Your tune into the weekly here on our 2 international where we break down the top stories from the week just gone. Through has decided not to buy doses of a potential corona virus vaccine being developed by the british firm astra zeneca leymah cited a lack of data from the company after the death of a trial volunteer reports claiming a 28 year old male doctor in brazil died while taking part in advanced stage 3 trials run by astra zeneca and Oxford University its not known whether he received the actual drug or a placebo you know all the us has now permitted trials to resume after they were temporarily halted there and other countries have also restarted them in recent weeks in gaza have has more now on the race for a cure. There is always the risk with any vaccine any Clinical Trial that statistical improbability that northpoint nor one percent risk that someone dies at someone reportedly was a brazilian doctor he was part of an Oxford University Vaccine Trial Group and is believed to
Thats been going on for a long time that was going on in fact in january and february, then the plunge and the ricochet. Lets look at a few slides to try to prove it, so to speak the precondition of excess you see these bullet points here basically, s p 500 before this selloff this week at an alltime high we know the price to sales, a fundamental on measuring the valuation, at an alltime high the s p 500 is up 42 and the nasdaq up some 57 the precondition of excess, and then the next slide, divergence. As the market is making alltime highs, only 16 of the s p constituents were making alltime highs index doing it the average stock in the s p is 28 below its alltime high. Thats not now thats on monday before we sold off. And then, finally, 46 of all stocks in the s p 500 have no gains for two years. This is the precondition of die divergence and the precondition of excess. So the next slide, what we know is we have a very rare circumstance where the nasdaq 100 drops 10 in a twoday period
Report from the region is next apple trying to lift the curtain on new gadgets a new phone not likely will anybody care . This is Worldwide Exchange on tuesday, september 15. A nice segment of music coming up later in the program by the way, good morning, good afternoon and good evening wherever you may be watching good to have you back with us. Global markets are stepping up this day solidly in the green the major average back yesterday after the s p 500 posted its worst week since june and the nasdaq the best week since march. The nasdaq back above 11,000 but still about 1,000 points away from that high of september 2. Small but mighty do not forget about the small cap stocks the russell 2000 posting the best day since july 15 small caps have been outperforming. Dont forget about the bond market either. The federal resofr and a new inflation framework in place talk of lower rates stronger the continuing note is stuck there for months around the world, a mixed session in asia overnigh
Switch the dow around would we be looking at essentially the same falloff . Essentially we would. This is taking nine of 12 key sectors down. Financials are holding up pretty well today but a lot of this was driven right now by concerns, comments made by dr. An any fauci. I believe he was doing interview on cnn he expressed doubts having a vaccine ready by october. I think there was leaping on that as excuse to sell, just as it could be a leap on Mitch Mcconnells comments that we might not get a deal together, spending measure, virus, stimulus deal together anytime soon. And that he doubts they will be on the same page, republicans and democrats anytime soon. Add to that that weve got new u. S. China tensions. This didnt get as much attention. It has nothing to do with trade per se but with the administration move to impose restrictions on chinese diplomats already here. I do think when you get a selloff going, people collect all of this together, say, sell, sell. It is not that neat a
Additional funding for the post office to other elements of support that might potentially encourage mcconnell to call the senate back as well. But that will be a bridge we will find out more about later yeah, will they have a relief bill as people look to get relief and extension that they have been waiting for for, you know, several weeks now since it last expired. Over to you, john. Interesting what the president was just saying. Drawing a distinction between universal mail in ballots, which he opposes, and absentee ballots which he has cast himself and is in favor of saying he does not favor slowing down the mail. He wants to speed up the mail, of course. The house wants to question a lot of that and well see if that happens thank you, it is 8 00 a. M. At apple headquarters in coopertino, california, its 11 00 a. M. On wall street and squawk alley is live good morning, what a week it is, can you believe were starting this monday at levels for the markets that we were prepandemic. T