Record close of 2020 i talked yesterday about the stunning market cap gains this year for some names like amazon which has added 674 billion in market cap this year is it out of hand . Is this too much i think its a little too much maybe thats why youre coming to me first. You know i might be a little provocative here and say you can trim this doesnt have to be a digital on off decision of youre all in or all out of tech obviously, tech has fundamental business tail winds propelling the stocks higher. The top five stocks in the s p 500 are 23 . Unless youre used to running a 20 stock portfolio, which most people arent, that means the names are over weight. If you trim them and take two Percentage Points off and bring them down to four Percentage Points, now youre running a 25stock portfolio and youve taken 4 points out of the tech area, you can put it into whether ever you want. You can put it in health care which is on fire Energy Stocks are rolling today. Its okay to say things are h
Dollaryen pushing a bit higher. You are also looking at the 10 year going no real place, and oil trying to stabilize as earnings continue to rollout. Honeywell the latest, suspending their fullyear guidance. Time for todays market moving news from new york and washington. Lets start with earnings. We are about halfway through the seasons. Oil giant chevron out this morning, cutting capex for the second time at about five weeks, warning profits will suffer. Bloombergs Annmarie Hordern has more. Annmarie thats right, that capex headline is really the one to take away from chevron. Clearly, they are doing what they can to save cash. The original plan before they cut earlier was for 20 billion. 14 billion is roughly where chevron has been spending over the past three years or so. Dividends has been a big topic for the oil company. Sayingre now they are they are doing everything they can to protect it. In just going to be out under 30 minutes. They said they are going to freeze it. One thin
Eight days, getting a little bit of relief. Euro still seeing very strong buying in the treasury markets. You are buying equities, buying commodities, and buying treasuries. Thats what you are seeing into the weekend. Time now for global exchange, where we bring you todays market moving news from around the world, from washington to new york to london. Oil. Gin with the move and crude continuing to climb after its biggest ever single day gain. All trump says he may intervene in the price war between saudi arabia and russia that has rocked crude markets. Here was more is annmarie hordern. Intervene how, and does anyone care . Annmarie it is interesting how exactly he would do this. He said he has some power over the situation, and would get involved at the appropriate time, may be giving riyadh some chance to potentially swamp the world with oil and put the pressure on russia. Then we heard from president Vladimir Putin in an incredible scoop by our moscow bureau. He says they say he is
Certain tariffs. Not just a trade deal, but actually removing some of the economi existing tariffs earnings continue to lead us higher just a bit. We have names like kroger and tapestry, the old coach beating expectations joining us for the entire hour is a man you know well, steven weiss from Short Hills Capital partners steven, good to see you down here at the New York Stock Exchange good to see you brian good to see us both heres the thing, earnings, trade, maybe just general positive market sentiment. One of those three or maybe something else, that has been the primary driver for what has been a nice little run we are up nine of the past eleven sessions on the s p 500 i think there are multiple drivers to the market. Trade being the most important and the most dominant. You can see the correlation. For those who say that trade is all in the market, thats clearly not true because when you get positive news coming out, the market ticks up when you get negative news, it goes down. So
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