To get things started off. The dow is down by 17 points but the s p and the nasdaq is there. Nasdaq is indicated up by 47 points this is after a strong month of july for all three of the averages the dow up by 2. 4 for the month. The s p saw its best july by ten years. It was up by 5. 5 . Thats nothing compared to the nasdaq today is the first trade ding d of august. Thats out at 10 00 a. M. Eastern time today also take a look at treasury yields you did see yields under extreme pressure or ten year closing at its lowest level since all the way back to march 9th. Right now it is a little bit higher 0. 546 stimulus talks in congress. Trump administrations officials and House Speaker nancy pelosi are set to resume negotiations today on their competing visions of a bill. The Sticking Point continues to be a boost set at 600 per week in march that lapsed on friday he and Speaker Pelosi are on the same page about the need of direct Cash Payments of 1,200 to most americans. Andrew. And big co
Weve seen for the dow in a row, the first time thats happened since february this is all happening despite crude oil prices the treasury shows you the tenyear is yielding 0. 627 . There are crude oil prices, generally when weve seen pressure on crude oil, thats put pressure on equities as well thats not the case this morning. Wti is indicated down by over 15 . Thats a decline of 2. 66 to 14. 28 a barrel. Brent crude down by just 3. 3 . Its now trading at 20. 73 andrew meantime, an update on the pandemic and the numbers we bring you every morning about where we stand heres where we do stand global cases now are at 2. 9 million. In perspective, cases in the United States are at 965,000, closing in on 1 million. 288,000 of those cases are from new york state with another 109,000 of them in the neighboring new jersey yesterday new York Governor Andrew Cuomo outlined the states plans to reopen the economy in phases beginning on may 15th now, the first phase involves construction and manufac
Measures fail to emerge. On the monetary side, the bank of england, becomes the latest to cut rates treasury yields hovering around 80 basis points. Full Team Coverage of todays market plunge. Mike san tolly is with us and meg on the latest on the coronavirus. But well begin with breaking news out of washington major Bank Executives meet with the president today. Well get to wolf at the white house. Reporter the president and the Vice President and the treasury secretary currently hosting in the white house behind me the leaders of the major Financial Institutions of this country in attendance we have the leaders of jpmorgan, bank of america, citigroup, goldman sachs, wells fargo, black stone making it the type of gathering we havent seen since the peak of the financial crisis. Theyre all inside, as we speak. What will be on the agenda well, two main things. Number one, liquidity and the functioning of markets number two, lending to businesses that are most affected by the coronavirus.
Successful launch, the apple card issued by Goldman Sachs hit some snags in 2019. First, our top story. Tech continues to be the outperformer in 2019 with the nasdaq on track for its best year since 2013. The tech index is up 35 , just 3 shy of 2013s banner year. It is largely due to apple and the chipmakers. Joining us is abigail doolittle. I am showing on my terminal a chart about divergence, winners and losers. What is your take away from the divergence . Abigail the clear winners, apple and facebook. Apple up 85 , facebook up 55 . The others up closer to 20 or 30 . Still great gains. And the complex is overall higher. 2019 really the year of record highs. The complex overall, the last record high overall back in july but those two Companies Really pulling away with the lead, apple and facebook. Apple putting in record high after record high. And behind that buying power, you have to think it had something to do with 2018. Because between october and december 2018, apple fell about
Successful launch, the apple his calls for 2020. Google undergoing oracle card issued by Goldman Sachs hit some snags in 2019. Undergoing a big transformation. How do you see facebook entering what is a pretty crowded cloud first, our top story. Business . Tech continues to be the john it is crowded at the outperform or in 2019 with the application layer. Nasdaq on track for its best you have salesforce and all of those Different Software service year since 2013. 35 , justndex is up companies. With what amazon does, the aws 3 shy of 20s banner year. Service, there were really only ofis largely due to the three competitors, at least in north america. Microsoft as newer microsoft 2013s banner year. Aws, and google cloud. It is rgely due to apple and above the chipmakers. I am showing on my terminal i think the thing that chart about divergence, winners distinguishes these guys is obviously they have done a lot and losers. Of innovative stuff, but it is the clear winners, scale. Facebook,