Years. That is the best month of the year, im connell mcshane. This is the closing bell. Time for news of the hour. Jackie deangelis in new york, blake burman in white house, Hillary Vaughn with the president elect in delaware and Edward Lawrence in washington with the latest on the covid19 relief deal. A lot of moving parts well get into. The market is back in rally mode. Good afternoon, jackie. Reporter good afternoon, connell. Well talk about the records we set today with the s p 500 and also the nasdaq. Look at the gains there we beat what we were expecting handily. You only needed 16 points on the s p and only needed seven on the nasdaq. This was a strong broad based rally today what is interesting big tech continues to gain on this momentum and continues to go higher from there. Facebook, apples, amazon, microsofts of the world are continuing to climb up. That is something you expect to hear. Again it wasnt just tech, it was broadbased. Look at the dow winners you can see we have
Crushed, lowes falls short. Both retailers see big gains in online sales and Curbside Pickup and the Energy Sector is coming off its best week ever more than 16 gain last week the ceo of chevron will join us in this hour, well talk about is in store for chevrons business and the sector. Well talk about all that with michael wirth. Carl cant wait. Boeing is the story of the morning, jim 617 days on the ground you got baird going to outperform with a 306 target today. I guess well talk about not only how they get this back in the air, american will launch it on the 29th of december, how they market it to consumers. I think that there is a tragedy timeline we had it with chipotle, we had it with a long, long time ago with jackinthebox, taco bell. People tend to forget. The media doesnt forget, but the individual who flies is thinking, well, i want to take southwest or take american theyre not going to ask as they would have a year ago is this the max. And then i think also boeing can phas
Very good move because a New York Times vacancy for a moscow correspondent reads like something straight out of a spy thriller live from moscow. Here in the capital, youre watching r. T. International. Im daniel kids. But 1st, up this hour, the transition process to hand power to president elect. Joe biden has been, officially kicked off in the u. S. , the head of the General Services administration to confirm the news in the last few hours. Without further ado, lets cross our live to caleb or pointers for the latest for us. Caleb, thanks for joining us. Is this, do you think as close to a concession as were going to see ministration . Well, look, i mean, the transition process has begun this point. The General Services administration is informing president elect joe biden, now that they will begin the formal process of transitioning to a Joe Biden Administration at this point. We have this letter from emily murphy, who is the administrator. Take a listen. I was never directly or indir
Deviations. It is an historic surge in gold. Francine it certainly is, at we have been spending a lot of time on that and we will spend more time on gold. Lets get to first word news with ritika gupta. Ritika good morning. The fight over the chinese consulate in houston shows that hardliners now have the upper hand in the Trump Administration. President trump has allowed a small group of advisors led by Michael Pompeo to push u. S. Policy toward its most antagonistic in decades. U. S. Officials say china has a history of espionage and intellectual property theft. The Trump Administration and Senate Republicans are considering a shortterm extension of extra unemployment benefits. It is unlikely the white house and lawmakers will agree on a broader stimulus deal before the benefits expire. Millions of americans receive supplemental payments that were included in the last laurent virus package. Way for paving the soaring stock to join the s p 500 index. The electric carmaker reported thir
Surveillance today on television, on radio. We welcome all of you worldwide, across this nation, where the linkage, the urgency that we see within our politics and our economics is truly front and center. Get out the calendar. I believe it is 23 july, and this is a nation staggering to the first week of august. Jonathan what urgency . It is sunshine and rainbows in the equity market. In washington, d. C. , we havent seen the urgency we actually need. There are a lot of people still out of work. This market is in a lot of pain, and it is not going to heal as quickly as we needed to. In about 30 minutes, initial jobless claims set to come in at around 1. 3 million again. We need to see much bigger improvement. Tom that will be a key statistic of the week. Rule number one in the equity market is follow bonds. I continue to see yield compression, lower yields and flatter curves. Jonathan sunshine and rainbows lisa sunshine and rainbows very much funded by real yield that is negative by the