Sales way ahead of the season which would be black friday. Seismic shift here to this calendar here. Does this surprise you . Melody, you start to talk about it since june and every year it is further back. It is making me crazy. I admit that is maybe i am old school, everything you just mentioned until after thanksgiving that to me is the official Holiday Season bahumbug amazon is rewriting the script i guess in some way is good for them we have sales, walmart and target during the week and especially in light of this weird environment we are in which is an expectation of stimulus but no actual stimulus here well, we may be the line of misfit tonight there is no question amazon and walmart are the leaders. An acceleration of all these trends we spent so much time talking about fast money of the trends being pushed forward but already in place 49 measured through last month. As you go into the Holiday Season is bigger amazon about 32. 5 it goes to 38 they continue to take market share
The nasdaq on track for a 5th week worth of gains here and the dow is erasing its losses for all the year at its highest level since late february, its also having its bests august since 1984. We turn to the Investment Committee for this we have just been seeing green, green, green for it seems like weeks, if not nonts months at this point it is surprising the markets have marched higher the way they have over the last several months since the pandemic lows its not all surprising all the factors were looking at from the fiscal side, the monetary side and the virus side are lining up in support of equity just think about what happened with chair powell yesterday and the historic announcement he made about departure from the prior inflation targeting regimes to this averaging inflation concept. What does that mean . That means rate will be low, low, low for the foreseeable future we think thats two years from now. That is very support ifr five f valuations then you have this fiscal stimu
Starting the quarter with gains. The nasdaq was up more than 1 by an alltime high. S p was up half a percentage point. The dow was up slightly. A decline of about 0. 3 . Burke buckle your seat belts a lot to come. We have been watching what is happening with the futures at this point, all three in the green. The dow up almost 200 points all coming before the big jobs report the last trading day of the week before a long Holiday Weekend for the 4th of july. You could see some activity happening here a quick look at the treasury market youll see right now, the 10year looks like it is yielding 0. 676 . It is that jobs preview people are waiting for to get a sense of what is happening in the economy. Lets bring you the preview maybe not the numbers itself but get ready for them markets in the u. S. Are closed tomorrow in observance of Independence Day today is jobs thursday forecasters expecting an addition of 2. 9 million nonfarm jobs in june Unemployment Rate expected to dr drop calling
Have the numbers as soon as they hit the tape and show you the impact. Coronavirus keeping the c task force going indefinitely focusing on Vaccine Development and reopening the economy. Meanwhile some lawmakers looking to expand the Paycheck Protection Program and add more stimulus but others raising concerns about growing debt and deficit. Markets this morning pointing to higher opening. Take a look at futures, indicating market wills open higher in triple digits, dow up 3020 points, s p is up 41 and nasdaq higher by 138, one and a third percent, this after concerns of new china relations to china. Scope memo is out. Outlining authority to former special counsel Robert Mueller, it reveals probe went beyond and completely openended. The fallout coming out. People are working out and playing video games, pelaton surging 66 , the company boosting Sales Outlook and the stock flexing muscle as well. Stock up 17 in premarket. Fortnite becoming one of the most Popular Video games ever surpas
Joe, the big story is oil prices once again im ready to move out past june move out where . June is too close if we are not going to open anything up, no reason to think it will be anything different than minus 38 a barrel it is related to the price of gold and the price of a suit, so i should have been buying andrew, you are spending 10 times what you are on a suit with those hugo boss things. Which none of them have belt loops for 4,000, you could get a couple of belt loops no hugo boss. It is ralph. Ralph who oil prices, it is not funny. This is out of the realm of anything weve ever seen brent crude only a 20year low you look at wti or what may was before the contract rolls. It is incredible supply shortage spiked overseas. The u. S. Movement, wtis june contract the price giving up earlier gains. Up 11 see, im ready to move to september. August at some point what does this mean for the saudis youve had your picture taken there on a sand dune youve got a feel. They should have done