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
How apples shakeup is driving the blue chips plus the online surge, best buy notching is 242 gain in ecommerce sales in the Second Quarter but can it last . Trade optimism, u. S. And china officials reaffirming their phase one commitment, the s p is poised to add to its record run. Jim, i saw you last night mentioning those changes to the dow and your general point was dont be fooled in thinking there is as much money indexed to the dow as to the s p. We said that last night, its been the theme all morning and theres been no sellers. One of the reasons theres been no sellers are the people who are now trading stocks in early hours have tremendous conviction in the face of being wrong its rather incredible because the hubris of these people they must think dow jones has a lot of money to it and it has to come out of exxon and into salesforce david, you have been at the forefront of the network in explaining the nature of the dow and you see this, too. Arent you shocked that even after w
Airlines tiktok bids moving walmart is now in the mix. Yes, walmart and that stock is up 5 . Microsoft up 2 . A record close watch for the s p 500. At least 59 minutes left of trade. Anything positive, jon, for s p and nasdaq as we go into positive territory with the new records . Once again. And coming up on todays show. Two key reads on the state of the recovery in america. Well speak with the heads of Regal Cinemas parent cineworld and ihg group about safety and demand in light of the pandemic. And counting down to big earnings after the bell, including dell, gap, hp and more well bring you all of those numbers as soon as they hit. Now straight to the big stories we are watching today. Mike santoli is tracking todays volatile Market Action Steve Liesman and Morgan Stanleys chuten aya are here. And ylon mui has details on the new rapid covid test and bank of america is calling it a gamechanger. Start us off were extending up into record territory a little bit erratic fashion the mark
Offers a fiery review of his predecessor. Air b b filing the paperwork following a rough year for that industry intel announcing a 5 billion buy back as tech faces slumping shares it is thursday, august 20, here on cnbc. Good morning. Im dominic chu in for Brian Sullivan stock futures indicating some modest losses. The dow lower by 100 points. Thats an improvement over the last hour. S p off, the nasdaq off by about 20 points. These are losses now after chinas comments saying the country and the United States will hold trade talks in coming days after the talks fizzled. The Central Banks comments knocking the s p 500 from a new intraday high we hit the stock of the morning so far is apple, becoming the first u. S. Listed company to get a market cap of 2 trillion. Doubling valuation in just over two years. For those wondering, a 3 trillion value for apple would be at 761 per share that will happen right before the stock split. We have Geoff Cutmore in the london news room the color of t
We ta retail sales were lower than expected autos adding to the pain with biggest names if the group or deck for earnings next week, well tell you which stocks could be set to take off later, it is apples epic battle both apple now and google kicking out fortnite out of their app stores well explain why they are doing it the fight it could spark and the crackdown on big tech that could be in the cards. Power lunch starts right now happy friday to you. Check out the transports out performing this week up 4 those moves are thanks to fedex and avis budget up double digits for the week with all the major averages up more than 50 from the march lows, its the question being heard around wall street is the market rebound getting too far ahead of the economic rebound. Were digging into the data. The stock market could recover its all time highs we went back to 1973 and looked at how stocks behaved. It takes 2. 7 years to get even this recovery probably will be measured in months the fed and co