On that. Charles, thank you. Whatever the answer, right, the markets are showing extreme optimism as we head into the final hour of trade. New vaccine hopes are adding to the mix and yes, right now, the dow is topping 28,000 by a single point. The nasdaq, back above 11,000. We are at 11,044. The s p is moving higher by 1. 33 after two straight weeks of selling. Oracle says its won its tech battle against microsoft to partner up with the chinese social media superstar tiktok but at this hour, Chinese Media saying yeah, but you didnt win the war. Top tech analyst colin gillis on whether oracle is getting snookered and Charlie Gasparino on those now crying crony capitalism. What does the latest Covid Vaccine progress mean to some of the pandemic stock superstars . The ceo and cofounder of okta is here on whether a return to work will cut into all the business hes done in the lockdown era. And the nfl is back and with it comes an explosion of gambling apps. One of the biggest digital sport
Then nikolas partnership with gm. Why both stocks are set to surge despite of course the broader selloff. And finally, this tesla snub. The s ps decision to leave tesla out of its benchmark having a huge impact on the stock. Not the only reason, of course well explain why later on this hour jim, thank goodness youre back, man. It was good to get your take from home at least on friday amid this madness. Well, ill tell you, what i saw last week and i see today is this parabolic move. Look, fridays close, i thought it was what we would call phony. I mean the big rally please i didnt think there was anything to it other than Short Covering i think well revisit the lows that we saw friday and then we have to rethink, because the selling, frankly, is too hard this morning that doesnt mean that i dont think ultimately the people who dont know what they own shouldnt sell, im saying this is just trying to find price discovery, where we were friday, and then we able to figure out what to do davi
About 12 today. Another market master, ams evaluation 2 trillion for the first time ever. Tech was leading now 59 minutes left of the session and were essentially flat apple not flat. 2 trillion Company Coming up in just a few minutes, we will speak with White House National Economic Council director larry kudlow about the stimulus stalemate in washington the rising tensions with china and a whole lot more. Later rolling out the red carpet, ceo of amc theaters will be joining us with his companys plan to brink customers back to the movies its not going to cost you very much. Lets focus in on the big stories were watching in this final hour of trade. Bob pisani tracking the fed minutes. Joining us to discuss retail moves from pro forma starting with Broader Market weakening a bit off fed minutes. This doesnt happen very often. Usually fed minutes is not a market mover it was as wilf rentsched we lost points in the s p 500, thats noticeable given the fed doesnt move the market in the min
Is its been a broadening out. Now, the question is is there enough money to go around to buy 3m today and also buy lets just use lets just pick nvidia, okay and the answer is thats to be determined there is a lot of newer money coming into the market, we will be talking about splits later today and the nature of the alchemy of it all but the thing that im most excited about, david, is there are industrials doing better than expected we have to stay focused on that because when we think about 3m making a come back, think about where they were and that is the you know, that is the and theyre having some good numbers this morning, thats what stood out to me and it makes me think nat industrial leg must be included in any portfolio. Its only up 2 are you kidding me youre referencing yeah, thats the stock youre referencing 3m. We should just tell people theyre giving us Monthly Sales numbers, july was up i think 6 year over year, 2. 8 billion, organic local currency sales up 3 because dont
That Summer Vacation today, youre losing money, particularly if you are a tech investor. On this first trading day of august, the nasdaq aiming for its 29th record close of the year as tech giants from apple, like we were talking about, to microsoft and a whole host of other names, lead markets higher. We have the nasdaq up 176 points right now. Dow is up 274. Youve got to watch microsoft in this final hour. It is hitting a record high after confirming charlie gasparinos report that the og Software King is indeed in talks to rescue viral video platform tiktok from President Trumps threats to ban the chineseowned favorite of dancing teen agers. Of all the chinese apps, why ban this one . Charlie breaks it in just moments. And if the president does ban tiktok, will that be a shot across the bow aimed at china . We have team fox business coverage of the brewing tensions between the two superpowers. Our tech panel is here to tell you if we are on the verge of a high tech cold war and why t