The strongest week since back to april. However, you have to put that in context. Two weeks ago was a lousy week in fact, two weeks ago the dow lost just over 1800 points, down by 1833 points last week the dow was up by 1821 points so that was a giveback for the dow kind of starting things over if you look at the other major averages, they got back much more ground than they had lost the previous week. Last week the s p was up 329 points after being down 195 the week before and the nasdaq was up by 983 points last week after losing 636 points the week before but again these gains this morning are significant ones they are adding to what we saw last week. Also, take a look at whats happening in the treasury market youll see that right now the treasury, the tenyear, is yielding 0. 812 so its stabilized after bouncing around quite a bit during the election and the election counting last week stabilized at 0. 812 andrew thanks, becky our top story this morning, president elect biden wastin
That continues a down trend but only just. A spike in new virus cases, especially arizona and texas. The words second wave have some investors worried. The Federal Reserve, well, jay powell sees the effects of the virus dragging on the economy until 2022. Thats not the rapid recovery the administration sees. Larry kudlow joins us in our 11 00 hour. So what do you do . Do you hold on to the stocks youve got, do you buy this dip . That was successful in the past. Or do you get out and take your profit while you can . We will try to answer at least some of those questions. Politics. Joe biden says President Trump may try to steal the election and joe biden says the president promotes racism. His words. This as demonstrators create what they call a no cop zone in downtown seattle. It was created overnight. The president is not happy about that. And this afternoon, mr. Trump heads to dallas, texas. We expect to hear from him about Police Reform and maybe about any new help for the economy f
A virus lockdown winner has emerged. Its walmart. They have had the advantage of remaining open and they finetuned their delivery and pickup services. They have done very well. Look at this. Same store sales, up 10 . Huge. Sams club sales up 12 , even bigger. Ecommerce, now, this is a big one, up 74 , online sales. That is remarkable. The stock, we are quoting premarket now, the stock is up nearly five bucks, 3. 8 . Okay. This is going to be a live action day. Two top money guys head to capitol hill. Speaker mnuchin, jay powell, they will be discussing what they think still needs to be done for the economy. You want my opinion, please give us Liability Protection. The president addresses the nations farmers. What do they need and whats with the Food Supply Chain. We will carry his speech live. Thats in our 11 00 hour this morning. Then theres the market. After yesterdays 900point gain. That rally followed encouraging news on a vaccine from moderna and the rapid reopening of the economy
Points. Brent really rolling over by about 5 , much worse than wti. It is now a pure demand issue. You see equities taking it on the chin, as well as commodities. Time for todays top market moving news from new york and our london team. We want to begin in the u. S. Come over Senate Democrats blocked Mitch Mcconnells attempt to advance the coronavirus economic rescue package. Minneapolis fed president neel bloomberg the fed can do more to support the economy. We are being more aggressive. Is there more we can do . Yes. Is there more we may end up doing . Yes, but i feel we are being very aggressive. Alix joining me for more is Michael Mckee. Walk us through what he said, what more they can do, and what is going on in d. C. Michael jim bullard is the one who really scared the markets by saying a 30 Unemployment Rate and perhaps a 50 annualized decline in gdp during the Second Quarter. Morgan stanleys is the closest to that 30 , so he thinks things can be much worse. They still say the f
Final day of campaigning ahead of tomorrows election basic resources outperform stocks amid information the u. S. Could push back tariffs on chinese goods. Credit suisse citing joongoi pressure and trade tensions. Good morning and welcome to street signs. We have a very busy show for you. The top story, the Worlds Largest ipo has made its debut saudi aramco shares have made its way 10 higher on the exchange after listing for 32 per share giving the company a market value of around 1. 88 trillion, we can round up to 1. 9 trillion, not quite 2 trillion lets go to hadley it has finally happened. The ipo has occurred the stock is trading and yet still shy of that 2 trillion number 1. 8 not that bad especially given the negative press weve heard. Rounds and rounds of pretty negative press it is pretty fantastic for me to see this not just having covered the kingdom for 10 years you about from the initial announcement in 2016 when the saudi prince made this part of the situation for saudi vi