The nasdaq up by about 120 yesterday was a down day for the markets. The dow off by about 270 points. But if you want to take a look at november hes historic gain, check this out, the dow actually up by 1. 8 for the month, that is its best month since january of 1987. The s p no slouch either it gained about 11 while the nasdaq was up nearly 12 november by the way was the best month for all of those indexes since april which was a huge month. Also small cap stocks were some big winners. The russell 2000 finished the month up more than 18 , 245ethas right, 18 in one month, the best month since that index was created back in 1984 so here we are heading into december and year to date, the nasdaq is the superstar, up nearly 36 the s p 500 is up by 12 and the russell 2000 up by 9 . The dow up by 3. 9 so fantastic november for all of these indices. Nasdaq leading the way in terms of year to date. Joe. Yep, coincident with the surge. Go figure. The second surge are you sure it is never too ea
For an earnings season that is beginning to unfold. Later, the rush is on as Apple Unveils its new 5g enabled iphone are the stars now aligned for a super cycle that wall street has been waiting for for apple power lunch starts right now stimulus negotiations hitting a wall once again as the two sides are stuck on whether to do one big bill or several smaller ones elon has the latest for us there will be no relief before the election. We knew this in our guts, we knew it by looking at the calendar and today treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin acknowledged it publicly during a speech for the milken institute. Getting something done before the election and executing on that would be difficult just given where we are in the level of details were going to try to continue to work through these issues reporter now, this is dispute the fact that the senate will still go through the exercise of voting on a 500 billion package of targeted relief next week thats much less than what democrats are a
Higher density battery, greener, but the technological breakthrough towards that are still speculative so the market reacted negatively to that news. Right the bull case is that were seeing built today say that if you were to be able to cut the cost by 56 in three years, it would have enormous ramifications on volume, implications for margins and ostensibly positive for the stock. Cramer said it best this morning, if you were a believer going into the event, you remain a believer and if not, maybe youre not. Fair enough its absolutely true that the Battery Technologies worldwide tesla and everybody elses will continue to get cheaper and better thats a given thats just the all laws that support Technological Breakthroughs support that theory so thats already baked into the price. You know, all the disruptive capacity of the technology is already baked into the price theres Everything Else is just sexy brand, elon cult personality who of course deserves all the credit in the world he adm
The sessions you want to take a look at whats happening with u. S. Equity futures this morning. Dow futures up 10 points, s p up by three we are still under water for all three major averages even after the gains we saw yesterday the dow down about 3 . The nasdaq is down 5. 6 also bumping up against the end of the quarter. Major averages still in positive territory. Youll see now, it looks like the 10year is sitting at 0. 65 of 1 . Andrew, welcome back thank you, becky House Speaker pelosi said democrats proposed a new 2. 2 trillion relief bill saying it is a compromised measure with in funding for schools and airlines white house chief of staff saying President Trump would be willing to sign a 1. 3 trillion relief package well see, guys where this all heads. Inching along we went from 2. 3 to 2. 2. I dont know where the white house is Vice President mike pence said yesterday americans should expect a rise in covid cases in the days ahead as testing increases in some midwestern states
Our fight for democratic. Step vasant has more from minsk. The pressure is for sure its been a delicate balancing act until now in the past 6 weeks since the start of the political crisis both the opposition and europe have been very careful not to alinea. Russia because they were worried that belarus and look at shanghai would be much further pushed towards russia than already is the case but now patience is. Meeting between look at shanghai and put in last week resulted in a stronger bond between the 2 leaders put in has reiterated his support again for the embattled well russian leader has promised money one and a half 1000000000 u. S. Dollars so now the opposition but also europe is feeling that russia cant be engaged in a dialogue any longer so they are now putting up the pressure the European Parliament has also adopted a resolution saying they wont accept look at the formal president or any longer after the 5th of november thats when his term officially finishes the u. N. Says N