Lets get to dohm. Were watching markets for the s p 500 that have posted about a 1 gain over the last three months and for those people who are keeping track of some of the election markets statistics, its a big number. In the three months prior, some analysts and strategists note that if the market is higher in the three months before an election, its the incumbent party that wins. Well see if that trend plays out. You can see for the s p 500 in that three month span we got a 1 gain entirely because of just today. You wonder whether or not that could play into some of those associations or correlations people talk about with regard to markets and the election overall. But beyond that, there are some interesting themes developing over the course of the past week if you take a look at the outperformers and underperformers, many of them have to deal with the cyclical and value oriented Sectors Technology versus Communication Services, there is a bit of outperformance in Communication Ser
Oil, 41. 40 we talked for a long time about mike pences hawkish speech on china from a year or two ago but pompeo yesterday oneupped that and this consulate news from china is weighing on sentiment too. Yeah, he upped the ante jim did focus us at the time on Vice President pences speech because it was quite truck lant would be a word to describe it at the time but it continues to go up in terms of the tensions, carl weve talked about it pretty much every day, whether its a backandforth over huawei, whether it has to do with conversations about closing down the app tiktok in the United States, whether it is the closing of consulates here and the response from the chinese. This is not going in a direction that many, who at least are invested in the idea of global trade, certainly, mike, would wanting to see. For sure. On the one hand the market is not necessarily overly focused to this point on these relationships and not really counting on anything to come out of it. Its not quite like
Debates backtoschool, voters are not allowed to see or hear him say those words. Almost immune. We have a lot more on this, believe me. Lets get straight to your money. An economic indicator, here it is, 1. 19 million new jobless claims. That is the lowest number since the economy tanked. It is very good news for the recovery. The trend in new claims is flat out down. The dow industrials taking a little heart from that. We were lower, now were going to be up maybe 30 odd points. Not much of a gain. Theres a lot of green on the lefthand side of the screen. The market story is the march to new highs. The techheavy nasdaq already hit several records this week. The dow is at the 27,000 level. Thats up 8,000 points in four months. Theres a lot of very positive news in the background. Positive vaccine news. That helped. Dr. Fauci says well have tens of millions of doses of the vaccine available early next year. Heres another plus. If congress doesnt come up with a virus relief package, the p
Sarah . Yeah, shows the power of the fed there. When that headline hit, boom we have a great lineup coming your way Jeremy Siegel and rick reider join us. Plus, well speak with larry kudlow about the latest debate over the future of enhanced Unemployment Benefits and what happens when they run out . Well also take a closer look at one winner amid the volatility, the video game sector. Well speak with Strauss Zelnick. That stock has been an outperform they are year lets focus in on the big stories with one hour left of trading. Mike santoli tracking the action and phil lebeau and joining us to discuss the outlook for the banks is brian foran start us with the big come back that weve seen in the market this afternoon theyre saying buy the dips were in a dip buying environment. They proved it this morning. Take a look improvement. We got that one weeks time. Things are looking stretched at the highs. One week ago today 3232 was the closing level then we got that shakeout. Thursday most pr
Nasdaq futures higher by 310 after even worse than expected jobs number led to selloff on friday. We showed you the numbers friday, dow, nasdaq and s p 500 in the red for the week. Take a look. Markets were down 2 overall on each of the major indices on the week. Oil prices this morning falling after the opec meeting which was to include russia was actually delayed. It was supposed to be a Virtual Meeting happening. It was scheduled to take place today. We are waiting on any news in terms of where the meeting stands with crude at 27. 40 a barrel. Later this Morning Energy secretary dan briet will join me and take on war between saudi arabia and russia. Uk Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been hospitalized due to coronavirus, we will get the latest on Prime Minister johnson coming up this morning. We are answering your financial questions this morning. Later what you need to know about your 401 k during this crisis. Mornings with maria is live right now. Maria lets check Global Markets