John malone with the legendary media icon has to say about the covid19 virus, direct to consum consumer, streaming, so many other topics we hit in our hour long shutdown. The ceo of goodrx, we had him last week, since then, amazon came into the business what does it mean for his business carl, well ask that question amongst others. Yeah, thats good stuff for this hour, guys. Jim, we talked for last week and a half about the fact that a path to the vaccine would face some setbacks and clearly new york city schools, new state of emergency in wisconsin, speak to that i think that one of the things that we needed was a bridge, which would be stimulus, to the vaccine we dont have the stimulus were getting terrible numbers, we have half the country that thinks the numbers are okay, given the fact that the death rate hasnt skyrocketed. We have the other half, were saying, look, if we dont do something about it, then the Healthcare System is going to be overwhelmed. In that scenario, it is ver
Down days for the markets. Right now s p down by about 11, dow by 96, nasdaq off by about 47 we were so close to you dow 30,000 earlier in the week, but that seems to be slipping away a little bit 29,400 and change is where the dow is right now and again, down two days in a row, down again this morning and after yesterdays declines, all three of the major averages are in negative territory for the week a lot of things happening with covid and well talk more about that in a moment, but some of those concerns creeping back into what you see in the markets. If you are looking at the treasury market, the yield on the ten year right now is sitting just at about 0. 852 and the vix also spiking yesterday, probably a little bit on concerns about what happens as we go back into some of the lockdowns. The seesaw of good and bad news on covid. And well give you a bit of good news that happened overnight in the vaccine wars developed by the university of oxford and astrazeneca found to be safe. An
Cases, we talk about it every day. We need to im starting, i dont know what youre hearing, im starting to see anecdotal evidence that things are slowing down a bit in the economy. Im getting that too. Im getting people who are saying, i really would want to make a big spend, this is in terms of the big tech spend, for instance, i got to figure out what is going on or when are people coming back, are people ever going to come back . This stay at home versus go back to work, we thought it was resolved, we thought that things it was just a matter of time before you go back to work and those involve big Corporate Capital spending decisions and i think that those decisions are right now on the balance, because people dont know whether this thing is just going to continue to rage. I think we can expect it to continue to rage for the foreseeable future until the vaccine is widely available. There are people people are starting to curb their behavior thats what im referring to, and there are c
1000 miles apart. Donald trump and joe biden fight for air in competing town halls. Americans had to the polls and 18 days. Boris johnson said to decide whether to ditch brexit trade talks. And daimler gets in gear. The carmaker reports a 3 billion 3 billion euro profit as cost cuts filter through. Just under an hour away from the start of cash trading. Car sales european out. They gained 1. 1 for the first nine months. Sales, upropean car for the first three quarters of the year. 1. 1 . Lets take a look at what is going on. European car registration, clearly 20 20 has been a tough year. One a look at what is going we have ftseutures filler cheers futures up 0. 8 . Tax futures gaining about 0. 5 . Futures the picture is more mixed. Showing a lot less sized. Futures are. Ractionally down futures flat. We have been more negative. Asian equity markets look seen looking mixed. Are we in a consolidation phase for setting ourselves up for some selling . You have the election coming. That is
Today in some of the comments out of retailers like burlington, anf, dollar tree, and Dollar General yes, if you look at the Dollar General, the numbers are just extraordinary i actually have never seen a Comp Store Sales number this good 21 versus 7 estimate. Dollar tree is going to be the one, david knows this well, people look like, you know what, now the dollar tree Family Dollar merger which had been so on the rocks, the judgment is its working and that stock could power much higher. Dollar tree. The opening trade is sapping the money out of tech. I dont know how much longer it can last thats such a great book in gary because he knows so much about what people are spending theyre essential because they have food, and i look at this market and i think how long with the dow up 4 can we actually say, hey, the reopening trade is just starting . Its already maybe too far too fast its very hard to figure, particularly because faang is being distorted by the president s tweets, facebook