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
Through for the United States at 57. 8. The previous number, 56. 9. The survey, 56. 2. We have a easily beaten expectations on this number, but the details are important. Lets dig into the details with bloombergs mike mckee. Michael important to realize this is a diffusion index that basically asks companies, what are things like this month compared to last month. There is a bit of an improvement. The level of improvement has slowed some. But that is a reasonably good number because we see business activity, which is sort of the same of production in the manufacturing index, up to 63 from 62. 4, and new orders up. Again, this compares with the last month. We were at very low levels, so the fact that things are expanding doesnt mean we are back to where we were. It just means that things are gradually Getting Better. The one thing everyone has been watching his employment. This report comes out too late to influence everybodys view on what the payroll report was like for august for sept
Joe, whats this about what do you think is going on in the market, joe . I think this is an asbestos luts perfect technical correction that were experiencing and we have been experiencing from the beginning of the month i talked about it with you i dont think the time is now to be stepping in and thinking that its over. I agree with your opening. Tlp is further weakness that lies ahead for the market. Lets keep in mind theres significant weakness in germany. I know jim talked about apple being higher for the day as a good positive indicator. Apple should be higher wasnt able to sustain that its in a bear market. As long as apple remains under some pressure, you have to believe the overall market will have a bit of its own problem, dont you think. Possibly. First of all, we needed a correction whether its because the case, the daily case in europe are now ahead of the u. S. Or the debates next weekend or the election coming up we needed the sell off this is great thing. Investors have t
The democratic nominee holds a 52 to 42 advantage. Support for each candidate is getting more solid as voting day approaches. Meanwhile, the survey also says that biden has a six percentage point lead in a Battle Ground state with confidence. In hong kong, protests have resumed after Police Arrest hundreds of people. Among other things, demonstrators were protesting the decision to delay Legislative Council elections for a year because of coronavirus. Worlds newcome the coronavirus epicenter, and it has surpassed brazil as the second worst hit country. Cases forrted 90,000 the second day in a row. Unlike the u. S. And brazil, indias caseload is still accelerating fulltime in the u. K. , british Prime Minister Boris Johnson is gambling on a no deal brexit. Johnson will tell the European Union today he is willing to walk away rather than compromise on what he sees as the Core Principles of leaving the block. He has set an october 15 deadline for the deal. The big Sticking Point is the is
Fall on year and below analyst expectations. They confirmed plans to exit thermal. U. S. China relations sour even further. Jing says the tax lets take a look at how we are shaping up for this asian trading day. U. S. Futures within shouting distance when it comes to the regular session of that february record but then retreating by the close. We are seeing not much happening when it comes to active futures contracts. The nikkei 225 looking weaker going into the open. Chicago futures trading there. The topix in the meantime remains the bestperforming market in august. We will see if it continues those gains today. Ftse futures looking like we will open up higher by. 4 . The data calendar for the day, we get the rba august meeting minutes, looking into the details of their bond buying as well as the renewed assessment of how that new victorian lockdown will barter economy in those Monetary Policy settings. Also watching crude, we are seeing weakness, just holding over 42 a barrel althou