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At a record high for the dow the s p set a record high on friday up another 30 points and the nasdaq, an underperformer last week, is indicated up by close to 60 points stocks have been on a big run. If you look at last weeks returns the dow was up just over 4 last week the s p was up just over 2 . And the nasdaq was down only by half a percent you are talking about the third week out of four that is seeing negative returns and that has been the underperformer. Really across the board a lot of strength the russell 2000 hitting a record high last week and big, big moves. Remember, its only been a week since weve heard from pfizer. That set things off especially ones underperforming as people stay home. The ten year is yielding 0. 885 . Joe, that was a wild ride last week, too, watching what happened with treasury yields. Potentially getting up to 1 but now were back where we started. All part of, i guess, reopening. The market given the backdrop i will talk about right now the market is ....
You know our doctors get more money if somebody dies from covid19. Doctors and nurses are working ever day. Time to stop attacking them and do his job. With three days to go, we are live with both campaigns. Postelection fears. Walmart pulling guns from shelves for year of angry mobs once the polls are in. Three in four americans are concerned about possible violence. From full house to the big house. Waking up in federal prison for two month stint for examing the College Admission process. Those stories amid safety amid scares. I would be careful about having kids just going house to house unless as part of their costume they had a mask. You can still have plenty of fun. Well help you celebrate safely today october 31, 2020. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with peter alexander, Kristen Welker and dylan dreyer. Thank you for joining us. Dylan is taking some time off ....
Pandemic that has already claimed more than 225,000 american lives. We are 00 mere eight days away we are a mere eight days a away from a president ial election. Donald trump announced his nomination of judge barrett even before we could fully mourn the death of the great Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg. And Senate Republicans then rushed this nomination to the senate floor. In doing so, they violated the rule that their leader, Mitch Mcconnell, imposed in 2016 which kept Merrick Garland off the Supreme Court after president obama nominated him in february of that year to fill the vacancy that arose with the death of justice antonin scalia. That rule was clear. That rule was concise. That rule was definiti ....
The president s own voters. He is calling the game at the end on end of the First Quarter and its extraordinary. We have never had a situation like this, in the country. The president is a steward of the american electoral system, as a member of it, he is a steward of the american system and he is trying to under mine it while the count is still going on. And the last time that we had a dispute that went to the court force Supreme Court as the president said, he thinks will go. You had two candidates who ultimately accepted the outcome of the courts. Ultimately accepted and said, we have to carry the weight of the office that john just described. To have the president jump that gun and make calls and frankly, norah, as gail was saying, there were a lot of things that were untrue. We can look at the map over your head and see the state of texas was called in his favor, he said i ....