Suit in multiple states to stop vote counting. Heres a look at where things stand that hour. In the race to the 270 electoral votes to win the white house, according to nbc, Vice President biden has 253, President Trump as 214 we continue to await results from five critical states, pennsylvania, north carolina, georgia, nevada, and michigan. President Trump Holding on to the lead it is continuing to narrow as mail ballots are being counted the pennsylvania secretary of state will have an update next hour in arizona, President Trump narrowed the gap but biden is holding on to a 68,000 vote lead were still awaiting several hundred thousand votes in maricopa county, the most populous and diverse area in the state. A new count there expected to come later tonight and in georgia, Vice President biden has significantly narrowed the gap which recently stood at about 18,000 votes and more than 60,000 votes Outstanding New numbers from democrat leaning Fulton County coming any munn a minute and
Note, the hang seng. The hang seng hitting the highest level since june of 2015 during that session. The picture of europe here, inflation data hit the tape moments ago. A mixed bag. Fractional losses in germany and france. Home depot just out with First Quarter results. Earnings of 1. 67 a share, coming in 5 cents above estimates. Global Comp Store Sales were up 5 , that beat the consensus of 4 . U. S. Comps were up 6 . Wae above e home depot raising the fullyear earnings forecast. Market reaction in the currencies from the Washington Post story. I to be honest with you, i didnt buy it because what were seeing across the board is that people are willing to take on a little bit of risk. Euros are turning to levels since before the french election, yen is coming off. We saw the chart. Its been a while that the dollar euro has been strong. You can do just about anything you want in the Financial News reporting, sort of and im sure we didnt make that up. Im sure the person that wrote that
A check on the yields on the tenyear right now. Youre looking at the 30year bond, 2. 985 . Want to get a mortgage right now . What do you think . Anybody . Better hurry up. What do you think . Better hurry up. Hurry up, right . Trains left the station . Whats going to happen to real estate prices . Well, commercial real estate prices, cap rates fallen to 4 . They only have one way to go. This is very true. Among todays top stories, were watching oil prices closely ahead of a key opec meeting wednesday. Crude was down sharply on reports of disagreement between opec countries and non opec exporters like russia over who should cut production to curb oversupply. A meeting scheduled for today between opec and non opec producers was canceled after saudi arabia decided not to attend. Take a look there. Wti down just a few cents a barrel, 46. 03 last trade, brent unchanged. On this weeks economic agenda, tomorrow look for the estimate on thirdquarter gdp, the s p caseshiller, Consumer Confiden
Average. We had the big rally comeback rally and its been going sideways now. Its going to be 39 days today trading days when we have failed to see the dow move 1 up or down. Its happened again today. So as we kick off the month of september, kelly, after the postbrexit rally, we wonder if we get any volatility the month, right . Automakers are probably happy august is ending. Sales coming in weak. Well look at how long this downturn could last. Oil is hit today down more than 8 over the last week. But if you think its a buying opportunity, think again. We have somebody who says things are just going to get worse for the energy patch. Well, heres worse for you. Samsungs new phones are on fire. But not in a good way. We told you last week sales were much stronger than expected but issues are arising this week with reports of the batteries catching fire. Delays now in getting the phones in peoples hands. We have pictures and the impact coming up. Horrible, horrible timing with the iphone
Of gains. A rise in oil prices, decent economic data, and the feds decision to embark on a more gradual path of rate hikes helped power stocks over the past five sessions. Today the Dow Jones Industrial average added 120 points to 17,602. The nasdaq gained 20. And the s p 500 rose nearly 9. For the week, all of the major indexes rose 1 or more. And its not just the dow and the s p 500 that are deserving of attention. Theres another group of stocks thats been quietly outperforming the rest. Dominic chew has that story. Reporter the stock markets made a strong comeback since hitting lows back on february 11th. And that move has taken both the large cap s p 500 and dow industrials back to positive territory for the year. For as much attention as those big guys are getting its the s p 500 midcap index that stages the best performance so far inty 16. Its gained more than 2 since the start of the year. Some investors look toward admitcaps as a possible market sweet spot. Theyre bigger and pe