Cases. Can the bulls hold on all winter . Amazon shaking up the Prescription Drug business with the launch of amazon pharmacy e and a lot more investors will be adding tesla to their portfolio when electric Vehicle Company joins the s p 500 in december. Can tesla maintain its dominance . My colleagues, ben levisohn, carlton english and jack howe. So, ben, interesting market this week. The dow and the s p were down ever so slightly, the nasdaq and small caps were up. What are traders looking at . Well, it was interesting, its a week that felt like it should have been a really down pretty hard. We had the treasury ending some programs that the fed has to support the economy, we had bad data the, retail sales disappointing, jobless claims, manufacturing surveys were disappointing and, of course, theres covid which continues to spread a around the country, cuff fews being imposed, new York City Schools going to remote learning. It looks really bad, except the dow finished down 0. 7, the s
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Good morning, everybody. Im becky quick and welcome friyay were watching the equity futures. Three down days in a row, but the dow did make a pretty stunning recovery, down actually over 300 points after the numbers at 8 30 yesterday that showed that initial jobless claims were higher than anticipated. Ended down by 20 points at the end of the session this morning dow futures down about 13, s p s p are flat lining, nasdaq basically flat lining too well be watching this closely to see how people shoring things up you as we head into this weekend. And also take a look at what is happening in the treasury market the ten year which yesterday fell back below 7. 0 and now is 7. 26 . Lets talk about what happened last night. President trump and former Vice President biden making their case to the American People on dueling town halls i was sitting there with my remote going back and forth, both events focusing on the Trump Administrations handling of tGlobal Pandemic. Do you support herd immu
Mnuchin again today and we will hear from the treasury secretary in a few minutes at delivering alpha. Plus palantirs public debut, backed by peter thiel, it will be a direct listing at the New York Stock Exchange, lots to discuss there. And covid optimism, regeneron saying its treatment cocktail helps in the early stages of the virus and we will talk with the companys cofounder and chief science officer polarity on this hour jim, of course, you have to get the debate out of the way, everybody is talking about that and were going to hear the argument that if you look at futures and even some of the Prediction Markets today, theres an argument that the debate really didnt change the broad contours of the race. Before we got pmi, before we got this little squib from speaker pelosi, the futures were down very big. I was watching dom this morning, it looked like the market would be very ugly and i think that was because of arecognition that there was no way you could possibly have any sort
I see london, i see france, i see you in your underpants i always hated that diddy when i was a kid but you know what . It perfectly describes todays actions. Sellers caught with their pants down tipping just. 15 . Yep, this morning investors saw london and they saw france, not to mention milan and madrid. Specifically the europeans getting hammered as covid back on the continent they figured wed import those losses from europe so they furiously sold their stocks to get out ahead of the weakness. Many of these jokers probably trading in their pajamas the feet with the dr. Dentons. Panic pretenders here dumped shares at a 10 1 ratio, meaning there were 10 shares for sale or down for every 1 share someone was trying to buy. Now the late, great mark haines, one of cnbcs finest, always used that 10 1 ratio to call bottoms, including the generational bottom that he nailed in march of 2009. When the ratio sellers to buyers is 10 1 hed say you have to hold your nose and buy because that kind