Some signs of nervousness is also showing for the banks. Bonds are rallying a little bit so that means yields come in and that weighs on the bank so thats a little bit of a pause in the cyclical rally. How does the market really react to what the economists are seeing . They say we will be good in the second half of next your but have a really tough spot between here and there. Have the markets price that in . Abigail the markets do not appear to be pricing it in all that much. As you know, some of the longer term charts are starting to show the possibility that equities in particular are stretched and there could be some sort of sharp pullback for the end of this month or the beginning of next year. That could very well reflect the air pocket the jobs report for november is very disappointing suggesting december and january could be worse. It appears theres some sort of awkward middle ground in the First Quarter of 2021 and maybe beyond. The optimism that the vaccine will bring to the
Today, david. David this no argue about it. We were supposed to have the second president ial debate last night. Instead we got dueling town hall meetings. One moderated by abc news George Stephanopoulos and form Vice President joe biden. The other Savannah Guthrie and featuring donald trump. The contrasts were sharp including the economy and the president s response to the coronavirus. President trump i now it was a big threat. At the same time i dont want to go out and say everybodys going to die. We make up 4 of the worlds population. We have 20 of the worlds deaths. We are in a situation where we have 210plus thousand people dead. Whats he doing . Nothing. President trump we had the greatest economy in the history of our country last year. Including the state of florida where we are now and pennsylvania and North Carolina and every place. We had the greatest economy we ever had. We had to close it down. We saved two million lives. We are opening it up. We have a vshape and its comi
Still in the red but a much better picture than it looked this morning. Abigail what a roller coaster on the day and the week. We had big gains from apple and tesla. This week, not so much. Nonetheless, the worst week since june for the s p 500 and the nasdaq 100 since march. The nasdaq down 1. 3 . Pressurehat selling really came off. The new york faang index down 1 at the end of the day. Some of this happened as value money seemed to give a tailwind to the macro sentiment. Yields really backing up on the day. Not confirming the degree of the selloff. I think what we had going on here, technical selling, the moving average, really looking for it in the morning. A very solid test there. The question is, will those nearterm buyers continue to step up . If yes, probably some Choppy Movement to the upside. If not, it could get ugly really fast. On the week, talking about really brutal losses here, the faang index down sharply. However, we do have one bright spot. I was mentioning the cycli
Stocks are up, all of that to do with powell. The dollar weakness also to do with powell. Real trends in the euro and the pound. Tom no question about that. Right now our first word news in new york city, here is riddick gupta. A Ritika Ritika the longestserving Prime Minister in japans history is resigning after eight years because of health reasons. The government has provided few details. News reports that he has been undergoing treatment for a chronic digestive condition. He plans to stay on the job until his party picks a successor. President trump made his case for a second term and last nights Republican National convention. He promised to cut taxes, and create 10 million jobs in 10 months and turn the u. S. Into a manufacturing superpower. In the new term as president , we will again build the greatest economy in history, quickly returning to full employment, soaring incomes and record prosperity. Ritika the president also warned that joe biden cant be trusted to deal with the
Of citigroup, although Tobias Levkovich will join us later. On a serious note, things deteriorate in hong kong in the last 24 hours. Francine a lot of the focus is on china. We have the National Peoples congress and the premier talking about targets being abandoned because it is too difficult to predict gdp and they want to create 9 million jobs, less than the 11 million jobs in 2019. We will have to see what happens with hong kong, the lobbying passing through. The u. S. Will weigh in and china is pushing back. I would focus on china all day today. Tom absolutely would. Jon ferro way out front on the tensions of washington and beijing. Here is ritika gupta. Ritika hong kong activists are calling for protests against a new china security role. The National Peoples congress is expected to pass the islation forcing hong kong acts of treason and subversion. President trump well react very strongly. China abandoned its practice of setting a target for Economic Growth and will shift its foc