Focus in china, the unraveling of the chinese stock rally. Seems like things have stabilized after we saw one of the worst selloffs since the gdp eight out of china. You see china targeting large caps, small caps and the latest is kwai chow moutai. Yesterday, climbing back with the stock. Record after we saw a spike in virus cases yesterday. Watching other things with indonesia markets opening up, focusing more on the Bank Indonesia rate cut, cutting rates for the second time as growth sputters, the stocks are up. 4 area strength in the rupiah. Up. 4 . Strength in the rupiah. Nifty, futures pointing to a positive open. Yvonne the Trump Administrationyvonne is turning on some of americas Biggest Companies saying they are pawns of china. Attorney general bill barr says disney, apple and others are working at the expense of u. S. And western democratic values. He said disney and apple have been manipulated by the communist party interchanging strategy to make money. The coronavirus contin
Good morning welcome to squawk box here melissa lee is hanging out again with us. Becky is off today for some welldeserved vacation well see her next week. As joe said yesterday, one of the first down days weve seen in a while a little better s p up about 13 and nasdaq looking to open about 45 points higher also showing you treasury yields now you can see where those are standing well flip that around to. 628 on the 10year you thinking about refinancing a mortgage anytime soon, guys . Im as low as they go im good if you have an account where you can use assets for credit line or to make an investment or Something Like that, i remember two or three years ago, i locked this ridiculously low rate if they come to me again and offer another one, it will be lower than it was last time. It was like 2 or 1. 5 when you get money that cheap, dont you think you you are in the drivers seat when rates are this low i dont feel bad about borrowing money at rates like that so you are talking about get
Of security at facebook, about the next big hurdle that the company is facing. As coronaviruses spike, loews longtime ceo Jonathan Tisch will talk to us about his belief about the governments role too revive the travel industry, but also all business in the United States power lunch is right now its agreed to see ygreat tl the s p 500 is lower by about 2 bob pisani has more on all the market moves. Hello, melissa. Were near the lows for the day. I want to emphasize what melissa was just saying, because the outperformance is truly extraordinary. What you want to focus on is the nasdaq 100 while up 16, the nasdaq 100, which consists of the top five five, up 21 this is an unusual dispersion. Were also seeing the equal weight down, the average stock on the s p is down 12 thats a good way to look at it. Meantime the russell 2000 small cap is down 16 . To show you the outperformance, remember these numbers these are the top five these five stocks are 6 trillion in market capitalization, almo
Abigail doolittle who has been over this story. Nasdaq another record high today. What are you hearing about sort of the strength that we saw into end of todays session . Its pretty amazing. We have another record high for nasdaq. Nasdaq 100, big tech stocks continuing to do well. Those are the stayathome stocks this years defense. Theres an odd tension that you have this years defense and new hitting record high after record high. Interesting,t earlier today, you had tech slightly lower. Bulle end of the day really rushed through supporting technology. Investors looking past virus numbers. Its not going to slow the that it hadhe way on the shutdown. Back in february when the virus was raging in china, that down, stocks here ignoring it. It feels we are ignoring some of fundamental data. Take a look at the moves that we have on the day. Wasnt just tech. Tech actually on the day a sector. Ower as financials up 3. 5 . Bit of a nice cyclical tilt s p 500 beings s p helped out by bond fall
Throughout the show. Take a look at tesla up 6 premarket, its going to bust through another alltime high at the open, look at that up to 1277, also a story about red sucking shorts, thats what you call a tease, we will explain, also President Trump tweeting about the markets moments ago saying if you want your 401k and stocks which are getting close to an alltime high, nasdaq already there to disappear, vote for the radical left, donothing democrats and corrupt joe biden, massive tax hikes will make you very poor fast. That is the president tweeting this morning. Speaking of the election, we are for mental weight and joe biden says hes going to transform nation. What does he mean by that, youll guess pretty good as good as ours, he gave no details. Also President Trump will be holding a rally once again this time in New Hampshire this coming saturday and this time it is outdoors, the Trump Campaign is coming up on that shortly and as always a big three hours ahead im Ashley Webster Int