Down days for the markets. Right now s p down by about 11, dow by 96, nasdaq off by about 47 we were so close to you dow 30,000 earlier in the week, but that seems to be slipping away a little bit 29,400 and change is where the dow is right now and again, down two days in a row, down again this morning and after yesterdays declines, all three of the major averages are in negative territory for the week a lot of things happening with covid and well talk more about that in a moment, but some of those concerns creeping back into what you see in the markets. If you are looking at the treasury market, the yield on the ten year right now is sitting just at about 0. 852 and the vix also spiking yesterday, probably a little bit on concerns about what happens as we go back into some of the lockdowns. The seesaw of good and bad news on covid. And well give you a bit of good news that happened overnight in the vaccine wars developed by the university of oxford and astrazeneca found to be safe. An
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At a record high for the dow the s p set a record high on friday up another 30 points and the nasdaq, an underperformer last week, is indicated up by close to 60 points stocks have been on a big run. If you look at last weeks returns the dow was up just over 4 last week the s p was up just over 2 . And the nasdaq was down only by half a percent you are talking about the third week out of four that is seeing negative returns and that has been the underperformer. Really across the board a lot of strength the russell 2000 hitting a record high last week and big, big moves. Remember, its only been a week since weve heard from pfizer. That set things off especially ones underperforming as people stay home. The ten year is yielding 0. 885 . Joe, that was a wild ride last week, too, watching what happened with treasury yields. Potentially getting up to 1 but now were back where we started. All part of, i guess, reopening. The market given the backdrop i will talk about right now the market is
Transition naming a longtime democratic confidant as chief of staff. And the wait is officer as tas over as the masters tees off. This is worldwide exchange. Im all right be in worry about me, you got to give me a fight good morning, everybody, from wherever in the world did you may be watchings did you get the golf caddy shack reference there . I know it is early lets tee it right up and get to a check on the markets and your money. Futures are mixed, but they are turning around at this hour, you mostly get the overnight trade, but nasdaq futures did just turn in the green. No new records yesterday, the dow do do dow down you a bit on wednesday. Did that break the new record high but it was a big day in many ways otherwise and maybe a big sigh of relief for many tech investors as the nasdaq bounced back after a tough beginning to the week. Big gains on stocks that also had a tough start to the week. I just combined apple and amazon well call it amle here we go zoom, decrease could yoc