Find out soon. Good evening, everybody, all that and much more ahead we start with some breaking news on nikola. Shares are down in the after hours, following a big up day. Bloomberg reporting securities and Exchange Commission will exam over the stock selling fraud and allegations, stock down 7 . Youre response . Again, i cant speak, i said it last week, i cant speak to the voracek asity of the shore seller report, acquisition of fraud, i have no idea, but what i stand behind, despite how the gm is structured, whether their investing money, the fact that gm would link their wagon to nikola and if these acquisition prove to be correct, i think the real deleterious thing could happen with shares of gm, in my opinion, potential for exponential move and gm perhaps didnt do the homework others did. Thats my primary concern looking at this entire situation. Tim, to be clear on the story and were trying to get phil up here any moment, you know, Trevor Milton said the other day were going to
First, todays show is brought to you by the letter b thats because bond yields, bullion, big cap tech. Fed chair Jerome Powell gears up for a high stakes speech from jackson hole summit. With bullion up, big tech up, what is up with the market as we gear up for powell, guy . I like to hear you say bullion. I feel like im going to have soup or go back to doing what i used to do back in the day its wonderful you can do an entire show saying that word. Whats up . Risk assets are continuing to go higher based on we talked about this a couple days ago, the fact they said they will be a historic speech for the fed in the way they view inflation, the way they measure inflation and thats why the market took off and i think thats why you saw it probably move today into that speech the things you didnt mention and forget it but they didnt rhyme with b or start with b the russell was down today and the vix closed north of 23 those are two very interesting things to take into consideration along w
There. Big stocks in apple and tesla giving back gains. Ibm gained more than 3 yesterday. Also cocacola up more than 4 being looing at u. S. Equity few you are its. Something to Pay Attention to. Dow futures down around 40 points looking at first of september, and all of july and august with spectacular gains. Looking at the treasury yields looks like right now 0. 654 . Those movements with he saw yesterday were interesting in terms of the rotation. As a general matter, those had to pull back they will have to have these pull backs the fact that the market can do okay on a given day is a positive doesnt change the fact that weve traveled at a steep angel here there is a jumpiness a late summer week heavy volumes. You are seeing all sorts crop up there is a Different Energy to the market 20 what has passed in 2017, 2013 not sure the implications but there is Something Different it is 6 01 in the morning here yesterday was called a gama squeeze. We dont want to get too mechanical in the
Weve seen the dow and triple gains. S p in positive territory too. Down 22 points, s p futures are off by four. Yesterday was a good day for the markets. You had the nasdaq wed been watching closely was a big outperformer gain of 293 points the first day out of the last four both the nasdaq and s p have been in positive territory. Those three days before that give you something to worry about . Futures had been higher. Down a lot but come off the highs in the session looking at the treasury market where the 10year stands right now. Just below 0. 7 . Oil prices which really fluctuated and sold off sharply. This morning are down again. Wti off 1. 5 andrew thanks, becky a couple big stories to talk about. The senate set to vote on that slimmed down relief bill today talks between the white house and House Democrats and a report that President Trump may step in with more executive actions to try and fill the gap if something doesnt get done joe . There are other places in the world too. We
Trading month post split check out this sky high etf chart. You think you know what this etf is let us know. We have a lot to get to with news breaking on at t. Lets get to Julia Boorstin with more. Thats right, brian, those shares up about 2. 5 in after hours trading on a report that at t is again exploring a sale of its directv business this according to the wall street journal who site sources saying at t and advisors have been talking to Apollo Global and Platinum Equity as potential bidders. At t has explored selling directv. The ceo has discussed the importance of divesting noncore assets directv has struggled with cord cutting amid the growth of streaming options. The wall street journal is saying a deal could value directv below 20 billion. Thats less than half the 49 million at t paid for directv back in 2015 at t tells us it has no comment on this report we are reaching out to apollo and Platinum Equity and have not heard back yet steve grasso, so your take not only on the ne