The sessions you want to take a look at whats happening with u. S. Equity futures this morning. Dow futures up 10 points, s p up by three we are still under water for all three major averages even after the gains we saw yesterday the dow down about 3 . The nasdaq is down 5. 6 also bumping up against the end of the quarter. Major averages still in positive territory. Youll see now, it looks like the 10year is sitting at 0. 65 of 1 . Andrew, welcome back thank you, becky House Speaker pelosi said democrats proposed a new 2. 2 trillion relief bill saying it is a compromised measure with in funding for schools and airlines white house chief of staff saying President Trump would be willing to sign a 1. 3 trillion relief package well see, guys where this all heads. Inching along we went from 2. 3 to 2. 2. I dont know where the white house is Vice President mike pence said yesterday americans should expect a rise in covid cases in the days ahead as testing increases in some midwestern states
I know. Alltime highs we have like, what, 39 trading days to go is that it . It is a tight time frame here the interesting thing around the market is it has shrugged off concern. One of the reason the market has gone higher is because of really light positioning. That mentality hasnt changed. That has fuelled the rally in the market you see the dow in the green but just barely. Nasdaq futures down by a point again, we are sitting at new highs after the gains we added on yesterday you look at the treasury market yielding 1. 85 xerox looking at buying hp. The company has an informal funding commitment xerox has a Market Company a third of hp. Both of these companies former technology stall waters. Xerox has had a couple of falls. Do people steel xerox things it is like faxing. Hp has tried to keep up it is like help me im drowning. Hp shares are up. Xerox somehow is the acquiring company. And there would be a premium to hps market cap. I just get depressed reading this xerox already scra
Take a look at what happened overnight in asia. The nikkei up about a third a percentage point hang seng was flat, shanghai composite down red arrows across the board. Ftse flat at this point. Cac in france down by. 4 of a percent. The 10year right now looks like it is yielding 1. 63 those continue to wick up ground 30year 2. 1 the count down is on. Apple holding a launch event expected to launch three new iphones. Fee occurs may include upgraded processors and new camera functionality. We could see a new apple watch an apple watch was not worn bio d Odell Beckham hes in trouble for wearing a hard object. People still wear watches for different reasons. Jewelry anyway. Including streaming and service. I dont know what odell was using it for maybe he said, it is time i Start Playing better apple products working into team it wouldnt be a matter of cheating necessarily unless you clocksomebody in the head with it what was the score . These are the new browns, right. Welltalk more about p
Back now all i know is that that alarm is still its very early when it finally goes off thats hard to when your on vacation does your body clock still make your get up early 730, yeah. What is that three extra hours or something. Thats like a weekend for me. I think we both do that. You cant, after all these years. And i think ben franklin was on to something, i do im not missing anything with that latenight tv, right . And by late night i mean like 9 00. Weve got a lot to tell you about today. We want to get to the futures moves in just a second but i first want to show you how we got here. The dow dropped 390 points during yesterdays session fell back below 26,000 bond yields resumed their augustdown tuaugusdown turn the rate cut jumped sharply. Now its up to 100 in september. Thats the betting line right now. And 82 in october some people alt 55 now on recession. So i dont you guys got a feeling on that . I mean, does the yield curve mean theres a recession because is there anything
Investments in three sectors, semiconductors, quantum computing and Artificial Intelligence the order will prohibit investments in some forms of those technologies and require americans to disclose investments to u. S. Governments in some cases. And you know the one thats not necessarily going to be included which tiktok. Thats your thing. Its not been my thing. Its been the National Security thing. Right. For so long. But no action taken yet bipartisan cause, problem. It should be. Im not sure it should be. Its surprising given all this effort in this regard and why, for example, under the ai rubric, for example, it wouldnt be included. Think of all the data the Chinese Government has access to. And thats what people say. It has all how many lazy girl videos Andrew Ross Sorkin watches per day. I have yet to be convinced by the way the Chinese Government is seeing all this tiktok in terms of the way theyre trying to build this thing in a separate way but thats a separate story. The con