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About 12 today. Another market master, ams evaluation 2 trillion for the first time ever. Tech was leading now 59 minutes left of the session and were essentially flat apple not flat. 2 trillion Company Coming up in just a few minutes, we will speak with White House National Economic Council director larry kudlow about the stimulus stalemate in washington the rising tensions with china and a whole lot more. Later rolling out the red carpet, ceo of amc theaters will be joining us with his companys plan to brink customers back to the movies its not going to cost you very much. Lets focus in on the big stories were watching in this final hour of trade. Bob pisani tracking the fed minutes. Joining us to discuss retail moves from pro forma starting with Broader Market weakening a bit off fed minutes. This doesnt happen very often. Usually fed minutes is not a market mover it was as wilf rentsched we lost points in the s p 500, thats noticeable given the fed doesnt move the market in the min
The nasdaq hitting a new record high and amazon shares crossing 3,000 bucks a piece for the first time ever. Shannon, well start with you on this one what the you make of the rally is it legit and why is it happening now given everything we know negatively about the coronavirus virus . Were just continuing to see investors look at the sentiment thats coming out of the surveys and anticipating this continued v shape recovery we have seen the v shape recovery in the stocks already were anticipating a v shape recovery in the economy. I think that really rests on the fact that despite the fact were seeing this pick up in cases, theres not a widespread expectation that we go back to the lockdown that we saw in march and april. They really anchor themselves to the most recent period which was a very difficult period from an economic standpoint. Investors are continuing to look forward. They are continuing to see the Second Quarter being the earnings trough from this particular recession look
Business lending facilities to keep credit flowing as u. S. Job losses surge past 30 million. Shery lets get started with a quick check of the markets. We are seeing pressure on u. S. Futures, falling more than a percent at the moment, after the s p 500 fell from the sevenweek high. But yes, it was the best month since 1987. We saw the s p 500 climbing 13 this month. We have more pessimism about the economy today. We had dismal jobless claims data. Slowing down but elevated. We have positive sentiment being filtered through with the fed expanding the scope of the main Street Lending program. Also, the nasdaq was helped by results from microsoft, facebook, and tesla. When it comes to wti, we continue to see extended gains. It is trading near 19 per barrel. This, as we saw signs of fuel consumption start to recover in the u. S. We have a few markets that are closed across asia. China,cludes hong kong, singapore, india, and many more. Limited trading in the asian session. Haidi yeah. Shar
Least for today. Nasdaq pacing for its fifth day in the green markets moving higher. Lets get to bob fast break more on this rally. Hi, bob. It is tech powering the market is choosing to believe the reopening stories will go well the airlines are all up. It goes either way on that well see if we can break out. If we can do that, were back to the levels we havent seen since march here when you have the five largest stocks, the market will be up. Thats a big meg cap rally most of the semiconductors have done well. Nvidia is up 10 microns had a pretty good week they are contributing as well. Not only is it positive, were up almost 5 better than the overall nasdaq but something very important has happened to the etf. Thats the triple q. Its amassed 100 billion in assets thats a very rare number. The etf business about 3 trillion theres only four other etfs that have 100 billion in assets and they are mostly s p 500 related. The spider s p the ishares. Vanguard has one total stock market, a