And at 9 00f truth a. M. , biographer and president ial historian Craig Shirley Discusses Campaign 2020 and the history of postconvention president ial campaigns. Host three months until election day, the candidates and issues come under more intense scrutiny. Joe biden making his First Campaign speech since the convention accusing the president of stoking violence in our cities and that the president forfeited any leadership in our country. Welcome to washington journal for this tuesday, september 1. We will spend the first hour getting your thoughts and reaction to joe bidens speech and we will hear from joe biden, play you this speech and reaction from President Trump. Here is how we are breaking the lines up. If you support joe biden and Kamala Harris that line is 202 7488000. The president and Vice President mike pence, 202 7488001. If you are undecided or supporting another candidate the line is 202 7488002. You can always send us a text, 202 7488003. Make sure that you tell us y
Markets with the best three months in decades. The dow saw the best quarterly performance since 1987 the nasdaq had its best gain since 1999 and ended the quarter up 30 take a look at the small cap up 25 since april 1 the best gain since the First Quarter of 1991. Because the First Quarter really stunk up the place the dow coming off the worst first haflt year since the financial kri sis. The s p still down 4 on the year yesterday was something to watch. We had all three major averages which did close for the month of june in positive territory you are looking at s p 500 closing above 3,100 and watching the nasdaq close above 10,000. Seeing a slight pull back. S p futures down about 10 points and nasdaq off by 25 weve been keeping track of the treasury market. The 10year has been below 0. 7 . Now sitting at 0. 684 . Crude oil prices were a huge point of concern earlier in the year up 40. Well see what could help the senate has voted to extend the ppp Bailout Program to august 8 giving
Stocks really at their highest level since march. Kevin p, its maizing that this market sometimes you wonder whether the market has a pulse that it has this abilities to overlook all of these pulling at us and what were witnessing in our cities. Were in a very troubled time i get it however, every day the world votes, every day individuals make multimillion dollar and one dollar decisions one cent at a time and where do they vote for optimism in the future america. Thats why the markets are doing what they are doing. Its seeing through this the market knows we will solve this problem as we always have and move forward is that what this is about . An abilities to make a big bet on america and our future regardless of what is right in front of us at this very moment . That is pulling at us emotionally. Were able to look past all of that and thats why money continues to come into the stock market you can have any number of reasons to say this market should not be where it is yet we find o
Restrictions, giving us clues as to how consumers may react durables down 14 june wti holding at 17 as energy is the only positive sector for the week a lot of discussion about 2,800, are we range bound where is the ceiling now markets giving all kinds of important clues. A lot of analysts, we follow them for a long time they wait and wait until theres a moment where they can go negative theres enough companies that have done well, i have every piece of research in front of me i dont have an upgrade. I have downgrade, downgrade, downgrade. Because the stocks have run, it gives these analysts a chance to say, uh, im so lucky. It went from 29,000 down to 18 it bounced back, and now i can get off and not look bad and thats the whole tone of this morning i find it curious. I think that in general the companies have done a pretty good job just they like to pull their forecast because who the heck knows. If dr. Gottlieb doesnt know what will happen, why should he expect these guys to know wh
Which prevent michiganders crossing the street to visit family members. No relaxation of the social distancing rules from President Trump. Hes considering extending the keep your distance regulations into the early summer. Then theres this. Antibody tests that show far more people have been through covid19, three million in new york state, 20 of new york citys residents have had it. That means the fatality rate, the number of people who died from the virus, comes way, way down. Interesting. Quickly to the markets. Not Much Movement at the open today. Orders for durable goods in march down 14 , yeah, thats bad but it was expected. The dow is going to be up 193. I call that little movement. How the times change. We will be back to 23,500, big gain modest gain for the dow, nice gain for the s p and for the nasdaq as well. Look at oil, staying at low levels. We are looking at 17 a barrel. In the absence of demand, we are still not driving very much, we are running out of places to store al