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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. Meanwhil ....
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 yester ....
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 coronavir ....