Joe biden says hes feeling good. Higher. Looks to be texas, florida, and arizona are among the states reporting big numbers with no signs of disturbances so far. And the other major story today, groups in hong kong and shanghai demanding capital control, throwing jack mas empire into turmoil. But, of course, there is one story it is the u. S. Election. Election day coming to a close in the u. S. Some of the polls closing and the key battleground states and over the next hour or so and starting to see whether the ballot shows a shift to what the markets have really been pricing in, which is that strong blue wave. Take a look how we are setting up after the u. S. Had the biggest twoday rally and since september led by financials and bank shares, treasury yields. On anticipating that as soon as the election is Done Congress will deliver a spending bill. Shery, a lot of the action going to be in currencies. Shery definitely chinese yunaa, one to watch. We are watching the Immediate Reactio
From home and implementing new restrictions he is speaking to the uk as we speak. And big tech stocks gaining back some ground after a rough month. Amazon climbing up analysts say the selloff created an attractive entry point. Sara, we have 59 minutes another volatile session amazon is nicely higher. The Broader Markets are slightly higher yeah, taking all of Consumer Discretionary it with. Retail winners today as well coming up on todays show, despite the upturn, the nasdaq is the underperformer in the month of september so far. Were going to ask tiech investr dan niles where he is putting his money to work. Even the ceo of levi will join us with a look at how consumers have spending money. And speaking of retail, were counting down to nike earnings to day after the close, nike by the way, best performer in the dow right now. Well get results from stitch fix, kb home and teslas Shareholder Meeting and battery day. It is shaping up to be a busy afternoon of news. 58 minutes left of tra
We dont we use this to refresh and get some new investing ideas. We have bill nye joining us in a bit. Hell tell us why he sold out of apple and what he is buying with the money has made and hes made a lot of money on apple and a few other stocks your Investment Committee today is jim executive equity strategist. You have stephen wiess the dow trying to build on its four day win streak. Were down 122 points but you know math, as the numbers go up, the percentages go down. The nasdaq is something that we have got to talk about here. The nasdaq is down the nasdaq has opinion leading us higher. Maybe it will lead us lower. Why do you think the technology has been, i dont want to say weak lately, but looks a little wobbly thank you for that and for recognizing that i was wearing a trash bag this morning its always a good idea to have some protection, bryan that was protection from the rain here in chicago now its sunny outside the same thing is true in the market im going to pull it back t
Quite a bit now. Its big ramifications for the reelection campaign, as well. A 7. 8 down 1660 when it was halted we have had 1,000moves for 7 straight sessions. Lets get more on everything going on bob pisani at the New York Stock Exchange bob . Our fourth trading halt, a circuit breaker. Down 7 . The fourth one in two weeks here look at the markets here 2351, very important number. The old december 24, 2018, low technicals not much good to anybody these days we are sitting right on top of that again, just want to review the Circuit Breakers level one, we halt 7 . We halt 15 minutes so well reopen in about ten minutes or so. If that happens again, theres no stopping at 7 . The next one is 13 . Thats until 3 25 and then there is no trading halt after 3 25 p. M. Eastern time unless you drop 20 in terms of whats bothering the market, ill put up a chart to explain everything everythings down. So here you see Corporate Bonds down here you see the s p 500, equities down. Here you see croude
Good thursday morning. Welcome to squawk alley. I am Carl Quintanilla with Morgan Brennan and jon fortt at post nine of the New York Stock Exchange getting close to new highs well start with facebook. Mark zuckerberg goes to the hill today. Were getting news out of the company on new ad formats as well Julia Boorstin has both those stories. Good morning to you Mark Zuckerberg is making the rounds in washington, d. C. , meeting with legislators, looking to regulate two areas, one, facebook privacy policies, two, responsibility for inappropriate, manipulative content on its platform. Zuckerberg met with democratic senator cantwell and also attended a dinner with mark warner and senator blumenthal also joined take a listen. I was impressed by a number of the ideas and interests of facebook in advancing privacy on the internet but i hope that we also can continue the conversation zuckerbergs meetings span the aisle, he is meeting with republican senator moran, and supposed to see hawley an