All the fast moving developments. The back to improving trend here but the markets are chewing on that, i guess assessing not improving fluff. What is your take . I agree with you. If you look at continuing claims, they have fallen pretty dramatically. The weekly claims there is sense by the market to keep the momentum going. Maybe that is a stimulus package. We dont know. Obviously the market takes it as a slight negative. We have had in the economy last couple months is housing boom, explosion in building. It has driven up commodity prices. Lumber prices. Multiyear highs. Multidecade highs. There is a concern that may cool off a little bit. Housing starts slowed down a little bit in august. There is a little bit of concern, that maybe that bright spot in the economy is starting to go down a little bit but not so much if you look at the oil market. Look at the oil market it is kind of signaling Better Things ahead. Weve seen a big jump up in oil prices, the last couple of days, a big
Selloff, but stocks will open lower this morning. Disappointing housing numbers really not helping, the dows looking for a loss of 370 points. Thats quite a drop right there. S p down 58, nasdaq down 288. A lot of red ink on the lefthand side of the screen. By the way, 860,000 jobless claims this week, thats the lowest number since march the 14th. All right, there is a mask and vaccine fought. President trump saws well have 100,000 next doses. That will be super fast. The cdc says, hold on, youll have to wait until the middle of next year, and joe biden says he doesnt trust trump, he trusts science. College sports, yeah, making a comeback. Ncaa basketball returns in november, big ten football in october. And sally, ouch. That storm has dumped more than a foot of run in some pluses and, get this, a storm named teddy is forming. Could go up the eastern seaboard. Big show, of course. Aoc wants even more implements for the social u. S. Es. Fomo, fear of mussing out missing out, have Retail
Epa administrator Andrew Wheeler will join me after the president signed an order to extend the florida offshore drilling ban. Well talk to him. But first, joe biden hitting the campaign trail this time in the crucial state of michigan. He will push the his own made in america plan before President Trump heads to the state tomorrow. The plan calling for more taxes on certain companies. Fox businesss Jackie Deangelis has the latest. Jackie, when i heard this, i thought the announcer made a mistake. He was talking about what trump had said in 2016. Reporter that is a very, very good comparison to make, david. Good afternoon to you and thats right, biden is in michigan today. Remember, this is a manufacturing state. He will try very hard to win over those voters. What he is saying is, i have got what it takes to make it in america. Now a crucial part of that plan is what he is going to do with Corporate Taxes. So lets review here. We already knew he wants to roll back the Trump Administra
One progress review should happen soon. More signs offers china strengthening rebound. Sales jumped by one third last quarter to 22 billion. The company insists it is no threat to u. S. National security. Lets take a look at how we are shaping up on this final friday session of the day. Lets get over to sophie he was taking a closer look. What are we watching . Vibes coming through with futures largely higher. We could see some weakness in korea following the drop that we saw for the kospi. On the docket today were looking at cpi from japan. Nikkei futures move slightly higher this morning, while the yen is trading below the 106 handle. Pulling up the chart on the terminal, we are watching to see if tech will bounce back in the region after thursdays selloff which saw the kospi with a big loss and the worst day for the regional tech index since march. Samsung took a hit on the south outlook for to prices. Prices. Outlook on chip potential hits on huawei and delayed 5g. That could hurt
Anchor alibaba investors headed to hong kong. Under threat for the covid19 resurgence, the Unemployment Rate will jump in the next two months, and the republicans launch their National Convention on monday, with a new poll that suggests their supporters like the economy and the government handling of the coronavirus. Lets get a quick check of how the markets are trading, up 2 10 of 1 , this, of course, after we had another rally on friday session, the nasdaq gaining 4 10 of 1 . Data,e plaza positive and a record in july helped by chief borrowing costs. Homebuilders lead that round in the s p 500, which was up for a fourth straight week. We have seen really records for the s p in the last week, and the sector that gained the most ground was tech. In the moment, Holding Steady after gains on friday, but we trend, down around 10 since the march i. Taking a look at what oil is doing, reversing some of the losses we saw on friday, above 42 a barrel at the moment. We saw it pare back the wee