The last few moments on this headline from larry kudlow, the president s top economic adviser saying that the president now wants to do a deal on stimulus lets go to washington and get filled in a little more. Scott, the president tweeted on the state of the discussions over another Coronavirus Relief package. He said that the negotiations are moving along he encourages the negotiators to go big this as you mentioned white house economic adviser larry kudlow saying that there has been a plan that president signed off on. It is relatively broad based now what we know is that House Speaker nancy pelosi and the treasury secretary are supposed to talk again sometime this afternoon. They had been in almost Constant Contact almost daily contact and we know that president said he is willing to go beyond ppp, direct checks and aid to the air Monica Lewinsky and do something bigger exactly how big . Thats what the negotiators will be talking about, im sure, during the phone call later on today.
Is its been a broadening out. Now, the question is is there enough money to go around to buy 3m today and also buy lets just use lets just pick nvidia, okay and the answer is thats to be determined there is a lot of newer money coming into the market, we will be talking about splits later today and the nature of the alchemy of it all but the thing that im most excited about, david, is there are industrials doing better than expected we have to stay focused on that because when we think about 3m making a come back, think about where they were and that is the you know, that is the and theyre having some good numbers this morning, thats what stood out to me and it makes me think nat industrial leg must be included in any portfolio. Its only up 2 are you kidding me youre referencing yeah, thats the stock youre referencing 3m. We should just tell people theyre giving us Monthly Sales numbers, july was up i think 6 year over year, 2. 8 billion, organic local currency sales up 3 because dont
Lavongo on their merger and the first companys earnings report. David has news on microsoft and tiktok. Want to continue to update a story were following closely given we have not seen anything like it. Tiktok the incredibly popular social media app in the u. S. And around the world, bytedance its owner, the u. S. Government saying we will shut tiktok down in the u. S. Unless you find a way to transfer all of it to u. S. Ownership and microsoft playing the role as potentially the only suitor for the business i wanted to bring everybody up to date on new reporting that ive got because it is interesting. Both sides right now, bytedance and microsoft and of course the u. S. Government is still very much involved in this as well are negotiating to try to reach some sort of an agreement under which microsoft would buy the u. S. Business of texas toks u. S. Bit from bytedance within the next two to three weeks. That seems to be what theyre hoping for in terms of a timeline obviously in these
Harrington is the ceo and Portfolio Management at Gilman Hill Asset management, rob sechman is one of forbes top 100 Financial Advisers and rich sapperstein is back. He, as well, a top Financial Adviser, barrons, in the top 100 there. Lets get to the board, show you where we were currently trading. Pretty much highs of the day 550 for the dow, 2. 25 , 24,646 s p 500 trying to push towards 3,000, a gain of 2. 5 today, a gain of 73 points. Nasdaq, the outperformer of the majors at 3 , and theres the russell, which is having a good day as well, with a nearly 5 gain some 61 points there dow going for its best month since 87. The question is what all of this means for the coming days, weeks, and months ahead. Joe, im going to go to you first. You look at the drivers today, i mentioned the gilead news, and that is clearly overshadowing what was a dreadful gdp number fauci now is talking about the clearcut positive effects of this remdesivir trial. Boeings calhoun, the ceo saying the thaw is
Week yeah. This is the expiration day so what happens is you actually its tomorrow, but people are trying to prep it what happens is rusty braziel explains to me, the rollover from the may contract to june occurs tomorrow. The reason that happens is because the may futures price converges with cash and expiration so in other words, youre looking at what the real price is its not the futures price so what happens is that imagine if youre producing at 32 a barrel, 33 a barrel like occidental, thats just youre hurting nobody can make any money at these prices rusty points out that after seeing this, the next month, it might go to zero and thats i think a lot of it is because where will you put it maybe keep it in the ground. It is extraordinary and jarring. And i think its causing the decline. Carl, whats so amazing, it was completely predictable thats why maybe the decline isis really overdone if its based on oil if its based on other factors, i dont know it looks like oil is bringing th