Call it a 25 million what if why new comments from President Trump have the media folks getting social media on their side over exxon. And later on, steal a xwas gebaa taco why fans have a new reason to tune into the world series and why prices are sky high for the seats. It is thus, octobuesday, octobe this is boais worldwide exchan got too much time on my hands all right, good morning, good afternoon, good evening from wherever you may be im Brian Sullivan throwing out a little styx and here is another song quote see if you get it. 2020 24 hours to go and maybe the markets want to be sedated that after yesterdays 400 point haircut for the dow and 1. 5 drop on the nasdaq the markets nervous about the nancy pelosi imposed stimulus deadline in 24 hours and maybe also starting to think about much higher taxes if we see a blue sweep but right now, the futures are reversing just a bit not indicating that they will gain back what we lost, but dow futures are up 150 and of course context alw
About 12 today. Another market master, ams evaluation 2 trillion for the first time ever. Tech was leading now 59 minutes left of the session and were essentially flat apple not flat. 2 trillion Company Coming up in just a few minutes, we will speak with White House National Economic Council director larry kudlow about the stimulus stalemate in washington the rising tensions with china and a whole lot more. Later rolling out the red carpet, ceo of amc theaters will be joining us with his companys plan to brink customers back to the movies its not going to cost you very much. Lets focus in on the big stories were watching in this final hour of trade. Bob pisani tracking the fed minutes. Joining us to discuss retail moves from pro forma starting with Broader Market weakening a bit off fed minutes. This doesnt happen very often. Usually fed minutes is not a market mover it was as wilf rentsched we lost points in the s p 500, thats noticeable given the fed doesnt move the market in the min
Points the s p which is then up five out of the last six weeks and up the last six sessions in a row is up by 5. 5 this morning and then the nasdaq which has been this incredible out performer for months on end is the other performer this morning its down by 13 points but remember nasdaq was only down friday after being up for several sessions in a row. Setting a new high every one of the closes. The s p is less than 1 from its all time high. Its up back in february the treasury markets youll see right now. The treasury yields are where they have been the ten year is at 0. 556 . Melissa. We have an update on the pandemic the United States surpassed covid cases. It took just six weeks for u. S. Covid cases to double. The growth appears to have leveled off at an average of 54,000 per day over the last week in College Sports news over the weekend the mid american conference scrapped its all football season delaying all fall sports until the spring of 2021 the logistics were too complicate
Thats something to behold. Its hadding the lowest level since march of 1999. Right now well take a quick look at my board, which is current. I can see it down 4. 13 i say that because ive been practicing waiting 12 seconds to get a quote on something that im trying to give you instantaneously. Now im back on the nasdaq and i can actually see it. The coronavirus pandemic has sapped demand for oil and global storage is rapidly proefing capacity the world is running out of room on ships anchored at sea the may futures contract for wti expires tomorrow looking out to june, the situation isnt quite as dire. Its back to more of what were used to, kind of, at least in the last couple of weeks as you can see there, june delivery under 23 a share meantime, an update now on the pandemic as we bring you the numbers as we do every single morning. Here are the latest numbers. Global cases topping 2. 4 million now with 165,000 deaths. Now, the u. S. Cases nearing 760,000 with more than 40,000 deaths
Guys, that interview with barry right now makes you feel better. Gives you hope i think its important to he hear, are stocks cheap yes. Is the system working . Yes. Is the opportunity going to be great if the countrys locked down no so whats important is to find out where the country is fiscally thats why its important to speak to the treasury secretary. Yeah. The concerns that we had yesterday continue to be the concerns we have today, which is about businesses forced to potentially suffer significant financial damage as a result of being closed or having no customers. And what that will mean. Liquidity is always an issue it does seem to be not in the treasuries where we have seen illliquidity that scared people moving into credit, which we need to focus on huge repricings. The cost of capital has gone up for corporate america. You can provide people money, but those people dont want to go out we are a service economy, twothirds of our country is service. What do we do when you get mo