Welcome to closing bell, everyone im wilfred frost along leslie picket in for sara isen today. Nasdaq holding on to some gains ahead of the holiday tomorrow. Pain in the labor market as new Employment Data underlines how tenuous the economy is nasdaq higher, growth out performed value. Energy under some pressure for a change after a huge surge in november and weve seen strong numbers from Corporate America mastercard said spending remains steady gap the counterpoint that stock is down 20 today alone. 59 minutes and oneday holiday coming up, of course, tomorrow the dow is down 0. 6 . Coming up on todays show, Website Security Company Cloud flair shares are up. Well speak to the ceo plus, riding with unicorns well talk to Founders Fund keith rabois Steve Liesman has a look at todays economic data. Mike santoli is tracking the market action. Deir deirdre bowsa has details. Steve, start us off with the economy. A busy day today. Yeah. The Federal Reserve earlier this month at its meeting d
President , he has announced hes free of the virus in immune and up dressed in airport crowd in florida today. This is important, the virus and how to deal with are central issues of the election. The president is taking the lead in opening the economy and returning to work in promoting the successful treatment, that is important stuff. Meanwhile joe biden always wearing a mask except for when hes coughing is bogged down with questions about packing the court in fracking, he will hold to events in ohio, lets see if he answers as important questions. Lefthand side of the screen, Supreme Court hearing for Amy Coney Barrett started an Opening Statement the judge said she learned from her mentor, Justice Antonio scully out. A judge must apply the law as written, not as a judge wishes it were. Vice president ial candidate Kamala Harris will participate virtually for safety reasons. Lets get to the market, the dow industrial is up for 50 on point, the s p up 20 thereabout look at the nasdaq,
Dollar lower and bonds higher. That is pushing yields down. All of this before the fomc announcement at 2 00 p. M. Fed policymakers are expected to reinforce the policy shift they rearticulated last month. And athan longer rates target of inflation slightly above 2 in perseus in pursuit of broader employment. Any news out of the meeting will be nuanced in communicating how they plan to implement the strategy. Will they spout conditions that will justify continued lower rates . Will they quantify quantitative easing . The original rationale for buying assets was to bring the market back to smooth functioning. Now it is probably to support the recovery. Is not clearit that matters because people want to know the fed has their back. Id i had fought the fed id thought the fed kind of said that last time, we have your back. What more could they say this way . The rumor there will be further enforcement of monetary policy, or is it the fact . Nerds will be looking for specific parameters on
Else, stimulus optimism. Pelosi and mnuchin are set to speak again. Airline stocks are up. Plus the race for a cure and treatment for the coronavirus. Shares of regeneron and eli lilly are rallying, both asking the fda for emergency use approval for their antibody therapies. And speaking of surging, look at shares of ibm this morning, moving up on plans to spin off its it infrastructure unit Arvind Krishna and Ginni Rometty will both join us first to discuss this historic move for the company. Carl we are awash in headlines from the president after this 55minute interview. But buried in there are discussions about the progress of stimulus talks and emergency approval for the likes of lilly and regeneron. Look, i think that there is a narrative that were going to start hearing and it was the president s narrative, he voiced it, i know if youre george ancopolous, you dont want to hear it is a cure. You want to hear it is something that is part of a cocktail of things that you need to be
And Lisa Abramowicz. Tom good morning, everyone. It is news packed. Politicsng things on and international relations. The operative word this morning is stimulus. It is stimulus in europe, an announcement shortly, and presumed stimulus meetings in washington. Jonathan in europe, it is about signal, not size. Making progress, they meet again at four clock p. M. Local time, 10 00 a. M. Eastern time. In the United States, it is about size. Theres a 2 trillion spread between democrats and republicans as Congress Returns to work in washington. Not small change. Tom what do you see in the bond to 4 when it devolves trillion, ive even seen a 5 trillion deficit . What does the bond market look like into the end of the year . Lisa it is wide open. Basically, saying we will give you money at the lowest ring cost on record in order to borrow money. You see that for the u. S. Government, also for u. S. Corporations. Right now, the cost for investmentgrade companies to borrow in the United States i