Lavongo on their merger and the first companys earnings report. David has news on microsoft and tiktok. Want to continue to update a story were following closely given we have not seen anything like it. Tiktok the incredibly popular social media app in the u. S. And around the world, bytedance its owner, the u. S. Government saying we will shut tiktok down in the u. S. Unless you find a way to transfer all of it to u. S. Ownership and microsoft playing the role as potentially the only suitor for the business i wanted to bring everybody up to date on new reporting that ive got because it is interesting. Both sides right now, bytedance and microsoft and of course the u. S. Government is still very much involved in this as well are negotiating to try to reach some sort of an agreement under which microsoft would buy the u. S. Business of texas toks u. S. Bit from bytedance within the next two to three weeks. That seems to be what theyre hoping for in terms of a timeline obviously in these
Fullon identity politics for the democrats. Mr. Biden now has a strong lead over the president. Hes 12 points ahead in the latest fox news poll. However, look at this. There is a huge Enthusiasm Gap and it is in mr. Trumps favor. 31 say they would vote for mr. Biden because they are enthusiastic about him. Double that number, 62 , said they were enthusiastic about President Trump. His base is clearly staying with him, obviously, and that will be into play tomorrow at his the city. They have already started to line up outside the stadium. We will take you there in just a few minutes. And we will take you to wall street and you will like it. Another rally this morning. Look at this. The dow will be up over, what, 350 points, 1. 3 . A similar gain for the s p and a 1 gain for the nasdaq composite. 10,100 on the nasdaq. Whoa. Amazon roaring ahead again today. They are clear lockdown winners. Jeff bezos is a clear lockdown winner as well. Hes by far the richest person in the world. Hes now
Protests and the fallout from joer george floi, but the market and stocks are focused on Economic Activity, period we just keep getting good news its good news off very lowered expectations whether it be cheesecake getting a lot more people than they thought or the airlines this morning. American saying good things. Whether it be ebay pronouncing right now things are better than expected whether you talk a look at a lot of the companies that, you know, morgan stanley, gm, of course this quarter was the weakest, but maybe next quarter will be the strongest. We have a number of Oil Recommendations saying they have come all the way back. So the street is really bullish. After being very bearish you see a lot of price targets that were cut severely are now going back up. Its a kind of dont fight the trend where the most overbought we have been since 2009, but if you go back to 2009, we were up 11 on the s p. We had great period after. People are fighting the tape if theyre selling. How abo
Look at the s p 500 at 2978, a 55point gain and there is the nasdaq the outperformer yet again, almost 2. 25 , 200 points, 9387 the nasdaq, not all that far away from last februarys highs, which our headliner says this hour is going to happen this year and not just the nasdaq so lets welcome in fund strats tom lee. He is joining us via skype tom, welcome back. Nice to see you again. Thanks for having me. Big call. How are we going to get there this year, tom you say 3450 is happening . Yes, and i think what really drives our view is that companies in the midst of the shutdown arent standing still you know, theyre reengineering their operations, learning how to be digital, run with fewer employees and less real estate so in 2021, as we exit this pandemic, theyre going to generate higher earnings on a lower level of sales and that means implied better pes. And thats why we get into july, stocks will start discounting that and were looking for new high hi highs. Youre looking for a vshape
We should not learn too much new but the dollar index is a little subdued. We do have gold continued to rise. Crude oil after inventory showed up 4 . Rawdown at lets get a deeper dive into the Market Action with taylor riggs. Taylor i wanted to take a first look at an index we have not shown recently. It talks a lot about companies that are traded in the u. S. And get revenue and business over in china. You can see that the nasdaq index is off 1. 7 . This is lower after headlines in the senate boosted an oversight of Chinese Companies. It would certified there is no firm control and foreign control and could request Chinese Companies to delist from control. ,his comes as a separate story but the nasdaq said it would delist the company after revelations of county fraud. We are getting a lot of interesting news. This is a risk on tone filling. Crude is higher, the dollar is weaker, gold rising a little bit but so was copper so im trying not to read into that much. The 20 year bond auctio