The dow is looking for about a 300 point gain right there at the opening bell. S p up about 34. Look at that nasdaq go. Technology is doing well, up 104 points. Thats premarket for the nasdaq. Now, lockdown winners. Clearly emerging. Lowes, the Home Improvement people, headquartered in North Carolina. Profit up 28 . We stocked up for the lockdown. Target, they really organized their online delivery and store pickup operation, lumped together under digital sales, up a whopping 141 . Walmart, same story. Stockpiling helped them, too. Amazon, kings of the online selling business. Boy, did they clean up. The stock is near a record high. And the netflix, well, they are the kings of the streaming business. What else are we supposed to do when we are ordered to stay home for weeks on end . There are a lot more virus winners and we will go through them throughout the show. Meanwhile, the revolt continues all across the country. Businesses are defying the authorities and opening up despite the
A virus lockdown winner has emerged. Its walmart. They have had the advantage of remaining open and they finetuned their delivery and pickup services. They have done very well. Look at this. Same store sales, up 10 . Huge. Sams club sales up 12 , even bigger. Ecommerce, now, this is a big one, up 74 , online sales. That is remarkable. The stock, we are quoting premarket now, the stock is up nearly five bucks, 3. 8 . Okay. This is going to be a live action day. Two top money guys head to capitol hill. Speaker mnuchin, jay powell, they will be discussing what they think still needs to be done for the economy. You want my opinion, please give us Liability Protection. The president addresses the nations farmers. What do they need and whats with the Food Supply Chain. We will carry his speech live. Thats in our 11 00 hour this morning. Then theres the market. After yesterdays 900point gain. That rally followed encouraging news on a vaccine from moderna and the rapid reopening of the economy
Last week. That means 38. 9 Million People have been thrown on to the unemployment lines in the last eight weeks. 38. 64 million to be precise. The only bright spot is the weekly claims have consistently come down. That implies that the layoff trend has already hit bottom. Heres the markets reaction to all of this. The dow at the moment is on the down side but not much by. Youre looking at 60 points lower. Youre looking at the nasdaq down about 16. Small losses across the board. Helping the market, astrazeneca, working with Oxford University, they have announced progress on a vaccine. They will do phase three trials with 30,000 american patients in july. If it works, they say they could deliver 300 million doses by the early fall. Then weve got three stories about open up and open up now. 600 doctors delivered a letter to the president outlining the Severe Health costs of the lockdown. They call it a mass casualty incident. Open up, they say. The front page of the New York Post blares
But did bern knee pull biden too far to the left . Well react. It is monday march 16th. Fbn am starts right now. Cheryl here we go, welcome to fbn am and good morning everyone. Im cheryl casone. Lauren good morning to you at home youre like lie watch withing from home not the gym not work this morning thank you for joining us im lauren simonetti. Cheryl lets take a look after feds dramatic move late yesterday. They cut rates, and they agreed to 700 billion in bonds purchases e mostly treasure reis. Some of those mortgage back securities were limitedded down overnooght for the s p and nasdaq right now dow down and s p down 128 and half nasdaq is is down 3. 59. 75 and cannot go below 5 and remember, though, folks dow had biggest one day surge since 2008. This is volatility. Lauren take a look at the ten year treasury how pan pick investors are really down, 7 . Cheryl on fed moves we saw oil go briefly below 30 a barrel overnite right now were at 30. 10. But thats selloff 5 for oil this i
Now, latest numbers. The house is preparing to vote on multiple dollar package. What you need to know coming up. The nba suspending season, suspending season until further notice. March madness to be played without fans. Selloff extending across the globe. European markets deep in the red followed by travel announcement by President Trump. 1. 7 . Cac quarante down 258 and dax in germany lower by 588. Almost 6 . Italy tightening lockdown even further allowing Grocery Stores and pharmacies to stay open. The European Central bank out with latest Rate Decision this morning. We will have that for you as soon as it hits the tape. Investors are looking for news of stimulus to battle the Economic Impact of coronavirus. In asia red across the board. The shanghai composite down 1 and a half percent but japan worst performer down 4 and a half percent. Lets check Interest Rates right now. We are talking about a decline of 15 and a half basis points on the 10year yield now sitting at. 718 . This, t