Aigail, it felt like broadbased selloff within the s p 500 all the way down to tech stocks. Abigail it was a broad selloff. A far more concentrated as you were just mentioning with the mega cap tech stocks. There was weakness for tech. The dow had been higher. That tells you the degree, the dow closing sharply as well. The closing pressure came for tech stocks. The worst day since march. The faang index down. Tesla down 9 . The stocks and chips also down 5. 7 . And you were mentioning that this was the correction folks were looking for. Tesla up out of the march low. Plus the stocks split for tesla and apple. People wondering when the hangover would come. Today seems to be the case. Perhaps a little bit too far, too fast. We also have bearish action. Broadcom put up a beat, but it was narrow. Beating sales by less than 1 . One of the tech fires that was really not that great. And doc you sign after a really bearish day. This stock up 227 on the year, 4. 6 bearish. Another case of too f
What a big change, because at one point the dow, remember, was down 628 points. So this is really a different story. The nasdaq right now down 96 and the s p is down 11 points. The twoday selloff, by the way, in the nasdaq so severe this morning, it was actually within 25 points of correction territory. Since wednesdays record high of 12,056, the techheavy index is now down, as you can see right now, 103 points. Both snapping a fiveweek winning streak, the s p and the nasdaq. Were going to have our floor show trade thers ready with instant reaction for all of you. Now, the record selloff completely discounting a pretty positive august jobs report that showed an increase in 1. 37 million jobs with the Unemployment Rate dropping to 8. 4 . One company is helping to fill all those vacancies left behind by the coronavirus pandemic. Were going to introduce you to the ceo of shift pixie, helping big business find qualified workers in the gig economy. Plus, colleges struggling with infection r
Major amples we saw a surge in cases for example, in other parts of the country that had not been as hard hit jim, i can go through a list of things this morning that perhaps would give investors pause in a different environment, whether it be beijing, and the recent closure of schools there as they deal with a surge in cases it is only 137 but nonetheless. Flights also there we will get the update from beijing. Layoffs at the likes of at t or hilton quest giving us gooit guidance that still speaks to the weakness of that business. Yet here we are with potentially another rally in store a half hour from now. David, all of those things you just mentioned were things that maybe we expected to happen im looking at 25 pieces of research that i have sent to you in synopsis, the vast majority of them are raising price targets. Why . Because the targets were slashed before we knew that the Federal Reserve was going to back stop all of these companies so the Federal Reserve is saying if you ar
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Pandemic kering gets paired down with gus gucci sales down volatile trading again in oil as brent bares the brunt of the selloff. Nearing 21year lows producers battling the glut and depressed demand the u. S. Senate passes a new 500 billion relief fund package. This will go to hospitals. Loans for Small Businesses and some assistance in the funding for testing. You cannot tell people to go out in the streets without adequate testing or the fear is that corona will come back doubly as hard as it came the first time a very warm welcome to street signs. European markets starting the morning off on a high note currently trading about 1 higher following a steep selloff with the main benchmark breaking the win streak this morning, european corporate earnings taking focus. We had a number of Earnings Report a raft of Different Industries movement around dividends and a lot of pressure on earnings. Companies sounding a more optimistic tone in the second half of this year and beyond 2021 Energy