The nasdaq up by about 120 yesterday was a down day for the markets. The dow off by about 270 points. But if you want to take a look at november hes historic gain, check this out, the dow actually up by 1. 8 for the month, that is its best month since january of 1987. The s p no slouch either it gained about 11 while the nasdaq was up nearly 12 november by the way was the best month for all of those indexes since april which was a huge month. Also small cap stocks were some big winners. The russell 2000 finished the month up more than 18 , 245ethas right, 18 in one month, the best month since that index was created back in 1984 so here we are heading into december and year to date, the nasdaq is the superstar, up nearly 36 the s p 500 is up by 12 and the russell 2000 up by 9 . The dow up by 3. 9 so fantastic november for all of these indices. Nasdaq leading the way in terms of year to date. Joe. Yep, coincident with the surge. Go figure. The second surge are you sure it is never too ea
To see everybody the dow did get to 29942, that is an alltime intra day high. Fell back a bit off that, a better than 400point game for the dow, s p better than 1 , nasdaq a little shy of that and then the small caps all the way to the righthand side of your screen banks, travel and leisure stocks leading the way. Some of the stayathome stocks. Theres the possibility in the middle of december the Federal Reserve steps in and provides further stimulus to replace whats missing from fiscal policy makers i want investors to give consideration to who potentially would be the treasury secretary. And, lastly, what will incoming president elect bidens policy be towards the chinese i think the reintroduction of a favorable relationship is a positive one so there are many catalysts coming as it rates to the reopening of stocks, you could look at financials and energies, but the one sector that stands out to me as the opportunity is industrials it screams high in terms of return on equity, its go
Republican incumbent senators market Martha Mcsally and cory gardner lost their races. Right now, republicans control 48 seats. Democrats hold 46 senate seats. There are two independent senators. More of your reaction to the election from washington journal. Or reason for voting for joe biden. Issuet to follow up on an some of our callers particularly those who support joe biden have brought up when it comes to the u. S. Postal service. Concerns about delivery of mailin ballots. This story from usa today. A federal judge upgraded lawyers after the agency failed to make its election day order for postal inspectors to sweet Mail Processing facilities in more than a dozen states. Sullivanjudge emmet said he was shocked to learn that some and crucial battleground states of florida, arizona, texas, wisconsin, pennsylvania, had not been searched. Leaving authorities unavailable to determine if all ballots had been delivered. It leaves a bad taste in everyones mouth. To governmentthat lawyers
Im becky quick along with joe kerr de kernen and Andrew Ross Sorkin. After two days of optimism, the get out there again trade was on turned around a little bit yesterday. We did see people rushing back to the stayathome stocks as covid cases and momentization hs continue to climb. And some states are imposing restrictions and the nasdaq ended up 2 after being down monday and tuesday. Yesterday the dow ended flat, right now indicated down by about 115. Never made to the record, still waiting circumstanling around tt s p 500 down by 2. 5 and nasdaq indicated up another 51 points this morning these were the stay at home stocks, amazon up, apple up 3 , zoom which had gotten hammered, yesterday up by almost 10 took c docusign 5. 2 and netflix 2. 2 and treasury yields, yesterday it was closed for veterans day this morning it is open and you can see the ten year still around the very heightened levels, again, not historically, but based on what weve seen in recent history within range of 1 a
A thirdparty candidate, 2027488002. If you want to texas with your 2027488003. You can tweet us and our Facebook Page available at facebook. Com cspan. Throughout the day there will be a lot going on, not only with vote counts but legal challenges and other things adding up to an ultimate result. Here to keep us updated on those events as they happen throughout the day is john mcardle. Guest the numbers we are working on is the Associated Press numbers, looking to them for results and calls. You may see other numbers and calls elsewhere, but we will be going back to the Associated Press numbers. To take you to the president ial battlefield, the map you just saw, President Trump and joe biden separated this morning with 60 electoral votes to get. Joe biden at 264 electoral votes , President Trump a 214. Joe biden picking up electoral votes yesterday when the Associated Press called michigan and wisconsin. President trump currently up in pennsylvania. Still about 10 left to count in penn