Thanks for taking my question, you added a sentence into the statement about the course of the economy depends on the path of the virus is this do you feel this idea or view is not widely enough understood do you feel you had warned back in may that too early reopening or cautious reopening might harm the economy do you feel that message is not heard and some of these reopenings took place perhaps sooner than they should have i think we feel that it might be the most central fact or the most central driver of the economy is the virus were seeing that again. You saw that during the lockdown when we got cases way down you saw the economy reopening. You saw spending go up and hiring go up now that the cases have spiked again. Again, the early data, highfrequency data suggests that theres a slower pace of growth at least for now. We dont know how deep or how long that will be. Its such an important sentence, we just decided that it needed to be in our post meeting statement. Its so fundame
Airlines. States added into the quarantine list in the tristate area, and that is affecting airlines. Twitter is up 2. 9 . A little bit of a tease early on, a tweet from jsck saying f everyone inthat it america wore a mask, they would add a like button. Lori heinel is with us now. While we looked like we were seeing a selloff, we are now fighting for a take a lower in the markets. Is there anything to upset this market trajectory . Lori there is plenty to be concerned about. Everyone is certainly watching covid cases and whether those continue to accelerate. While we are likely to see optics in cases, and it will be spotty around the globe and in the United States, we think there is less chance that we will have the accounting draconian measures, a complete shutdown. We have to think about covid but also how this will improve as we dont have those complete shutdowns that we had earlier this year. Vonnie would you say to any client that you need to be somewhere, given that they are such
Because of it. And the retail divide continues. Walgreens and Bed Bath Beyond getting crushed today following weak sales updates and the staples names like walmart and costco are higher. The s p 500, were 59 minutes left of trade. Its not there the nasdaq is up 0. 6 . The s p 500 is a little bit lower. Just a few moments, well speak with alpha one capital dan niles about the market selloff why tech in particular has been outperforming and what to do now. Plus, former treasury secretary jack lew will be with us to weigh in on joe bidens economic plan and work from home winner service now, it is up 50 on the year Just Announced a new partnership with zoom. Bill mcdermott will be live to discuss. Another very strong day for the cloud names. Lets get straight toour big story of the day the market selloff mike santoli is tracking the action all day long which does appear a bit better in terms of the losses, mike yeah. This was a day when we sold the rip in the morning and then bought the di
New jersey, connecticut. That really added to things. It is still going on. Governor andrew cuomo on the screen speaking live right now. At the beginning of this, they cade a joint announcement. People coming into the tristate area from certain highrisk states would be ordered to quarantine for 14 days, when investors heard that, the market went another leg lower. Well cover it from all angles, starting with Jackie Deangelis in the new york newsroom. Like i said, jackie, things were not going great to begin with andth just added to it, right . Reporter exactly right, connell. There are is a twopart story. There was fear in the market about being spike in coronavirus cases across the country in certain states. That added to tension for investors. Were seeing a spike going into the summer. That was not predicted. Theyre thinking about what could happen if there is a second wave. That is the push and pull weve been experiencing in the marketplace. New york, new jersey, connecticut governo
Arizona, and hospital cases in california all marking new highs. Plus top advisers to President Trump are set to urge the u. S. To undermine the hong kong dollar peg to punish china for its crackdown in the city. Ons get a quick check up how markets are set up for the open. Here is Sophie Kamaruddin in hong kong. Sophie in asia this wednesday, we are seeing a mixed start to the session with focus on china and if mainland stocks can keep up that rally we have seen for six days. Futuresd 14 so we have in the green for the most part. Hang seng futures settling higher after the rally did stall in hong kong on tuesday. Switching out the board, checking in on the hong kong dollar, which continues to have the 7. 75 mine as they continue to defend the peg, we are seeing little reaction in the curb. Jumping into the terminal for a big picture book, low 200 pips after the spike we saw in may but staying elevated on economic and political uncertainties. Tracking any reaction to a bloomberg report