Cut of half a Percentage Point on wednesday has spurred investors sending us markets into record highs. Traders cheered the Central Banks big call cutting the main Interest Rate to between 4. 75 and 5 . Opening the door with a bang on the first rates Easing Cycle in more than four years. President biden hailed the move as good news for consumers but said there was more work to be done in taming inflation. Lets be clear. The fed lowering Interest Rate is not a declaration of victory, its a declaration of victory, its a declaration of victory, its a declaration of progress. Its a Signal Weve entered a new phase for a colony and are recovery. I believe its important for the country to recognise this process because we dont, the progress we made will remain locked in the fear of negative mindset dominating our economic outlook since the pandemic began. Fed officials have made it clear that this cut was only the beginning and investors seem to have liked what they heard. For more, lets get
Partnership with the new england journal of massachusetts. Here we are days away from the close of 2020 and we are at an inflection point. While the news around vaccines are promising the daytoday headlines are as grim as they have ever been. An american is dying of covid19 every 90 seconds and we have recorded 4 million new covid19 cases in november and more than 1 million cases in december just nine days into this month. Covid19 has just passed Heart Disease as the number one killer of americans. As of this morning more than 286,000 americans have died due to covid19 and in just one day, just one day yesterday, we lost 2600 of our fellow americans to covid19. To put those numbers into context we are experiencing a tragedy on the scale of pearl harbor every single day, right here at home. From an Economic Security standpoint we are facing the greatest threat to Value Creation since world war ii. If there were ever any doubt about the seriousness of this virus these facts should cast t
That could spark an ugly storm for investors in chinese stocks. Just back from asia, undersecretary of state for economic growth, keith crock, is here live to react. He will reveal the new weapon our government is using to counter chinas fastgrowing technological might. The deadliest day of the coronavirus pandemic, now at this hour has los angeles going into full lockdown mode. We are on the ground in l. A. As businesses shutter in realtime. From College Dropout to ceo, the youngest selfmade billionaire in the world with us live on the day his tech company goes public. Discussing the risks he took that triggered his laserlike rise to the top. First, we begin with a fox business alert. The tweet heard round the stock market with billions in Coronavirus Relief at stake. House speaker Nancy Pelosis deputy chief of staff just put out this tweet in the last hour and a half that used covid relief and as soon as possible in the same sentence. The tweet confirmed that the speaker and Senate L
Youtube segment. The coronavirus remains front and center the u. S. Reporting more than 90,000 cases in a single day for the first time ever. 59 minutes to go in this session, the week, and the month. We are down 3 on the nasdaq today. Ahead on todays show we will speak well break down all of these moves and speak with dan niles and see if he is buying any of the tech nims names on the dip. Lets get first to the market. Mike santoli is tracking the action for us. What stands out . Just in the last hour or so, the s p 500 did go back down and test this level everybody has been watching. We have been pointing it out all week basically the september lows, 3,230 and change we did hit it on the nose. It was a little bit of a tag and then bounced off that. Thats what a test looks like. You dont pass every test. Keep that in mine. It is also the june highs. Also the break even level for the year so there are understandable reasons why people are clustered in this area and decide whether thats
Next hour ill speak to the ceo of Johnson Johnson, on the companys earnings and news of the halt in vaccine trials after one participant became sick, helping to drag futures this morning. Take a look at markets, the dow industrials are down 133 points, the nasdaq is holding onto gains, up 97 points right now fo. The s p 500 is down 6 and a quarter points. Yesterday, Big Technology led a big rally and at the close the dow was up 250 points, the nasdaq up 296, almost two and two thirds percent on the nasdaq, the s p 500 yesterday up 57 points at 4 00 on wall street. Amazons prime day kicking off today, how the shopping giant can expect some stiff competition from other retailers this time around. High expectations, apple is unveiling its 5g ready iphone 12 today, everything you need to know before the big event, mornings with maria is live right now. European markets are flat this morning. Take a look, fq100 down 23, cac down 19, dax index in germany lower by 53 points. Retail sales in t