The bottom of the hour. He is traveling today in wisconsin, talking about the economy and jobs. For now, the Postal Service in the spotlight as we inch toward an election where voters where a significant number of voters will be mailing in their balance. Joining us, abigail doolittle, who has been watching the backandforth of the day. No records today. But what were the main drivers . Abigail everybody waiting for that potential record for the s p 500. Stocks really climbing this wall of worry. The s p 500 hitting this area of resistance. The polls fallen short of being able to take out those old levels. S p 500 up about euro. 3 . Nasdaq once again closing at a record high, up 1. 1 , really being helped out by some of those mega cap tech stocks. China, so muchs, for investors to worry about. They are going again toward this years defense of technology. The vix down a little bit today but still relatively elevated. Couldxperts say that we see some sort of pullback after this huge rally
Target like i mentioned is up big on the numbers, but Abigail Doolittle joins us now. Give us the highlights. Abigail investors are excited about this stock having its best day. Expected, 24 than. 3 versus 8. 3 . The outlook is strong as you were mentioning. A lot of strength for target and it seems like folks are really stocking up through the pandemic. And they are also doing it from an online perspective. Helping lows as well, lowes a good, and they put out quarter as consumers were improving their homes. Up 35 versus the estimate of 21 of the stock being rewarded. Even with lowes bigticket items up 135 . Down seven point 5 , and it seems like the treasure craze fading out of luck. Investors are not positive on the idea that the Current Quarter could be difficult and they are bringing down supplies for halloween. There we have targets numbers. 11 , but digital is unbelievable up nearly 200 as americans are shopping from home. Brian cornell is encouraged by the online and encouraged
Negative territory down by. 2 . The dollar gaining strength and crude is all over the place. You wind up having opec leaders meeting and talking about maybe extending a deal through 2022. That comes from the Saudi Oil Minister. So the oil market is trying to digest that. The big news has been what is happened with apple. A 2 trillion market cap. We knew it was coming and now it is official. Isning me more is the but you are global on fx, apple, what do you do with that . Anne from a fundamental equity standpoint i cannot have any comments on all, that i would stay that say that this level of market cap is a success and that there Monetary Policy policy easing, the giant firehose of liquidity as well as actions by the European European Central Bank and bank of japan has bouyed the equity market and we are seeing a little bit of a rally and everything. We talked about that before the virus and it is interesting to see that we are back at that point and it reflects a tremendous amount of
Buying longer on that curve . If so, that will keep rates lower. The path we are leading down is not a good one. What the fed is trying to do is what every central bank is trying to do, which is engineer growth. Tyler george bory is with us now. Talk to me about what you have been noticing, your take on the big reflationary trade yesterday but then a little bit of a comedown in yields again today. George thank you for having me on, always great to be on the show. Powelll question is, is seismic shift, or more of the same . The reality is there are some significant factors here. The biggest is the acknowledgment that there has been a Material Change in the economy. Unemployment can go lower than policy makers expect without causing inflation. They have issue is, also kind of acknowledged there is a limitation of Monetary Policy. Those two factors we view as material. Shift,terms of a policy what they are likely to do going forward, it feels like it is very much same game. The way we are
Because we have a historic moment with the introduction and the nomination of Kamala Harris to the Vice President ial nominee, and we have a lot of big democratic stars who will be speaking, including nancy pelosi, hillary clinton, elizabeth warren, and barack obama. This will be an important night for the party to get an audience and introduce, harris. Introduce Kamala Harris. I am hoping we hear less attacks on the president and more about their governance strategy. David one thing we have not heard about is the issue of law and order. President trump will hit it hard. What is going on in some of our cities. We see it in new york, in chicago, in seattle. Kamala harris is in a particular position to address that, how we can police our streets and still not abuse some of the less fortunate. Jeanne this is what i have heard from moderates and more conservative friends who say this is a glaring absence so far in these last couple days. We know this is going on in the country around us, a