You can see the dow is reacting. The nasdaq has turned positive by. 1 or 12 points and we are entering, of course, the most crucial month for the retailers. Many stores still shut down but the stocks are rallying, especially Department Stores, as you see right there. Look at the macys, and nordstroms. Once again, power lunch starts right now. Thank you, tyler im kelly evans. We begin with the markets this hour the dow was up 11 in november that would be a good year. It would certainly make it the best month for the index since 1987 up 25 today. Dom chu has more on the action its a catchup trade for the dow. It has been for the better part of 2020 lagging behind certainly the nasdaq composite and in some cases the s p 500 as well. Remember, the green lighne, the nasdaq far outperforming other indices. Now the dow trying to play a little bit of catch up here. A good month for the dow shaping up well see if it holds as we head towards december another big thing to watch is whats happening
And your comments a moment ago to andrew, just sort of crystallize, not just what a job shes done, but how companies are placing their bets on looking through cycles, even though were a week away from an election and in the middle of a pandemic. You have somebody the quality of lease why isa su, best ceo i country, nonpromotional, re competitive thought this was maxed out. Youre in the personal computer and data center, it is not good enough she saw what happened to intel i dont say that with any prejudice. Just that she left intel behind. She is in the data center, who is she who are her clients . Azure, google, and, of course, amazon but it is time she feels it is time to branch out into auto, time to branch out into defense into telco when you look at xilinx, what youre seeing is a mosaic where there is some overlap in data center, but the rest is an attempt to say, you know what, we need a bigger total Addressable Market we have to outgrow our markets right now. And i think it is a
108 points hire. So good news all around. Lets see if it can stay this way. Treasury yields, you can look at a 10year note at. 681 we have so much going on the fed kicking off a twoday meeting. The first since it put new framework into place isnt expected to change Interest Rates fed chair powell planning to answer questions about the outlook during tomorrows News Conference then we have the data coming in today where we get august import and export prices. The latest productions numbers and the earnings, we have fedex and adobe. A lot of other news, joe i can hear the bounce in your step i hear it in your voice. I think it might be the guests we have again today. I know you are excited for the hour we had great guests yesterday and great guests today we have bob from viea come cbs Jared Kushner coming up in the 7 00 hour. Kevin mccarthy then i realize we miss becky whenever shes out but you like to talk and i guess i do too so it is 50 50, instead of 33, 33, 33 you dont have to admit
Peter navarro. It has been a huge swing s p futures up, nasdaq up by 62. The nasdaq up seven sessions in a row. S p is up. Watching for the month of june, all three of these is up on track to be the third month in a row taking a look at treasury yields youll see the 10year is yielding 0. 715 . Crude oil up above 40 for the First Time Since the lockdown in early march. Getting to the story it has been a wild ride overnight. Last night on fox news, white house trade advisor Peter Navarro responded to a question about the china trade deal saying it is, quote, over. At that point, futures plunged about 400 points but then recovered after he later clarified his comments saying it had nothing to do with the phase 1 trade deal which continues to be in place. He was speaking to the quote lack of trust of the Chinese Party after they lied about the origins of the chinese virus. President trump posting a tweet saying the china trade deal is fully in tact. The lesson is that the move is a good re
Done here you see the home builders, weve had a terrific rally in the builders in the last few days but hovnanian was 29 just a month ago. Its a 9 stock right now. Yes, weve had a great rally, but bear in mind how far weve come and how many more headlines we have yet to get through a lot of people are also optimistic watching the vix drop it has dropped exactly in half since march 15th it was 86 on an intraday basis march 15th, you see it at 43 exactly a 50 drop thats making a lot more people a lot more optimistic. A lot more arguments that the markets are higher have been mitigated by the fact that weve just had such a big rally and its hard to push against this rally right now. Look at these stocks right here and how much they have moved since the market bottomed, the february 21st close, which is when things really started get getting bad. Walmarts up, verizon is only down 1 . Merck and 3m down a few percent. This is when things started getting really serious you see how much the ma