and we ll have a look at what s driving the action at the stock exchange, hitting record highs as tech heavy weights like ibm and apple are up boeing remains in focus, ticking low today as new ceo dave calhoun hosts a call with the 737 max. slight gains for the s&p and the dow. the nasdaq leads the charge up about half of one percent. the nasdaq is set for a record closing high, the other two just below those levels 59 minutes left of trade joining us for the first half of the joe, josh brown. good to see you. nice to see you, wilf. nasdaq leading the charge today and chip stocks, as we mentioned during the intro, are a part of that. and i would say like here we are three weeks into january, and if you were looking for a new narrative in 2020, that doesn t look like 2019, we haven t found it yet because every one of the major trends in the market that was in force last fall and into new year are still in force. and in some cases, actually going into overdrive let s ta
you saw most of the major averages yesterday sitting at new highs. the dow was off by 3 points. this morning green arrows across the board. dow looks to open up another 60 points s&p up by 3.5. the nasdaq up by a half point. overnight in asia, look at what was happening there. the nikkei was down. it slipped by 0.8% the hang seng and the shanghai were stronger. shanghai up 0.4% if you look at what s happening in the european equities market. at this point it looks like markets are flat across the board. ftse is down by a quarter percentage point treasury yields, let s look at that market. oil prices, don t mow if you saw this yesterday oil prices surging yesterday that will be something to watch. highest levels in quite awhile check out the ten-year note which at this point is yielding 2.634% let s tell you about some big stories we re watching the biggest here in davos, treasury secretary steve mnuchin making headlines at a news conference he said the united states welcomed
three men and a woman believed to be members of the puerto rican nationalist gang in november 1950 it s up to the assassination of president truman opened fire from the visitors gallery of the house of representatives. five congressmen were hit. clifford davis of tennessee, kenneth roberts of alabama on it george allen of maryland, robert bentley at michigan who was seriously injured. the gun wielders of the able to station of having perpetrated a criminal outrage almost unique in america s history. it was one of the most violent acts that happened in there were debates right after that that you cannot let this happen again. we need to wall off the visitors gallery with bulletproof glass so this could never happen again . the more the members talked about that and thought about it, they said it was a bad idea. this is the people s house, and the people cannot be walled off from what is going on there. the capital building is a symbol. that makes it a target. dimension the
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brian? thanks. i m brian sullivan at apple s $5 billion headquarters in cupertino. probably a new iphone, maybe a new tv product, a new watch. could there be surprises we don t know. a lot of questions we ll get answers in a moment. michelle going to be exciting. i m michelle caruso-cabrera at the alpha conference tyler mathisen is with me, too we have been speaking with important investors in the world. we are going to bring what they said coming up in the next two hours on power lunch. melissa, back to you let s check the markets and keep up on the rally stocks are mostly higher s&p 500 hitting record highs nasdaq has been digging in and out of record territory. the dow would be higher if it were not for mcdonald s. they are down 3% because they will report below consensus estimates. this cites, specifically, the storms harvey and irma we want to point out gold mman sachs up about 2% and apple holding steady as they kick off their event in cupertino let s get to bria