Out deals, including today market ral llies the s p climbs 7. 8 and nasdaq soared 1. 39 thats why i keep telling you that you got to stick with stocks that dont need stimulus. All day they show them on air is fantastic. The white house is negotiated with Speaker Pelosi though it will have to pass the senate and Mitch Mcconnell says maybe they have interested in some sort of stimulus you throw in the election next month and you got a chaotic occasion there is too much name calling i love to be proven wrong. Main street absolutely needs the money. The stock market does knot know what main street is doing and Speaker Pelosi and secretary mnuchin, they both know that today the president seems to know it, too until they symptoms catop calli, always skeptical while the tease keeping the bull up in the air today. I dont think if we dont get something come on monday, i do expect a selloff. It comes up too far and too fast we are due to a pullback historically if something does not develop here
Good thursday morning, welcome to squawk alley. Stocks did take a leg lower at the open the s p bounced right off of the 50 day well watch that closely but were off of the low levels of the early session. Here is the president yesterday on oracles deal with bite dance stands you said it was important that a u. S. Company buy tiktok. Were going to find out about that were looking at that from the standpoint of bitedance. We dont like that conceptually we dont like that. That has not been told to me yet. That has been reported but not told to me speaking of reporting, david faber has more of that for us. Not a lot of insight on that key question siting a source close to the deal, the conversations, that have been ongoing for awhile now. The president is most likely to make a decision in the next 24 to 36 hours. Not likely today, but prior to the weekend, im told, by someone familiar with the situation that he will make a decision as to the future ownership of tiktok here in the united st
Now. Broader markets also higher. Take a look at futures, dow futures currently up 250 points, thats about 1 , nasdaq futures up 92 and s p futures up 25. Stimulus standoff leading to the nasdaq lower by 185. Gold losing some of its shine. Tumbling 4 and a half percent yesterday. More tiktok security concerns this morning. The popular chinese app reportedly tracking user data for millions of people in violation of google policies. Plus College Football taking time out, the big ten and pack 12 postponing the fall season due to coronavirus. Mornings with maria is live right now. Maria and global marks this morning are mixed. Ftse 100 in london is up 48 points and uk economy falling into a recession after shrinking more than 20 in the Second Quarter, largest contraction reported by any major economy so far. The cac quarante in paris up 12 and dax index in germany lower by 18 points this morning. Check asian markets mostly higher on the session. Kospi index was higher as well as hang seng,
U. S. Commerce Department Suspends regulations allowing special treatment to hong kong. Boris johnson will channel fdr in a midlands speech, touting a new deal. He is expected to push Infrastructure Spending and hold off on balancing the books until recovery is certain. 6 00 a. M. Int gone london. The narrative i think from two very powerful local points, the health organization, the worst is yet to come and extraordinary uncertainty coming down the pipe. Which market is incorrectly priced . U. S. Equities or the bond market . You like a little bit of belly in the bond curve, dont you . Tell the truth. Nejra i absolutely do. We are seeing ourselves are all the time and ask our guests this. With all the Central Bank Stimulus out there, its sort of makes sense that you have equities and bonds gaining in tandem. Data track did some research and investors absolutely split down the middle on whether we see gains or losses of 10 for the second half. There is a lot of cash sitting on the side
Which means they were the vast majority of the comp sales the in store sales were. 9 . The stores fulfilled 80 of the digital orders in some way Brian Cornell said the retailer will spend 500 million from the beginning of march through july 4th on higher wages and other operational expenses related to the covid crisis so this spending goes beyond q 1 into q 2 not directly comparable with what we heard from walmart yesterday. The sales came at a cost their operating Income Margin was 2. 4 compared to 6. 4 in the same period last year and the gross margin rate was 25 compared to nearly 30 last year but then look at lowes, Michael Baker calls lowes perhaps the most surprising result of the quarter for retail their comparable sales grew more than 11 total up more than 12 in the u. S. Thats only the fourth time in at least ten years we think that lowes beat home depot in the u. S. Both retailers had identical online sales growth in the quarter of 80 but that is a huge growth compared to las