They will go through the issues and this is television where tone, style, emotion are very important. My opinion, bidens job to survive 90 minutes, holding his focus to making sure there are no serious gaffes. The president will no doubt attack his style but not come across as a bully he doesnt want to stir up the sympathy vote. Heres another opinion, and absolute catastrophe the media will declare biden the winner. Lets get to the market, pretty much on hold maybe waiting for the debate the dow is down 11 points, the nasdaq 1026, 25, s p down near two. Not Much Movement, Speaker Pelosi has proposed a 2. 2 trillion dollars stimulus plan and the house may vote on it, a key point in Sticking Point contains 436 billion for state and local government, the republicans do not want that, and 25 billion for the airlines, 30000 airline furloughs on thursday if they do not get the money. Today is the day when Amy Coney Barrett goes to capitol hill and between nine republican senato senators, tha
For allegedly opening up customer accounts without consent, forging signatures. I mean is your identity safe anywhere . Well look at that story coming up a little bit. The rally continues on wall street today. I mean in this you know after we saw what happened, bill, with the fed, the 300point move we had after the fed decision to taper, you know the aftermath still remains pretty solid. Were adding another 70 points on that index today. The dow was 97 at its peak today, light volume. As we always say, can you make money light or heavy volume, or lose money at the same time. It still reveals a bias. The bias appears to buy the index. The s p 500 adding almost ten points at this hour. The nasdaq strongest performer of the day. Take a look at some components of facebook in particular as its added to the s p 500. Up better than 5 . That index again, sitting about 1827. Lets talk to our Closing Bell Exchange gang joe tanney dick from Rmb Capital Management joe duran, hes also by the way, t
We have columnist for the Washington Post, david ignatius, washington anchor for bbc world news america, katty kay, from the department of defense, an nbc news analyst jeremy bash is with us. White house correspondent for pbs news hour yamiche alcindor. Our team here at nbc is leading the morning with several big stories today. Courtney has obtained an exclusive preview of a report describing russias plans for a year ahead. Plus is beto ready to run . It seems like everyone else wants him to do it more than he wants to. I think hes at risk of mayor pete right now. I agree. How many times can you go out walking in the woods thinking about life and, you know, contemplating it and like come on, the guys 47 or something. Hes got good teeth. A contemplative, walk in the woods kind of guy may be just who we need. Hans nichols is lkiooking at key voting block that could shape the race for the white house. We begin with speaker of the house pelosi check mate. She said shes inclined to steer th