You will see the president at the white house saluting veterans. You will hear from officials and businesses across the nation about the great opening up. And we will tell you what you are allowed to do this weekend, and where you are allowed to do it. Varney company is about
Higher by 35 after the s p snapped a fourday winning streak yesterday, the dow, nasdaq and s p 500 still on track for third week on gains this week, boosting the American Economy, the white house working on another round of stimulus reportedly to the tune of 1 trillion. We will talk about it. Meanwhile protestors taking to the streets for a tenth day in a row, mostly Peaceful Demonstrations happening from coast to coast as memorials are held for george floyd, clash of tech titans, elon musk is calling for the breakup of amazon. Meanwhile slack and amazon are joining forces to take on microsoft. Joining me at 8 50 eastern on powerful alliance. Getting make back to work, universal orlando opening gates to public and nba has plan to return july 31st. Mornings with maria begins right now. Global markets this morning with firmer tone, take a look at european indices right now, the cac quarante in paris is up 106, better than 2 and dax index in germany 213 points. European markets closing ou
Numbers, 8 30 this morning. We knew it was going to be bad because bricks and Mortar Stores have been largely shut down, and it was bad. April sales down 16. 4 in april after dropping 8 in march. So heres the market, with just minutes to go to the opening bell. Red ink all over the place but not as bad as it was. The dow off about 180, 25 down for the s p, 121 down for the nasdaq. Thats of course inspired by apple, which is way, way down this morning. What were looking for is how fast we can rebound on the other side of this really bad Economic News. Thats the other side of the coin. The great reopening. Which gathers steam this weekend. There are only a handful of states that are still trying to enforce a complete lockdown. This will be a test of our willingness to get out and about, our willingness to travel, eat out and shop. This is important. We need to open the economy. We need to get back to work. This weekend, i think its a prelude to memorial day next weekend which is the unof
That. A modest down trend. Tomorrow, though, thats the big jobs report. Almost certainly the worst in history. Okay. But look at this. A rotten economy and a Big Stock Market rally. We get a lot of inquiries as to why is this happening and the short answer is well, the market looks to the future and its clearly seeing an economic recovery, and the trillions pumped into the economy are very much appreciated. Put it like that. The dow is going to be up over 300 points at the opening bell. Thats better than 1. 3 . A similar gain, 1. 5 for the s p. Look at the nasdaq go, up 1. 5 . Thats because of this. Big tech. Again, leading the market. Just look at this. Apple is at 303. Amazon up 21 bucks premarket. Nice gain for microsoft. Nice gain for netflix as well. Thats whats happening. Big tech again dominating the market, plowing higher. Bombshell news in politics. Mr. Impeachment, congressman adam schiff, he is not looking good. There are dmumennew documents o russia, russia, russia probe. M