Secretary talks to cnbc moments ago. Shares of Morgan Stanley are slightly lower, it would appear, ahead of the open. The bank topped revenue estimates by a billion on what was stronger than expected trading revenues and ev price war elon musk cutting the cost of teslas model s for a second time in one week, carl meantime, guys, got to take stock of this selloff here in the premarket, jim general take this morning is that the market is now catching up to what we know has been a problem in europe, and these lockdown restrictions in the uk and france are getting more serious. Dollar strengthening, some believe, because the situation here is at least better than europe on a relative basis. I think were importing their negative ty. I dont think it is going to last you cant make any moves to the positive until about 11 00 when you start seeing their markets peter out. It is one thing, it is very frightening when you read what is going on there. It is obvious it is a second wave it seems mor
Were following all of that today. Well get to the markets in a moment we do begin with our top story the president and first lady testing positive for the coronavirus. Our shep smith joining us with the latest its news on the east coast here is the news the president and first lady are positive for covid19. The first lady reports she has mild symptoms but feels good the white house says the president has mild symptoms. President trump is in good spirit ossen ca spirtss on a call this morning. President trump is in both categories he continues to be not only in good spirits but very energetic. We have talked a number of times this morning i got the five or six things that he had tasked me to do, like i do every single morning he is wanting to make sure that we stay engaged. I think the other thing that is critically important, the doctors continue to monitor both his health and the health of first Lady Joe Biden sent his thoughts to the president and first lady for swift recovery now th
Its been a wide range today. Former citigroup ceo sandy weill will join us to discuss the water shed moment at his former company which just became the first major u. S. Bank to appoint a female ceo plus, well speak with jason robins from draftkings ahead of tonights nfl kickoff. And we are counting you down to some exciting earnings after the bell today including peloton, oracle, and chewy. Two out of three are big stay at home winners plus an interview with chewys ceo as soon as the numbers hit the tape lets get straight to the market in the final hour of trade another volatile session on wall street mike santoli tracking the action for us what caused the weakness here in the last few momentors so . That morning rally was really limp it did not pass any of the tests. It stopped where yesterdays highs were nobody had any faith this was really going to be upside momentum then you had a rally in the treasury market. Yields got compressed a little bit. And the dollar is also been higher
All right, welcome everybody to power lunch. Kevin is with us dominic too. Welcome, dom good to see you. Here is whats on tap. Stocks are at session highs right now after four weeks of losses the dow is up 500 points both the dow and s p on track for their biggest two day gains since june high stakes stimulus how Speaker Pelosi says she thinks, think, republicans and democrats can get a deal done before the election and tom lee says thats just one reason to buy stocks he will join us very shortly later, which president ial candidate could be better for the economy and the markets . Moodys is out with a new report that takes a look at those questions investors need to know power lunch starts right now welcome to power lunch. Looks look at the bigger wins today. You have fedex leading the industrials over at Deutsche Bank raising target price to 318 a share both those stocks up around 2 Virgin Galactic getting two more buy recommendations. Eight wall street analysts say the same thing bu
Questions, i think, heading into this new month is can big tech stage a big rebound because september was fairly dismal. Apple was down more than 10 alphabet down 10 microsoft down almost 7. Amazon down almost 9 facebook down 10 y do you see all those pull backs represent consolidation. That up trend remains thoroughly undisturbed. I really dont think profit taking and consolidation the month of september end up being meaningful i could be wrong thats the way i would think about it 42 of stocks in the s p five hundred are above their 50 day more than half of the market is not. The consumer stock, Consumer Discretionary looks incredible equal weight retail looks great. Anything that has to do with the consumer looks pretty darn good. The big trends are all in place. Target, new highs. Walmart looks like it wants to break out again. This morning i heard 11 of americans are now already paying for walmart plus they rolled this thing two weeks ago. They have 11 of the country as m paying me