Stay updated with breaking news from Pay data. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
After a hideous day like today where the dow plunged 923 points and s p plunged and the nasdaq down 3. 73 would it be liberating to dump the shot shoot match and cash in your ira and take out your 401k and sell funds to preserve some cash perfectly sensible emotion sure, thats the problem emotions whether trading or investing, you cant make decisions based on your feud you want to vanish the pain, i totally get that you are probably making a mistake. Look at the tsunami of selling that we have today i may tell you to stand there and let the wave crushes you, i am simply telling you not to panic. I know from experience and i have been doing this for 40 years and i am not a calm guy. Every time i panic, it costs me money. In four decades, i can remember one moment when panic was a strategy thats why in the fall of 2008 i made a rare sale everything call at the time it was collapsing. The incredible call to get back into the stock market. 2020 is not 2008 we got a run away pandemic and ho ....
Good wednesday morning im Caro Quintanilla with jon fortt and Julia Boorstin with us dow down 800, worst drop since about june 11th, on covid worries in the europe and United States, lockdown worries in france and germany oil is down about 6 vix getting closer to 40 were monitoring the ceos of twitter, facebook as they testify on section 230 well begin with dominic chu on more on what is driving the downswing. A lot of narrative around the rising covid cases, not just in the United States but europe as well markets may be taking their cues from whats happening in europe. Theyre talking about wider spread lockdowns in germany and france and whats if it happens here in the United States. Thats playing out in the m ....
Alltime high of 70plus thousand on a sevenday average. Steve weiss, turn to you dow down 10 from its high no, we dont have control of the virus. We dont have stimulus were not rounding the corner. We are, as dr. Scott gottlieb said on squawk entering the most difficult phase of the pandemic we have yields lower s ps down for three Straight Days what do we do with this today, steve . Well, ive taken off a number of positions ive added some shorts, added some puts to protect stocks for earnings theyve done a little bit, but ineffective when you look at the carnage thats out there in stocks like u. P. S. And microsoft, which both had good quarters im very cautious on the markets. Were through earnings earnings hasnt been a lift. Even though its a good earnings quarter, put it in perspective its still down 16 year over year so, markets are way overvalued corona is a big issue. I dont see returning to march lows because i checked the nu ....
Month of september, strong Consumer Sentiment numbers to go along with them. And later, gilead pushing back after the World Health Organization says the drug remdesivir does not prevent death in coronavirus patients. Weve got the latest details as power lunch starts right now thank you, ty. The markets are marching back after a few down days. Dom chu has more on whats moving decent sized gains but off the high of the session. We are up 243 points with the dow at the highs of the session, up roughly 348 points. You can see there, yes, still strong gains but not nearly where we were earlier in the day. The s p has reclaimed that 3,500 mark, the nasdaq only up about one third of 1 . The leadership in terms of the s p 500 has been in one week industrials and technology, both up nearly about 1. 5 meanwhile, the biggest laggard off nearly 2 is the real estate sector ....
Slightly as the drugmaker did say it will seek that approval for an emergency use for its vaccine by late november. As carl mentioned, wall street looking to snap a threeday losing streak. September retail sales delivering a big beat. Futures up this morning. Carl david and leslie, a couple of things working in the bulls favor today. Three days down. A little bit of room to bounce back on the upside, david. But futures were slightly negative, then we got that open letter from pfizer, saying that we could be looking at potentially a request for an eua by mid to late november and retail sales with that blowout number for the month and year on year the figures, david, reflect a consumer that has put together a nest egg during the course of the summer, and that is continuing to provide some momentum for the consumer. It is funny, i go back to that interview i did with david berman of maybe six weeks ago already, but somebody who tracks retail sales, more closely perhaps than anyone. And in ....