How the sector is shaping up for the condensed Holiday Season, already december 2nd why jack dorsey is planning to spend a big chunk of next year in africa. Well discuss it even if we know nothing about it never stops us no as we enter the first day of trading in december, stocks are looking to maintain the upward momentum following what was the best monthly performance since june the nasdaq was the top performer over the three major indices its november gain was 4. 5 , jim, as we head into 2020, amazingly as that is we have to look at the likes of apple and facebook and the incredible gains and some of the laggards in technology it is hard to imagine amazon is a laggard, it has been performing as has alphabet. I think people should watch jpmorgan and United Health which bottomed at the exact moment when the of senator warren hit its peak i continue to believe like you do, david, it is way too early one thing i would say, there is no reason for jpmorgan to be up where it is, given the
We havent seen for quite some time i can deal with two, three, i dont know eight if it is going up for the right reason it has been good so far there is a lot of floating rate stuff around tensions in hong kong escalating overnight. A flash mob. More than 1,000 people wearing office clothes and face masks blocked roads in the Central District as police fired tear gas as well as at two University Campuses carrie lam said that the protesters are selfish well continue to monitor the updates as they come in. Thats after yesterday when she said they are her enemy. Enemy of the people i think i am as a member of the media. Although not comfort as a member of the Mainstream Media. Am i really part of the Mainstream Media yes hello. An update now on the controversy over the apple card. Goldman sachs denies gender bias but says it will reevaluate those who received lower credits lines to begin with. It may be because existing cards could be combined with a spouses account leading to lower avail
The premarket. It is down two and a quarter percent on mcdonalds right now. Under armor under investigation, the Company Reportedly facing a federal probe over its Accounting Practices. How it recorded sales, stock is plunging this morning on that news. Under armor shares down 16 and three quarters percent. U. S. China trade optimism fueling the broader averages. President trump in Constant Contact with chinese president xxijinping. A deal could be reached this month. Futures indicating a gain in the p p triple digits at the start of trading this morning. S p 500 is up 15, nasdaq higher by 51. Mornings with maria begins right now. Youre the only thing i know. So wont you take, wont you take me home. Maria good monday morning. We have a big show this morning. Joining the conversation, lee car first here. Cfra director of Equity Research, ken leon is here and mitch rochell. We have a big shakeup going on at mcdonalds this morning. The Company Fired the ceo over a consensual relationship
Overnight in asia. The nikkei higher by 1. 1 . Hang seasoning up 2. 3 and shanghai up. 8 . Youll also see green arrows in europe the dax up 1. 9 . Cac is up. Gains for italian stocks too in the treasury market, at this point, 10year yielding 1. 67 . Twoyear at 1. 551 30year up at 1. 61 . Iranian Officials Say two missiles trunk an iranian tanker in the red sea crude prices, as a result of this, they are jumping up close to 2 wti crude now 54. 47. They are saying that damaged two store rooms aboard the tanker and caused an oil leak that attack happened about 60 miles north of the city jeda six months after the attack of the oil tanker in hermuz and the saudi attack never good to conjecture anything they have been the attacker and you wonder was there Something Else going on because they didnt point fingers, you wonder. Was it a screw up but we have no idea. No idea they were attacked by someone. Who knows. Two missiles hit a tanker that much we know. Lets talk about the trade headlines.
Wednesday. Closing the day up by 123 points still on track for major indices to see the third week in a row looking at dow futures s p 500 down by 10, nasdaq down by 25. What happened . Stocks took a dive it was more a product of the percentages were going up for powell to have another cut all but factored in. Bad news has become good news. Good news has become good news if you look at the december percentage cut, it doubled 30 to 60 . October, yes december, yes. Sort of. The market took that as a positive well see what happens today the jobs report is the all important one that hits in 2. 5 hours time. Looking at what happened overnight in asia. The nikkei ended up by about a third a percentage point the hang seng is up just over 1 you are looking at a mixed picture. Not Much Movement for the dax or the ftse a little weakness in italy and spain. Looking at treasury yields coming under pressure on this data in terms of the ism manufacturing numbers and the nonmanufacturing ism we got y