First lets go right to bob pisani for more on the market selloff today. We are off the lows but just barely 3366 was the low today, 3381 right now. Lets not quibble about a few points the damage is pretty widespread, but the general theme is cyclical stocks and stocks most associated with reopening stories are having a tough time of it. Energy, oil down about 3 at 1 , banks, which had a good time last week not starting off the week well, industrials, another cyclical group and defenses will sectors like utilities and staples all down sap dropped as much as 21 over in europe here they cut their revenue forecast for the full year they expect a fresh wave of lockdowns to hurt demand through the first half of 2021 first off, first half is alarming but just the idea that general airically t general ai generically, people are betting its a broader more than stock specific so we have no stimulus right now of any term, near term, long term, any term we have a reopening story thats going rather
But you were talking about the dow being in positive territory for the First Time Since september 2nd. Stocks in china reopened after a week long Public Holiday they both jumped by more than 2 the shanghai composite was up by 2. 6 lets take a look at where things stand right now in europe where there is some trading taking place you can see the markets are open there and theres a bit of a mixed picture. Its actually a little bit higher ftse 100 is right around the flat line, andrew. Hey, becky. Weve got so much going on this morning. Weve got this is squawk planner, two major tech events first amazon sales day it begins after it was postponed, if you remember, back in july. Now running two days, starting at midnight tonight eastern time so watch out for that. Ive already scheduled it and then Apple Holding the big event tomorrow the launch event expected to unveil the new iphone. Everybody looking for the new 5g iphone it will include the first major exterior redesign since 2017 and we
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For a 2nd and to another big factor in this election to the course the coronavirus pandemic the u. S. Has hit with same you figure is 7000000 cases 200000 deaths i think huge numbers the biggest in the world and this is how significant is the coronavirus and then it kind of bathed in this election one would have expected it to be the number one story all the time but we are living in a time of economic crisis now the replacement of the Supreme Court to go with another justice i think actually the biggest significance of this judicial appointment has to do with trying to distract the public from the underlying failure to address the cole did challenges coronavirus hooley and swiftly in a coordinated fashion. Will this make a difference when we look at the poll numbers they have been sort of frozen. A significant. Lead for joe biden and it appears no matter what the headlines are that different stays the same so i suspect what makes this particular election different is just how stable t
A very outspoken and. Lobbyist ok if she is indeed the nominee how is. Confirmation is a scar indeed. Well some white house official actually warry that judge barrett he might gallon eyes not only democrats but also suborbital women and independent voters who would have favored a more mainstream pick but however barrett has been far only whetted by conservative groups and im less there is something lurking we dont know about the republican dominated senate will appoint air as the late successor of late are b. G. As they know that only need a simple majority to process and right now all indications say that they have these votes with only 2 republicans objecting objecting to the nomination happening so close to the election and already this nomination is plagued with controversy for lots of reasons some of which weve just talked about but also because of the timing coming just weeks ahead of november the november 3rd election how is this playing into trumps reelection strategy. Well it