Welcome to closing bell, everyone im wilfred frost along leslie picket in for sara isen today. Nasdaq holding on to some gains ahead of the holiday tomorrow. Pain in the labor market as new Employment Data underlines how tenuous the economy is nasdaq higher, growth out performed value. Energy under some pressure for a change after a huge surge in november and weve seen strong numbers from Corporate America mastercard said spending remains steady gap the counterpoint that stock is down 20 today alone. 59 minutes and oneday holiday coming up, of course, tomorrow the dow is down 0. 6 . Coming up on todays show, Website Security Company Cloud flair shares are up. Well speak to the ceo plus, riding with unicorns well talk to Founders Fund keith rabois Steve Liesman has a look at todays economic data. Mike santoli is tracking the market action. Deir deirdre bowsa has details. Steve, start us off with the economy. A busy day today. Yeah. The Federal Reserve earlier this month at its meeting d
And tom keene on Bloomberg Television, Bloomberg Radio across this nation, one day to the election, and to all of you worldwide, good morning. An incredibly busy newsweek. After the election, weve got the fed, weve got jobless claims, and a jobs report on friday. We are really focused on the election. How do you from london see it. Jonathan elevated volatility going into it, and a breakdown in correlations. For markets, i think it is really tricky right now. Typically you would expect some inverse correlation between stocks and bonds. At are not getting at the moment. Difficult is really to assess what the politics actually mean, and to put together a portfolio around it. Tom we are going to talk to an esteemed guest about that. I got to ask you about the lockdown. We heard earlier this morning the exceptionally difficult weekend Prime Minister johnson had. It is government threatened . Jonathan his government is failing on this front, and plan has failed as well. His party, that is wh
Worldwide, and television as well. A bit of a fog and rain in new york. A fog towards the election seven days on. After the carnage we saw yesterday, we really have to recalibrate where we are because we advanced so nicely for it yesterday. It really isnt all that much of a pull back to, is it pullback technically, is it . Jonathan lets be clear, the s p 500 might be bouncing back by about 0. 5 , europe is not as all. Not just the caseload, but also the restrictions around the continent. Europe has a problem. I keep talking about this. Theres a real issue in the european economy. The recovery had already lost moment him just lost momentum. Then you throw this on top already lost momentum. They need for this on top . It doesnt look good. Ecb that gets to in meeting. S of freedom that Christine Lagarde has gets ever more narrow, doesnt it . Jonathan keep financial conditions loose. What i found fascinating, and guy and i went back and forth on this yesterday, if you ask people whether we
States right now in washington, fragile hopes for a stimulus deal remain Speaker Pelosi and secretary treasurer mnuchin are expected to talk this afternoon in hopes of getting a deal done. A full economic recovery has a long way to go and another expert said many lost jobs may not come back. All 11 s p sectors are lower 59 minutes to go we are making new session lows with the dow down 400 points. Lets get to the market downturn we just referenced. Mike santoli is tracking all of the action no trigger but a clear response. The only trigger that seems clear at all is the mark of 2 30 eastern time, when the downturn accelerated. It seems as if it is essentially kind of getting ahead of the close, peeling down exposure we did have that good rebound into last week from the late september lows we had some positioning indicators suggesting people were full up on equity there has been a pattern of strength overnight in equity futures opening up strong and selling throughout the day it seems li
We will begin, though, this morning with of course stocks, futures indicate an additional testing of that 3220 level on the s p. Were also talking about the possibility, however remote it might seem, of a relief package coming out of congress,given some conversation, jim, between secretary mnuchin and Speaker Pelosi do you think there is a chance i know that they both care passionately about Small Business if you look at the testimony yesterday by secretary mnuchin, he mentioned restaurants a couple of times. Thats where the yelp numbers that we get, yelp yikes is our vc, where the real damage s youre starting to talk about 50 of the bars and nightlife being closed in this country, thats way too big and i think that the secretary is really alluding to that david, do i think there will be a deal i think there is a sense that both sides feel a deal is bad for them, in other words, if they give if theres a stalemate, they will somehow do better at the election i dont think thats true, but