Weve seen the dow and triple gains. S p in positive territory too. Down 22 points, s p futures are off by four. Yesterday was a good day for the markets. You had the nasdaq wed been watching closely was a big outperformer gain of 293 points the first day out of the last four both the nasdaq and s p have been in positive territory. Those three days before that give you something to worry about . Futures had been higher. Down a lot but come off the highs in the session looking at the treasury market where the 10year stands right now. Just below 0. 7 . Oil prices which really fluctuated and sold off sharply. This morning are down again. Wti off 1. 5 andrew thanks, becky a couple big stories to talk about. The senate set to vote on that slimmed down relief bill today talks between the white house and House Democrats and a report that President Trump may step in with more executive actions to try and fill the gap if something doesnt get done joe . There are other places in the world too. We
Record close of 2020 i talked yesterday about the stunning market cap gains this year for some names like amazon which has added 674 billion in market cap this year is it out of hand . Is this too much i think its a little too much maybe thats why youre coming to me first. You know i might be a little provocative here and say you can trim this doesnt have to be a digital on off decision of youre all in or all out of tech obviously, tech has fundamental business tail winds propelling the stocks higher. The top five stocks in the s p 500 are 23 . Unless youre used to running a 20 stock portfolio, which most people arent, that means the names are over weight. If you trim them and take two Percentage Points off and bring them down to four Percentage Points, now youre running a 25stock portfolio and youve taken 4 points out of the tech area, you can put it into whether ever you want. You can put it in health care which is on fire Energy Stocks are rolling today. Its okay to say things are h
On fox business. He will be talking about the jobs numbers, about the stimulus plan, if we will get one or if the president will have to pull the levers himself without congress. 30 minutes from now, larry kudlow. Well also ask about President Trump issuing those executive orders banning u. S. Transactions with wechat and tiktok. Shares of tencent, lets see, tencent is down about 6 right now. Well see how things are going. Futures, by the way, are down about 73 points. They had bumped up into the green from triple digit losses earlier when we got the jobs report, but they have settled down a little lower. Again, a lot less than it was earlier this morning, before the jobs number came out. As President Trump threatens executive actions to get another round of stimulus as democrats are stonewalling any compromise. We are also going to be weighing in on the market trade worries as the president signs a new executive order reimposing 10 aluminum tariffs on canada and that crackdown on Chin
Abigail doolittle who has been over this story. Nasdaq another record high today. What are you hearing about sort of the strength that we saw into end of todays session . Its pretty amazing. We have another record high for nasdaq. Nasdaq 100, big tech stocks continuing to do well. Those are the stayathome stocks this years defense. Theres an odd tension that you have this years defense and new hitting record high after record high. Interesting,t earlier today, you had tech slightly lower. Bulle end of the day really rushed through supporting technology. Investors looking past virus numbers. Its not going to slow the that it hadhe way on the shutdown. Back in february when the virus was raging in china, that down, stocks here ignoring it. It feels we are ignoring some of fundamental data. Take a look at the moves that we have on the day. Wasnt just tech. Tech actually on the day a sector. Ower as financials up 3. 5 . Bit of a nice cyclical tilt s p 500 beings s p helped out by bond fall
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