Take a hit. The covid consumer, walmart, home depot and kohls among retailers reporting earnings today. Walmart says ecommerce sales up 79 . And elon musks billions, tesla getting a spot in the s p 500. It is among the highest valued companies to ever enter the benchmark index and musk is on top to become number three, that is the third richest person in the world. Indeed, guys. Well start with the retail picture this morning, jim, youve been vocal as to the investor response on home depot and walmart. I guess thats related to the news out of amazon. Look, by the way, those stocks do tend to run up in the quarter and sell off thats nothing new a more aggressive amazon is always something we have to Pay Attention to i remember when amazon bought pill packs, the drug stores got killed i also point out that walmarts online david, thats not going to go away you can argue someone is going to argue thats the peak i would argue that amazon and walmart have taken so much share in this country,
Call for urgent action. President trump enters the conversation, indicating he may now support a wider stimulus bill. Debates joe biden refuses to push back his next meeting with the president. The white house rules out a virtual clash due to covid19. We have an update from President Trumps physician, dr. Sean conley, about the president s covid19 treatment, saying that the president has been responding extremely well, that his exam has remained stable while at home. President trump has completed the course of therapy for covid, saying the president can return safely to Public Engagements on saturday. The president was just released from hospital on monday evening and his health had risen controversy given the white house was saying the timing of President Trumps last negative test was regarded as private. We are finally getting an update on the president s health and dr. Sean conley saying the president can return to Public Engagement on saturday. Lets turn to the markets with Sophie
59 minutes we are session highs on the dow record highs on the nasdaq composite intraday and set for a record close coming up, the rebound for Airline Stocks has been fast and furious. Is there enough demand to justify the rise well get a firsthand look with robin hayes. Plus, a powerful email from a Goldman Sachs employee about equality in america made the rounds on wall street in the past few days. Well speak with freddererick ba that is coming up on the show. Lets focus in on the big stories were watching to day. Mike san thole and Brian Sullivan watching the Energy Sector which is helping lead the market gains today mike, lets kick things off with you. Yeah, well, this rally continues to impress not just in the magnitude of the gains since the march 23rd low but the persistence of it. Look at a two year chart this is really now a broad move. Up until around this point, you can say it was relatively narrow yes, some of beaten down stocks gained most. Mostst reas of the reason is th
Catalysts for investors on the horizon. With fed meetings this week and new tariffs set to go into effect this weekend. Joining us, ian winemore weve been paying close attention to these big trade headlines. How much is this influencing what were seeing on wall street these days i think its overstated as to how much its actually influencing wall street. I think theres two things at this point the first is that theres so much liquidity being pumped into the marketplace by central banks. They Just Announced another round of qe, even though theyre not calling it that. And youve got positioning, which is a very big deal a lot of hedge funds and active managers are lagging again some for the last ten years, and because of that, they cant afford to miss a rally you see this synthetic short base, where people are long cash, and thats why selloffs like today, youre not seeing a whole lot of followthrough, because need to hold until the end of the year. Ian is with us for the next hour we have
Center stage and treasuries weaken with the curve flattening after last weeks definitive move higher. Joining us for the hour, dan nathan a real Holding Pattern here today. Are we waiting for news out of washington heres the good news, right we had this big rip up off of the lows last week on optimism that there would be some sort of grand deal as far as trade is concerned. The fact that it doesnt look like that were going to get that at the end of the day, the fact that were not down in a meaningful manner is fairly establish. Could things change pretty quickly if the fed decides top pull our negotiators away and we know were dead in the water for a couple of months no doubt about it. Its kind of interesting on a day like today, where we dont see staples and utilities. These are two of the bestperforming groups, deemed to be defensei you dont see them rallying and dont see the s p 500 down a lot either it seems like a lot of nothing despite some really potential for volatility later i