New and all electric hummer to the world, but you got to hear the price tag. And it is once again time for you to speak out, this time on the election. And which matters more to your money . The white house or the senate . It is wednesday, october 21, and this is Worldwide Exchange on cn cnbc welcome from wherever in the world you may be watching. Happy wednesday. Im Brian Sullivan here is how your money in the Global Markets are setting up. Stock futures are down, dow and s p trying to post back to back days of gains, but dow futuresf about 100, nasdaq iabout 70 mtum is the cute ticker, coming off its fifth straight down day. Its longest losing streak since late february. That etf tracks names like te a tesla, apple, microsoft and more, all the names that really control the entire market. Same story with the faang stocks First Trust Dow jones, the fdn, also seeing 2350five down days row now, first time that has happened since february. So you have to watch tech, some of the big name e
Upping its offer for an aid package to 1. 8 trillion, President Trump tweeting go big a positive development on the covid treatment. Gileads treatment helps infected people recover five days faster than average and tech stocks are outperforming as a massive deal is in the work the week capping it off with a bang. Absolutely. The russell 2000 is up 6. 4 for the week the dow is currently positive for the year as a whole, just. Lets get to the stimulus news in washington and the reaction to it. Bob basketball has a look inside the market rally ylan moi, and Dana Peterson from the Conference Board bob, lets start with you on this very nice end to a strong week. Good news and bad news, will. Good news is, s p is up about 3 on the month the bad news is i am seeing a little bit of an inversion of the stimulus play today. Thats concerning if you are a believer in stimulus remember the stimulus play, bicyclicals materials and banks and industry and energy and go light on technology. That was wo
The nasdaq on track for a 5th week worth of gains here and the dow is erasing its losses for all the year at its highest level since late february, its also having its bests august since 1984. We turn to the Investment Committee for this we have just been seeing green, green, green for it seems like weeks, if not nonts months at this point it is surprising the markets have marched higher the way they have over the last several months since the pandemic lows its not all surprising all the factors were looking at from the fiscal side, the monetary side and the virus side are lining up in support of equity just think about what happened with chair powell yesterday and the historic announcement he made about departure from the prior inflation targeting regimes to this averaging inflation concept. What does that mean . That means rate will be low, low, low for the foreseeable future we think thats two years from now. That is very support ifr five f valuations then you have this fiscal stimu
Not surprisingly tech stocks are holding up the best today. Bob is looking where we stand on earnings about halfway through the season and our tech team will get us ready for what to expect tonight josh lipton on apple julia on facebook. Bob, lets start with you. Kelly, earnings are a little bitter than expected the market is holding up pretty well because of that the big winner here remains technology stocks. Why shouldnt it just look at the Second Quarter earnings estimate. You heard of what a disaster the sec quarter is 38 for the Second Quarter this is almost the same for the Second Quarter technology will have a small decline. Thats why tech keeps winning. Look at lam research they make semiconductor equipment. The ceo said covid19 has underscore the rapid growing on reliance look at the chart up 28 good Earnings Report but straight up since the bottom in march. Telemedicine is killing it look at these numbers here 2. 8 million visits in the Second Quarter. 200 growth. They raised
Peter navarro meant to say on fox last night. There was a little confusion. I think that he was pretty definitive to say it was dead, the president was pretty definitive in saying the trade deal is on who would ever think that this would happen, good news out of europe, pmis are strong, they are inflating things in their economy like we are. I also think there might have been a short squeeze those of us who watched when navarro said what he said the market plummeted and i think overnight traders said its going to open down badly im going to get short and they got whipsawed because you didnt think navarro could be reversed as quickly as he was given the fact he is a close confidant of the president. Almost exactly what art cashin is saying this morning. Whipsaw resulted in a good deal of short covering. He says the bulls may now reassert control he says they need to take the dow up by more than 450. The bulls are when you watch the market ahead of time you see so many stocks going up fo