Lets break it down with mike mckee. Is a it is michael it little bit odd. On the headline, 100. 9 is lower than it was in the month of august or september, rather, when it was 101. 8. You would expect that maybe the present situation would be causing people concern because of the coming closures of some businesses as covid cases spike but the number comes in at 98. 9 at up from 104. 6, up from 98. 9. Turnabouting quite a in the way people are looking at the economy. The interesting thing here is this bemay see is reasonably good news for donald trump because if you are looking at the economy, stupid, as the old saying goes, you are looking at the economy as it is right now, and the economy as it is right now is better. The employment number is something Everyone Wants to look at in the set up to next week. Jobs number is an improvement, so those who think we are going to have a dismal jobs report next week might be in for a surprise, at least according to the underlying Consumer Sentim
And were awaiting comments on president elect jooe biden. And later, the biontech ceo will be here to discuss their groundbreaking results showing their vaccine with pfizer is more than 90 effective. Thanks, welcome once again to power lunch. I am john fort check out some of the tech heavyweights Apple Holding up after announcing its own line of chips for computers and names like amazon, facebook, microsoft all under pressure at this hour. And on the flip side, take a look at whats leading gains in the dow. Its walgreens up 8 , boeing up 5 for more on the divided market, lets go over to john pisani you hit it right. It is essentially out of growth and the rally in cyclicals value, not always the same thing but cyclicals and values are continuing. John mentioned walgreens theyre going to be an administrator of the covid shot. Walgreens and cvs moving thats a very specific story by bu si but cyclicals Like Aerospace boeing has been a huge mover in the last few days, 3m, oil stock is anot
The dollar gaining some ground after paring losses after that meeting. Fx sellinging asia off, especially the renminbi after reaching may 2019 highs. There are signs perhaps the currency is being overbought. Expecting boj, boe, and Bank Indonesia today. Those currencies and focus. Watching the bond market as well put it did not get adjustments on qe from the fed. We saw the 10 and 30 yield spike coming off a little now but that did lead to earlier the yield curve steepening and coming off a little. We are watching brent crude as well as wti. Also saw off some of the highs we saw overnight. There is optimism for demand but that is also losing some of those gains right now. Tom lets get you up to speed with some of the first word News Headlines and other stories. President trump says a Coronavirus Vaccine could be just tribute it widely as early as october, contradicting statements by some of his top health officials. The head of the centers for Disease Control and prevention told a Sena
Looking at the biggest weekly loss since late june the s p both with interday trading. The nasdaq is on track the fourth week in a row on higher prices dow futures indicated down at this poirchlnt looking at yields for the 10year. New this morning, china and the u. S. Have agreed to review the progress of the phase one part of the trade deal well do that in the coming days talks are scheduled from last saturday the review comes as u. S. china ties have deteriorated just summarizing you know that. Thats one of the reasons why. We knew that yes we have seen a series of things that show the relationship has deteriorated if you were to try to put the different segments of the rift, you are up at almost double digits how many Different Things have become bones of contention and the second largest, largest some days economy in the world. A global nightmare we need them, they need us on a certain way it is official taking advantage on what the administration would argue from the markets persp
Its Sales Forecast was cut. Half of its previous years revenue went through china. Shery a check of the markets on thursday session in the u. S. Ost sectors in the green the nasdaq gaining the most in almost about a month and we had also semiconductors reversing yesterdays losses. We had markets very much focused on what the Federal Reserve will do next week, not to mention this focus on what will happen with oil. Energy stocks were one of the biggest gainers. Wti gaining as much as 4. 5 at one point. We saw two tankers being attacked new the entrance of the persian gulf, that heightening tensions around the region, sending crude prices higher. Sophie this friday, asian stocks could track the advance on wall street with some potential reissues. On the datas front in asia, we will get chinese productivity numbers. The attack on the tankers in the goldof oman has held up prices. Nearingion could be level it has been unable to break in five years. Paul thanks very much. Lets check in on f