Australian government is slowing down. It is flat in the session. The jci and jakarta composite index just started off its trading day. Dollar index moving to the upside. Sterling is flat at the moment after gains. Those gains coming about after we got brexit talks being extended to the end of october. That is adding some optimism that may be a deal could be done after one of the chief eu sides comingid see close together at the end of last week. Crude oil and gold moving to the downside as we have limbo in regards to the fiscal package or stimulus package out of capitol hill. Lets have a look at what is going on in terms of the first word news as we get over to new york and join Karina Mitchell. Karina global coronavirus numbers continue to make headlines with the u. S. Reporting record infections for the second day in a row. The white house saying the administration is not going to control the crisis. the news comes as Vice President mike pences chief of staff tests positive. Withe h
U. S. Cases do continue to decline. The fda gives the go ahead for plasma use in hospitalized patients and a potential vaccine fast track and tech on a tear. Shares of apple up nearly 75 this year ahead of its four for one stock split today. Jim, we have all that to handle and jackson hole this week, the rnc and couple tropical storms in and not a sleepy august it should be a sleepy august, and its not august supposed to be a down month and its not people say, wait a second. 70 of the market didnt do well last week. I always find those kind of things because 70 of the market does well this week. You dont have a bunch of anything to hang your hat on when you look at a big apple price target increase basically to where the stock is you realize, wait a second shes the first. But will everyone have to follow every price target is below where the stock is a lot of people feel enthusiasm for the stock split. Of course, that is part of it. I know stocks mean nothing but they excite people she
Points, we were down more than that nasdaq inched up have we already bottomed thats big question i heard all weekend. I was operating that might be temporary, would revisit the march lows, perhaps even taking out that level figured retest was virtually inevitable there was just too much weakness in the system. All through here, just knew things were going very awry. Now im feeling more confident about the future i said this morning im not going to be as negative. In part because the federal government has made unprecedented moves to prop up the economy. Very good things in that 2. 2 trillion rescue package, but fdic went nuclear, adopted a malcolm x approach to keep his economy alive by any means necessary. Fed chief has unlimited firepower. Sure its great that the government is providing forgivable loans to Small Business owners to keep employees on payroll and great we expanded Unemployment Insurance to be collected by gig employees too. Now we know fed wont let every retailer with m
Maria big show this morning, joining the conversation fox business Dagen Mcdowell, the host of the secrets of wealthy women podcast veronica is here and entrepreneur kevin oleary. Do you want to take money to the sidelines until a deal is done . I come to the conclusion the market wont care because whats really occurring here is we have back tax, valueadded tax on chinese goods and they have been absorbed quite efficiently in the u. S. Economy, every other g7 has a back tax, we have one just on china. I dont care if they continue to ratchet up the tariffs because i think its the right way to get a deal done. Maria youre in on this. People were expecting recession or some sort of recession in 2020, not hearing that nearly as much anymore. Maria absolutely. Whats predicated on that is theres a trade deal, we will see a pullback in market in 2020. Dagen market has told you that the Recession Risk has fallen because the yield curve is no longer inverted and the 10year yield on the treasury
Mark on that Company Power lunch starts right now and welcome to power lunch. Im melissa lee. Were looking at the markets right now but this is not telling the entire story intraday, thats the story we went from session highs in fact intraday all time high on the dow industrial to a low. On a dow jones headline about u. S. china trade talks hitting a snag over farm purchases well get the latest and monitor the latest reaction for you. Thank you, melissa. Were going to go now to washington and Kayla Tausche who has been following trade for us for many months now and has the latest headlines and some context. Kayla . Well, tyler, the headlines that are moving the market lower from the wall street journal which says that china is balking at putting a specific dollar figure of agricultural purchases into the deal text remember, this was supposed to be a good will purchase primarily centered on intellectual property selections and stopping chinas practice of forcing Technology Transfers but