The headline number, 57. 5, down from 59. 3. This is a very elevated number by historical standards still, but there are signs of some weakness creeping into those figures. It was unlikely they would remain as high as they did. The survey number was 58. We come through with a headline number of 57. 5. Prices paid a little light as well. The employment number has dropped quite significantly. This may be something you want to Pay Attention to. Remember, we are waiting for the payrolls number friday. 48. 4 is where we are coming through their. Construction spending month on month, 1. 3 . Lets break it all down. Lets get some details. Mike mckee come over to you. Michael you gave us most of the details there that matter, especially that employment number. That has been concerning people in the markets. We have seen a slowdown in the economy reflected in the topdown numbers, although manufacturing has been the source of strength in most economies around the world since the depth of the covi
Expected treasury secretary nominee janet yellen. Americans expectations for the future even grimmer. With no fresh round of stimulus and covid cases surging, many people are not feeling so optimistic as we head into the holidays. One Positive Side of the economy is housing. Joe it was one of the early strong parts of the economy this summer and continues to show incredible momentum. The speed of Housing Price growth through multiple measures. Month over month, i think that is the fastest pace of home price growth ever. Sincet sequential growth 2013. I dont even know if that is a good thing. If you own a home, i guess that is good. If you are looking to buy a home, not great. Caroline there is always the haves and havenots in any story. Consumer confidence, we know that the u. S. Economy is determined by the strength of our desire to spend here. Consumer confidence was not looking so pretty. We had dana talking about the worry that there is in peoples minds, that they do not see the ma
87, the s p 500 is up 10. 5 this month the russell 2000, the biggest ever month live oly outperforma small caps that sort of sets the scene for us your note today to our producers to me says everything, bryn. You say, yeah, were overbought, the market is technically ahead of itself, 200Day Moving Average but wed be buyers anyway yeah, you summed it up perfectly. I think to give some perspective around that, when youre looking at technicians or technical calls, the 200 Day Moving Average, over 90 of stocks in the s p are over their 200 Day Moving Average when that number gets above 80 , thats typically a time to take a stand back as a trader as an investor, though, as we are, you want to take a look at that and say, hey, if we get a selloff, which im sure well get because thats just the price of admission for being an equity investor, we absolutely want to be in stocks because what are your alternatives cash or bonds . And both of those offer you no yield and so we also think that next
Arizona for biden. Dow is up 191. Were going to start with disney though and a surge for shares this morning following the strong earnings last night and that enormous pop for disney plus subs. Julia boorstin is going to break that down for us hey, julia carl, disney plus accrued 73 Million Subscribers. The companys 120 million paid Digital Subscribers are a bright spot the company says suspension of the next semiannual dividend is in part to priority the direct to consumer initiatives. Its very clear what the new content has subscribers. I think youll see continued increase in investment and then that will fuel some of the growth that christine will talk about at the Investor Conference that we expect on december 10th. The company says theyre reassured by booking trends that cruise ship bookings for next year are very strong pushing to open disneys closed california parks, he called californias restrictions arbitrary. Were very encouraged by the prospect of a potential vaccine. Were e
Were happy about. Congratulations for that lets go to the wall and check out where we stand as we set the table for our friday conversation 29,367 for the dow thats 1 . 2 8. S p is just shy of that and the nasdaq is having a pretty good day as are the small caps. Liz young, lets set the investing landscape if we could for our debate youve got virus cases soaring but very promising vaccine news on a number of different front you got the president not conceding but you got biden winning arizona, which gives some more certainty to the transition period, despite the noise and the noise makers, if you will youve got so much pentup demand on the other side of the virus. You know thats going to be the case then you have this battle between value and growth as you all try and figure out where to place your bets for the months ahead. What do we do with all of that what do we do with all that we start with thinking about the time frame its true that through the end of the year, maybe into januar