Lets milk this and go back and forth. We dont even finish each others sent answers it will be awesome this is the first time you are back at the nasdaq in a while. I go away and then im quarantined. I went away in july and finally got back here. I went away again and came back and been quarantined another two weeks. You got to start going away whachlt are you doing . I wish these states would drop off there is 57 states on the list no there are a lot of states on the list not all states i was in a county that was like an island, nobody was there i am glad to be back there is a big krispy kreme thing. Most lights ever i was looking and i was thinking about you. I got to stop thinking about you when im not at work thats not what i want in my life you may draw me back to time square but so will crispy cream. We were talking about this the last couple of weeks i havent been in there in ea while. He said there is no one around nobody on the streets. Is that the case there is people here. A
China, which has chinese stocks bouncing today weve also got another big announcement as well dont miss the debut of a new segment here on closing bell today. The market zone is coming up into and after the close well bring you the stocks and stories every investor needs to know and it will look a little different as well. Joining us for the hour is mark tepper from Strategic Wealth partners mark, thanks for being here. Thanks for having me. Looking at the dow today, were up 154 points. The s p is also hovering right around 2980, it looks like a decent last day for the month of september as we head into these final three months of the year, what are you watching the most closely . I think the biggest catalyst right now is a potential trade deal all eyes are looking on this meeting next week between the u. S. And china, because if you think about it, its really, really difficult for ceos of publicly traded companies to execute on their growth plans if they have no visibility as to what
The Fourth Quarter and also this week we will get the first glimpse oncoming quarter on friday with new jobs report, so we talked about this last week and looks like the economy has slowed a little bit and we have to see whether we get confirmation of that with the data that come out in the next few days. The earnings and the guidance obviously as usual will be important but now the democrats are turning the story, so far no reaction from the markets but the markets are now accusing President Trump of soliciting additional foreign assistance, this time from australia to investigate the origins of the Mueller Probe. The story in New York Times, the president public told reporters in may that he asked attorney general william barr to look at variety of countries potentially involved in the 2016 election. House democrats subpoenaing the president s personal attorney for documents and said Senate Majority Mitch Mcconnell would have to take Impeachment Vote if it makes its way to the senate
Now we are at 29. 80ish we have been going side ways most of the year in 1997, the year started at an alltime high and went up. It is true. You think about where we were Christmas Eve and we had taken a huge plunge. We got it back interesting on the performance. Similar to the u. S. But china lagged significantly where we are in the trade war. Who is hurting more or less. Down about 4. 7 china has closed today but something to keep your eye on treasury yields are up part of that because of a weak japanese option not exactly for risk on reasons. I wonder if the new quarter means youve loosened up a little bit looking even at absolute levels, a lot of that has been weak. At the end of the quarter, it hasnt money too significant well be a bit of a head wind. Still talking about growth from 6 yesterdays day was fractionally better the eurozone manufacturing and final print was a tiny bit of expectations still the worst to october 2012, the Global Growth out look does not look particularly
Tradewinds. You have to give it to the market, amid concerns about antitrust, we are still at record highs. Romaine lets dig deeper with our markets reporters. I am thinking about those record highs. Nasdaq, s p 500 tack index and stocks at common highs. The Common Thread is technology. 6 ,s leading the way, up today up 3. 1 . The stock putting in its first alltime high since april. Texas instruments helping out. We have Market Reports after the bell. Facebook and tesla, amazon and apple. Thats take a look at the longerterm chart of the nasdaq 100. Much of the fears around the possibility that big tech could be regulated, but last year put volatility, there is another record high. One reason to think strength could continue. We see a series of bullish higher loads telling you that the momentum may just remain bullish for a while, but watch consolidation down to the moving average. Tech and stocks are bullish. Another stock reaching a record is chipotle, the food giant. Highest since 20