These days lets face it can happen to anyone because incidents like this are becoming common. Dont like that, happen last night, the confrontation again in louisville, demonstrators try to set the library on fire, a black cop shot in the stomach, 24 rest, urban violence is an election issue and polls show a sharp decline for antipolice demonstrations. Thats that, lets get back to money. After battling the threat of impeachment, Speaker Pelosi and the democrats are pushing a 2. 4 trigon dollar stimulus plan, and was 3 trillion and now its 2 trillion, now they come down, we dont know whether the treasury secretary will go up from his original trillion dollar, 1 trilliondollar plan. Not that much action in stock so far today, the stimulus plan news not really affected the market, the dow will be down 100 ands and p down a little bit but the nasdaq looks like a gain of 16 points at the state, not Much Movement but look at this, william hill, the reddish bookies getting to takeover bids and
Promising results from both of them. Later, we are expecting news from astrazeneca, thats a british company. They are going to announce the results of their phase 1 trials of a covid vaccine. Now, positive news on a vaccine usually moves the market. It certainly did last week, and i think its helping futures this morning, too. There is news on a new stimulus plan. The president says he would not approve any plan that did not include a payroll tax cut. All right. Now look at the market. It has turned around. Earlier today we were way on the down side. But now we have moved to the upside i think its on the strength of this vaccine news. The dow held to the 26, 600 level last week. 8,000 points above where it was when President Trump won election. By the way, a new the Washington Post abc news poll showed joe biden with a 15point lead, 5540. This is 106 days before the november vote. We will be talking a lot about election risk on todays program. Then theres this. For the 54th straight da
Claims. 1. 3 million last week, and that is the 15th weekly decline, so the downtrend continues. However, 17 million are still unemployed and still collecting benefits. Ive got two big tech stories for you. First off, the twitter hack. Fake messages appeared from big name celebrities. It was a bitcoin scam. The important point is the hackers took over the platform and could have sent out messages to disrupt the market or the election or anything. They showed they could do it and that is a huge problem. Stocks way down. Second tech problem, the top court in europe will restrict the transfer of the personal data of europeans to american companies. They are worried about our surveillance of them. This could severely disrupt big tech operations and big tech stocks are down. While stocks generally are moving lower, especially those technology issues, the dow, we are looking at a minus 180 at the opening bell, down 21 for the s p and really, the nasdaq taking it on the chin. Again, technolog
Is the overall market. This is really helping. The dow industrial will open with a 500point gain. We were up 500 yesterday, youre up about 1100 points in 24 hours. The s p to the upside big time and the nasdaq up 76, it is a rally. Travel related going straight up as well, if there is a vaccine that works, people can take it and be safe on planes and cruise lines, we could get out and about more on a mass scale safely. Backtoschool might get help as well from the vaccine news. Hold on we are not done with big winners. Apple one a 14 billiondollar tax fight with europeans. They won, that stock is back almost, its at 394, 395 a share. Straight up this morning. Goldman sachs a big jump in profit, watch the stock grow. If the dow stock helping overall market. Your money is often running, we will have a grand old time following it for you. That is not all on the show, trump guy one in alabama beating Jeff Sessions while a wide margin. He will be on the show. Joe biden reveals his economic p
That is boeing. Today, there will be a test flight for the max jet. It will be put through its paces with all kinds of maneuvers. The results, recorded. This is part of the recertification process. The stock is up 5. 5 . Watch this stock, too. Facebook. The list of companies which will no longer advertise on it is growing. They want founder Mark Zuckerberg to weed out what they call racist or threatening or misleading advertising. That stock is down bigtime, seven bucks. How about this. Politico says the president has told close aides hes worried about losing in november. Former new Jersey Governor Chris Christie says mr. Trump will lose if he doesnt change course. 127 days to the election. Joe biden leads. The virus is coming back. And the market is rallying. Welcome to the monday morning edition of varney company. Stuart im going to start with boeing, almost two years after that fatal lion air crash involving the max jet. They are set to begin recertification testing. Susan, come in,