Help battle the pandemic. For bothhe death toll italy and france reaches the highest level since april. Setting a precedent. Joe biden confirms support for the good friday agreement in his first call with Boris Johnson. His transition presses on, despite President Trump contesting the election. Welcome to the show. 6 00 a. M. In london. Breaking news in amsterdam. Ceo remainsing, the cautious on the outlook as we go through those covid numbers. 270 million. We are looking at an outcome of a strategy review. We will get that on november 30. Good morning. Good to see mr. Biden committed to something that i grew up with, the good friday agreement. Annmarie certainly is. We are still waiting for President Donald Trump to accept those results, manus. A slew of legal issues going on in the United States. Breaking m row abv amro breaking. You are excited today about what is going on in china tech. Almost 260 billion of market value over two days in a frantic of a frantic selloff wiped out. Ma
China the stock set to add 100 points to the dow in todays session. There is a countdown to election day 41 days to go, former Vice President joe biden heading to North Carolina today, meanwhile President Trump also getting ready to announce his pick for Justice Ginsburg Supreme Court seat, democrats threatening for pack the court if it is filled before election day. Justice ginsburg will lie in her pose at the Supreme Court building and then on friday she will become the first women in history to lie in state at the u. S. Capitol building, also happening on capitol hill, dr. Fauci will testify before the senate at 10 00 a. M. Eastern and Jerome Powell will testify before the house select subcommittee on the pandemic. And the president expected to speak to veterans and their love and a coward. It is a live action show today and Varney Company starts right now. With your help, your devotion and your drive, we will keep on working, we are going to keep on fighting and we are going to kee
Zealand is set for a shallower recession than previous years. The pandemic may have a lingering impact when it comes to government expenses. We bring you the numbers breaking this hour. Lets get you started with our lets get you started with a quick check of our markets trading at this hour. We had a mixed finish. Stocks, in fact, fell, erasing earlier gains after that selloff intensified. Tech fed chair powell not sure if this economic recovery will continue, that really dampening the moon. Tech communications leading declines. Switch of the board and you can see what small and midcaps did with the russell 2000, outperforming, look at that, up 9 of the close. We had the fed really keeping rates low, helping that entire sector. Pressure, andf that paired most of its losses with treasury yields climbing after chair powell also said the current size of the Asset Purchase Program was appropriate, the 10year yield hanging around the highest levels in almost a week. We also have the 530 yie
We are talking about at a given moment but keeping you on track with market averages and how they are doing today and how they have been doing over the very last couple of rough days and how they are your today and certainly from the march 23 lows. We have come back for example s p 500 tech sector came back about 70 from those low so even with the ground a loss we are still up in that sector north of 30 year to date with all that die ration so we will keep giving you all of that perspective as well. Also, looking at whats happening with Political Development that may or may not move the markets we will get into the employment report that looks good on the surface, still looks good, but right now its being ignored for other features such as the technology downdraft. Always going into the Labor Day Weekend you worry about these things were seated people locked themselves in place and thats a traditional argument you here, but regardless, we will keep you uptodate on this as we expect to
7. 44 . As you noted before the yield curve. Steepening and a rally in the financials you mentioned that june 10 was the high that was the day where the markets had their maximum enthusiasm about the strength of the recovery and how fast it would be that was the peak where the come back of value and cyclical sectors. That seems to be the dynamic and the push for which stocks were preferred and the market seven days in a row of records is not to be dismissed guys the intraday record high in this session and well have to see if this continues . Yesterdays high is around 3,500. Coming up, well talk about the abrupt halt to the sports world. We ha we have fed president s and the interim ceo of tiktok. What a story it has been and a soap opera all week long we are learning more in the details in the sale of tiktok after walmart confirmed it has teamed up with microsoft sources tell us that walmart ineshlly wanted to be the lead buyer together with what was alphabet and soft bank coo and ran