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Today. We start out of with the fed staying put. Jerome powell signaling the rates will stay near zero through 2023 stocks getting an initial pop, but reverse course as the fed share took questions from the press. Steve, what was it, do you think, that spooked the markets . You know, its always hard to know maybe one of those sell the news things there was a bit of history in the statement where the fed for the first time put in the statement that its new goal is to seek inflation above 2 that was in the longterm policy strategy but it had not yet been in the statement. This is the first statement following that change. It was a bit like there was nothing behind it in the sense that, the question that i asked, i said, well, how come your forecasts dont show you hitting the goal, not even in the fouryear horizon here the fed chair didnt really have a good answer for that you would think if you said, you know, im going to move this tanker faster, you know, youd be pushing the throttle do ....
All right, welcome everybody to power lunch. Kevin is with us dominic too. Welcome, dom good to see you. Here is whats on tap. Stocks are at session highs right now after four weeks of losses the dow is up 500 points both the dow and s p on track for their biggest two day gains since june high stakes stimulus how Speaker Pelosi says she thinks, think, republicans and democrats can get a deal done before the election and tom lee says thats just one reason to buy stocks he will join us very shortly later, which president ial candidate could be better for the economy and the markets . Moodys is out with a new report that takes a look at those questions investors need to know power lunch starts right now welcome to power lunch. Looks look at the bigger wins today. You have fedex leading the industrials over at Deutsche Bank raising target price to 318 a share both those stocks up ....
One of the great men of American Business will join us following the nfl teams first time back oen field without fans but players bringing attention to social justice around the country. Power lunch starts right now guess were together but separate, once again welcome to power lunch. Billions of dollars of deals on wall street today. For 20 billion, gilead adding to its cancer fighting portfolio. Its basically doubled next up for 40 billion, the biggest chip deal ever, nvidia buying arm holdings which designs chips. Up 8 and finally not quite a deal yet oracle betting to be Technical Partner in the u. S. September 20th deadline. Oracle shares up 5 on the news. Well have all of this back over to you all those big deals on wall street helping the comeback rally in stocks. After two down weeks in a row. We havent seen that in a long time jim paulson joins us now is your ti ....
Take a look at gain better than 2 . Nasdaq futures up 130 and s p futures up 32 points. Dow, nasdaq and s p 500 marking marking second consecutive week of losses on friday, big bounceback from that, on friday you had as you see markets lower, new fox poll new fox news poll show the 2020 race is narrowing, President Trump and joe biden taking their messages to swing states but just over now 50 days to go until election day. Plus, how you can live like the fresh prince of bell air courtesy of will smith and airbnb, mornings with maria is live right now. Maria firmer tone to markets this morning. European indices are mixed with european markets kicking off the gains with fractional moves here. Cac quarante is up 6 but the dax index in germany lower by 8 points, virtual trade talks between eu and china, we will tell you more about that coming up. The big Softbank Nvidia deal. A ....