Board, again, trying to challenge the tesla hold on the market. Wm has a factory in shanghai. Lets check the markets. Risk off on the u. S. , falling 2 on wall street on the back of concerns about u. S. Jobless claims. The virus, above 4 million cases now in the United States. And as we said, concern that the economy in the u. S. Is in trouble. Screen, read on the broadly across the msci asiapacific, down. 6 . On the mainland would just talked about the proposed ipo by wm motors, small caps setting off more than 2 as we get for the end of the week. Ong kong looking attractive to investors, it seems, down. 2 percent, up despite concerns highlighted earlier. Weakened byyuan. 1 , currently around seven in terms of the offshore yuan. The aussie dollar and the japanese yen, looking at that as well, the 10year basis point, 58 for the 10 year as a result of the risk off we had at the end of the day on wall street. Chinese, 2. 91. Gold at 1. 46 in terms of the goldsilver index, and philadelphi
It is the 32nd time this year the nasdaq has set a record close again. This morning, we are looking at a negative picture this morning, you are looking at red ar owes. S p indicated down by about 16 points everybody is waiting to see. At least right now, 10year looks like it is narrowing to 2. 5 jobs friday today. Forecasters will expect payroll to climb 1. 48 million after june gains shattered expectations a huge number this time around unemployment is expected to drop 10. 6 from 11. 1 from june well take you through 8 30 a. M. When those numbers actually hit. News breaking this morning for those of us in new york city who woke up and thought what just happened. Con edison investigating widespread outages. As an upper westsider, no power there. You lost power . A true black out. We are in 2020, what could go wrong . I looked around and thought, it is so dark what is going on is the nasdaq going to have power. What am i going to do . Here we are middown. You left connecticut to come to
33 points and nasdaq is up 92 and the s p is up 8 points. Yesterday the dow industrials snapping a 4session winning streak with decline of the session with 135 points and nasdaq down 76 and s p lower by 11. Warning on china that i reported here first, attorney general bill barr calling out American Companies for caving into the pressure from beijing. Bombshell allegation, 15 employees of the Washington Redskins said they were harassed for years. Mornings with maria is live right now. Maria in europe mixed moves, the ftse 100 is up 21 but cac quarante is down 15 and dax higher by 42. In asia overnight markets mostly higher with the exception of japan, nikkei average overnight down a third of a percent and the other fractionally moving across the board. Some of the top stories we are watching right now, John Hopkins University reporting over 77,000 new cases yesterday. 10,000 higher than the previous high. 969 deaths were also reported. Florida, South Carolina and texas all reporting the
To get things started off. The dow is down by 17 points but the s p and the nasdaq is there. Nasdaq is indicated up by 47 points this is after a strong month of july for all three of the averages the dow up by 2. 4 for the month. The s p saw its best july by ten years. It was up by 5. 5 . Thats nothing compared to the nasdaq today is the first trade ding d of august. Thats out at 10 00 a. M. Eastern time today also take a look at treasury yields you did see yields under extreme pressure or ten year closing at its lowest level since all the way back to march 9th. Right now it is a little bit higher 0. 546 stimulus talks in congress. Trump administrations officials and House Speaker nancy pelosi are set to resume negotiations today on their competing visions of a bill. The Sticking Point continues to be a boost set at 600 per week in march that lapsed on friday he and Speaker Pelosi are on the same page about the need of direct Cash Payments of 1,200 to most americans. Andrew. And big co
The women owners are defying owners. Chicago, teachers and parents once again at odds of reopening plans that even parents say are major league screwed up. California, wildfires that are raging out of control right now with no end in sight. Talk about impeccable timing . Were on top of all of that. Were focusing on developments in washington where the president is meeting with a number of tech leaders and workers. Blake burman at the white house with more. Hey, blake. Reporter hi, there, neil, and President Trump is set to be signing an executive order in washington momentarily. Im told what this will involve to try to insure when federal contracts are given out, they are given out to u. S. Citizens and not potentially h1b visa holders. Trying to insure the contracts are given to american citizens. We should be hearing from the president shortly. We will wait to see, neil if the president will be taking any questions and if he does i have to imagine he would be asked about this tweet h