You do you reach for the stock equivalent of comfort food something that tastes just like the great bull markets of thats right you reach forfang, my acronym for facebook, amazon, netflix and google this session its more like fang because microsoft has become red hot. Netflix suffered a rare decline. The tech stocks led us higher. With the s p rising 1. 67 , and the nasdaq zoom being 2. 80 , it was a matter of time before we return to the tried and true this market has been going through groups like theres no tomorrow first we had the rally in the defensive Consumer Staples during the work from home nuclear winner the stocks rebounded we started reopening hospitals for nonessential medicine a run up in the big box retailers. That group seems a tad exhausted. Weve seen a surge in the Semiconductor Stocks as demand picks up from china and 5 g. Build out looks good continue with analog devices, amdi a decent quarter. A run in industrials as people bet the economy might be coming back as a
Overnight, though they lost some ground this morning. A lot to watch, china pmi backing expansion, the fed launches a new dollar repo operation. Jim, sounds like youre focused on testing, having talked to abbott last night. Right i think that myles white and now the new ceo recognize this, as they did during the aids epidemic, when you find out who has it, everything changes in this country, we can find out who has it, and doing a serilogical test, finding out from blood of people who have had it maybe a lot more people have had it than we knew. Maybe we can find who has got it, they can be quarantined. Already the carpers people are saying its only going to be med techs and hospitals. Myles and robert told me absolutely, this will devolve into a pregnancy test at home. How quickly, i dont know. Abbott labs is one of them dr. Gottlieb is going you know what ive seen science this is working in forgave earl avor ofd guys megs work with alex gorsky made me feel maybe next year we can go t
Since february 5 and 6 thats right, it has been about a month and a half since february 5 and 6 for the dow and february 13 for the s p 500. Right now, it looks like the yield is at 0. 858 andrew we have a huge lineup of guests today out of washington James Bullard talking about headlines. Tom barrack and former federal chairman ben bernanke. Living through the crisis of 2008 and studying the Great Depression all of that coming up over the next three hours to the news that broke overnight. The white house and the senate announcing a deal. Well get to leaSteve Liesman f more on that and eamon with more. It was in the 1 00 a. M. Hour that it broke overnight. What we have here, joe, is a handshake deal we dont have a vote and we dont have the explicit text what we have is a deal here is how Mitch Mcconnell announced the deal at 1 00 a. M help is on the way. The American People are already rising to this great challenge the senate is about to follow suit well pass this legislation later to
Exchange, where we bring you todays market moving news from around the world. Our bloomberg voices are on the ground with this mornings top stories. We begin with a ron striking back with iran striking back after the u. S. Air strike that killed top iranian general Qasem Soleimani last week. For more, simon foxman joins us from doha. What is the latest on the retaliatory attacks on the part of iran . Big question has been whether or not there are any casualties caused by this attack. We just saw, as i was sitting down, it appears u. S. Officials are saying no casualties. That they were informed of this before it happened. If there were casualties, it would have caused a much stronger u. S. Response, the thinking goes. If not, perhaps we could see ourselves moving towards some type of negotiation, some sort of diplomatic resolution. The ayatollah, and he the Ayatollah Khomeini saying this is a slap in the face to the United States. The foreign minister, though, taking a bit more of a co
Or what texas is and will not be accepted here. It evening everyone. Im alyana gomez. Andre senior is off tonight. 249 Mass Shootings in 215 days so far this year. Innocent people gunned down in the most horrific of ways. Last weekend, a shooting at the gilroy garlic festival claim 3 lives. Today, another deadly rampage, this time at a Shopping Mall in el paso, texas. Here is what we know. Authorities say at least 20 people are dead and 26 others wounded. Some with lifethreatening injuries. Just after 10 30 this morning, the shooter walked into a walmart at the cielo vista mall in el pasos texas. This borders mexico. Most of the shootings occurred inside the walmart and say the shopping area had more than 3000 customers and employees inside at the time. Police say theyre looking at the shooting as a possible hate crime. Heres what we know about the suspect vicki is identified as 21yearold patrick crusius. He was taken into custody without incident. Initially, police said there had been