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If it went ahead virtually, the nature of the interaction would change and interrupting would be much more difficult but the president says hes not going to do a virtual debate. Thats where it stands right now. At last nights debate orderly fashion and Kamala Harris failed to answer on key issues, she deflect order laughed it all off. Her silence revealed on what the biden team will do if elected. President trump goes all in on regenerons antivirus treatment. The president called it a miracle. Of course, hes been criticized for his use of an unapproved treatment. The stock, though, up big time, 3. 6 , 21 higher. Now look at the overall market after wednesdays very, very big rally. 840,000 jobless claims last week. Not having that much impact on the market this morning. We see the dow going up another 180. S p up 21 and look at that the nasdaq going again up 101 points. Possibility, they are still talking about some form of stimulus ....
The markets. Ashley, first to you. Ashley well, guys as we say good riddance to september where all the major indexes posted a loss we embrace a new month but we havent come exactly flying out of the gates although green across the screen. The dow finishing slightly higher as you can see, about 1 10 of a percent after being down more than 100 points. S p up half a percent. But it was nasdaq showed the best performance of the new month up 1 1 2 . Like Charlie Brown with a rain cloud over his head investors are frustrated by congresss inability to agree on a new stimulus bill. With the markets going up and down with each competing headline from nancy pelosi and the treasury secretary and everybody else. As a result we saw stocks move for the most part today sideways in somewhat flat trading but as i mentioned the big tech stocks did manage to give the Broader Market some impetus ....
The 27,700 level. Remember, it was 18,000 on march 23rd. The s p, what, nearly 3400. New alltime high. The nasdaq well over the 11,000 mark. Who would have thought of that. Add it all up and yes, we are now in a brand new bull market. Heres another reason for the rally. Terrific performance from major retailers, target, out today with a blowout report. Online sales nearly tripled. It was targets best overall growth rate ever. That stock is going straight up. Add this to the numbers from walmart, home depot and its clear the major retailers won big by staying open in the lockdown. Really, though, kind of tough on the smaller operators. Got to get to it. The convention, boring in my judgment. Tv ratings way down. Wheres the excitement . Everything is on tape and the whole thing lacks the spontaneity of a live crowd. The performance of the old guard, bill clinton, john kerry and a grim chuck schumer. The bright spot was aocs oneminute appearance. She nominated United States , Hong Kong , New York , Colorado Springs , Saudi Arabia , Cassie Smedley , Elizabeth Warren , Gregg Smith , Holland Hill , Jay Wright , Nancy Pelosi , Joe Biden , Tim Cook , Martha Maccallum , Biden Harris , America Stuart , Joni Ernst , Andy Biggs , Tjx Lauren , Trevor Lawrence , Grady Trimble , Larry Ellison , Eva Longoria , John Mccain , Bernie Sanders , Tim Scott ,