As the seasons begin to turn, there could be more deaths and of course serious illnesses ahead. City, we saw the new york rate of positive tests at more than 3 for the first time in months. Lead to possible lockdowns either officially by the government or unofficially as residents opt on their own to stay home again. The Economic Data seems to be turning in our favor. We saw data with regards to consumer spending, Consumer Confidence. It is still a pretty delicate stage right now. Joe there are always concerns people are talking about, the lack of fiscal stimulus, the fact that we might get another wave with the virus. Gains inntinue to see Consumer Confidence. It is hard to see on this chart but it is the biggest one month sequential gain of this headline measure in 17 years. Right now, the arrows are still going up. Romaine if you would to be a glass halffull or halfempty, i should say you look at the idea that we have not quite recovered from prepandemic levels. This is a subsection
Prepare for their first debate. Says it is close to compromise in australia that would force it to pay for news desk get a quick check of the market. Usurers are under pressure. Futures are under pressure. The s p 500 lost half a percent in the regular session. The volume was lower than the 20 Day Moving Average given that we had the first president ial debate coming up at about three hours. Data was positive. Consumer, its jumping u. S. Consumer confidence was jumping. Companies imported more on demand. That news sent the dollar weaker. We got some fiscal stimulus negotiations and talk about a potential deal continuing to affect the markets. Look at what oil is doing. It continues to fall down toward 39 per barrel. Thats the lowest level in two weeks. It is plunging below the 100 Day Moving Average for the First Time Since june. Top traders are saying that oil will not meaningfully recover for at least another 18 months. The resilience of the chinese economy that drives the ecocalenda
Selloff, but stocks will open lower this morning. Disappointing housing numbers really not helping, the dows looking for a loss of 370 points. Thats quite a drop right there. S p down 58, nasdaq down 288. A lot of red ink on the lefthand side of the screen. By the way, 860,000 jobless claims this week, thats the lowest number since march the 14th. All right, there is a mask and vaccine fought. President trump saws well have 100,000 next doses. That will be super fast. The cdc says, hold on, youll have to wait until the middle of next year, and joe biden says he doesnt trust trump, he trusts science. College sports, yeah, making a comeback. Ncaa basketball returns in november, big ten football in october. And sally, ouch. That storm has dumped more than a foot of run in some pluses and, get this, a storm named teddy is forming. Could go up the eastern seaboard. Big show, of course. Aoc wants even more implements for the social u. S. Es. Fomo, fear of mussing out missing out, have Retail
Warning against seating Telecom Infrastructure to china. We get reaction to that. And tesla turned our heads this week. Look back at some of the biggest stories in tech. To our top story, u. S. Equities headed into the Holiday Weekend on a positive note after the release of steady figures for retail cells and with investors continuing to weigh contrasting data from china on the spread of the coronavirus. The s p 500 closed at record high after swinging between small gains and losses in fridays session. To discuss todays Market Performance and technology we are joined by laura kane of ubs. To kick us off, i want to take a look i am showing from my terminal. As you know, the trade of 2019 was u. S. Versus the rest of the world. I was speaking with david kelly, the global cio of jp morgan Asset Management who was trying to make the case for over waiting International Equities. Are you still trying to overweight International Equities or do you think it is u. S. Versus the rest of the worl
Millions into the streets of chile. All that, for step here is joel weber. We put together a holiday cover for you. Quite a cover there. What a year. We think this is one of the biggest stories of the year. It started with the magazine covered it very early on when there was going to be an ipo. As that coverage developed and went on, there was another story we started to think about which was one of the biggest investors. I do love the cover. Seasons greetings. We did talk about it so much this year, what i love about this is i feel that you guys go into the layers of division funds. Obviously, there are other players. Ismoffett being the guy who really the visionary at softbank. Whocially the vision fund is now in Silicon Valley a hundred Million Dollar vc fund that can do a lot of things. One of the ways it can do that weworknto Something Like , and bankroll wework. That is a Business Model that not might not have been rife for the long haul. They were very aggressive. That is the st