To the likes of boeing. 3 . Asdaq is down microsoft down half a percent. Several stocks rallying big, mgm resorts up 13 after the onlinestake for gaming portion. Twitter is up as well. They are in the mix to buy tiktoks u. S. Operations. Action overump took the weekend to extend economic aid, diverting disaster money to boost unemployment and payroll taxes for some workers. Executiven what to orders mean for the markets and the population, we are joined by wealthwise financial ceo loreen gilbert. What thoughts come into your head when you see these executive orders that may or may not even go into effect . For investors, it gives us a level of comfort that they will be ongoing support for our economy. We know we are not out of the woods yet. For those millions of people who are unemployed, having that extended unemployment benefit will keep consumers being able to spend. That is positive for the economy. While congress is trying to fight it out on what that stimulus package will look l
Business closures as well as layoffs. We will show you how markets are reacting as well. Eugene scalia and richard will join with me about the jobs picture, what they have to say about the jobs market, stimulus package and what lies ahead for the u. S. Economy. Twoday rally for the dow and s p 500 poise to come to an end today, future pointing to losses, down 200 points. Down 93 on the nasdaq after gains of wall street yesterday but markets did close off of the highs of the day, in fact, the nasdaq as you could see finished negative. Dow industrials yesterday up 409 points at the close and the s p was up 28. President trump says parts of the u. S. Could be going back to work in a few weeks participating in a Virtual Conference with g20 leaders today working on a coordinated response for the coronavirus pandemic. Plus americas biggest music star coming together for iheart living concert for america. Special feature includes elton john and alicia keys. Mornings with maria is live right n
Welcome, good to have you with us on this new years eve tuesday. Our Investment Committee here today, joe, josh, jim and amy is back the chief Investment Officer of Chevy Chase Trust and one of barrons top 50 registered Investment Advisers for 2019 we begin with the markets. Stocks are trying to end a great year with another day in the green. Bouncing from the worst day in four weeks we do have big news today from one of our very own, hes making a move on a stock that hes been a big believer in for a big part of this decade. Josh brown, selling twitter. Im out feels good. First time out since the ipo in 2013. Tell us the reasoning. First of all, happy new year and thank you for ending your no, im telling the viewers, happy new year by the way, this is completely filled with gray goose, so take everything i have to say with a grain of salt. I got out of twitter today with a very small profit. I had been adding in the 20s, i owned some as high as 40 around the ipo. It has not worked out.
Barbara duran from bd8 capital markets. Thank you for joining us today weve got a lot of forces at play again another kind of side waist market, but some Risk Appetite if you look at whats moving higher today i agree with that i think that the action has been very constructive. And i think whats going on is youve seen the earnings expectations come down you had just a little sample last week, but majority of Companies Beat earnings and the most important thing, i think, was jpmorgan and American Express talking about the strength of the consumer in loans and spending and thats really the underpinning to the economy. And so we also know the fed, they have a meeting coming up. Im not expecting them to cut rates, but they have made it clear they stand ready and i think that forms an underpinning for the market. And not to mention china we have a little truce there i think we were all expecting some more down babeat commentar from what weve heard so far but so far, its been okay maybe rest
Key read on manufacturing in the next hour. Plus, streaming wars, apple launching its tv plus platform today. It is the latest volley in the original content battle between media and tech giants. And pinterest plummeting, losing a third of its value since peaking in august. And the Growth Strategy for starbucks, Kevin Johnson will join us first on cnbc this hour. Lets get to the jobs number, october payrolls well above expectations at 128k despite the gm strike. Unemployment goes down goes up to 3. 6. Wage growth 3 from a year ago jim, hard to find things to quibble about this month im going to come back and say youre going to have a the beginning of cracks in manufacturing. There is still two economies the twothirds of the economy that is consumer is doing very well the other third is not doing well and we can i dont know how long we can go with only twothirds i think pretty long. But when you if if they shut down boeing 737 max, youll see very different numbers i just think these num