Slightly as the drugmaker did say it will seek that approval for an emergency use for its vaccine by late november. As carl mentioned, wall street looking to snap a threeday losing streak. September retail sales delivering a big beat. Futures up this morning. Carl david and leslie, a couple of things working in the bulls favor today. Three days down. A little bit of room to bounce back on the upside, david. But futures were slightly negative, then we got that open letter from pfizer, saying that we could be looking at potentially a request for an eua by mid to late november and retail sales with that blowout number for the month and year on year the figures, david, reflect a consumer that has put together a nest egg during the course of the summer, and that is continuing to provide some momentum for the consumer. It is funny, i go back to that interview i did with david berman of maybe six weeks ago already, but somebody who tracks retail sales, more closely perhaps than anyone. And in
Hard to digest the news. Well cut right at it, give you the details in a moment. Overall, the market lacks real direction. The dows going to be up maybe 15, s p up 10. Nice gain for the nasdaq though, all green at this point. Politics [laughter] can you say softballs . One after another, they were lobbed towards joe biden at the cnn town hall last night. Not very good preparation for the first president ial debate which is, by the way, 11 days away. The standout for me came when biden suggested that if the president had acted sooner on the virus, all those people would not have died. So the president killed 190,000 people . Not a word of pushback from the moderator, cnns moderator. Today biden goes to minnesota, an opportunity for him to clarify his position on urban rioting and defunding the police after the minneapolis disturbances. And get this, the president will also be in minnesota today. You can bet hell brung up law and order bring up law and order. Mr. Trumps press secretary,
The securities and Exchange Commission focusing on disclosure. We will get into it. 8 30 a. M. Eastern. Chairman jay is here live. We will talk about it. Isaias leaving millions without power, the deadly storm causing disruption across the east coast. Did you lose power . Novaxx with trial, research and Development President gregory glen is here to walk us through the progress. Markets this morning look like this. Indications are for pretty good rally at the start of trading. Futures indicating gain 200 points right out of the gate. Dow industrials up 198 and nasdaq up 1. The momentum continues. Up 38 points yesterday, the dow up 164 at the close yesterday and the s p up 11. Gold committerring glittering. Take a look. Up and a 3 quarters percent. 2020 voting in focus. Battle intensify over mailin ballots, the campaign sue it is state of nevada. Plus some of you may have heard but i have a very special announcement later this morning. Stick around, big announcement coming up. Mornings w
Concerns about a second wave of covid19 with cases surging past 2 million in the United States. Texas numbers have been hitting new highs and houston is reconsidering reimposing its stayathome order. We will continue to follow that. I want to welcome in kailey leinz. Is drivingabout what stocks down. Between 5 es ranging and 7 . In terms of what is driving it, probably eight multitude of factors. The grim outlook from the Federal Reserve yesterday. Layered on top of that, concerns about a possible second wave of the coronavirus and the fact that we have run very far, very fast. There may have been a little profit taking involved in this equation as well. You had small caps really underperforming. They have kind of been a proxy for that recovery trade. They were down 7. 6 today. Yields on the long and with the 10 year yield down about six basis points. On the day, out of the 505 stocks in the s p 500, only one closed up, kroger, one of the classic kind of coronavirus safety plays. Did i
Into civil unrest and eventually violence and rioting. This morning in minnesota, the sun came to came up as it does this time of year, bright. Trees are butted out. Flowers are up. The promise of summer after a long winter is there. I want to say thank you to all of the people of and a soda who protected their neighbors, who took an unprecedented step last that an unprecedented force of our neighbors and Public Servants were able to come together, execute the most operationblic safety in the states history. They did so in professional manner. They did so without a single lossoflife and minimal property damage. I am grateful to those folks. I am grateful for their protection of minnesota. Again to make note once that the Operational Plan and the decision to operate falls with me. When the order to do so, the actions that happen after that are my responsibility. I want to once again extend my deepest apologies to the journalists who were once again in the middle of this situation, were