vaccine and treatments, bringing the futures off of their lows this morning. still looking a lower open today, but much of this is profit taking after a very strong rally yesterday and last week. investors saying you know what, i m going to take some money off that table. there s not much stopping big tech, though. we talk about them a lot, every day, but for very good reason. new highs for several of these and one of our bulls will tell us in a few minutes why he s still buying them even at these levels. happening at the white house today, a big meeting about getting america s children back to school in september. that is a major factor in the economic recovery, if kids are back in school, parents can go back to work. it s a key issue. what about patrick mahomes? he s a record-breaking deal that s guaranteed for nearly a half billion dollars. i say guaranteed. he s a very rich young man. we have two pro athletes on the program to talk about that today. big three loursh
for you with jackie deangelis watching these markets today, edward lawrence has some reporting from washington, we ll get to edward in a moment but on a friday afternoon jackie we start with you. reporter: well, let s take a look at where the markets finish for the day because the dow started a little bit higher there was optimism about reopening but that petered out because you can see that the dow is down 207 points the s&p finished for the day by 17 and the nasdac managing to get out a small gain of three points there but also early optimism about some commentary coming from china about its commitment to the phase i trade deal too, but what really took the wind out of the sales was this report coming out of apple saying that it s going to close close to a dozen stores because of spikes in coronavirus cases across the country that have raised concerns so when the market sees apple is a little bit worried the market gets a little worried and they said in a statement and i ll
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how that turns out and beijing s reaction to it may well have an impact on our market today. we will show you that protest. second, that recession signal, the inverted yield curve, well, as you can see, it is no longer inverted. the ten-year yields more than the two-year, the way it ought to be. but i want to show you this. money is pouring into america s 30-year bond. its yield has dropped below 2% again. why? well, germany s bond has reached yet another new low, negative yield, minus .7%. really crazy stuff. all right. you may think this is a crazy headline, too. president trump, according to the wall street journal has suggested america buy greenland. varney & company is about to begin. no, i think the longer the trade war goes on, the weaker china gets and the stronger we get. we re taking in massive amounts of money, billions and billions of dollars, as you know, and i think the longer it goes, the stronger we get. i have a feeling it s going to go fairly short