The dow did go down. The nasdaq went down 4 or 5 . I spent the better part of this year studying the pandemic i was right. You know what we just cover . The professionals are not the only covid that matters. We have a Massive Group of investors who become professionals. They dont care about the same thing as the experts theyre the ones who were the marginal buyers and sellers. The investors have changed the entire character of the market what made you not be able to sleep at night it was very little belief in stocks for the past 20 years, the convention says stocks could no longer be trusted. They continue to lose their values way too quickly when something goes wrong on top of that, the convention only a fool to try to pick individual stocks. You may as well stop trying to beat the mark and put some of your money in an index fund and invest safely in bonds the last eight months, that convention has been stood on its head by a new generation of investors after the rise of Commission Fr
Before she hits the ground shes going to want to step aside good monday morning welcome to squawk alley. Im Carl Quintanilla with jon fortt and Julia Boorstin markets looking good, yields up and oil up as investors are focused on two things, the prospects for more stimulus covid aid and the potential departure of the president from walter reed on the latter point well turn to eamon javers good morning. Good morning, carl. No information yet from the white house at 11 00 a. M. , but they did bring the White House Pool reporters over from the white house here to walter reed which indicates there might be some expectation that we could get a briefing for the press within the next hour or so were going to stand by for that meanwhile, no indication whether theyve made the decision yet to move or not move the president they say theyll make that decision with the medical team later on this afternoon. So we continue to wait here as we learn that the Vice President and mrs. Pence have tested ne
Positive signs on the economic front as the u. S. Nonmanufacturing index expanded and treasury yields breaking higher today much more on that move in just a bit. 59 minutes left to two in the session, and the dow is up more than 400 points. Thanks, sara. Lets get to the big stories we begin with amon javers. Reporter we dont know about the president s condition at this hour, but we know about his intent at this hour. He is ready to go home he has been at Walter Reed Medical Center since friday evening, and hes ready go he said, i will be leaving the great Walter Reed Medical Center today at 6 30 p. M. Feeling really good. Dont be afraid of covid dont let it dominate your life. We have developed under the trump administration, some really great drugs and knowledge. I feel better than i did 20 years ago. That came in the hour in which we were told we would get a briefing from the president s doctors explaining what his condition is exactly its not clear whether the president is preemptin
Lets milk this and go back and forth. We dont even finish each others sent answers it will be awesome this is the first time you are back at the nasdaq in a while. I go away and then im quarantined. I went away in july and finally got back here. I went away again and came back and been quarantined another two weeks. You got to start going away whachlt are you doing . I wish these states would drop off there is 57 states on the list no there are a lot of states on the list not all states i was in a county that was like an island, nobody was there i am glad to be back there is a big krispy kreme thing. Most lights ever i was looking and i was thinking about you. I got to stop thinking about you when im not at work thats not what i want in my life you may draw me back to time square but so will crispy cream. We were talking about this the last couple of weeks i havent been in there in ea while. He said there is no one around nobody on the streets. Is that the case there is people here. A
Next, look at efforts to modernize Information Technology across government agencies. The House Oversight subcommittee hearing includes the chief Information Officers from the Government Accountability office, the office of personnel management, white house budget the education department. This is about 2. 5 hours. 5, 4, 3, 2, one. [gavel] welcome, everybody to the Sub Committee on government operations. And our hearing. Pursuant togin, house rules, most members today webex, remotely. Some members are appearing in person, or at least this member is, let me remind you that all individuals attending the hearing in person must wear a face mask. I am dropping mine only to speak. Maskrs not wearing a face will not be recognized. Let me also make some reminders for those appearing in person. You will only see witnesses appearing remotely on the monitor in front of you. In activeare speaking speaker view. A timer is visible in front of you. Remotely,attending let me remind everybody about poi