We will tell you what he is saying. The cdc says School Closings are a terrible way to fight rising covid cases was we have a doctor who agrees with him coming up, sounding off later in this hour. Lets look where stock prices are right now. We see the Dow Jones Industrial down 91 points, the s p down 9. 25 and the nasdaq down a tick as well. We will follow the progress on the market says they are due to open in 29 minutes and you will see the president today for the First Time Since saturday, he will be delivering remarks on lowering drug prices for all americans it to 30 p. M. Eastern time. You can watch that on foxbusiness. Joe biden is set to meet with nancy pelosi and Chuck Schumer today and we cant leave this out, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez is in order to get the virus under control we should close businesses and pay people to stay home. Forget about businesses going bankrupt, the government can take care of all your needs. Isnt that pure socialism and dont we all know how that stor
Disaster. Monetary policy works through emulating aggregate demand and that is important now. Ultimately, there is a job to replace lost income. Our congress stepped in and there has not been a faster or stronger response from congress to an economic emergency since the great depression. The cares act and other laws have been passed to more than offset lost income in the aggregate. There will be people for whom that is not true. You see high levels of savings on the Balance Sheets of households. Not experienced the downward cases we were worried about of mass insolvencies of businesses so far. So far, so good, i would say. There are no full recoveries without confidence. Do, which ipart to think we have done. The path forward will be challenging for a number of reasons, and i am sure we will get into some of them. Congresso do more and might need to do more with fiscal policy. The particulars of that are up to congress and not up to us. It is likely more will need to be done in time. O
Most of the states have been called with the exception of a handful of key states. Biden is projected to w michigan and wisconsin, two important states. But arizona and pennsylvania, among others, are yet to be determined. Biden appeared in delaware and said that over 150 million americans voted, more than any other president ial election in the country. I am not here to declare that weve won, but i am here to report when the count is finished, every vote must be counted. No one is going to take our democracy away from us. Trumps Campaign Says it will ask for a recount in wisconsin, citing reported irregularities in several counties. In another battleground, pennsylvania, the governor said millions of ballots have yet to be counted. Officials expect it will take days to finalize counting. Mailin ballots that are being counted, and that takes longer than the way we used to do it with the standard inperson voting. So we may not know the results even today, but the most important thing is
And solid numbers in tech are not enough to keep investors from selling, dragging down u. S. Equity futures. Good morning. Over the past 45 minutes, we have seen a leg lower across equity futures as well as across the msci asia pacific, even though yesterday wall street did close higher, it was a relatively flat close in europe. S p 500 futures down 0. 9 , and the nasdaq 100 futures extending the losses past 2 this morning. Clearly the stabilization yesterday has not been enough. It has been a difficult week in the markets. The tech overnight did not meet expectations. Apple down more than 4 in afterhours trading. It was about expenses and costs for apple in china. Twitter extending losses more than 17 in overnight trading. For investors. Alphabet, one bright spot in big tech, up or than 6 . U. S. 10 year yields at 80 basis points. This was the close yesterday for the german bund market as well as the 10 year italian btps. Christine lagarde gave a clear signal more stimulus is on the w
Came on our air and said they were bullish, in part because everyone is so bearish each one took turns explaining how those bears would turn into bulls, propelling stocks higher. Buy, buy, buy. Just one little problem when one strategist says everyones bearish, thats a listen up moment when two strategists say everyones bearish, you might get a little suspicious. When three bigshot strategists say everyone is bearish, you got to figure the consensus is wrong. We dont have too many bears we have too many bulls and maybe thats why the averages rolled over today with the dow tumbling 317 points, s p sinking 1 , and, by the way, things were a lot uglier for the dow in the early afternoon you see when most investors are bullish it means there is no one left to buy. They have plenty of facts on their sides. Everything from low Interest Rates, massive earnings, liquidity, i would let any of them manage my money if i were allowed to have money managed. Unfortunately, these positives have a whi