Airline stocks are popping after the government gave approval to a different way to disinfect surface onz planes american, united, delta, theyre all up 8 or so. S p 500, nasdaq set for a record close. With he have 59 minutes left of trade. Brian, good to have you onboard. Yeah. Good to be here on a day where there seems to be a lot gf news. The markets are powering higher again. We have a long way to go two hours. Coming up, you remember herbalife. They sparked wall streets most epic battles on the Halftime Report it is reinvigorated, more than doubling from the march lows and our interview with the ceo is coming up later on. Were going to be joined by Penny Pritzker and ask her about the democrats economic platform and how a Biden Administration would tackle the coronavirus are your taxes going up . Were going to ask her directly. Right now lets focus in on the big stories that were watching to day mike santoli, as always, watching all the Market Action joining us to talk about the la
Postal funding after failing to use an extra week in congress to reach an agreement this will be one of the greatest frauds in history they are not going to get the 3. 5 billion so they cannot get the universal mailin vote ceasing the annexation of part of the west bank. Saying this is an historic moment we are really sort of diffusing a real threat on the twostate decision this is up to the palestines, the israelris and others. The broad base sweep is into the red moving through fridays session. We have had fairly decent week in europe. Before we started, we are pulling back from some of those higher ranges that we noticed. Given the size of the decline. Now down 1. 2 . The bottom end of the session is where we perched all of the factors weve been talking about. Fresh layers are a concern too and talks in china given tightened concerns and Technology Names doing business in the United States the market has been looking towards the chinese figures for some sense of confidence to pick u
Are miles apart. We are focused on that potential record close on the s p 500. The number youre watching for is 3386. 15, a couple points off of it as we stand, sara. Hard to believe that we are here coming up on todays show. S p 500 could close at a record high for the First Time Since mid february were going to talk to wharton professor Jeremy Siegel about whether the rally can last from here. Plus counting down to a pair of key Earnings Results after the bell, lyft and cisco gearing up to report well bring numbers and analysis as soon as they hit. Lets focus on the stories were watching with one hour left of trade. Mark santoli with the action, colin rush from oppenheimer. Lets start off with the broader market, familiar things taking us higher, tech, lower treasury yields and the like. Thats right. A bit of a reform to norm. Yesterday 3381 of about the late selloff. Of course were a couple points above that right now its kind of tantalizing also seems a little bit silly this hesita
Better than 1 move for the dow. Nasdaq record highs. Big tech taking a bit of a break. You see facebookdown as well as amazon amazon, netflix and microsoft lower. If its tuesday, it must be tilman frittia calling on americas governors to show some real leadership and tell us where the goal posts are on reopening. Power lunch starts right now tyler, thanks. Its Energy Leading the way today. On track for its best day since june 5th it might not matter as much as it used. Bob has more technology stocks, 27 of the s p 500. That doesnt include google which is really a tech company or amazon which is a consumer discretionary. All together top Six Companies are 25 of the s p 500 just about. Its approaching that. Its crazy the rest of the sectors are shrinking. Let me show you what the sectors are today. Energy is only 3 of the s p 500. Now it used to be 5 a few years ago but financials have shrunken dramatically for example, it was 15 of the s p just five years ago. Industrials were 10 now it
And individual names getting lower. That keeps it pretty much unchanged year to date we have a massive show coming up discuss the latest stimulus negotiations th thats any minute now its the key question for the markets today. And then as the heat gets turned up on big tech, well talk to the always candid ceo about the precious ceos facing testimony tomorrow and the stay at home trend a huge swell of tech earnings coming to day and later this week. Lets start with the broader markets. Mike, over to you. Thank you we have markets on pause for the most part today. Bond market is qui wet yields at the lows stock market, too, is hugging this very familiar area, basically flat on the day. That is an area of attraction. Well see fit lasts for now. It is the defensive factors. The ones that benefit from low yields that are up today, real estate, staples and utilities. Take a look though at a couple of indicators as we wait for the fed decision tomorrow. Whats going on and how quiet the bond m