Stayathome to save the birds of london. That is a good thing to say. It is the strangest august, and the only litmus paper youve got right now is the weaker dollar, the preponderant trend this morning. Francine yeah, weaker dollar. Im also looking at a couple things. When it looks at iron ore, it is significantly up, and we are looking at gold. First lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news in new york city with ritika gupta. Ritika Michelle Obama describes President Trump as unfit for office on the Opening Night of the democratic convention. The former first lady blasted him from his handling the pandemic. Worthen 150,000 people have died, and our more than 150,000 people have died, and our economy is in shambles because of a virus that this president downplayed for too long. Trump isbama said that clearly in over his head. President trump added a trip to iowa to his schedule today. Support has been slipping in a state that he won in nine Percentage Points in 2016. Polls sho
Locations as we put social distancing into effect here at cnbc as a precaution were going to start squawk alley this morning with bob pisani with an update on todays markets. Bob . And jon, the important thing here is i want to show you the futures because a lot of confusion overnight here we were futures down overnight, then we hada big rally at 8 00 a. M. Eastern time as the Federal Reserve announced new programs and yet the open was a real disappointment and it shows you that liquidity is fairly thin preopen. A lot of people were surprised we opened down so much but were off of the lows right now. Sects here, banks have had a tough time throughout the morning, most down 4, 5 or 6 . Energy stocks also had a tough morning. Everything else, 2 lets say, industrials, technology also down about 2 . Semiconductors started strong but have been weak for a while now. Boeing, one of the few stocks on the upside, only three or four up today, an upgrade goldman sachs. Home depot on the upside, c
Stocks. It really started, if you think about it, a year ago today with a big rally the day after christmas, the after the Christmas Eve selloff last year. Now as we get set for a new year, nasdaq 9,000, what is next . What are you thinking about . Im really optimistic where the markets are going in 2020. It is kind of interesting, if you look at this historically, with a year where markets are up over 20 , on the average the dow has been up over 75 of the time with an average of close to 9 . The s p 500 has been up over 83 of the time with an average over 11 . Past returns are not indicative of future returns but if stats is on our side, history is on our side, markets are still good value, there is still room to grow and a lot of potential as weve seen in the past. Connell gary you and i spoke couple days ago right before christmas. Youre more of a worrier, right . Nothing wrong with that. Someones got to but how do you look at this run . At this point, is it getting toward as point
Tea leaves boosting stocks china says trade reps are in close contact with the u. S futures do point to a second higher open. Plus, putting mergers on notice Elizabeth Warren drafteding legislation to reverse mega mergers. And a shakeup at united airline, oscar munoz stepping down president scott kirby will take over next spring we do have breaking news on gm for that we will go to phil lebeau in chicago. A busy day, phil. Reporter it is a busy day, phil General Motors announcing it is forming a joint venture with lg chem the two companies will be creating an electric vehicle battery plant in northeast ohio. It may be if lorn lordstown or outside lorsdtown where gm used to have a plant. They sold the plant earlier this year gm will invest up to 2. 3 billion into that joint venture with lg chem located near lorsdtown, ohio and create up to 1,100 new jobs this is a move many expected they talked that it had plans to add jobs in northeast ohio we will talk first with gm ceo mary bar repor
Remain just a point or so away from reaching record high levels, and on strike. General motors seeing its first worker strike since the financial crisis and could cost the Company Millions of dollars each day it is monday, september 16th and Worldwide Exchangeegins right now. Good morning im dominic chu in for Brian Sullivan today. Energy prices are soaring with brent coming off its biggest intraday move on record. Prices right now moving to the upside you can see here wti crude up 7. 5 brent crude up almost 8 by the way, it opened up nearly just around 20 at one point here as the saudis aim to restore at least one third of their lost output by early this week Yemens Houthi rebels claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it was one of their largest attacks ever inside of the kingdom. But the u. S. Is rejecting that notion saying the scope and precision of those attacks suggest the launch was not made by the houthis but in fact, originated from iran iran rejecting those claims, cal