Over by 250 points and this morning you are seeing green arrows for the s p 500 and nasdaq, nasdaq right now up by about 122 points in the future market and that is pretty impressive you are now talking about four days in a row that you have seen gains for the major averages all are within 5 of their 52 week highs and in fact the transports set a new alltime high yesterday too. Right now the dow futures are indicated a little down by about 61 points. Were watching a lot of things that have been happening including news with Johnson Johnson, and earnings are coming out too. And if you want to take a look at the treasury market, right now you will see that the ten year seems to be sitting just around 0. 759 . So not far from where it has been yep, earnings are supposed to take the baton from stimulus hopes, which i dont know whether those are fleeting or not. But supposedly the earnings might be pretty good yesterday kind of weird all the stay at home new age tech stuff was strong as i t
Optimistic. Mitch mcconnell is pressing for his own more targeted plan. Emily, if the white house and pelosi agree to a deal, six months ago you couldve seen trump with the pressure from oconnell, is that not the case anymore . Mcconnell, is that not the case anymore . We are talking about all the Senate Republicans who arent really game to pass another 2 trillion legislation. How much support to they have. Mcconnell says if there is an agreement, he will bring it to the floor but did not say whether he would support or talk about his members for supporting it. A lot of them are in tight races coming up and they need to be thinking about their own Electoral Prospects to try and make decisions they see think are going to sit well with their constituents. That we you suggesting are seeing members of the senate , republican members of the senate distancing themselves from trump . Is that now the electoral play that they have to pursue . I think for these republican senators, they have to
It is hip to be square used to be at least. Lets check out u. S. Equity futures. Things are relatively flat and that isa good thing. A bit of a difference after the big swings weve seen. Right now dow futures up about 3, s p 500 up about 2, nasdaq up by 13. Of course this is after a done day for the m down day for the markets yesterday. Treasury yields are something to start paying attention to because we did see a pickup in treasury yields to the highest levels weve seen since june the ten year is yielding 0. 813 . And i know it doesnt seem like a lot, but it is the highest level weve seen in a while and there is so much that rides on that including mortgage pricing which has been a key part of what has been happening in the housing sector, a strong point in the economy so far. Lets get over to washington. Well talk about id call it a soap opera, but really it is a reality show and means a lot to so many millions before nancy pelosi says she is now optimistic that democrats may be abl
To atlanta, President Trump campaigning there today. He talks about and introducing his plan to boost Economic Opportunities for black americans. On the stages housing secretary ben carson. Live coverage here on cspan2. This is about people who believe in our system and people who want to fundamentally change us into something else. [applause] killing, destroying, intimidating people, those are not godly principles and we should never invite people into our community, no matter what has happened who throw bombs and loot and destroy peoples livelihoods. If we see people welcoming them those people ought to be shunned, kick them out of your neighborhoods and dont let them destroy everything and go back to the lives of luxury. What a bunch of crap. You know . [laughter] [cheering and applause] we need to concentrate on educating people and im building our community and that is what President Trump is doing, building our community. All you have to do is look, all you have to do is open you
President in new jersey and took a look at the fine print. Im providing a parallel tax holiday to americans earning less than 100,000 per year. President trump is trying to defer a 6. 2 Social Security tax for americans making up to 104,000 a year. The taxes would have to be paid next year. I plan to make permanent cuts to the payroll tax. Only congress has the power to issue tax cuts. Republican senator ben faf called the news unconstitutional slop. The president directed 44 million from fema to cover a 300 a week up Employment Benefit for five more weeks with states being asked to cover an additional 100 in benefits. Cbs news asked the president if hes giving people false hope. Mr. President , this is expected to be tied up in the courts, so this is going to be delayed or i think its going to go rapidly through the courts. The president asked for extended relief on Student Loans and delaying evictions. The president repeated a false claim about the act signed by president barack obam