Morning. I could go on and on, mike santoli, but when i have you on the program with me why would i bother i might as well send it over to you. Set us up for the action today, particularly given what weve seen there was that rotation earlier in the week, but it already feels like theyre coming back to growth. Rotated, with he unrotated, we will we will rerotate i do think its indicative of this market that has generally speaking hesitated right underneath the all time highs. We are all looking at that its fascinating as sara and i talked about last night on closing bell we would otherwise be saying, oh, its a quiet post earnings august period, markets in a nice uptrend, s p is up 3 month to date, its supposed to be a negative week, everything looks fine, markets maybe just pausing because its had a 50 run in 100 trading days, but because we are on the verge of that number it seems to gain outside significance in terms of people trying to figure out whether thats kind of an end point fo
At 211 a share, now its 213 up again, those two Companies Amazon and microsoft have huge and growing cloud operations. That is a big part of their stock rally. Now look at tesla, 142, yesterday closing 1600 a share and this morning its up 11 bucks, 1654 but it is up again, are these tech stocks a bubble, is it like the dog, the late 90s, ive never seen anything like this before. Now look at the overall market, the Dow Jones Industrial going up again, maybe 150point of the opening bell, the s p of 21 points, two thirds of 1 . Look at the nasdaq, a half percentage point and more because a big tech again. The market is also getting help from the europeans who reached agreement on a near trillion dollar rescue plan that helps and they are still negotiating a plan for the United States as of right now. Bottom line, big tech in the market going up again today. A different story in our cities there is a confrontation going on on one side local largely democrat mayors on the other federal auth
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What else is going on here . We also have lines coming through from carrie lam saying they will not be appointing judges to individual cases with regard to the National Security legislation. She had said earlier it would not be retrospective. Elsewhere, lets have a look at some of the other markets. The shanghai comp, for 10th of 1 . 4 10 of 1 . The kospi, much higher. We were up about 1. 67 before the headlines. The aussie market, erasing all of the gains and the red before came back. The singapore market does language seven tents below the gain line. A quick look at currencies. The dollar index was actually moving to the downside. The first time in six days. That has turned around now. The dollar index itself is marginally high. This is giving up some of its gains. Yen just below 107. Terling up approaching the 1. 25 level. The aussie has been appreciating. It is on the verge of testing the 70 u. S. Sent level. Confidence in the euro area improving marginally. Still down 14. 7. Bette
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